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1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
The Tiananmen Square protests, known within China as the June Fourth Incident, were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, lasting from 15 April to 4 June 1989.
Travis Hunter Jr. (born May 18, 2003) is an American professional football cornerback and wide receiver for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Jackson State Tigers and Colorado Buffaloes, winning the Heisman Trophy with the latter in 2024.
Cameron Anthony Ward (born May 25, 2002) is an American professional football quarterback for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Incarnate Word Cardinals, Washington State Cougars, and Miami Hurricanes, winning the 2020 Jerry Rice Award with Incarnate Word and the 2024 Davey O'Brien and Manning Awards with Miami.
George Anthony Devolder Santos (born July 22, 1988) is an American former politician and convicted felon. He served as the U.S. representative for New York's 3rd congressional district from January to December 2023 when he was expelled from Congress. He had run for the seat in 2020 as a Republican, but was defeated by incumbent Democratic representative Tom Suozzi.
The Simla Agreement, also spelled Shimla Agreement, was a peace treaty signed between India and Pakistan on 2 July 1972 in Shimla, the capital of Himachal Pradesh. It followed the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, which began after India intervened in East Pakistan as an ally of Mukti Bahini who were fighting against Pakistani state forces in the Bangladesh Liberation War.
Shedeur Deion Sanders ( shΙd-OOR; born February 7, 2002) is an American football quarterback. He played college football for the Jackson State Tigers, and Colorado Buffaloes, winning the 2021 Jerry Rice Award, 2022 Deacon Jones Trophy and 2024 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award. Sanders is the son of Buffaloes head coach and Pro Football Hall of Fame cornerback Deion Sanders.
The following notable deaths occurred in 2025. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and a reference.
On 22 April 2025, a terrorist attack at Baisaran Valley in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir killed 26 and injured more than 20 others. The attack, the deadliest of its kind in India since the 2008 Mumbai attacks, targeted male Hindu tourists, and was reportedly aimed at resisting alleged demographic changes in the Kashmir Valley.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a 2025 role-playing video game developed by Sandfall Interactive and published by Kepler Interactive. The game was released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on 24 April 2025. Upon release, it received critical acclaim, and sold 500,000 units within its first day of release.
Pope Benedict XVI (Latin: Benedictus XVI; Italian: Benedetto XVI; German: Benedikt XVI. ; born Joseph Alois Ratzinger, German: [ΛjoΛzΙf ΛΚaΛlΙΙͺΜ―s ΛΚatΝ‘sΙͺΕΙ]; 16 April 1927 β 31 December 2022) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 19 April 2005 until his resignation on 28 February 2013.
Abdul Jabar Carter (born January 2, 2004) is an American professional football linebacker for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Penn State Nittany Lions, earning unanimous All-American and Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year honors in 2024. Carter was selected by the Giants third overall in the 2025 NFL draft.
The Indus Water Treaty (IWT) is a water-distribution treaty between India and Pakistan, arranged and negotiated by the World Bank, to use the water available in the Indus River and its tributaries. It was signed in Karachi on 19 September 1960 by then Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and then Pakistani president Ayub Khan.
Havoc is a 2025 action thriller film written and directed by Gareth Evans. The film stars Tom Hardy, Jessie Mei Li, Justin Cornwell, Quelin Sepulveda Luis GuzmΓ‘n, Yeo Yann Yann, Timothy Olyphant, and Forest Whitaker, and is a co-production between the United States and the United Kingdom. The film was released by Netflix on April 25, 2025.
Until Dawn is a 2025 American survival horror film derived from the 2015 video game Until Dawn, set in the same universe and featuring an original standalone story that expands upon the game series' mythology. The film was directed by David F. Sandberg, and written by Gary Dauberman and Blair Butler.
Cristin Milioti (born August 16, 1985) is an American actress. She is known for playing Tracy McConnell in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother from 2013 to 2014, and Sofia Falcone in the HBO crime drama series The Penguin (2024). The latter earned her a Critics' Choice Television Award and a nomination for a Golden Globe Award.
Laurie Jill "Lar" Park Lincoln (nΓ©e Park; May 12, 1961 β April 22, 2025) was an American actress. She appeared in the 1987 film House II: The Second Story as Kate, the 1988 horror film Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood as Tina Shepard, and a 1988 episode of the anthology horror series Freddy's Nightmares as Karyn. Lincoln appeared in the television series Knots Landing from 1987 to 1991.
The Accountant 2 is a 2025 American action thriller film directed by Gavin O'Connor and written by Bill Dubuque. It is the sequel to The Accountant (2016). Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, and J. K. Simmons reprise their roles from the previous film, with Daniella Pineda joining the cast.
