Good Morning Everyone and Welcome to Your Daily History for April 25th
1599 - English military and political leader Oliver Cromwell is born
1792 - The first use of the Guillotine in France, Nicolas Jacques Pelletier executed
1859 - Construction begins on the Suez Canal in Egypt
1950 - Chuck Cooper is drafted by the Boston Celtics, the first African American drafted into the NBA
1953 - Dr. James D. Watson and Dr. Francis H.C. Crick first publish the double helix structure of DNA in Nature magazine