2008 Woodie Awards
This day in history
Issue date: 4/25/08 Section: News
1507 German cartographer Martin Waldseemueller used the term "America" on a world map to refer to the huge land mass in the Western Hemisphere, in honor of Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci.
1792 highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier became the first person under French law to be executed by the guillotine.
1859 ground was broken for the Suez Canal.
1898 the United States formally declared war on Spain.
1901 New York Gov. Benjamin Barker Odell Jr. signed an automobile registration bill which imposed a 15 mph speed limit on highways.
1908 broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow was born in Polecat Creek, N.C.
1915 during World War I, Allied soldiers invaded the Gallipoli Peninsula in an unsuccessful attempt to take the Ottoman Empire out of the war.
1945 delegates from some 50 countries met in San Francisco to
organize the United Nations.
1959 the St. Lawrence Seaway opened to shipping.
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.
1998 Whitewater prosecutors questioned First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on videotape about her work as a private lawyer for the failed savings and loan at the center of the investigation.
-compiled by The Associated Press
1792 highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier became the first person under French law to be executed by the guillotine.
1859 ground was broken for the Suez Canal.
1898 the United States formally declared war on Spain.
1901 New York Gov. Benjamin Barker Odell Jr. signed an automobile registration bill which imposed a 15 mph speed limit on highways.
1908 broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow was born in Polecat Creek, N.C.
1915 during World War I, Allied soldiers invaded the Gallipoli Peninsula in an unsuccessful attempt to take the Ottoman Empire out of the war.
1945 delegates from some 50 countries met in San Francisco to
organize the United Nations.
1959 the St. Lawrence Seaway opened to shipping.
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.
1998 Whitewater prosecutors questioned First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on videotape about her work as a private lawyer for the failed savings and loan at the center of the investigation.
-compiled by The Associated Press
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