Andor, also known as Star Wars: Andor and Andor: A Star Wars Story for its second season, is an American science fiction television series created by Tony Gilroy for the streaming service Disney+. It is part of the Star Wars franchise and a prequel to the film Rogue One (2016), which in turn is a prequel to the original Star Wars film (1977).
Will Campbell (offensive lineman)
William Campbell(born January 6, 2004) is an American professional football offensive tackle for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the LSU Tigers and was selected by the Patriots fourth overall in the 2025 NFL draft.
Pope John Paul II (Latin: Ioannes Paulus II; Italian: Giovanni Paolo II; Polish: Jan PaweΕ II; born Karol JΓ³zef WojtyΕa, Polish: [ΛkarΙl ΛjuzΙvβΏvΙjΛtΙ¨wa]; 18 May 1920 β 2 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in 2005. In his youth, WojtyΕa dabbled in stage acting.
ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched in 2022. It is based on large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4o. ChatGPT can generate human-like conversational responses and enables users to refine and steer a conversation towards a desired length, format, style, level of detail, and language.
Natalia Grace (Barnett) Mans (born September 4, 2003) is a Ukrainian-born American with dwarfism, who was adopted by an American family at the age of seven in 2010, but was allegedly abandoned by them one year later. Barnett's adoptive parents claimed that she was an adult, and, in 2011, they successfully sought a court order legally changing her birth year from 2003 to 1989.
Tetairoa McMillan ( teh-ty-ROH-Ι; born April 5, 2003), nicknamed "T-Mac", is an American professional football wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Arizona Wildcats, earning Polynesian College Football Player of the Year honors in 2024. McMillan was selected by the Panthers eigth overall in the 2025 NFL draft.
The Last of Us is an American post-apocalyptic drama television series created by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann for HBO. Based on the video game franchise developed by Naughty Dog, the series is set twenty years into a pandemic caused by a mass fungal infection, which causes its hosts to transform into zombie-like creatures and causes the collapse of society.
Thudarum (transl. To be continued) is a 2025 Indian Malayalam-language crime thriller film directed by Tharun Moorthy, who wrote the screenplay with K. R. Sunil. It stars Mohanlal and Shobana, alongside Farhaan Faasil, Maniyanpilla Raju, Binu Pappu, Irshad Ali, and Aarsha Chandini Baiju, Thomas Mathew, Krishna Praba, Prakash Varma, and Aravind in supporting roles.
Opinion polling for the 2025 Canadian federal election
This table provides a list of scientific, nationwide public opinion polls conducted from the 2021 Canadian federal election leading up to the 2025 Canadian federal election.
Colston Loveland (born April 9, 2004) is an American professional football tight end for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Michigan Wolverines, winning a national championship in 2023 and earning All-American honors in 2024. Loveland was selected by the Bears with the tenth overall pick in the first round of the 2025 NFL draft.
A Minecraft Movie is a 2025 American fantasy adventure comedy film based on the 2011 video game Minecraft by Mojang Studios. It was directed by Jared Hess and written by Chris Bowman, Hubbel Palmer, Neil Widener, Gavin James, and Chris Galletta, from a story by Allison Schroeder, Bowman, and Palmer. The film stars Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Danielle Brooks, Emma Myers, and Sebastian Hansen.
XXX (stylized as xXx and pronounced Triple X) is an American spy fiction action film series created by Rich Wilkes. It consists of three full-length feature films: XXX (2002), XXX: State of the Union (2005) and XXX: Return of Xander Cage (2017), and a short film: The Final Chapter: The Death of Xander Cage. The series has grossed $694 million worldwide.
JosΓ© Pedro Balmaceda Pascal (Spanish: [xoΛse ΛpeΓ°ΙΎo Ξ²almaΛseΓ°a pasΛkal]; born April 2, 1975) is a Chilean and American actor. After nearly two decades of taking small roles on stage and television, Pascal had his breakout role as Oberyn Martell in the fourth season of the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2014).
2025 World Snooker Championship
The 2025 World Snooker Championship (officially the 2025 Halo World Snooker Championship) is a professional snooker tournament that is taking place from 19 April to 5 May 2025 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England, the 49th consecutive year that the World Snooker Championship is being staged at the venue.
Mason Graham (born September 2, 2003) is an American professional football defensive tackle for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL). He was a two-time All-American playing college football for the Michigan Wolverines, including unanimous All-American honors in 2024. In 2023, he won a national championship and was the Rose Bowl defensive MVP.
