Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 25
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.
- 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.
- 1986 - Mswati III was crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.