Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 25
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April 25: Liberation Day in Italy (1945); Freedom Day in Portugal (1974); Flag Day in the Faroe Islands
- 1719 - Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe was first published.
- 1792 - The guillotine was first used to carry out capital punishment in France.
- 1898 - Spanish-American War: The U.S. Congress retroactively declared war on Spain.
- 1915 - ANZAC Day: Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed at Anzac Cove during the amphibious invasion of Gallipoli, Turkey in World War I.
- 1953 - A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid by James Watson and Francis Crick was published in Nature.