FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 2010

Today is Friday, April 9, the 99th day of 2010. There are 266 days left in the year.

1667 _ First public art exhibition (Palais Royal, Paris, France)

1770 _ Captain James Cook discovers Botany Bay (Australia)

1866 _ Civil Rights Bill passes over President Andrew Johnson's veto

1872 _ Samuel R. Percy patents dried milk

1912 _ Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for New York

1940 _ Germany invades Norway and Denmark during WWII (Denmark surrenders)

1963 _ Sir Winston Churchill proclaimed honorary U.S. citizen in White House ceremony

1965 _ India and Pakistan engage in border fight

1968 _ Martin Luther King Jr., buried in Atlanta, Ga.

1969 _ First flight of Concorde 002 (Filton-Bristol)