April 25: on this day in history

Historical events

1. 1792Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle composed La Marseillaise, now France's national anthem.
2. 1945The international conference to establish the United Nations met in San Francisco.
3. 1954Bell Laboratories introduced the first practical solar cell for generating electricity from sunlight.
4. 1961Robert Noyce received a patent for the integrated circuit, a foundation of computers.
5. 2005The last section of the historic Obelisk of Axum, which had been taken to Italy, was returned to Ethiopia.

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