Today is Monday, April 25, the 116th day of 2016. There are 250 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: Actor Al Pacino is 76. Actress Talia Shire is 71. Actor Hank Azaria is 52. Actress Renee Zellweger is 47. Actor Jason Lee is 46.

In 1507, a world map produced by German cartographer Martin Waldseemueller contained the first recorded use of the term ‘‘America,’’ in honor of Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci.

In 1862, during the Civil War, a Union fleet commanded by Flag Officer David G. Farragut captured the city of New Orleans.

In 1901, New York Governor Benjamin Barker Odell, Jr. signed an automobile registration bill that imposed a 15 miles per hour speed limit on highways.

In 1959, the St. Lawrence Seaway opened to shipping.

In 1983, 10-year-old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, received a reply from Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov to a letter she’d written expressing concern about possible nuclear war; Andropov reassured Samantha that the Soviet Union did not want war, and he invited her to visit his country, a trip Samantha made in July.

In 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was deployed in orbit from the space shuttle Discovery. (It was discovered that the telescope’s primary mirror was flawed, requiring the installation of corrective components to achieve optimal focus.)

Last year, a magnitude-7.8 earthquake in Nepal killed more than 8,200 people.