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