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Today In History

Today is Sunday, April 25, the 115th day of 2010. There are 250 days left in the year.

On April 25, 1945, during World War II, U.S. and Soviet forces linked up on the Elbe River, a meeting that dramatized the collapse of Nazi Germany's defenses.

In 1507, German cartographer Martin Waldseemueller named a huge land mass in the Western Hemisphere "America," in honor of Italian navigator Amerigo Ves**** (vehs-PYOO'-chee).

In 1792, highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier became the first person under French law to be executed by the guillotine.

In 1859, ground was broken for the Suez Canal.

In 1898, the United States formally declared war on Spain.

In 1901, New York Gov. Benjamin Barker Odell Jr. signed an automobile registration bill which imposed a 15-mile-per-hour speed limit on highways.

In 1915, during World War I, Allied soldiers invaded the Gallipoli (guh-LIHP'-uh-lee) Peninsula in an unsuccessful attempt to take the Ottoman Empire out of the war.

In 1945, delegates from some 50 countries met in San Francisco to organize the United Nations.

In 1959, the St. Lawrence Seaway opened to shipping.

In 1983, Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov invited Samantha Smith to visit his country after receiving a letter in which the Manchester, Maine, schoolgirl expressed fears about nuclear war.

In 1990, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro was inaugurated as president of Nicaragua, ending eleven years of leftist Sandinista rule.

Ten years ago: Assailants shot and killed Zika Petrovic, an ally of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic (sloh-BOH'-dahn mee-LOH'-shuh-vich). Tony Award-winning Broadway producer David Merrick died in London at age 88.

Five years ago: At his Texas ranch, President George W. Bush prodded Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah to help curb skyrocketing oil prices. The CIA's top weapons hunter in Iraq, Charles Duelfer (DEHL'-fur), said in an addendum to his final report that his search for weapons of mass destruction had been "exhausted" without finding any. A packed commuter train jumped the tracks and hurtled into an apartment complex in western Japan, killing 106 people. A space capsule carrying a U.S.-Russian-Italian crew landed safely in northern Kazakhstan.

One year ago: In her first trip to Iraq as America's top diplomat, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton tried to reassure nervous Iraqis that the U.S. wouldn't abandon them, even as she said the American troop withdrawal would stay on schedule. Finance ministers meeting in Washington said they saw signs the global economy was stabilizing but cautioned it would take until the middle of next year for the world to emerge from the worst recession in decades. University of Georgia professor George Zinkhan, 57, shot and killed his wife and two men outside a community theater in Athens before taking his own life. Actress Beatrice Arthur died in Los Angeles at age 86.

Today's Birthdays: Movie director-writer Paul Mazursky is 80. Songwriter Jerry Leiber (LEE'-buhr) is 77. Actor Al Pacino is 70. Rock musician Stu Cook (Creedence Clearwater Revival) is 65. Singer Bjorn Ulvaeus (ABBA) is 65. Actress Talia Shire is 64. Actor Jeffrey DeMunn is 63. Rock musician Michael Brown (The Left Banke) is 61. Rock musician Steve Ferrone (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) is 60. Country singer-songwriter Rob Crosby is 56. Actor Hank Azaria is 46. Rock singer Andy Bell (Erasure) is 46. Rock musician Eric Avery (Jane's Addiction) is 45. Country musician Rory Feek (Joey + Rory) is 45. TV personality Jane Clayson is 43. Actress Renee Zellweger is 41. Actress Gina Torres is 41. Actor Jason Lee is 40. Actor Jason Wiles is 40. Actress Emily Bergl is 35. Actress Marguerite Moreau is 33. Singer Jacob Underwood is 30. Actress Sara Paxton is 22. Actress Allisyn Ashley Arm is 14.

Thought for Today: "There is nothing in the universe that I fear but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it." - Mary Lyon, American educator (1797-1849). (AP)

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