April 24 (May 7) 1800 in the family of state councilor was born Alexander P. Bezak, Adjutant General, General of Artillery, a member of the State Council of the Russian Empire, Orenburg and Samara Governor-General, the Russian reformer of artillery.
April 25 (May 7), 1840 in the small town of Votkinsk, Vyatka province, in the family of a mining engineer, chief of the Kama-Votkinsk plant was born the great Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky.
On April 25 (May 7), 1875 in St. Petersburg Alexander Mikhailovich Gorchakov from the Russian side and Enomoto Takeaki from the Japanese side signed the treaty on the exchange of territories (Treaty of St. Petersburg).
May 7, 1934, upon the resolution of the All-Union Central Executive Committee, Birobidzhan area gained the status of an autonomous Jewish national region.