On April 25, 1789, Congress determined that the Inaugural Ceremonies of George Washington becoming President would take place on the next Thursday, April 30th after it was postponed on March 4th of that year. 

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Union Captain Theodorus Bailey with Lieutenant Perkins walking through the streets of New Orleans among angry mobs to demand the city’s surrender.
April 25, 1862
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Ella Fitzgerald was born on April 25, 1917 in Newport News, Virginia.
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Deployment of The Hubble Space Telescope from the Space Shuttle Discovery on April 25, 1990.
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A Marine Guard on the USS Charleston c. 1898
On April 25, 1898, The United States declared war on Spain. 
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A flower stand on Connecticut Avenue in Washington, D.C. on Easter Sunday morning, April 25, 1943.
April 25th is the last possible date when Easter Sunday can occur. 
The next time that will happen is in the year 2038.
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On April 25, 1910, President William Howard Taft nominated Governor of N.Y. Charles Evans Hughes to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Both men would eventually serve as Chief Justice. 
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A photo taken on April 25, 1948, at 407 Florida Avenue N.W. in Washington, D.C. It features a young boy dressed in a suit and tie, exuding confidence as he holds a fedora in his hand. 
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518 years ago today on April 25, 1507, the name “America” appeared on a map for the first time when German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller published his Universalis Cosmographia.

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On April 25, 1962, NASA scientist Werner Von Braun announced “We have created the first synthetic thunderstorm in space.” when his Saturn rocket released water into the ionosphere creating an electrically charged ice cloud that was 25 miles wide.  
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Born April 25, 1902, Mary Miles Minter was acting on stage at five and in silent films at 10. Her 53-film career ended in 1923, a year after she was a suspect in the still-unsolved murder of director William Desmond Taylor. Sadly, all but a dozen of her films have been lost.

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Portrait photograph of Maya Angelou by Jimmy Ellis,
April 25, 1978

About 4 months before she published her third volume of poetry “And Still I Rise.”

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Polaroid introduced their SX-70 folding camera on April 25, 1972.
 
It was their first camera to produce photographs that developed quickly after being ejected automatically. 

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