On This Day for April 25 - Hubble Space Telescope sent into orbit, Al Pacino is featured, and more

Created: 2020-04-25 10:03 Updated: 2020-04-25 10:03 Notebook: On this Day in History

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April 25

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Al Pacino

FEATURED EVENT

1990

Hubble Space Telescope sent into orbit

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2015: A magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck near Kathmandu, Nepal, causing widespread damage and killing several thousand. [ Watch a video about Nepal's recovery from the earthquake of 2015.]

2014: In a cost-saving measure, the water supply of Flint, Michigan, was switched from the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department to the Flint River, causing a public health crisis as residents were exposed to dangerously high levels of lead.

1995: American dancer and actress Ginger Rogers, who starred with Fred Astaire in 10 popular Hollywood musicals, died in California. [ Take our women in classic cinema quiz.]

1915: The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) landed at Gallipoli in western Turkey during the Dardanelles Campaign of World War I. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about World War I.]

1908: Edward R. Murrow, a radio and television broadcaster who was the most influential and esteemed figure in American broadcast journalism during its formative years, was born in North Carolina.

1874: Guglielmo Marconi , an Italian physicist who invented a successful system of radio telegraphy (1896) and received the Nobel Prize for Physics (1909), was born. [Take our quiz about inventors and their inventions.]

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1940

Al Pacino
American actor

1932

Meadowlark Lemon
American basketball player

1599

Oliver Cromwell
English statesman

1976

Tim Duncan
American basketball player

1917

Ella Fitzgerald
American singer