April 18 » The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
May 26 » Dracula, a Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.
June 22 » British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
July 11 » Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
September 12 » Tirah Campaign: In the Battle of Saragarhi, ten thousand Pashtun tribesmen suffer several hundred casualties while attacking 21 Sikh soldiers in British service.
December 9 » Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper La Fronde in Paris.
Day of death April 25, 1971
The temperature on April 25, 1971 was between -1.4 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
March 12 » The 1971 Turkish military memorandum is sent to the Süleyman Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns.
April 19 » Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
September 3 » Qatar becomes an independent state.
September 8 » In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.
October 25 » The People's Republic of China replaces the Republic of China at the United Nations.
December 20 » The international aid organization Doctors Without Borders is founded by Bernard Kouchner and a group of journalists in Paris, France.
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