Today is Monday, April 25, the 117th day of 2016. There are 249 days left in the year.
1541 — Liege flooded after heavy down pour
1604 — Count Maurits’ army lands at Cadzand
1607 — Battle at Gibraltar Dutch fleet beats Spanish/Portuguese fleet
1614 — Amsterdam Bank of Loan forms
1660 — London Convention Parliament meets & votes to restore Charles II
1678 — French troops conquer Ypres
1719 — Daniel Defoes publishes “Robinson Crusoe”
1747 — Prince Willem V appointed viceroy of Zealand
1867 — Tokyo is opened for foreign trade
1881 — 250,000 Germans petition to bar foreign Jews from entering Germany