WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2012

Today is Wednesday, April 25, the 116th day of 2012. 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

1867 ― Tokyo is opened for foreign trade

1881 ― 250,000 Germans petition to bar foreign Jews from entering Germany

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

1971 ― About 200,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters march on Washington, D.C.

1993 ― Russia elects Boris Yeltsin leader