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Today in History: April 25

1590 The Sultan of Morocco launches a successful attack to capture Timbuktu.

1862 Admiral David Farragut occupies New Orleans, Louisiana.

1898 The United States declares war on Spain.

1938 A seeing eye dog is used for the first time.

1945 U.S. and Soviet forces meet at Torgau, Germany on Elbe River.

1953 The magazine Nature publishes an article by biologists Francis Crick and James Watson, describing the "double helix" of DNA.

1956 Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" goes to number one on the charts.

1960 The first submerged circumnavigation of the Earth is completed by a Triton submarine.

1980 President Jimmy Carter tells the American people about the hostage rescue disaster in Iran.

2019 Former US Vice President Joe Biden announces his campaign for president via video

2019 Cyclone Kenneth strikes Mozambique with winds of 220km/h (140mph) killing at least38 people and damaging nearly 35,000 homes

2021 93rd Academy Awards: "Nomadland" wins best film, director (Chloé Zhao), and lead actress (Frances McDormand); Anthony Hopkins best actor

2022 First airport for electric flying cars and large drones, built by Urban-Air Port, begins operations in Coventry, England

2022 Twitter announces a deal to sell itself to Elon Musk for $44 billion

2023 Japanese M1 spacecraft crashes on the moon, in its attempt to become the first privately-owned spacecraft to land on the Moon

Born on April 25
1912 Gladys L. Presley, mother of Elvis Presley.

1917 Ella Fitzgerald, American singer.

1961 Dinesh D'Souza, Indian-American author (2016: Obama's America), born in Mumbai, India

JOTD

A child asks his father what "gay" means

The father says it means happy to his son, to which the son replies "Dad are you gay?" The father laughs and says "no son I have a wife".