TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2009

Today is Tuesday, April 14, the 104th day of 2008. There are 261 days left in the year.

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

1814 _ Napoleon abdicated and was banished to Elba

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

1863 _ William Bullock patents continuous-roll printing press

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

1949 _ International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg's last judgment

1963 _ George Harrison is impressed by the unsigned group ``Rolling Stones"

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

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