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Today is Tuesday, April 25, the 115th day of 2017. There are 250 days left in the year.

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404 B.C.: The Peloponnesian War ends as Athens surrenders to Sparta.

1507: A world map produced by German cartographer Martin Waldseemueller contains the first recorded use of the term “America,” in honor of Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci.

1792: French highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier becomes the first person to be executed by the guillotine.

1862: During the Civil War, a Union fleet commanded by Flag Officer David G. Farragut captures New Orleans.

1917: Legendary jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald is born in Newport News, Va.

1945: During World War II, U.S. and Soviet forces link up on the Elbe River, a meeting that dramatizes the collapse of Nazi Germany’s defenses.

1990: The Hubble Space Telescope is deployed in orbit from the space shuttle Discovery.

2007: The Dow Jones industrial average tops 13,000 for the first time, ending the day at 13,089.89.

2012: The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on Arizona’s tough immigration law. (A divided court later threw out major parts of the law.)

2016: The city of Cleveland reaches a $6 million settlement in a lawsuit over the death of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black boy shot by a white police officer while playing with a pellet gun outside a recreation center.

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1992: Democratic presidential candidate Jerry Brown will attend a rally near disputed hazardous waste incinerator in East Liverpool.

A bid by black Mahoning County residents to create new Ohio House districts by the June primary has failed.

General Motors is accelerating an overhaul of its slumping North American business, looking to eliminate duplication and competition between its brands, which include Chevrolet, Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Cadillac, Saturn and GMC trucks.

1977: A $75,000 general alarm fire destroys the Minuteman Restaurant, 17 S. Mill St. in New Castle.

Speaking in Warren, Gov. James A. Rhodes warns local government and education leaders that industry will continue to move out of Northeast Ohio unless the Legislature takes action to make it more attractive for business to stay.

Three armed men in work clothing escape with an estimated $10,000 from a robbery at the Belmont Avenue branch of Union National Bank in Union Square.

1967: Contributions of the restaurant industry to combating heart disease are outlined by the Mahoning Valley Restaurant Association at Choffin Vocational School.

Charlene Marino of Liberty Township, a junior at Youngstown University, is chosen 1967 Spring Weekend Queen.

A group of East End merchants and city officials collide about the median strip being constructed on East Front Street. Merchants say it will interfere with customers and deliveries.

1942: Mrs. Louis Prato, 45, manages to shepherd her three children from the family’s burning home in Hillsville, Pa., but dies while trying to extinguish the blaze. Her husband is hospitalized with severe burns and her sons, James, 24, and Peter, 20, were released after treatment.

Acting to put Youngstown’s $2.6 million airport to use in training fliers for national defense and to boost its revenue, the Chamber of Commerce recommends city council to authorize the leasing of the airport hangar.

Some 31,025 fish, weighing 17,057 pounds are harvested from the Meander Reservoir and put in lakes Newport, Milton and Pymatuning. Lake Milton also gets 400 walleye pike from Lake Erie.