Train Wreck in Japan — Train Crash in Japan 107 Dead

April 25 is the 115st day of the year (116nd in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 250 days remaining until the end of the year.

Railways

1946 – Sleeper train services started on the Istanbul - Ankara line.
2005 – Train crash in Japan: 107 dead.

Events

1719 - Daniel Defoe's famous novel, Robinson Crusoe, is published.
1859 – The excavation of the Suez Canal, which will connect the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, begins in Port Said, Egypt.
1901 - New York became the first state to make license plates mandatory for cars.
1915 – Anglo-French forces launched a landing operation in Çanakkale. Land wars have begun.
1915 – Battle of Seddülbahir started.
1915 – Battle of Arıburnu started.
1925 - Field Marshal Hindenburg becomes Germany's first President to be elected by popular vote.
1926 - Reza Khan Pahlavi proclaimed himself "Shah" in Iran.
1945 – Delegates from 46 countries met in San Francisco to establish the United Nations, which would replace the League of Nations.
1946 – Garanti Bank of Turkey was established.
1952 – Prime Minister Adnan Menderes and Foreign Minister Fuad Köprülü made an official visit to Greece.
1953 - Two scientists at the University of Cambridge discovered the molecular structure they called deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), which carries inherited traits from parent to child.
1957 – An earthquake with a magnitude of 7,1 occurred in the Fethiye district of Muğla: 67 people died.
1962 – The Constitutional Court was established.
1968 – Andre Malraux's book “Hope” translated into Turkish was confiscated on the grounds of “communist propaganda”.
1974 – Carnation Revolution in Portugal: Salazar's fascist dictatorship is overthrown by a military uprising led by General Antonio Spinola.
1975 – In Portugal, the Socialist Party, led by Mario Soares, wins the elections to the Constituent Assembly.
1976 – The Socialist Party led by Mario Soares won the first parliamentary elections in Portugal after the fascist dictatorship.
1980 – The Process Leading to the 12 September 1980 Coup in Turkey (1979 - 12 September 1980): Left-wing militants Seyit Konuk, İbrahim Ethem Coşkun and Necati Vardar killed the contractor Nuri Yapıcı in İzmir. 15 people were killed across the country.
1983 - Pioneer 10 crossed the orbit of Pluto.
1990 - The crew of the US space shuttle Discovery succeeds in putting the first space telescope, Hubble, into orbit around the earth.
2001 – Former President of the Philippines, Joseph Estrada, is arrested at his home in Manila on charges of siphoning his country's $80 million.
2001 – The law bringing autonomy to the Central Bank was passed in the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
2005 – Negotiations for Bulgaria and Romania's entry into the European Union started.
2015 – A 7,8 or 8,1 magnitude earthquake hits Nepal, killing over 8.000 people.
2022 – Osman Kavala was sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment.

Births

32 – Otho, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
1599 – Oliver Cromwell, English politician and soldier (leader of the rebellion against absolutism in England) (d.
1657 – Tökeli İmre, Hungarian King (d. 1705) who took refuge in the Ottoman Empire
1725 – Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller, German zoologist (d. 1776)
1815 – Mirza Shirazi, Islamic scholar (d. 1895)
1823 – Sultan Abdülmecit, 31st sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1861)
1824 – Gustave Boulanger, French classical figure painter and naturalist (d. 1888)
1874 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, physicist, and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (d. 1937)
1888 – Chojun Miyagi, Japanese athlete and karate (d. 1953)
1900 – Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (d. 1958)
1906 – Frank H. Netter, American painter and medical doctor (d. 1991)
1917 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (d. 1996)
1920 – Sabahattin Kudret Aksal, Turkish poet, storyteller and playwright (d. 1993)
1921 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter and sculptor (d. 2006)
1927 – Albert Uderzo, French comics artist and screenwriter (d. 2020)
1936 – Leonel Sánchez, Chilean football player
1937 – Marilyn B. Young, American historian and academic (d. 2017)
1940 - Al Pacino, American actor and winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor
1941 – Bertrand Tavernier, French film director, producer, screenwriter and actor (b. 2021)
1945 – Özdemir Özok, Turkish lawyer (d. 2010)
1947 – Johan Cruyff, Dutch football player and manager (d. 2016)
1948 – Péter Andorai, Hungarian actor (d. 2020)
1959 – Burhan Öçal, Turkish percussionist and actor
1960 – Ramón Vilalta, architect of Catalan origin
1965 – Édouard Ferrand, French politician (d. 2018)
1968 – İdris Bal, Turkish academic and politician
1969 – Renée Zellweger, American actress and winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
1970 - Jason Lee, American actor
1973 - Charlene Aspen, American former pornographic film actress
1981 - Felipe Massa, Brazilian Formula 1 driver
1986 – Raïs M'Bolhi, Algerian-French football player
1986 – Daniel Andrew Sharman, English actor
1988 – Laura Lepistö, Finnish figure skater
1989 – Aysel Teymurzade, Azerbaijani singer
1991 – Hüseyin Baş, Turkish politician
1993 – Raphael Varane, French national football player
1995 – Ellen Benediktson, Swedish singer-songwriter
1996 – Allisyn Ashley Arm, American actress
1997 - Tsukasa Morishima, Japanese football player
1998 – Satou Sabally, Gambian-born German professional basketball player
1999 – Olimpiu Moruţan, Romanian professional football player

