A April 25, 196957 years ago, the Treaty of Tlatelolcowhich outlaws nuclear weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean.
1507.- The work ‘Cosmographiae Introductio’, by Gaultier Lud, is published, in which, for the first time, he proposes giving the name of America to the lands discovered by Christopher Columbus.
1540.- The Peruvian city of Ayacucho is founded by the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro, under the name of San Juan de la Frontera de Huamanga.
1859.- Construction of the Suez Canal in Egypt begins.
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1898.- The United States declares war on Spain after the explosion of the USS Maine in the port of Havana.
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1953.- Scientists James Watson (American) and Francis Crick (British) announce in the magazine Nature the discovery of the structure of DNA, the key to the secret of life.
1974.- The Carnation Revolution triumphs in Portugal, a bloodless military uprising that put an end to Salazar’s dictatorial regime.
1980.- The Colombian guerrilla group M-19 releases the 16 ambassadors held for 61 days at the Dominican embassy in Bogotá (Colombia).
1982.- Israel restores control of the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt after fifteen years of occupation, in compliance with the 1979 peace treaties.
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1990.- Violeta Chamorro, first woman to assume the presidency of Nicaragua.
.- The Discovery crew places the Hubble telescope into orbit, which would provide never-before-seen images of the universe.
2008.- Austrian police arrest Josef Fritz, accused of kidnapping his daughter of 24 years, with whom he had seven children.
2011.- NATO planes bomb Tripoli, Libya, and destroy a building inside the Bab al-Azizia residential complex, the headquarters of leader Muammar Gaddafi
2015.- A 7.8 magnitude earthquake causes nearly 9,000 deaths in Nepal.
2025.- Former Brazilian president Fernando Collor de Mello arrested to serve a sentence for corruption.
1599.- Oliver Cromwell, English revolutionary and dictator.
1852.- Leopoldo Alas ‘Clarín’, Spanish critic and novelist.
1874.- Guillermo Marconi, Italian engineer and physicist, inventor of radio, Nobel Prize winner in 1909.
1917.- Ella Fitzgerald, American jazz singer.
1940.- Al Pacino, American actor.
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1941.- Bertrand Tavernier, French film director.
1947.- Johan Cruyff, Dutch footballer and former coach of the Barcelona Football Club.
1949.- Dominique Strauss-Kahn, French politician, former director of the International Monetary Fund.
1969.- Renee Zellweger, American actress.
1981.- Felipe Massa, Brazilian Formula 1 driver.
1993.- Raphaël Varane, French footballer.
1911.- Emilio Salgari, Italian novelist.
1990.- Dexter Gordon, American jazz musician and actor.
1995.- Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer.
2023.- Harry Belafonte, African-American musician, actor and activist.
