On This Day In ...

• Apr 25 1854: Elisha Kent Kane, accompanied by William Godfrey, sets out north to survey and map the basin in which the Advance was iced in.

• Apr 25 1878: Anna Sewell, writer best known for the novel Black Beauty, died in Old Catton, Norfolk, England, at the age of 58.
• Apr 25 1914: Ellen Ternan, an actress who became the mistress of Charles Dickens, died in London, England, at the age of 95.
• Apr 25 1997: Death of Dudley Pope, writer of nautical fiction, especially the Ramage series, at the age of 71.
• Apr 25 2006: Publication of Oracle Bones: A journey between China and the West, an exploration of modern China by Peter Hessler.

• Apr 25 1926: World première performance of Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy, conducted by Arturo Toscanini.

• Apr 25 1728: Death of John Woodward, fossil collector and antiquinarian, at Gresham College, London, England, at the age of 62. Woodward's will created and endowed the Woodwardian professorship of geology at Cambridge University.
• Apr 25 1744: Anders Celsius, astronomer and physicist best known for developing the centigrade temperature scale, died in Uppsala, Sweden, at the age of 42.
• Apr 25 1801: The first of Humpry Davy's popular science lectures at the Royal Institution. This presentation was the first in a series that dealt with "Galvanism".
• Apr 25 1953: James Watson and Francis Crick's paper describing their research on the structure of DNA appears in the journal Nature.

• Apr 25 1840: Birth of Lawrence Herchmer in Shipton-on-Cherwell, England. Herchmer was the Chief Commissary of the Boundary Commission for the prairies and later the fourth Commissioner of the North-West Mounted Police.
• Apr 25 1905: Frank Oliver, politician and journalist, elected to Parliament for the fourth time, winning a by-election to represent Edmonton, Northwest Territories (now Alberta).
• Apr 25 2009: Southern extension of Edmonton's LRT (light rail transit) comes into operation with stations at McKernan/Belgravia and South Campus.

• Apr 25 1976: Portraits of the Indians exhibition closes.
• Apr 25 1982: Western Alienation exhibition closes.
• Apr 25 1982: Horse Brasses exhibition closes.
• Apr 25 1996: Time Travellers III lecture series, third presentation: "Medicine Wheels: A Mystery in Stone" given by Rod Vickers.
• Apr 25 1999: Mosses to Microbes: Biodiversity by SEM exhibition closes.
• Apr 25 2002: Time Travellers IX lecture series, fourth presentation: "Out of the Northern Ice: Climate Change and Yukon Archaeology" given by Sheila Greer.
• Apr 25 2004: Alberta Naturescapes exhibition closes.

This presentation has been compiled and is © 1998-2012 by
Alwynne B. Beaudoin (bluebulrush@gmail.com)
Last updated March 12, 2012
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