Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 25
April 25: Administrative Professionals' Day in Canada and the United States (2007); ANZAC Day in Australia and New Zealand; Liberation Day in Italy; Flag Day in the Faroe Islands; Freedom Day in Portugal; 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.
- 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.
- 1986 - Mswati III was crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.
- 2005 - A commuter train came off its tracks in Amagasaki, Hyōgo, Japan and rammed into an apartment building, killing the driver and 106 passengers and injuring 555 others in the Amagasaki rail crash.