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Today in History: April 25


1590 The Sultan of Morocco launches a successful attack to capture Timbuktu.(I like Timbuktu)

1719 Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe is published in London.

1792 The guillotine is first used to execute highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier. should bring back into use

1859 Work begins on the Suez Canal in Egypt.

1862 Admiral David Farragut occupies New Orleans, Louisiana.

1898 The United States declares war on Spain.

1938 A seeing eye dog is used for the first time.

1953 The magazine Nature publishes an article by biologists Francis Crick and James Watson, describing the "double helix" of DNA.

1956 Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" goes to number one on the charts.

1960 The first submerged circumnavigation of the Earth is completed by a Triton submarine.

1980 President Jimmy Carter tells the American people about the hostage rescue disaster in Iran.


Born on April 25

1912 Gladys L. Presley, mother of Elvis Presley.

1917 Ella Fitzgerald, American singer.


JOTD

My least favorite color is purple.

I hate it more than red and blue combined.