THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2013

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.