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1507 \u2013 German cartographer Martin Waldseem\u00fcller is first to use the name America<\/em> on his world map “Universalis Cosmographia<\/em>”<\/p>\n 1792 \u2013 Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.<\/p>\n 1846 \u2013 Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican\u2013American War.<\/p>\n 1859 \u2013 British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.<\/p>\n 1898 \u2013 Congress officially declares war on Spain effective from the 21st of the month.<\/p>\n 1901 \u2013 New York becomes the first state to require automobile license plates.<\/p>\n 1928 \u2013 Buddy, a German Shepherd, becomes the first guide dog for the blind for his master, Morris Frank, in New York, City<\/p>\n 1938 \u2013 In the case of Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins<\/em>, the Supreme Court rules that federal district courts in civil cases must apply the laws of the states in which they sit, not federal law, unless they conflict with federal law.<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 U.S. and Soviet troops meet in Torgau, Germany along the River Elbe, cutting through the middle of the Wehrmacht forces of Nazi Germany<\/p>\n 1953 \u2013 In the April edition of the scientific journal Nature<\/em>; English Biologist Francis Crick and American Biologist James Watson publish the article “Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid<\/em>” describing the double helix structure of DNA.<\/p>\n 1954 \u2013 The first practical solar photovoltaic power cell is publicly demonstrated at Bell Telephone Laboratories, in New Jersey.<\/p>\n 1959 \u2013 The Saint Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.<\/p>\n 1960 \u2013 The U.S Navy submarine USS Triton<\/em> completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.<\/p>\n 1961 \u2013 Fairchild Semiconductor founder Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.<\/p>\n 1982 \u2013 Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula per the Camp David Accords.<\/p>\n 1983 \u2013 American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.<\/p>\n 2001 \u2013 President George W. Bush pledges U.S. military support in the event of a Chinese attack on Taiwan.<\/p>\n 2011\u2013 324 people are killed in the largest and deadliest tornado outbreak in the U.S. and Canada since the 1974 Super Outbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April 25 1507 \u2013 German cartographer Martin Waldseem\u00fcller is first to use the name America on his world map “Universalis Cosmographia” 1792 \u2013 Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine. 1846 \u2013 Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican\u2013American War. 1859 \u2013 British and French engineers … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67188"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92168,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67188\/revisions\/92168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}