April 25th
Today in America's Present Past
1607 | Captain Edward Maria Wingfield is named of the Jamestown colony shortly before making landfall in America.
1825 | Educator Charles Dowd was born.
1846 | Mexican-American War: Starts.
1853 | Physician William Beaumont died.
1854 | Inventor Charles Sumner Tainter was born.
1868 | Aviator John Bevins Moisant was born.
1887 | In Antwerp, Ohio, an insurrection known as the “Reservoir War” starts.
1906 | SCOTUS: Justice William J. Brennan, Jr was born.
1908 | Journalist Edward J. Murrow was born.
1915 | Politician Frederick William Seward died.
1917 | Musician Ella Fitzgerald was born.
1939 | Poet Ted Kooser was born.
1940 | Al Pacino was born.
1944 | Civil Rights: United Negro College Fund is formed.
1953 | Francis Crick and James Watson's discovery of the double helix structure of DNA is published.
1954 | Bell Labs announces the first solar battery made from silicon.
1969 | Actress Renee Zellweger was born.
1990 | Author Irving Fiske died.
1995 | Actress Ginger Rogers died.
2009 | Entertainer Bea Arthur died.
2023 | Musician Harry Belafonte died.