Today in History - History - April 25th

1993Russia elects Boris Yeltsin leader

1941Operation Merkur: Hitler orders conquest of Kreta

1891Pres Benjamin Harrison visits SF

1886Sigmund Freud opens practice at Rathausstrasse 7, Vienna

1985For 2nd time, Wayne Gretzky, scores 7 points in a Cup game (3 goals, 4 assists)

1985Roger Miller's musical "Big River," premieres in NYC

1982Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Orlando Lady Golf Classic

1953Francis Crick and James Watson's discovery of the double helix structure of DNA is published in "Nature" magazine

2007Boris 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.

1997The disaster film "Volcano", starring Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche, is released

1958Christa Johnson, Arcata California, LPGA golfer (1990 Atlantic City Classic)

1989Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, 11th Panchen Lama

1917Ella Fitzgerald, Newport News VA, jazz singer (Is it live or Memorex)

1964Hank Azaria, New York City, American actor (The Birdcage) and voice behind many characters in The Simpsons (Moe, Apu, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, Carl Carlson)

1874Guglielmo Marconi, Bologna Italy, inventor (radio, Nobel 1909)

1976Tim Duncan, Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands, NBA forward (San Antonio Spurs)

1853William Beaumont, physiologist, dies at 67

1995Ginger Rogers, actress/dancer (Top Hat, Stage Door), dies at 83