Today in HistoryToday is Wednesday, April 25, the 115th day of 2007. There are 250 days left in the year.

ON THIS DATE

In 1507, America got its name from German cartographer Martin Waldseemueller, who first used the term on a world map to refer to the huge mass of land in the Western Hemisphere, in honour of Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

“I think that the glorious thing about the human race is that it does change the world — constantly. The world or ‘life’ may seem to more often overwhelm the human being, but it is the human being’s capacity for struggling against being overwhelmed which is remarkable and exhilarating.” — Lorraine Hansberry, American author-dramatist (1930-1965).