Important Events From This day in History April 25th

 1953 - England DNA The "Secret Of Life"

1953 : Two Cambridge University scientists "James D Watson and Francis Crick" publish an article in Nature Magazine explaining the structure of DNA and that DNA is the material that makes up genes which pass hereditary characteristics in all life from one parent to another. They conclude that it consists of a double helix of two strands coiled around each other and could even be considered the "secret of life". Find More What happened in 1953

 

 

2003 - Human Genome Project

2003 : The Human Genome Project to determine the sequence of chemical base pairs which make up DNA of the human genome consisting of 20,000-25,000 genes started in 1990 is published. The project started in the US with James D. Watson who was head of the National Center for Human Genome Research at the National Institutes of Health but over the next 10 years geneticists in China, France, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom all worked together on the project helping the project end two years earlier than planned. One of the most important aspects of this research is it available to available to anyone on the Internet and not owned or controlled by any one company or government.

 

 

1956 - Elvis Presley "Heartbreak Hotel"

1956 : Elvis Presley has his first number one on the Billboard Pop Singles Chart with "Heartbreak Hotel" staying number one for 8 weeks.

 

 

1923 - Britain Royal Wedding

1923 : The wedding of Albert Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Rowes-Lyon in Westminster Abbey attracted large throngs of people to watch the pomp and ceremony associated with royal weddings.

 

 

 

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1924 - Australia Asia

1924 : Australia is a vast country close to the size of America and unlike America with 110,000,000 people Australia only has 6,000,000 . Many are concerned that Australia can be kept safe from the Asian hoards on their doorsteps.

 

 

1933 - Diphtheria Inoculation

1933 : Following the tests around the western world the inoculation in the fight against diphtheria is started with pre-school children and will include all children of school age.

 

 

1935 - U.S.A. State Capitol Building Fire Oregon

1935 : An immense fire ruined Oregon's state capitol building in Salem.

 

 

1954 - Vietnam French Bombers

1954 : French Fighters and Bombers with American supplied Corvairs had the heaviest air strikes so far in the Indochinese war against communist Vietnam troops dropping hundreds of tons in bombs.

 

 

1955 - Canada The St. Lawrence Seaway

1955 : The St. Lawrence Seaway opened to ocean vessels seeking passage from Montreal to ports in the USA on the Great Lakes.

 

 

1960 - Iran Earthquake

1960 : A large earthquake has flattened the city of Lar in Iran with an estimated 400 deaths and another 450 seriously wounded.

 

 

1971 - China United Nations

1971 : The inclusion of China in the United Nations is urged by all sides due to it's growth and importance as a world power.

 

 

 

1974 - Portugal Bloodless Coup

1974 : A bloodless Military coup led by General Antonio de Spinola, in Portugal ends nearly 50 years of dictatorship. The Prime Minister, Dr Marcello Caetano has surrendered to General Antonio de Spinola and fled to the Portuguese island of Madeira.

 

 

1980 - Canary Islands Plane Crash

1980 : A Dan-Air Boeing 727 crashes into the side of a mountain due to foggy conditions and confusion between air traffic controllers and the ships captain. The aircraft was carrying British tourists to the Canary Islands and all 146 people were killed on impact.

 

 

1981 - Northern Ireland Bobby Sands

1981 : Nearly blind and close to death Bobby Sands in the MAZE Prison in Belfast refused to meet with Human Rights Activists , he is on hunger strike until the British Government recognize him as a Political Prisoner not as a criminal.

 

 

1982 - Falkland Islands Marines Take South Georgia

1982 : British Marines have retaken the remote island of South Georgia from Argentinean control as the beginning of taking back the Falkland Islands following the Argentine invasion in March of this year.

 

 

1983 - Soviet Union Cold War

1983 : The Soviet Union publishes a letter that Russian leader Yuri Andropov wrote to Samantha Smith, an American fifth-grader from Manchester, Maine. Andropov's letter came in response to a letter Samantha Smith had sent him in December 1982, asking if the Soviets were planning to start a nuclear war.

 

 

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1992 - Afghanistan Overthrow Of Communist Government

1992 : Islamic forces in Afghanistan take control of the country following the collapse of the Najibullah government. The country is made up of a number of War Lords and the country is plunged into civil war between the various militias, which had coexisted during the Soviet occupation. With the end of of their common enemy ( Communist Rule ) , the militias, ethnic, clan, and religious differences took over, and civil war continued.

