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| April 25th, 2007 | Event | Boris Yeltsin s funeralthe first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894. |
| April 25th, 2005 | Event | The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937. |
| April 25th, 2005 | Event | Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union. |
| April 25th, 2005 | Event | 107 die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan. |
| April 25th, 1990 | Event | The Hubble Telescope is deployed into orbit from the Space Shuttle Discovery. |
| April 25th, 1988 | Event | In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II. |
| April 25th, 1986 | Event | Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II. |
| April 25th, 1983 | Event | American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war. |
| April 25th, 1983 | Event | Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto s orbit. |
| April 25th, 1982 | Event | Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Camp David Accords. |
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