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April 25th Happy Birthday Al Pacino


Today is Wednesday, April 25, the 116th day of 2012. There are 250 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:
On April 25, 1862, during the Civil War, a Union fleet commanded by Flag Officer David G. Farragut captured the city of New Orleans.

On this date:
In 404 BC, Peloponnesian War: Lysander's Spartan Armies defeated the Athenians and the war ends.
In 1134, The name Zagreb was mentioned for the first time in the Felician Charter relating to the establishment of the Zagreb Bishopric around 1094.
In 1507, a world map produced by German cartographer Martin Waldseemueller contained the first recorded use of the term America,'' in honor of Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci.
In 1607, Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
In 1644, The Chongzhen Emperor, the last Emperor of Ming Dynasty China, commits suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng.
In 1707, The Habsburg army is defeated by Bourbon army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
In 1792, Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
In 1792, La Marseillaise (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
In 1804, The western Georgian kingdom of Imereti accepts the suzerainty of the Russian Empire
In 1829, Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.
In 1846, Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War.
In 1847, The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness.
In 1849, The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
In 1859, British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
In 1861, American Civil War: The Union Army arrives in Washington, D.C.
In 1864, American Civil War: The Battle of Marks' Mills.
In 1898, Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
In 1901, New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
In 1915, during World War I, Allied soldiers invaded the Gallipoli Peninsula in an unsuccessful attempt to take the Ottoman Empire out of the war.
In 1916, Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declares martial law in Ireland.
In 1916, Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove.
In 1920, At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class "A" League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East.
In 1938, U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
In 1939, DC Comics publishes its second major superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most popular comic book superheroes of all time.
In 1943, The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.
In 1944, The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
In 1945, Elbe Day: United States and Soviet troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe.
In 1945, The Nazi occupation army surrenders and leaves Northern Italy after a general partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement; the puppet fascist regime dissolves and Benito Mussolini tries to escape. This day is taken as symbolic of the Liberation of Italy.
In 1945, Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organizations.
In 1945, The last German troops retreat from Finland's soil in Lapland, ending the Lapland War. Military acts of Second World War end in Finland.
In 1953, Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
In 1959, The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
In 1960, The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
In 1961, Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
In 1965, Teenage sniper Michael Andrew Clark kills three and wounds six others shooting from a hilltop along Highway 101 just south of Santa Maria, California.
In 1966, The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake.
In 1972, Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive, The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum.
In 1972, Polaroid Corp. introduced its SX-70 folding camera, which ejected self-developing photographs.
In 1972, Actor George Sanders was found dead in his hotel room near Barcelona, Spain; he was
In 1974, Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the fascist Estado Novo regime and establishes a democratic government.
In 1975, As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
In 1981, More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
In 1982, Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
In 1983, 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. Smith was a peace activist and actress and wrote a book about her trip to the Soviet Union. She accepted a role in a TV series with Robert Wagner called "Lime Street" but was killed along with her father in a plane crash on Aug. 25, 1985. She was 13.
In 1983, Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
In 1986, Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.
In 1988, In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
In 1992, Islamic forces in Afghanistan took control of most of the capital of Kabul following the collapse of the Communist government.
In 2003, The Human Genome Project comes to an end two and a half years earlier than expected.
In 2005, The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
In 2005, Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union.
In 2005, 107 die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.
In 2007, Boris Yeltsin's funeral, the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.
In 2011, At least 300 people killed in deadliest tornado outbreak in the Southern United States since the 1974 Super Outbreak.

Ten years ago: President George W. Bush hosted Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at his Texas ranch for a day of talks. The House voted 405-9 to abolish the embattled Immigration and Naturalization Service. A Russian rocket blasted into orbit, carrying South African Internet millionaire Mark Shuttleworth, the world's second space tourist. Lisa Left Eye'' Lopes, the effervescent, sometimes volatile member of the Grammy-winning trio TLC, died in an SUV crash in Honduras; she was 30.

