Historical Events for 25th April 2023

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1864 - Battle of Marks' Mill, Arkansas (Camden Expedition)
1941 - Operation Mercury: Adolf Hitler orders the conquest of the island of Crete, the first mainly airborne invasion in military history
1945 - Soviet forces complete their encirclement of Berlin, cutting off all access points west of the German capital
1949 - Friedrich Durrenmatt's "Romulus der Grosse" premieres in Basel
1959 - St Lawrence Seaway linking Atlantic and the Great Lakes opens to shipping
1966 - Drunk driver kills 10 children in Asse, Belgium
1990 - Violeta Barrios de Chamorro begins a 6-year term as Nicaragua's president
1997 - Seattle Mariner Ken Griffey Jr. hits his 250th HR
2015 - 100 year anniversary of the Gallipoli Peninsula landings in Turkey by ANZAC forces during WWI
2022 - Twitter announces a deal to sell itself to Elon Musk for $44 billion

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