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April 25th
1792 – Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine, and the La Marseillaise is composed [presumably no connection 'tween the two]
1859 – British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal....
1901 – New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
1915 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins....
1980 - Tehran hostage rescue mission fails.
2003 – The Human Genome Project comes to an end.....
1284 – Birth of King Edward II of England and, in 1940 of Al Pacino....
1995 – Death of Ginger Rogers.....
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