On April 25

Nepal was struck by a magnitude-7.8 earthquake, killing more than 8,000 people.

Violeta Chamorro took office as President of Nicaragua, becoming the first female head of state in the Americas to have been elected in her own right.

The first issue of The Jakarta Post was published in Indonesia.

British prime minister Margaret Thatcher told journalists in Downing Street to "rejoice" upon hearing news of the successful recapture of South Georgia from Argentine forces in the Falklands War.

109 individuals were arrested in a police raid on a gay bar near Chicago.

The U.S. Navy submarine Triton (pictured) completed the first submerged circumnavigation of the world.

Two passenger trains collided in Naperville, Illinois, leaving 45 people dead and some 125 injured.

Gladys Elinor Watkins consecrated the carillon of the National War Memorial in Wellington, New Zealand (dedication pictured).

A march by blind people from across the United Kingdom to protest at poor working conditions ended at Trafalgar Square, London.

At the San Remo conference, the principal Allies of World War I passed a resolution allocating League of Nations mandates for the administration of former Ottoman territories in the Middle East.

The first issue of Irish War News was published in Ireland.

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.

Ming–Qing transition: The Ming dynasty of China fell when the Chongzhen Emperor committed suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng.

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.

Pope Leo III was attacked by partisans of his predecessor Adrian I, but was rescued and taken to Charlemagne, as described in the epic Karolus magnus et Leo papa.

The Abbasid army won a decisive victory over the forces of rebelling Armenian princes at the Battle of Bagrevand.