The Great War Memorial of Shannon, New Zealand is dedicated.

April 25, 1924: Charles F. Murphy, the longest-serving chairman of New York’s Tammany Hall Democratic organization (since 1904), dies at 65 at home of indigestion. The mild-mannered boss held sway over state and city politics and was a powerbroker at presidential conventions.

Today we remember ANZAC Day.
The significance of the 25th April is that it is the first landing of the ANZACs at Gallipoli, a place we have had the pleasure to visit on many occasions over the years to commemorate the Irish contribution along side the ANZAC’s
Lest We Forget

#OTD (Anzac Day) in 1965. An Anzac veteran and survivor of the first wave of landings looking over Anzac Cove. #HISTORY

On This Day 25th April 1916.
A German battle cruiser squadron raids Lowestoft and is engaged and dispersed by local naval forces. Great Yarmouth is bombarded with a reported 4 killed and 19 wounded.

Royal Engineers officers at lunch, Etreillers, 25th April 1917.© IWM (Q 2084)

Read about Matt's journey and discover his ancestor Walter Johanson's moving story in Part I of our latest blog (we’ve also provided some hints and tips for researching WWI ancestors): fwr.social/anzaci

On night of 24/25 Apr 1916, 6 Zeppelins raided East Anglia. L 21 attempted to bomb munitions works at Stowmarket but, deterred by AA guns there and in the surrounding area, her 9 HE bombs fell on a farm two miles N. of the town. See more iancastlezeppelin.co.uk/newpaged6ce84de Great War Huts

Happy #WorldPenguinDay !

Images here from Frederick Cook’s Through the First Antarctic Night, 1898–1899, a remarkable journal recounting the highs and (many) lows of the Belgica expedition, including experiencing a night two months long: buff.ly/3aD9YQ0

As someone who literally owes her life to those who fought on the allied side during WW2 I'll never forget.
My father's family was starving, my mother's family was close to death in a Japanese concentration camp.
I came very close to never being born.
Eternal gratitude.

The British Newspaper Archive This day in WWI here is what she actually looked like.

第一次世界大戦中、馬の蹄鉄を付けるところ。
凄いな〜よく映像が残ってるな🦝🐴💦

G. Stanley Hall, first president of the American Psychological Association, dies in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was 78.

Hall was a fierce proponent of selective breeding and forced sterilization. He believed that the poor, the sick, and the dumb should be killed so that a

April 24, 1924: Ruth Ellington failed to make the cut in a beauty contest in St. Paul, Minn., so she had her hair bobbed, re-entered it and won. (Zanesville, Ohio, Revorder)

1/2 In the spring of 1927, US veteran Paul Adams was sent to France to write 100+ articles about his experiences (re)visiting #battlefields as well to set the stage for the 1927 American Legion #pilgrimage . On 6 May, he writes about an American mother visiting her son's grave.

HMS Hood was sunk with the loss of all but 3 of her crew of 1,418 during the Battle of the Denmark Strait, 24 May 1941. #WW2 #HISTORY

A piano dealer checks a baby grand piano after its delivery, by air, to Bolling Field, Washington DC.

The instrument is one of two to be flown from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, in the Sikorsky S-29-A biplane airliner - the first time pianos have been transported by

Born 25 April 1889 in Darjeeling, India, 8 victory ace with 111 Squadron, Captain Arthur Hicks Peck D.S.O., M.C. and Bar.

Born 25 April 1893 in Fürstenfeld, Austria, 7 victory Austro-Hungarian Empire ace Oberleutnant Ludwig Hautzmayer.

Killed in action 25 April 1917 between Gavrelle and Bailleul, 12 victory German ace with Jasta 11, Vizefeldwebel Sebastian Festner.