On This Day
25th April 1719 - Daniel Defoe's famous book, Robinson Crusoe, was published. 1886 - Sigmund Freud opened his practice at Rathausstrasse 7, Vienna. 1953 - James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin and colleagues published papers in the journal Nature on the structure of DNA. 1967 - The first law legalizing abortion in the United States was signed into law by Colorado Gov. John Arthur Love. 2005 - A Japanese commuter train crashed near Osaka, killing more than 70 people and injuring more than 300 others.