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Saturday, 25 April 2026

2007

Boris Yeltsin's funeral – the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.

2005

The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.

Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union.

107 die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.

2003

The Human Genome Project comes to an end 2.5 years before first anticipated.

1988

In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.

1986

Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.

1983

Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.

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.

1982

Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Camp David Accords.

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