Five years ago: Brushing off a presidential veto threat, the House passed, 218-208, a $124.2 billion supplemental spending bill ordering U.S. troops to begin coming home from Iraq in the fall of 2007. The Dow Jones industrial average topped 13,000 for the first time, ending the day at 13,089.89.

One year ago: President Bashar Assad of Syria sent the military into the southern city of Daraa, where an anti-government uprising had begun the previous month.


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Today's Birthdays: Movie director-writer Paul Mazursky is 82. Actor Al Pacino is 72. Ballroom dance judge Len Goodman (TV: Dancing with the Stars'') is 68. Rock musician Stu Cook (Creedence Clearwater Revival) is 67. Singer Bjorn Ulvaeus (ABBA) is 67. Actress Talia Shire is 66. Actor Jeffrey DeMunn is 65. Rock musician Michael Brown (The Left Banke) is 63. Rock musician Steve Ferrone (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) is 62. Country singer/songwriter Rob Crosby is 58. Actor Hank Azaria is 48. Rock singer Andy Bell (Erasure) is 48. Rock musician Eric Avery (Jane's Addiction) is 47. Country musician Rory Feek (Joey + Rory) is 47. TV personality Jane Clayson is 45. Actress Renee Zellweger is 43. Actress Gina Torres is 43. Actor Jason Lee is 42. Actor Jason Wiles is 42. Actress Emily Bergl is 37. Actress Marguerite Moreau is 35.

Other notable birthdays, April 25:
1929, Yvette Williams, New Zealand athlete
1932, Meadowlark Lemon, American basketball player
1942, Jon Kyl, American politician, junior senator of Arizona
1945, Richard C. Hoagland, American conspiracy theorist
1954, Randy Cross, American football player
1959, Tony Phillips, American baseball player
1965, Mark Bryant, American basketball player
1966, Erik Pappas, Greek-American baseball player
1966, Darren Holmes American baseball player
1969, Joe Buck, American sports broadcaster
1969, Darren Woodson, American football player
1970, Steve Tovar, American football player
1971, Brad Clontz, American baseball player
1975, Jacque Jones, American baseball player
1976, Tim Duncan, American basketball player
1982, Brian Barton, American baseball player
1983, DeAngelo Williams, American football player
1983, J.P. Howell, American baseball player
1984, Robert Andino, American baseball player
1984, Melonie Diaz, American actress
1996, Allisyn Ashley Arm, American actress

Born on this day, Aproil 25, passed away:
1214, King Louis IX of France, also known as Saint Louis (d. 1270)
1599, Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland (d. 1658)
1898, Fred Haney, baseball player (d. 1977)
1900, Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
1906, William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1997)
1908, Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (d. 1965)
1914, Ross Lockridge, Jr., American writer (d. 1948)
1917, Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (d. 1996)
1923, Albert King, American musician (d. 1992)
1933, Jerry Leiber, American composer (d. 2011)
1933, Joyce Ricketts, American baseball player (d. 1992)

Notable deaths, April 25:
68, Saint Mark, the first Pope of Alexandria and the founder of Christianity in Africa
1982, John Cody, American cardinal (b. 1907)
1990, Dexter Gordon, American saxophonist (b. 1923)
1995, Art Fleming, American game show host (b. 1925)
1995, Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (b. 1911)
1999, Roger Troutman, American musician (b. 1951)
1999, Larry Troutman, American musician (b. 1944)
1999, Lord Killanin, Irish International Olympic Committee president (b. 1914)
2000, David Merrick, American theatrical producer (b. 1911)
2002, Lisa Lopes, American rapper (TLC) (b. 1971)
2007, Bobby "Boris" Pickett, American singer and songwriter (b. 1938)
2009, Beatrice Arthur, American comedienne, actress and singer (b. 1922)
2010, Dorothy Provine, American singer, dancer, actress and comedienne (b. 1935)

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Today is Thursday, April 25, the 115th day of 2013. There are 250 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:
On April 25, 1983, 10-year-old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, received a reply from Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov to a letter she'd written expressing concern about possible nuclear war; Andropov reassured Samantha that the Soviet Union did not want war, and he invited her to visit his country, a trip Samantha made the following July.

