Monday, April 25, 2011

April 25

Track Year Event Artist Song Album
1 404 BC Peloponnesian War: Lysander's Spartan Armies defeated the Athenians and the war ends. Azure Ray Raining in Athens Burn and Shiver
2 1792 Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine. Amon Duul II Soap Shop Rock: Halluzination Guillotine Yeti
3 1849 The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots. The Stills Of Montreal Logic Will Break Your Heart
4 1901 New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates. Don Caballero Details on How to Get Icemand on Your License Plate American Don
5 1939 DC Comics publishes its second major superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most popular comic book superheroes of all time. Mogwai I am Not Batman Ten Rapid
6 1953 Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid describing the double helix structure of DNA. Of Montreal Lecithin's Tale of a DNA Experiment that Went Horribly Awry Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse
7 1961 Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit. Mew Circuitry of the Wolf And the Glass Handed Kites
8 2003 The Human Genome Project comes to an end 2.5 years before first anticipated. No Time Left Human Interest Story Zero Effort Solution

(Historical facts about April 25 are from Wikipedia.)

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