| General Information for April 25th 2016 |
| There are 8 public holidays today. |
| Day 116 of 2016 |
| 250 days left in 2016 |
| Week 17 of the year |
| On this Day in History |
| 2007 - Boris Yeltsin's funeral is the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894. |
| 1918 - Ella Fitzgerald, peerless black American jazz and pop singer and the 'first lady of song', is born. |
| 1915 - The Battle of Gallipoli, and the date on which ANZAC Day falls each year, commemorating those who died in the battle. |
| 1873 - Birth of Félix d' Hérelle, joint discoverer of bacteriophages, the most numerous organisms in the Earth's biosphere. |