One year ago: The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on Arizona's tough immigration law. (A divided court later threw out major parts of the law.) The Senate offered a lifeline to the nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service, voting to give the struggling agency an $11 billion cash infusion while delaying controversial decisions on closing post offices and ending Saturday delivery. (The House didn't pass a bill.)

Today's Birthdays: Movie director-writer Paul Mazursky is 83. Actor Al Pacino is 73. Ballroom dance judge Len Goodman (TV: "Dancing with the Stars") is 69. Rock musician Stu Cook (Creedence Clearwater Revival) is 68. Singer Bjorn Ulvaeus (ABBA) is 68. Actress Talia Shire is 67. Actor Jeffrey DeMunn is 66. Rock musician Michael Brown (The Left Banke) is 64. Rock musician Steve Ferrone (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) is 63. Country singer-songwriter Rob Crosby is 59. Actor Hank Azaria is 49. Rock singer Andy Bell (Erasure) is 49. Rock musician Eric Avery (Jane's Addiction) is 48. Country musician Rory Feek (Joey + Rory) is 48. TV personality Jane Clayson is 46. Actress Renee Zellweger is 44. Actress Gina Torres is 44. Actor Jason Lee is 43. Actor Jason Wiles is 43. Actress Emily Bergl is 38. Actress Marguerite Moreau is 36. Singer Jacob Underwood is 33. Actress Sara Paxton is 25. Actress Allisyn Ashley Arm is 17.

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Today is Friday, April 25, the 115th day of 2014. There are 250 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:
On April 25, 1507, a world map produced by German cartographer Martin Waldseemueller contained the first recorded use of the term "America," in honor of Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci (vehs-POO'-chee).

Ten years ago: Hundreds of thousands of abortion-rights supporters marched in Washington, D.C. to protest Bush administration policies.

Five years ago: In her first trip to Iraq as America's top diplomat, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton tried to reassure nervous Iraqis that the U.S. wouldn't abandon them, even as she said the American troop withdrawal would stay on schedule. Finance ministers meeting in Washington said they saw signs the global economy was stabilizing but cautioned it would take until the middle of next year for the world to emerge from the worst recession in decades. University of Georgia professor George Zinkhan, 57, shot and killed his wife and two men outside a community theater in Athens before taking his own life. Actress Beatrice Arthur died in Los Angeles at age 86.

One year ago: President Barack Obama consoled a rural Texas community rocked by a deadly fertilizer plant explosion, telling mourners during a memorial service at Baylor University they were not alone in their grief. President Obama joined his four living predecessors to dedicate the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas. Reggaeton star Don Omar was the top winner of the Billboard Latin Music Awards in Coral Gables, Fla., taking home 10 prizes.

Today's Birthdays: Movie director-writer Paul Mazursky is 84. Actor Al Pacino is 74. Ballroom dance judge Len Goodman (TV: "Dancing with the Stars") is 70. Rock musician Stu Cook (Creedence Clearwater Revival) is 69. Singer Bjorn Ulvaeus (ABBA) is 69. Actress Talia Shire is 68. Actor Jeffrey DeMunn is 67. Rock musician Michael Brown (The Left Banke) is 65. Rock musician Steve Ferrone (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) is 64. Country singer-songwriter Rob Crosby is 60. Actor Hank Azaria is 50. Rock singer Andy Bell (Erasure) is 50. Rock musician Eric Avery is 49. Country musician Rory Feek (Joey + Rory) is 49. TV personality Jane Clayson is 47. Actress Renee Zellweger is 45. Actress Gina Torres is 45. Actor Jason Lee is 44. Actor Jason Wiles is 44. Actress Emily Bergl is 39. Actress Marguerite Moreau is 37. Singer Jacob Underwood is 34. Actress Melonie Diaz is 30. Actress Sara Paxton is 26. Actress Allisyn Ashley Arm is 18.

