SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 2009

Today is Saturday, April 25, the 115th day of 2009. There are 250 days left in the year.

1507 _ Geographer Martin Waldseemuller first used name America

1719 _ Daniel Defoes publishes ``Robinson Crusoe"

1792 _ Guillotine first used, executes highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier

1850 _ Paul Julius Reuter, use 40 pigeons to carry stock market prices

1859 _ Ground broken for Suez Canal

1867 _ Tokyo is opened for foreign trade

1886 _ Sigmund Freud opens practice at Rathausstrasse 7, Vienna

1905 _ Whites win right to vote in South Africa

1926 _ Giacomo Puccini's opera, ``Turandot," premieres in Milan

1938 _ First use of seeing eye dog