MONDAY, APRIL 14, 2008

Today is Monday, April 14, the 105th day of 2008. There are 261 days left in the year.

1611 _ Word ``telescope" is first used (Prince Federico Cesi)

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

1981 _ First Space Shuttle, Columbia 1,returns to Earth

1987 _ Turkey asks to join European market

1989 _ 1,100,000,000th Chinese born