Historical events for the 25th of April. See what famous, interesting and notable events happened throughout history on April 25.

On 25 April 1846, Capt. Seth B. Thornton led two companies of the 2d Dragoon Regiment to investigate reports of Mexican insurgents crossing into American-claimed territory. The resulting skirmish, known as the Thornton Affair, sparked the Mexican-American…

At Port Said, Egypt, ground is broken for the Suez Canal, an artificial waterway intended to stretch 101 miles across the isthmus of Suez and connect the Mediterranean and the Red seas. Ferdinand de Lesseps, the French diplomat who organized the colossal…

On April 25, 1945, President Harry S. Truman learns the full details of the Manhattan Project, in which scientists are attempting to create the first atomic bomb. The information thrust upon Truman a momentous decision: whether or not to use the world’s first…

MURRAY HILL, N.J. (WHTM) — On this day in 1954, Bell Telephone Laboratories demonstrated the first practical solar panel. The emphasis here is on practical. The photovoltaic (or photoelectric…

The crew of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery places the Hubble Space Telescope, a long-term space-based observatory, into a low orbit around Earth. The space telescope, conceived in the 1940s, designed in the 1970s, and built in the 1980s, was designed to…

On April 25, 2014 officials from Flint, Michigan switched the city’s water supply to the Flint River as a cost-cutting measure for the struggling city. In doing so, they unwittingly introduced lead-poisoned water into homes, in what would become a massive…

The announcement ends a weekslong saga Musk kicked off when he offered to buy the company at $54.20 per share, his "best and final."

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