Today is Friday, April 25, the 116th day of 2008. There are 250 days left in the year.
1507 _ Geographer Martin Waldseemuller first used name America
1719 _ Daniel Defoes publishes ``Robinson Crusoe"
1859 _ Ground broken for Suez Canal
1867 _ Tokyo is opened for foreign trade
1881 _ French troops occupy Algeria and Tunisia
1886 _ Sigmund Freud opens practice at Rathausstrasse 7, Vienna
1933 _ U.S. and Canada drop Gold Standard
1938 _ First use of seeing eye dog
1976 _ Elections in Vietnam for a National Assembly to reunite the country
1993 _ Russia elects Boris Yeltsin leader