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April 25: Liberation Day in Italy (1945); Anzac Day in Australia and New Zealand

USS Triton

1643 – First English Civil War: Despite being vastly outnumbered, a Parliamentarian force under James Chudleigh defeated a Royalist army near Okehampton, Devon, at the Battle of Sourton Down.
1915 – First World War: The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed at Anzac Cove while British and French troops landed at Cape Helles to begin the Allied invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire.
1960 – The U.S. Navy submarine Triton (pictured) completed the first submerged circumnavigation of the world.
1983 – The first issue of The Jakarta Post was published in Indonesia.
2015 – Nepal was struck by a magnitude-7.8 earthquake, killing more than 8,000 people.

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