April 25th Holidays, Trivia and Zodiac

April 25th Holidays

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Zodiac Sign for April 25th is Taurus

Taurus is the second astrological sign in the present zodiac. The Sun is in the sign of Taurus.

Time period: April 20 – May 21
Element: Earth
Ruling planet: Venus
Symbol: Bull
Zodiac quality: Fixed
Birthstones: Emerald, Diamond, Sapphire, Garnet, Rose quartz
Famous Tauruses: Dwayne Johnson, Queen Elizabeth II, Megan Fox, George Clooney, Adele, Mark Zuckerberg, Shakespeare, David Beckham, Princess Charlotte of Cambridge

April 25th Trivia

1214 – Louis IX of France was born.
1792 – “La Marseillaise” (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
1901 – New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
1944 – The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
1954 – The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
1983 – American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
1983 – Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto’s orbit.
1917 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer was born.
1923 – Albert King, African-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer was born.
1940 – Al Pacino, American actor and director was born.
1964 – Hank Azaria, American actor, voice artist, comedian and producer was born.
2004 – The March for Women’s Lives brings between 500,000 and 800,000 protesters, to Washington D.C. to protest the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, and other restrictions on abortion.
2009 – 2009 – Bea Arthur, American actress and singer passed known from her role in Golden Girls away.
2015 – Nearly 9,100 people were killed after a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake strikes Nepal.
2017 – Turkish air strikes kill 18 Kurdish YPG fighters and media officials in northeastern Syria.
2017 – India is to provide every cow with a biometric dog tag, in an effort to prevent cattle smuggling.
2018 – Researchers from Washington State University (WSU) found that adults reported a reduction in depressive symptoms with just a single puff of medical marijuana, [Source]