April 25th

1847: The last survivors of the Donner Party reach California... they immediately order a meat-lovers pizza.

1983: American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter about nuclear war, and heard a rumor that she may have decent toilet paper.

2003: The Human Genome Project comes to an end as scientists conclude that no matter what our genetic makeup, most people really suck.