 

 

2006 - Iran to share its nuclear technologies

2006 : Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said that his country is happy to share its nuclear technology with other nations. The Ayatollah made the offer during a meeting with the visiting Sudanese President. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has condemned the comments. Iran's top nuclear negotiator has threatened to suspend its cooperation with the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog if Iran is facing sanctions. The U.N. Security Council has set Iran a deadline of April 28th to freeze its uranium enrichment. The next day in a continued attack against sanctions and threats Ayatollah Ali Khamenei announces that U.S. interests around the world will be harmed if America launches an attack against Iran. "The Iranian nation will respond to any blow with double the intensity," he said on television. Addressing the workers at Tehran's International Labourers' Day, he warned that Iran would not pay attention to U.S. "threats and intimidation". "The Iranian nation and its officials are peace-seekers and the Islamic republic would not invade anybody."

 

 

2007 - Astronomers Announce Discovery of Earth-like planet Outside Solar System

2007 : Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet outside of this Solar System, which could have running water on its surface. The planet orbits a faint star, Gliese 581, which is 20.5 light-years away in the constellation of Libra. The discovery was made using the Eso 3.6m Telescope in Chile. The staff there have said that the planet's benign temperatures mean that water could exist there in liquid form, and that this meant that the planet could harbor life.

 

 

2008 - New York Police Acquitted of Sean Bell’s Shooting

2008 : A New York judge has acquitted three police officers of shooting an unarmed man hours before his wedding. Sean Bell, 23, was shot as he left a strip club in the suburb of Queens in November 2006. He died at the scene. Two detectives, Michael Oliver and Gescard Isnora, had been facing manslaughter charges, and the third man, Marc Cooper, had been accused of reckless endangerment. The next day A protest has takes place in New York over the decision to clear three police officers of charges in the killing of an unarmed black man, Sean Bell. Civil rights activist Al Sharpton has told crowds in Harlem that the police had no right to shoot an unarmed man, and has called for a campaign of civil disobedience against the verdict. Sharpton went on to tell the rally he would be holding a meeting to "close this city down". Hundreds of people who packed the street front hall of his National Action Network offices were seen to chant: "Shut it down!"

 

 

2009 - Calderon Decrees State of Emergency on Swine Flu

2009 : The Mexican President Felipe Calderon has issued an emergency decree to give the government the power to run tests on its infected population and to isolate them for the prevention of the new swine flu spreading. Mexico City has shut its schools and museums, and has canceled sporting and cultural events. This outbreak of swine flu has killed up to sixty-eight people in the country, and is spreading north to infect the United States. Saturday's decree was published in Mexico's official journal. The decree allows the government to enter homes or workplaces, and to regulate air, sea and land transportation.

 

 

2010 - 100,000 people rally against the U.S. base in Okinawa

2010 : Nearly 100,000 people have attended a rally on the Japanese island of Okinawa. They are demanding that its U.S. base be moved off of the island. Under a 2006 agreement with the U.S., the Marines' Futenma base was to be moved from its center to the coast. Demonstrators want the Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama, to stick to his election pledge and remove it. Questions on the base have been undermining relations between his government and the U.S.

 

 

2011 - Boat Capsizes on Lake Kivu

2011 : A ferry carrying around one hundred passengers across Lake Kivu to the city of Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo capsized after facing strong winds. At least thirty eight people were dead as a result of the incident, with at least another fifty people missing, and only eleven known survivors. A recovery effort was being made by a Red Cross rescue crew, but a local Red Cross official announced they would only continue rescue operations until the next morning.

 

 

2012 - Pakistan Tests Nuclear Capable Ballistic Missile

2012 : Pakistan has tested the Shaheen 1-A, an intermediate-range missile that would be capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, less than a week after India tested a long-range missile. The missile had a likely range of 1,550 miles to 1,850 miles. The military said the test was successful and it hit its target in the Indian Ocean.

 

 

2013 - US Lifts Boeing 787 Ban

2013 : The United States has lifted its ban on the Boeing 787 "Dreamliner" airplane after Boeing made improvements to the plane and regulators gave the plane a formal "air-worthy" approval. All 787s had been grounded in January over safety concerns.

 

 

2014 - Portugal Democracy Anniversary Overshadowed by Protests

2014 : Portugal celebrated forty years of democracy after one of Europe's longest dictatorships was overthrown during the Carnation Revolution in 1974. The celebrations were overshadowed by protests over severe European Union austerity measures that had been placed on the country since its 2011 bailout. Leaders of the 1974 democratic revolution joined in the protests.