📜 This Day in History

April 25

• 775The Abbasid army won a decisive victory over the forces of rebelling Armenian princes at the Battle of Bagrevand.
• 1792French composer Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle wrote "La Marseillaise", now the national anthem of France.
• 1920A march by blind people from across the United Kingdom to protest poor working conditions ended at Trafalgar Square, London.
• 1964109 individuals were arrested in a police raid on a gay bar near Chicago.
• 1990Violeta Chamorro took office as President of Nicaragua, becoming the first female head of state in the Americas to have been elected in her own right.
• 2026Malian minister of defence Sadio Camara is killed during the start of coordinated attacks in the country.

Born on this day

• 1599Oliver Cromwell, English general and politician, Lord Protector of Great Britain (died 1658)
• 1874Guglielmo Marconi, Italian businessman and inventor, developed Marconi's law, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1937)
• 1940Al Pacino, American actor and director
• 1947Johan Cruyff, Dutch footballer and manager (died 2016)