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Events on April 25

• 1507 The German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller publishes a world map in Saint-Dié on which the “New World” is named “America” for the first time, after Amerigo Vespucci.
• 1719 The first edition of the novel Robinson Crusoe by the writer Daniel Defoe is published.
• 1792 During the French Revolution, the French officer Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle composes “Chant de guerre pour l’armée du Rhin” in Strasbourg on the occasion of the declaration of war against Austria. Under the name “La Marseillaise,” it later becomes France’s national anthem.
• 1910 August Horch, founder of the automobile manufacturer Horch, names the company he newly founded after leaving the company Audi.
• 1945 During the Second World War, Soviet and American soldiers’ combat formations encounter each other for the first time on German soil in Torgau. In later years, this is celebrated as Elbe Day.
• 1952 The state of Baden-Württemberg is founded by the merger of the states of Baden, Württemberg-Baden, and Württemberg-Hohenzollern. Reinhold Maier (FDP/DVP) is elected the first Minister-President by the Constituent State Assembly.
• 1953 In the journal Nature, the British biochemists Francis Crick and James Watson publish the article “Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid” about their discovery, made on February 28, of the double-helix structure of the hereditary substance DNA.
• 1972 With his 1461 km flight from Lübeck to Biarritz in a Schleicher ASW 12, Hans-Werner Grosse sets a world distance-soaring record that remains in place for over 30 years.
• 1983 Gerd Heidemann, a reporter for Stern, presents a sensational find in Hamburg: the “Hitler Diaries,” which will, however, later turn out to be forgeries.
• 1990 At a campaign event in Cologne-Mülheim, the mentally ill Adelheid Streidel attacks the Saarland Minister-President Oskar Lafontaine with a knife and critically injures him.
• 1990 One day after the launch of the STS-31 mission of the Space Shuttle Discovery, the crew successfully deploys the Hubble Space Telescope. Due to a lens error, however, it delivers only blurry images.
• 2007 During the Heilbronn police officer murder, the police officer Michèle Kiesewetter is shot dead in the head on the Theresienwiese in Heilbronn, and her colleague Martin A. is critically injured.

Born on April 25

• 1862 Adolf Miethe, German photochemist and physicist
• 1873 Walter de la Mare, British poet and author
• 1900 Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian physicist and Nobel laureate
• 1940 Al Pacino, American actor, director, and producer
• 1941 Markus Lüpertz, German painter
• 1950 Peter Hintze, German politician
• 1970 Jason Lee, American actor and producer
• 1981 Felipe Massa, Brazilian racing driver
• 1981 Anja Pärson, Swedish skier
• 1990 Jean-Éric Vergne, French racing driver

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „25. April“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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