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Today is Saturday, April 25, the 115th day of 2015. There are 250 days left in the year.

Today's Highlights in History:
On April 25, 1945, during World War II, U.S. and Soviet forces linked up on the Elbe (EL'-beh) River, a meeting that dramatized the collapse of Nazi Germany's defenses. Delegates from some 50 countries gathered in San Francisco to organize the United Nations.

Ten years ago: At his Texas ranch, President George W. Bush prodded Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah to help curb skyrocketing oil prices. The CIA's top weapons hunter in Iraq, Charles Duelfer (DEHL'-fur), said in an addendum to his final report that his search for weapons of mass destruction had been "exhausted" without finding any. A packed commuter train jumped the tracks and hurtled into an apartment complex in western Japan, killing 107 people. A space capsule carrying a U.S.-Russian-Italian crew landed safely in northern Kazakhstan.

Five years ago: President Barack Obama made a pilgrimage to Billy Graham's mountainside home, concluding his North Carolina vacation with his first meeting with the ailing evangelist who had counseled commanders in chief since Dwight Eisenhower. An al-Qaida front group in Iraq confirmed the deaths of its two top leaders a week after a raid by Iraqi and U.S. security forces on the leaders' safe house near Tikrit (tih-KREET'), north of Baghdad. British writer Alan Sillitoe, 82, died in London.

One year ago: President Barack Obama, in a joint news conference in Seoul alongside South Korean President Park Geun-hye (goon-hay), said the U.S. stood "shoulder to shoulder" with its ally in refusing to accept a nuclearized North Korea. The United States and other nations in the Group of Seven said they'd agreed to "move swiftly" to impose additional economic sanctions on Russia in response to its actions in Ukraine. In a historic vote, Northwestern University football players cast secret ballots on whether to form the nation's first union for college athletes. (The results of the closely watched vote have yet to be released.)

Today's Birthdays: Actor Al Pacino is 75. Ballroom dance judge Len Goodman (TV: "Dancing with the Stars") is 71. Rock musician Stu Cook (Creedence Clearwater Revival) is 70. Singer Bjorn Ulvaeus (BYORN ul-VAY'-us) (ABBA) is 70. Actress Talia Shire is 70. Actor Jeffrey DeMunn is 68. Rock musician Steve Ferrone (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) is 65. Country singer-songwriter Rob Crosby is 61. Actor Hank Azaria is 51. Rock singer Andy Bell (Erasure) is 51. Rock musician Eric Avery is 50. Country musician Rory Feek (Joey + Rory) is 50. TV personality Jane Clayson is 48. Actress Renee Zellweger is 46. Actress Gina Torres is 46. Actor Jason Lee is 45. Actor Jason Wiles is 45. Actress Emily Bergl is 40. Actor Jonathan Angel is 38. Actress Marguerite Moreau is 38. Singer Jacob Underwood is 35. Actress Melonie Diaz is 31. Actress Sara Paxton is 27. Actress Allisyn Ashley Arm is 19.

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Today is Monday, April 25, the 116th day of 2016. There are 250 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:
On April 25, 1816, Romantic poet Lord Byron, beset by financial problems and personal turmoil (including a failed marriage), left his native England at age 28, never to return. (Byron died eight years later in Greece.)

Ten years ago: In a video posted on the Internet, al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (AH'-boo MOO'-sahb ahl-zahr-KOW'-ee) swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden and said any government formed in Iraq would be merely a "stooge." President George W. Bush ordered a temporary suspension of environmental rules for gasoline, making it easier for refiners to meet demand.

