SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 2009

Today is Saturday, April 4, the 94th day of 2009. There are 271 days left in the year.

1832 _ Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Rio de Janeiro

1905 _ Earthquake in Kangra India, kills 370,000

1912 _ Chinese Republic proclaimed in Tibet

1932 _ Vitamin C first isolated, C. C. King, University of Pittsburgh

1944 _ De Gaulle forms new regime in exile, with communists

1945 _ U.S. forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany

1947 _ U.N.'s International Civil Aviation Organization established

1949 _ North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed (Washington DC)

1960 _ 32nd Academy Awards _ ``Ben-Hur," Charlton Heston and Simone Signoret win

1974 _ Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's homerun record by hitting his 714th