5 Ordibehesht 1386 | Wednesday 25 April 2007

This day in four calendars

1898 (128 years ago) Spanish–American War: The United States Congress declares that a state of war between the U.S. and Spain has existed since April 21, when an American naval blockade of the Spanish colony of Cuba began.
1945 (81 years ago) United Nations Conference on International Organization: Founding negotiations for the United Nations begin in San Francisco.
1945 (81 years ago) World War II: United States and Soviet reconnaissance troops meet in Torgau and Strehla along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two. This would be later known as Elbe Day.
1982 (44 years ago) Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
1983 (43 years ago) Cold War: 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.
2005 (21 years ago) Bulgaria and Romania sign the Treaty of Accession 2005 to join the European Union.
2005 (21 years ago) The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
2026 Shots are fired outside of the White House Correspondents' Dinner in the Washington Hilton where U.S. President Donald Trump and members of his cabinet are attending. One injury is reported and a suspect is taken into custody.

1214 (812 years ago) Louis IX of France,
1599 (427 years ago) Oliver Cromwell, English general and politician, Lord Protector of Great Britain (died 1658)
1874 (152 years ago) Guglielmo Marconi, Italian businessman and inventor, developed Marconi's law, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1937)
1900 (126 years ago) Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-Swiss-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1958)
1917 (109 years ago) Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (died 1996)
1940 (86 years ago) Al Pacino, American actor and director
1947 (79 years ago) Johan Cruyff, Dutch footballer and manager (died 2016)
1969 (57 years ago) Renée Zellweger, American actress and producer

1342 (684 years ago) Pope Benedict XII,
1472 (554 years ago) Leon Battista Alberti, Italian author, poet, and philosopher (born 1404)
1595 (431 years ago) Torquato Tasso, Italian poet and songwriter (born 1544)
1744 (282 years ago) Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (born 1701)
1800 (226 years ago) William Cowper, English poet (born 1731)
1840 (186 years ago) Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (born 1781)
1995 (31 years ago) Ginger Rogers, American actress, singer, and dancer (born 1911)
2023 (3 years ago) Harry Belafonte, American singer, activist, and actor (born 1927)