Five years ago: President Bashar Assad of Syria sent the military into the southern city of Daraa, where an anti-government uprising had begun the previous month.

One year ago: A magnitude-7.8 earthquake in Nepal killed more than 8,200 people. Families of soldiers, leaders and visitors gathered in Turkey near former battlefields, honoring thousands of Australians and New Zealanders who fought in the Gallipoli campaign of World War I on the 100th anniversary of the ill-fated British-led invasion. Italy celebrated the 70th anniversary of a partisan uprising against the Nazis and their Fascist allies near the end of World War II.

Today's Birthdays: Actor Al Pacino is 76. Ballroom dance judge Len Goodman (TV: "Dancing with the Stars") is 72. Rock musician Stu Cook (Creedence Clearwater Revival) is 71. Singer Bjorn Ulvaeus (BYORN ul-VAY'-us) (ABBA) is 71. Actress Talia Shire is 71. Actor Jeffrey DeMunn is 69. Rock musician Steve Ferrone (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) is 66. Country singer-songwriter Rob Crosby is 62. Actor Hank Azaria is 52. Rock singer Andy Bell (Erasure) is 52. Rock musician Eric Avery is 51. Country musician Rory Feek (Joey + Rory) is 51. TV personality Jane Clayson is 49. Actress Renee Zellweger is 47. Actress Gina Torres is 47. Actor Jason Lee is 46. Actor Jason Wiles is 46. Actress Emily Bergl is 41. Actor Jonathan Angel is 39. Actress Marguerite Moreau is 39. Singer Jacob Underwood is 36. Actress Melonie Diaz is 32. Actress Sara Paxton is 28. Actress Allisyn Ashley Arm is 20.

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

Today's Highlight in History:
On April 25, 1507, a world map produced by German cartographer Martin Waldseemueller contained the first recorded use of the term "America," in honor of Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci (vehs-POO'-chee).

Ten years ago: Brushing off a presidential veto threat, the House passed, 218-208, a $124.2 billion supplemental spending bill ordering U.S. troops to begin coming home from Iraq in the fall of 2007. The Dow Jones industrial average topped 13,000 for the first time, ending the day at 13,089.89. Rosie O'Donnell announced she was leaving the ABC talk show "The View" (she returned to the program in 2014, but left again the following year). Singer-songwriter Bobby "Boris" Pickett of "Monster Mash" fame died in Los Angeles at age 69.

Five years ago: The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on Arizona's tough immigration law. (A divided court later threw out major parts of the law.)

One year ago: The city of Cleveland reached 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. A panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan ruled 2-to-1 that New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady had to serve a four-game "Deflategate" suspension imposed by the NFL, overturning a lower judge and siding with the league in a battle with the players union. (Brady ended up serving the suspension.)

Today's Birthdays — April 25: Actor Al Pacino is 77. Ballroom dance judge Len Goodman (TV: "Dancing with the Stars") is 73. Rock musician Stu Cook (Creedence Clearwater Revival) is 72. Singer Bjorn Ulvaeus (BYORN ul-VAY'-us) (ABBA) is 72. Actress Talia Shire is 72. Actor Jeffrey DeMunn is 70. Rock musician Steve Ferrone (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) is 67. Country singer-songwriter Rob Crosby is 63. Actor Hank Azaria is 53. Rock singer Andy Bell (Erasure) is 53. Rock musician Eric Avery is 52. Country musician Rory Feek (Joey + Rory) is 52. TV personality Jane Clayson is 50. Actress Renee Zellweger is 48. Actress Gina Torres is 48. Actor Jason Lee is 47. Actor Jason Wiles is 47. Actress Emily Bergl is 42. Actor Jonathan Angel is 40. Actress Marguerite Moreau is 40. Singer Jacob Underwood is 37. Actress Melonie Diaz is 33. Actress Sara Paxton is 29. Actress Allisyn Ashley Arm is 21.


