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April 25, 2014

Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 23, 2014, covering April 25, 2014.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Frozen by Soundtrack

    Frozen

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    20
  2. 2
    Album cover for G I R L by Pharrell Williams

    G I R L

    Pharrell Williams

    Last week
    9
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    6
  3. 3
    Album cover for She Looks So Perfect (EP) by 5 Seconds of Summer

    She Looks So Perfect (EP)

    5 Seconds of Summer

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    2
  4. 4
    Album cover for Welcome To The New by MercyMe

    Welcome To The New

    MercyMe

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    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    1
  5. 5
    Album cover for Catacombs Of The Black Vatican by Black Label Society

    Catacombs Of The Black Vatican

    Black Label Society

    Last week
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    Peak
    5
    Weeks
    1

Notable Deaths

Dan Heap

2014Dan Heap, Canadian priest and politician (born 1925)[†]

Daniel James Macdonnell Heap was a Canadian activist and politician. Heap served as a Member of Parliament with the New Democratic Party, a Toronto City Councillor, a political activist and an Anglican worker-priest. He represented the Toronto, Ontario, riding of Spadina from 1981 to 1993 and Ward 6 on Toronto City Council from 1972 to 1981. As an activist he was involved in the peace movement, community issues around housing, homelessness, poverty and refugee rights among other social justice issues.

2014William Judson Holloway Jr., American soldier, lawyer, and judge (born 1923)[†]

William Judson Holloway Jr. was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

Earl Morrall

2014Earl Morrall, American football player and coach (born 1934)[†]

Earl Edwin Morrall was an American professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for 21 seasons, both a starter and reserve. He was the last remaining player from the 1950s still active in NFL football. He started for six teams, most notably with the Baltimore Colts and the Miami Dolphins. He became known as one of the greatest backup quarterbacks in NFL history, having served in the capacity for two Hall of Fame quarterbacks in Johnny Unitas and Bob Griese. An injury to Unitas in 1968 saw Morrall step in to start the season that saw the Colts to a 13–1 record that saw them win their first NFL Championship in nine years before ineffective play in Super Bowl III saw him benched for Unitas. Two years later, in Super Bowl V, Morrall came off the bench for an injured Unitas and kept the Colts in the game before they ultimately won on a last-second field goal. In his first season with Miami in 1972, he came off the bench when Griese became injured early in the year, with Morrall winning all nine starts; Morrall started the first two playoff games, with Griese playing in each game before being named the starter for Super Bowl VII, where the Dolphins completed the only perfect season in NFL history.

Tito Vilanova

2014Tito Vilanova, Spanish footballer and manager (born 1968)[†]

Francesc "Tito" Vilanova Bayó was a Spanish professional football central midfielder and manager.

Stefanie Zweig

2014Stefanie Zweig, German journalist and author (born 1932)[†]

Stefanie Zweig was a German Jewish writer and journalist. She is best known for her autobiographical novel, Nirgendwo in Afrika (1995), which was a bestseller in Germany. The novel is based on her early life in Kenya, where her family had fled to escape persecution in Nazi Germany. The film adaptation of the novel (2001) won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Her books have sold more than seven million copies, and have been translated into fifteen languages.

Historical Events

Flint water crisis

2014The Flint water crisis begins when officials at Flint, Michigan switch the city's water supply to the Flint River, leading to lead and bacteria contamination.[†]

The Flint water crisis was a public health crisis from 2014 to 2019 which involved the drinking water for the city of Flint, Michigan, being contaminated with lead and possibly Legionella bacteria.

Historical Context for April 25, 2014

In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]