April 2025: Events and Anniversaries Preview
1 April 2025
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Featured Story - Sargent in Paris: 1874 - 1884
April 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of John Singer Sargent's death. Musée d’Orsay in Paris and The Met in New York will both host exhibitions of the great American expatriate artist, considered the leading portrait painter of his generation, focusing on his time in Paris, and his search for inspiration beyond the portrait studio.
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April 2025
1 April: Battle of Okinawa begins - 80th anniversary
2 April: Pope John Paul II - 20th anniversary of his death
2 April: Giacomo Casanova - 300th birthday anniversary
5 April: Spencer Tracy - 125th birthday anniversary
5 April: Mistinguett - 150th birthday anniversary
10 April: The Great Gatsby is published - 100th anniversary
11 April: Liberation of Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps (graphic) - 80th anniversary
12 April: Josephine Baker - 50th anniversary of her death
12 April: Franklin D Roosevelt - 80th anniversary of his death
14 April: John Singer Sargent - 100th anniversary of his death
15 April: Liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (graphic) - 80th anniversary
16 April - 2 May: Battle of Berlin - 80th anniversary
17 April: Cambodian Genocide begins - 50th anniversary
17 April: Henry Fuseli - 200th anniversary of his death
18 April: Good Friday
20 April: Easter Sunday
22 April: Liberation of Sachsenhausen concentration camp - 80th anniversary
23 April: J.M.W. Turner - 250th birthday anniversary
25 April: ANZAC Day (Australia and NZ)
25 April: Al Pacino - 85th birthday
25 April: Soviet and U.S. troops meet at Torgau in Germany - 80th anniversary
26 April: Paul von Hindenburg is elected President of the German Reich - 100th anniversary
28 April: Death of Benito Mussolini - 80th anniversary
30 April: Saigon falls, ending the Vietnam War - 50th anniversary
30 April: Death of Adolf Hitler - 80th anniversary
30 April: Liberation of Ravensbrück concentration camp (graphic) - 80th anniversary
.jpg "Prague Offensive, leading to the liberation of Czechoslovakia AKG718480 © akg-images / SNA")
May 2025
1 May: May Day / International Worker's Day
1 May: Joseph Goebbels dies - 80th anniversary
1 May: George Inness - 200th birthday anniversary
4 May: Thomas Henry Huxley - 200th birthday anniversary
5 May: Liberation of Mauthausen concentration camp - 80th anniversary
6 - 11 May: Prague Offensive, leading to the liberation of Czechoslovakia - 80th anniversary
8 May: German Surrender and Victory in Europe (VE) Day - 80th anniversary
11 May: Mother's Day (Aus, NZ, USA, Can)
12 May: Helene Weigel - 125th birthday anniversary
13 May: Stevie Wonder - 75th birthday
13 May: Carlo Maratta - 400th birthday anniversary
13 - 17 May: Eurovision Song Contest
19 May: Malcolm X - 100th birthday anniversary
22 May: Naomi Campbell - 55th birthday
23 May: Heinrich Himmler dies - 80th anniversary
26 May: Memorial Day USA
31 May: Clint Eastwood - 95th birthday
June 2025
3 June: Tony Curtis - 100th birthday anniversary
3 June: Georges Bizet - 150th anniversary of his death
6 June: Thomas Mann - 150th birthday anniversary
8 June: Tim Berners-Lee - 70th birthday
14 June: Jörg Immendorff - 80th birthday anniversary
14 June: WWII France falls under German occupation - 85th anniversary
15 June: Father's Day (UK)
16 June: WWII Philippe Pétain installed as Chief of State of Vichy France - 85th anniversary
19 June: Juneteenth USA
21 June: Summer Solstice
24 June: Lord Herbert Kitchener - 175th birthday anniversary
25 June: Lord Louis Mountbatten - 125th birthday anniversary
25 June: Korean War begins - 75th anniversary
30 June - 13 July: Wimbledon Championships
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July 2025
1 July: Debbie Harry - 80th birthday
1 July: Erik Satie - 100th anniversary of his death
2 July: Patrice Lumumba - 100th birthday anniversary
4 July: Independence Day USA
6 July: The Dalai Lama - 90th birthday
7 July: Ringo Starr - 85th birthday
10 July: Battle of Britain begins - 85th anniversary
11 July: Srebrenica Massacre - 30th anniversary
12 July: R. Buckminster Fuller - 130th birthday anniversary
13 July: Patrick Stewart - 85th birthday
14 July: Bastille Day
17 July: Potsdam Conference - 80th anniversary
17 July: Lovis Corinth - 100th anniversary of his death
18 July: Nelson Mandela Day
21 July: Oskar Moll - 150th birthday anniversary
26 July: Carl Jung - 150th birthday anniversary
29 July: Mikis Theodorakis - 100th birthday anniversary
29 July: Umberto I of Italy - 125th anniversary of his assassination
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