Christopher Livingstone Eubank (born 8 August 1966) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 1998. He held the World Boxing Organization (WBO) middleweight and super-middleweight titles between 1990 and 1995, and is ranked by BoxRec as the third best British super-middleweight boxer of all time.
Liberation Day (Italian: Festa della Liberazione [ΛfΙsta della liberatΛtsjoΛne]), also known as the Anniversary of Italy's Liberation (Anniversario della liberazione d'Italia), Anniversary of the Resistance (Anniversario della Resistenza), or simply 25 April (25 aprile [ΛventiΛtΚiΕkwe aΛpriΛle]), is a national holiday in Italy that commemorates the victory of the Italian resistance movement against Nazi Germany and the Italian Social Republic, puppet state of the Nazis and rump state of the fascists, culminating in the liberation of Italy from German occupation and the end of the Italian Civil War, in the latter phase of World War II.
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021. Born into a wealthy family in the New York City borough of Queens, Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics.
Joelle Joanie "JoJo" Siwa ( SEE-wah; born May 19, 2003) is an American singer, dancer, actress, and media personality. From 2015 to 2016, she appeared as a dancer on two seasons of the reality television show Dance Moms alongside her mother, Jessalynn Siwa. She was included on Time's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2020.
Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (KoinΔ Greek: ΞλΡοΟΞ¬ΟΟΞ± ΞΡά ΦιλοΟΞ¬ΟΟΟ, lit. 'Cleopatra father-loving goddess'; 70/69 BC β 10 August 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and the last active Hellenistic pharaoh. A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great.
The pope is the bishop of Rome and the head of the worldwide Catholic Church. He is also known as the supreme pontiff, Roman pontiff, or sovereign pontiff. From the 8th century until 1870, the pope was the sovereign or head of state of the Papal States, and since 1929 of the much smaller Vatican City state.
Shannon Sharpe (born June 26, 1968) is an American former professional football tight end who played 14 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Denver Broncos. Regarded as one of the greatest tight ends of all time, he ranks third in tight end receptions, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns. He was also the first NFL tight end to amass over 10,000 receiving yards.
Stephen Douglas McMichael (October 17, 1957 β April 23, 2025), nicknamed "Mongo," "Ming," and "Ming the Merciless," was an American professional football player and professional wrestler. He was a defensive tackle for 15 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily for the Chicago Bears.
A papal conclave is expected to be convened in May 2025 to elect a new pope to succeed Pope Francis, who died on 21 April 2025 at the age of 88. The conclave is expected to begin sometime between 6 and 11 May 2025, which is between 15 and 20 days after Francis's death. It will be held in the Sistine Chapel.
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search.
Jamie Richard Vardy (nΓ© Gill; born 11 January 1987) is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for and captains Premier League club Leicester City. He is known for his pace, longevity, positioning and clinical finishing. After being released by Sheffield Wednesday at the age of 16, Vardy began his senior career with Stocksbridge Park Steels.
Justin DeYarmond Edison Vernon (born April 30, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He is best-known as the primary songwriter and frontman of indie folk band Bon Iver. He is also a member of the bands Volcano Choir, Big Red Machine, the Shouting Matches, and Gayngs, and was previously a member of the now-defunct band DeYarmond Edison.
Penn Dayton Badgley (born November 1, 1986) is an American actor and producer. He is known for his roles as Dan Humphrey in The CW teen drama series Gossip Girl (2007β2012) and Joe Goldberg in the Netflix psychological thriller series You (2018β2025). Badgley came to prominence playing Phillip Chancellor IV on the soap opera The Young and the Restless (2000β2001).
XXX (stylized as xXx and pronounced Triple X) is a 2002 American action film directed by Rob Cohen, produced by Neal H. Moritz and written by Rich Wilkes. The first installment in the xXx film series, the film stars Vin Diesel as Xander Cage, a thrill-seeking extreme sports enthusiast, stuntman, and rebellious athlete-turned-reluctant spy for the National Security Agency.
Veera Dheera Sooran: Part β 2 (transl. Brave Heroic Warrior: Part 2) is a 2025 Indian Tamil-language neo-noir action thriller film written and directed by S. U. Arun Kumar. It is produced by Riya Shibu under HR Pictures. The film stars Vikram in the titular role, alongside S. J. Suryah, Suraj Venjaramoodu (in his Tamil debut), Dushara Vijayan and Prudhvi Raj.
The second season of the American post-apocalyptic drama television series The Last of Us premiered on HBO on April 13, 2025. Based on the video game franchise developed by Naughty Dog, the series is set twenty years into a pandemic caused by a mass fungal infection, which causes its hosts to transform into zombie-like creatures and collapses society.
