Today is Thursday, April 25, the 115th day of 2013. There are 250 days left in the year.
1507 ― Geographer Martin Waldseemuller first uses name America
1719 ― Daniel Defoe publishes “Robinson Crusoe"
1792 ― Guillotine first used, executes highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier
1867 ― Tokyo is opened for foreign trade
1886 ― Sigmund Freud opens practice at Rathausstrasse 7, Vienna
1926 ― Giacomo Puccini's opera “Turandot", premieres in Milan
1928 ― Buddy, a German Shepherd, becomes first guide dog for the blind
1954 ― Bell labs announces first solar battery (New York City)
1956 ― Elvis Presley's “Heartbreak Hotel" goes No. 1
1971 ― About 200,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters march on Washington, D.C.