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Historical events & facts — April 25
What happened on April 25?
On April 25, 1974, in Portugal, the army staged the Carnation Revolution, peacefully overthrowing the Estado Novo dictatorship established by António de Oliveira Salazar in 1933. Soldiers wore red carnations in their rifle barrels as a sign of peace. The revolution ended the colonial wars in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau and restored democracy to Portugal after 41 years of authoritarian rule.
On April 25, 1953, the journal Nature published the article by James Watson and Francis Crick describing the double helix structure of DNA — the discovery that revolutionised biology and medicine. The barely one-page article contained the understated sentence: "It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material".
On April 25, 1915, the ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) forces landed at Gallipoli (Turkey) in the failed Allied campaign against the Ottoman Empire. The eight months of fighting cost the lives of more than 11,000 Australian and New Zealand soldiers. ANZAC Day — April 25 — is the most solemn day in the national calendar of Australia and New Zealand.
Notable birthdays — April 25
Famous people born on April 25
Howard Garis
Howard Roger Garis was an American author, best known for a series of books that featured the character of Uncle Wiggily Longears, an engaging elderly rabbit. Many of his books were illustrated by Lansing Campbell. Garis and his wife, Lilian Garis, were possibly the most prolific children's authors of the early 20th century.
Sammy Drechsel
Sammy Drechsel, born Karl-Heinz Kamke, was a German political comedian, journalist and sports reporter. In 1956, together with Dieter Hildebrandt, he founded the Münchner Lach- und Schießgesellschaft, one of Germany's most successful and influential sites of political kabarett, for which he was producer and director up to his death.
Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky
Robert Jacob Alexander Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky, was a British economic historian, author and crossbench life peer in the House of Lords. He is best known for his award-winning three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes, regarded as the definitive study of the economist's life and work.
Richard C. Hoagland
Richard Charles Hoagland is an American author, former science advisor for CBS News and a proponent of various conspiracy theories about NASA, lost alien civilizations on the Moon, and on Mars and other related topics. Hoagland has been documented to misappropriate others' professional achievements and has been described as a conspiracy theorist and pseudoscientist.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Dominique Gaston André Strauss-Kahn, also known as DSK, is a French economist and politician who served as the tenth managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and was a member of the French Socialist Party. He attained notoriety due to his involvement in several sex scandals.
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