Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 25
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April 25: Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel (2006); ANZAC Day in Australia and New Zealand; Liberation Day in Italy; Flag Day in the Faroe Islands; Red Hat Society Day.
- 1719 - Robinson Crusoe, a novel by Daniel Defoe, was first published.
- 1792 - Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle composed La Marseillaise, now the national anthem of France.
- 1898 - Spanish-American War: The U.S. Congress retroactively declared war on Spain.
- 1953 - Molecular structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid by James Watson (pictured) and Francis Crick was published in the scientific journal Nature.
- 1974 - The song Grândola Vila Morena by Zeca Afonso was broadcast on radio, signalling the start of the Carnation Revolution, a bloodless coup against the Estado Novo regime in Portugal.
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