1914 - US President Woodrow Wilson is persuaded by Argentina, Brazil, and Chile to accept mediation in the conflict with Mexico
1927 - Spain routes 20,000 soldiers to Morocco (uprising Rifkabylen)
1972 - Hans-Werner Grosse glides 907.7 miles (1,461 km) in an AS-W-12
1976 - Portugal adopts new constitution
2022 - First airport for electric flying cars and large drones, built by Urban-Air Port, begins operations in Coventry, England
1840 - James Dearing, U.S. Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Campbell County, Virginia (d. 1865)
1862 - Edward Grey, British Liberal statesman and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1905-16), born in London (d. 1933)
1949 - James Fenton, English poet and journalist, born in Lincoln, England
1973 - Barbara Rittner, German tennis star (1992 Schenectady), born in Krefeld, West Germany
1980 - Bruce Martin, New Zealand cricketer, born in Whangarei, New Zealand
1840 - Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician (Poisson distribution) and physicist, dies at 58
1875 - Trinley Gyatso, 12th Dalai Lama of Tibet, dies at 18
1939 - John Foulds, British cellist, musicologist, and composer (World Requiem; Three Mantras), dies in Calcutta of cholera at 58
1975 - Mike Brant, Israeli pop singer ("Laisse-moi t'aimer" ("Let Me Love You")), commits suicide at 28
1988 - Clifford D. Simak, American sci-fi author (Hugo, Way Station), dies at 83
On April 25, 1945, President Harry S. Truman learns the full details of the Manhattan Project, in which scientists are attempting to create the first atomic bomb. The information thrust upon Truman a momentous decision: whether or not to use the world’s first weapon of mass destruction. America’s secret development of the atomic bomb began […]
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