Today is Tuesday, April 25, the 115th day of 2017. There are 250 days left in the year.
1684 — Patent granted for the thimble
1719 — Daniel Defoes publishes "Robinson Crusoe"
1747 — Prince Willem V appointed viceroy of Zealand
1850 — Paul Julius Reuter, use 40 pigeons to carry stock market prices
1859 — Ground broken for Suez Canal
1861 — New York arrives to reinforce Washington DC
1864 — Battle of Marks’ Mill AR (Camden Expedition)
1867 — Tokyo is opened for foreign trade
1881 — 250,000 Germans petition to bar foreign Jews from entering Germany