Good Bad Ugly (also known by the initialism GBU) is a 2025 Indian Tamil-language action comedy film directed by Adhik Ravichandran and produced by Mythri Movie Makers, marking their first production in Tamil cinema. The film stars Ajith Kumar, alongside Trisha Krishnan, Arjun Das, Sunil, Karthikeya Dev, Priya Prakash Varrier, Prabhu, Prasanna, Tinnu Anand and Raghu Ram.
Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle ( TAH-glay; [lΚΛwis ΙnΛtonΙͺo ΛtaΙ‘lΙ]; born June 21, 1957) is a Filipino prelate of the Catholic Church currently serving as the Pro-Prefect for the Section of First Evangelization of the Dicastery for Evangelization (formerly the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples) since June 5, 2022, and as the President of Interdicasterial Commission for Consecrated Religious since December 8, 2019.
2025 Canadian federal election
The 2025 Canadian federal election will be held on April 28 to elect members of the House of Commons to the 45th Canadian Parliament. The writs of election were issued on March 23, 2025, after Governor General Mary Simon accepted a request to dissolve parliament from Prime Minister Mark Carney. This will be the first election to use a new 343-seat electoral map based on the 2021 Canadian census.
The 2024 NFL draft was the 89th annual meeting of National Football League (NFL) franchises to select newly eligible players. The draft was held at Campus Martius Park and Hart Plaza in Detroit on April 25β27, 2024. The draft had an attendance of over 775,000, breaking the record previously set in 2019.
Isabella May Ramsey (born September 2003) is an English actor. They are known for their breakthrough role as young noblewoman Lyanna Mormont in the HBO fantasy television series Game of Thrones (2016β2019) and Ellie in the HBO post-apocalyptic drama series The Last of Us (2023βpresent). They received nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for the latter.
Derrick Harmon (defensive tackle)
Derrick Harmon (born August 3, 2003) is an American professional football defensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Michigan State Spartans and Oregon Ducks and was selected by the Steelers in the first round of the 2025 NFL draft.
Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 β April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph.
Pope John Paul I (Latin: Ioannes Paulus I; Italian: Giovanni Paolo I; born Albino Luciani, Italian: [alΛbiΛno luΛtΚaΛni]; 17 October 1912 β 28 September 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 26 August 1978 until his death 33 days later. His reign is among the shortest in papal history, giving rise to the most recent year of three popesβthe first since 1605.
Peter Brian Hegseth (born June 6, 1980) is an American author, former television presenter, and former Army National Guard officer who has served as the 29th United States secretary of defense since January 2025. Hegseth studied politics at Princeton University, where he published for The Princeton Tory, a conservative student newspaper.
Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts
Since the Partition of British India in 1947 and subsequent creation of the dominions of India and Pakistan, the two countries have been involved in a number of wars, conflicts, and military standoffs.
Black Mirror is a British science fiction anthology series created by Charlie Brooker. The programme was inspired by The Twilight Zone and explores technology and its side-effects. It began on the British television network Channel 4 before moving to the American streaming platform Netflix and has run for seven series between 2011 and 2025.
The Six Kalmas (Urdu: ΪΪΎ Ϊ©ΩΩ Ϋβ chh kalme, Arabic: Ω±ΩΩΩΩΩΩ ΩΨ§Ψͺ Ω±ΩΨ³ΩΨͺΩβ al-kalimΔt as-sitt, also spelled qalmah), also known as the Six Traditions or Phrases, are Islamic prayers recited by South Asian Muslims. Derived from hadiths, they aid children in memorising key beliefs and are taught in South Asian madrasas.
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241. 5 million, having the second-largest Muslim population as of 2023. Islamabad is the nation's capital, while Karachi is its largest city and financial centre.
Jack Peter Shepherd (born 14 January 1988) is an English actor. He is known for portraying the role of David Platt on the ITV soap opera Coronation Street since 2000. For his portrayal of David, he has won various awards, including the British Soap Award for Villain of the Year in 2008 and Best Actor in 2018.
A papal conclave is a gathering of the College of Cardinals convened to elect the bishop of Rome, also known as the pope. Catholics consider the pope to be the apostolic successor of Saint Peter and the earthly head of the Catholic Church. It is the oldest historical method of electing a particular head of state, that is, for Vatican City, that remains in use to the present day.
Emeka Egbuka (born October 14, 2002) is an American professional football wide receiver for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes, finishing as their career receptions leader prior to being selected by the Buccaneers in the first round of the 2025 NFL draft.