Girls Talk hosted by my ever-creative Marce Kaye has fun digging history about the girls' birthday. I don't want to miss the fun, so here's few interesting things that happen on the 25th of April:
April 25 is the 115th day of the year (116th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 250 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events:
- 1981 – More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
- 1982 – Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
- 1983 – American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
- 1983 – Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
- 1986 – Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.
- 1988 – In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
- 2003 – The Human Genome Project comes to an end two and a half years earlier than expected.
- 2005 – The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
- 2005 – Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union.
- 2005 – 107 die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.
- 2007 – Boris Yeltsin's funeral – the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.
- 2011 – At least 300 people killed in deadliest tornado outbreak in the Southern United States since the 1974 Super Outbreak.
Majority of the events that happened on my birthdate is depressing-so many deaths! Hope my birthday is not as depressing as those events:(
Births:
- 1214 – King Louis IX of France (d. 1270)
- 1228 – King Conrad IV of Germany (d. 1254)
- 1284 – King Edward II of England (d. 1327)
- 1775 – Charlotte of Spain, Spanish Infanta and queen of Portugal (d. 1830)
- 1776 – Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1857)
- 1843 – Alice of the United Kingdom, Grand Duchess of Hesse (d. 1878)
- 1849 – Felix Klein, German mathematician (d. 1925)
- 1850 – Luise Adolpha Le Beau, German composer (d. 1927)
- 1874 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1937)
- 1897 – Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (d. 1965)
- 1900 – Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
- 1940 – Al Pacino, American actor
- 1941 – Bertrand Tavernier, French director, screenwriter and actor
- 1941 – Princess Muna al-Hussein, of Jordan
- 1969 – Renée Zellweger, American actress
- 1970 – Jason Lee, American actor
- 1970 – Jason Wiles, American actor
- 1987 – Jay Park, b-boy & musician, part of Art of Movement
- 1996 – Allisyn Ashley Arm, American child actress
It's inspiring to note that great and legendary people shared my birthdate-Kings, Princess, Nobel Prize Laureate, composers, mathematician and artists! Wishing here that I could share with their fame and wealth...LOL!
Here are some Interesting Facts About My Life (according to PokeMyBirthday.com)
- Your lucky days are Saturday (Conceivement date, Your parents decided to not to have an abortion, You were born) and Sunday (Your first cell is built, Your mother suspects she is pregnant, Your heart beat for the first time).
- You are exactly 30 years 11 weeks 4 days 15 minutes 21 seconds old.
- You will receive your next birthday gift in 41 weeks 4 days 22 hours 44 minutes 39 seconds later
- If your hair were never cut since 25.April.1981, it would be 4.401 m. today.
- If your nails were never cut since 25.April.1981, they would be 1.092 m. today.
- An apple tree seeded on 25.April.1981, bore 2,682.198 kg. apple till today. Its contribution to economy is $10,702.0 and it fed 4,500 people. We hope that in your life you, as a human being, achieved more than that poor apple tree.
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