Deaths

1077 – Géza I, 7th King of the Kingdom of Hungary (b. 1040)
1185 – Antoku, 81st Emperor of Japan (b. 1178)
1342 – XII. Benedict, 197th Pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1285)
1472 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian painter, poet, and philosopher (b. 1404)
1566 – Louise Labé, French poet (b. 1524)
1644 – Chongzhen, 16th and last Emperor of China's Ming Dynasty (b. 1611)
1667 – Pedro de Betancur, Spanish Christian saint and missionary (b. 1626)
1744 – Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer (b. 1701)
1800 – William Cowper, English poet and humanist (b. 1731)
1820 – Constantin François de Chassebœuf, French philosopher, historian, orientalist, and politician (b. 1757)
1840 – Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1781)
1878 – Anna Sewell, English novelist (b. 1820)
1914 – Géza Fejérváry, Hungarian soldier and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary (b. 1833)
1928 – Pyotr Wrangel, Russian soldier (leader of the counter-revolutionary White Army) (b. 1878)
1941 – Salih Bozok, Turkish soldier, Atatürk's aide and Deputy (b. 1881)
1956 – Paul Renner, German graphic designer and instructor (b. 1878)
1972 – George Sanders, English actor (b. 1906)
1976 – Sir Carol Reed, English film director and producer (b. 1906)
1982 – WR Burnett, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1899)
1988 – Clifford D. Simak, American author (b. 1904)
1990 – Dexter Gordon, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1923)
1995 – Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (b. 1911)
1996 – Saul Bass, American graphic designer, filmmaker, and Academy Award winner (b. 1920)
2001 – Michele Alboreto, Italian racing driver (b. 1956)
2002 – Lisa Lopes, American singer (b. 1971)
2003 – Lynn Chadwick, British sculptor (b. 1914)
2006 – Jane Jacobs, American-Canadian female journalist, author, and activist (b. 1916)
2007 – Alan Ball Jr., English former international football player and manager (b. 1945)
2009 – Beatrice Arthur, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
2011 – Osman Durali, Turkish-Bulgarian wrestler (b. 1939)
2011 – Güven Sazak, Turkish businessman and President of Fenerbahçe Sports Club (b. 1935)
2012 – Louis le Brocquy, Irish painter (b. 1916)
2012 – Paul L. Smith, American actor, comedian, and voice actor (b. 1936)
2013 – Virginia Gibson, American singer, dancer, and actress (b. 1925)
2014 – Tito Vilanova, Spanish football player and manager (b. 1968)
2015 – Dan Fredinburg, American computer scientist and computer engineer (b. 1981)
2015 – Otakar Krámský, Czech speedway driver (b. 1959)
2016 – Samantha Schubert, Malaysian actress and Beauty Queen (b. 1969)
2017 – Philippe Mestre, French politician (b. 1927)
2017 – Yelena Rjevskaya, Soviet writer (b. 1919)
2017 – Munyua Waiyaki, Kenyan politician and physician (b. 1925)
2018 – Şöhret Abbasov, Uzbek actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer (b. 1931)
2018 – Michael Anderson, British film director (b. 1920)
2018 – Abbas Attar, Iranian photographer (b. 1944)
2018 – Edith MacArthur, Scottish actress (b. 1926)
2019 – Robbert de Graaf, Dutch racing cyclist (b. 1991)
2019 – John Havlicek, American professional basketball player (b. 1940)
2019 – Larry Jenkins, American actor, filmmaker, director, and screenwriter (b. 1955)
2019 – Faty Papy, Burundian national football player (b. 1990)
2020 – Alan Abel, American musician, educator, and inventor (b. 1928)
2020 – India Adams, American singer, dubbing artist and actress (b. 1927)
2020 – Erin Babcock, Canadian nurse and politician (b. 1981)
2020 – Ricardo Brennand, Brazilian businessman, engineer, and art collector in the state of Pernambuco (b. 1927)
2020 – Ricardo Divila, Brazilian motorsport designer (b. 1945)
2020 – Henri Kichka, Belgian writer (b. 1926)
2020 – Robert Mandell, American-born British conductor (b. 1929)
2020 – Gunnar Seijbold, Swedish photographer and musician (b. 1955)
2021 – Hamid Casimiyan, Iranian football player (b. 1936)
2022 – Susan Jacks, Canadian singer, songwriter, and record producer (b. 1948)
2022 – Ursula Lehr, German academic, age researcher, and politician (b. 1930)

Holidays and special occasions

Carnation Revolution (Portugal)