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Today is Wednesday, April 25, the 115th day of 2018. There are 250 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On April 25, 1898, the United States Congress declared war on Spain; the 10-week conflict resulted in an American victory.

Ten years ago: Three New York police detectives were acquitted in the 50-shot killing of Sean Bell, an unarmed black man, on his wedding day; as news of the verdict spread, many in a crowd outside the courthouse began weeping, while others were enraged, swearing and screaming "Murderers! Murderers!" or "KKK!"

Five years ago: President Barack Obama consoled a rural Texas community rocked by a deadly fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 people, telling mourners during a memorial service at Baylor University they were not alone in their grief. President Barack Obama joined his four living predecessors to dedicate the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas. Reggaeton star Don Omar was the top winner of the Billboard Latin Music Awards in Coral Gables, Florida, taking home 10 prizes.

One year ago: A federal judge blocked President Donald Trump's attempt to withhold funding from "sanctuary cities" that did not cooperate with U.S. immigration officials, saying the president had no authority to attach new conditions to federal spending. Ivanka Trump drew groans and hisses from an audience in Berlin while defending her father's attitude toward women, but brushed the negative reaction aside as "politics" during her first overseas trip as a White House adviser.

Today's Birthdays: Actor Al Pacino is 78. Ballroom dance judge Len Goodman (TV: "Dancing with the Stars") is 74. Rock musician Stu Cook (Creedence Clearwater Revival) is 73. Singer Bjorn Ulvaeus (BYORN ul-VAY'-us) (ABBA) is 73. Actress Talia Shire is 73. Actor Jeffrey DeMunn is 71. Rock musician Steve Ferrone (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) is 68. Country singer-songwriter Rob Crosby is 64. Actor Hank Azaria is 54. Rock singer Andy Bell (Erasure) is 54. Rock musician Eric Avery is 53. Country musician Rory Feek (Joey + Rory) is 53. TV personality Jane Clayson is 51. Actress Renee Zellweger is 49. Actress Gina Torres is 49. Actor Jason Lee is 48. Actor Jason Wiles is 48. Actress Emily Bergl is 43. Actor Jonathan Angel is 41. Actress Marguerite Moreau is 41. Singer Jacob Underwood is 38. Actress Melonie Diaz is 34. Actress Sara Paxton is 30. Actress Allisyn Ashley Arm is 22.

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1915, during World War I, Allied soldiers invaded the Gallipoli Peninsula in an unsuccessful attempt to take the Ottoman Empire out of the war.

Today's Birthdays — Thursday, April 25, 2018: Actor Al Pacino is 79. Ballroom dance judge Len Goodman (TV: "Dancing with the Stars") is 75. Rock musician Stu Cook (Creedence Clearwater Revival) is 74. Singer Bjorn Ulvaeus (ABBA) is 74. Actress Talia Shire is 74. Actor Jeffrey DeMunn is 72.

Rock musician Steve Ferrone (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) is 69. Country singer-songwriter Rob Crosby is 65. Actor Hank Azaria is 55. Rock singer Andy Bell (Erasure) is 55. Rock musician Eric Avery is 54. Country musician Rory Feek (Joey + Rory) is 54. TV personality Jane Clayson is 52. Actress Renee Zellweger is 50. Actress Gina Torres (Firefly/Serenity, Angel, Alias, Cleopatra 2525) is 50.

Actor Jason Lee is 49. Actor Jason Wiles is 49. Actress Emily Bergl is 44. Actor Jonathan Angel is 42. Actress Marguerite Moreau is 42..

Singer Jacob Underwood is 39. Actress Melonie Diaz is 35. Actress Sara Paxton is 31.

Actress Allisyn Ashley Arm is 23. Actress Jayden Rey is 10.

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In 1977 - Elvis Presley recorded a concert in Saginaw, Michigan. Three of the songs later appeared on the album "Moody Blue," which was released posthumously.

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