SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 2010

Today is Saturday, April 24, the 114th day of 2010. There are 251 days left in the year.

1833 _ Patent granted for first soda fountain to Jacob Evert and George Dulty

1871 _ Giuseppe Verdi's opera ``Aida" is produced (Cairo)

1872 _ Volcano Vesuvius erupts

1888 _ Eastman Kodak forms

1897 _ First reporter, William Price (Washington Star), is assigned to White House

1898 _ Spain declares war on U.S. rejecting ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba

1953 _ Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II

1955 _ Conference of Bandung against colonialism/for-self determination ends

1961 _ JFK accepts ``sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs

1970 _ People's Republic of China launches its 1st satellite transmitting song ``East is Red"