Today is Saturday, April 14, the 105th day of 2012. There are 261 days left in the year.

1614 ― Pocahontas, daughter of chief Powhatan, marries planter John Rolfe

1814 ― Napoleon abdicated and was banished to Elba

1859 ― Charles Dickens' ``A Tale Of Two Cities" published

1865 ― President Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth

1894 ― First public showing of Thomas Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures)

1895 ― First performance of Gustav Mahler's (incomplete) 2nd Symphony

1902 ― Marie & Pierre Curie isolate the radioactive element radium

1971 ― President Richard Nixon ends blockade against People's Republic of China

1978 ― Korean Air Lines Boeing 707, fired on by Soviets, crashes in Russia

1992 ― U.N.-imposed embargo against Libya takes effect