WHAT HAPPENED ON 25. APRIL
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Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula per the Camp David Accords. (25. April 1982)

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. (25. April 1983)

Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit. (25. April 1983)

Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II. (25. April 1986)

In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II. (25. April 1988)

Violeta Chamorro takes office as the President of Nicaragua, the first woman to hold the position. (25. April 1990)

Michele Alboreto was killed testing an Audi R8 at the Lausitzring in Germany. (25. April 2001)

The Human Genome Project is completed two and a half years earlier than expected. (25. April 2003)

The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937. (25. April 2005)

Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union. (25. April 2005)

107 die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan. (25. April 2005)

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. (25. April 2007)