FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2014

Today is Friday, April 25, the 115th day of 2014. There are 250 days left in the year.

1507 ― Geographer Martin Waldseemuller first used 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

1945 ― U.S. and Soviet forces meet at Torgau, Germany, on Elbe River

1953 ― Scientists identify DNA

1975 ― Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins first free election in Portugal