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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_25" title="April 25">April 25</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_Day_(Italy)" title="Liberation Day (Italy)">Liberation Day</a></b> in Italy (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945" title="1945">1945</a>); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_HaZikaron" title="Yom HaZikaron">Yom HaZikaron</a></b> in Israel (2023)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1643" title="1643">1643</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_English_Civil_War" title="First English Civil War">First English Civil War</a>: Despite being vastly outnumbered, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundhead" title="Roundhead">Parliamentarian</a> force under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Chudleigh" title="James Chudleigh">James Chudleigh</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Sourton_Down" title="Battle of Sourton Down">defeated</a></b> a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalier" title="Cavalier">Royalist</a> army near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okehampton" title="Okehampton">Okehampton</a>, Devon.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1915" title="1915">1915</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">First World War</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_and_New_Zealand_Army_Corps" title="Australian and New Zealand Army Corps">Australian and New Zealand Army Corps</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_at_Anzac_Cove" title="Landing at Anzac Cove">landed at Anzac Cove</a></b> while British and French troops <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_at_Cape_Helles" title="Landing at Cape Helles">landed at Cape Helles</a></b> to begin <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallipoli_campaign" title="Gallipoli campaign">the Allied invasion</a></b> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallipoli" title="Gallipoli">Gallipoli</a> peninsula in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960" title="1960">1960</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">U.S. Navy</a> submarine <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Triton_(SSRN-586)" title="USS Triton (SSRN-586)"><i>Triton</i></a></b> completed <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sandblast" title="Operation Sandblast">the first submerged circumnavigation of the world</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983" title="1983">1983</a> – The first issue of <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jakarta_Post" title="The Jakarta Post">The Jakarta Post</a></b></i> was published in Indonesia.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015" title="2015">2015</a> – Nepal was struck by <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2015_Nepal_earthquake" title="April 2015 Nepal earthquake">a magnitude 7.8 earthquake</a></b>, killing more than 8,000 people, including 22 from <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Mount_Everest_avalanches" title="2015 Mount Everest avalanches">avalanches on Mount Everest</a></b>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naresuan" title="Naresuan">Naresuan</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1605); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Sverdrup" title="Georg Sverdrup">Georg Sverdrup</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1770); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmeline_B._Wells" title="Emmeline B. Wells">Emmeline B. Wells</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1921)</p>