Today is Anzac Day. This day commemorates the first landings by Australian and New Zealand troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula in what is now known as Türkiye (Turkey) on the morning of April 25, 1915, and has since become an occasion to acknowledge the sacrifice made by service personnel in all conflicts.
1719 - Writer Daniel Defoe's novel "Robinson Crusoe" is first published.
1874 - Marconi, the inventor of the wireless telegraph, is born.
1809 - Australia’s first postmaster is appointed.
1829 - Charles Fremantle arrives in his ship, HMS Challenger, off the coast of modern-day Western Australia and declares the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.
1859 - Work commences on the construction of the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean and Red Seas.
1896 - South Australian women become the first in Australia to vote in an election.
1915 - Anzac troops land on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey during World War I. This photo shows North Beach, just to the north of Anzac Cove, and the site of the Anzac Day Dawn Services at Gallipoli.
1915 - Australian submarine AE2 entered the Dardanelles straits, alongside the Gallipoli peninsula. For the next three days, the submarine and her crew dodged Turkish patrols and mines within the strait, surfacing occasionally to fire on targets of opportunity.
1916 - Acting Australian Prime Minister, George Pearce, officially named 25 April as Anzac Day. It was marked by a wide variety of ceremonies and services in Australia and New Zealand, including a commemorative march through London involving over 2,000 Australian and New Zealand troops.
1983 - NASA space probe Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit. | 
