MONDAY, APRIL 19, 2010

Today is Monday, April 19, the 109th day of 2010. There are 256 days left in the year.

1587 _ Sir Frances Drake sails into Cadiz, Spain, and sinks Spanish fleet

1770 _ Captain James Cook first sees Australia

1861 _ Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War)

1897 _ First Boston Marathon won by John McDermott of New York in 2:55:10

1909 _ Joan of Arc, declared a saint

1933 _ FDR announces U.S. will leave the gold standard

1948 _ Chiang Kai-shek elected President of Nationalist China

1951 _ General Douglas MacArthur ends his military career

1967 _ Beatles sign a contract to stay together for 10 years (they didn't)

1995 _ Truck bomb outside Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, kills 168 and injures 500