Radio pioneer Marconi is born in Bologna, Italy.

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Amercia gets its name nearly 15 years after Christopher Columbus's 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.

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

1990Space shuttle Discovery deploys the Hubble Space Telescope into the orbit around the earth.

And 1918Ella Fitzgerald, one of the greatest Jazz singers of the 20th century, is born in Newport News, Virginia.

Today in Hsitory, April 25th, Sandy Cozel, the Associated Press.