Today in History: Thursday, April 25, 2013

历史上的今天：2013年4月25日，星期四

April 25th, 1874 Radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi is born in Bologna, Italy.“In spite of the great distance bodily separating us, you hear my voice as clearly and distinctly as I think you should.”

1507,America gets its name, nearly fifteen years after Christopher Columbus' first voyage to the New World. A German cartographer first uses the term on a world map to refer to the huge land mass in the Western Hemisphere. The name is in honor of Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian navigator.

1945,During World War II, American and Soviet troops in Europe meet on the Elbe River. It's a sign that the collapse of Nazi Germany and the end of the war in Europe are near.

1990,“Ah, first of NASA's great observatories is now on station at 330 nautical miles above the earth.” Space Shuttle Discovery deploys the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit around the Earth.

And 1918,“A-tisket A-tasket A brown and yellow basket I send a letter.” Ella Fitzgerald, one of the great jazz singers of the 20th Century, is born in Newport News, Virginia.

Today in History, April 25th, Sandy Kozel, the Associated Press.