SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 2011

Today is Saturday, April 2, the 92nd day of 2011. There are 273 days left in the year.

1800 _ First performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 1st Symphony in C

1827 _ Joseph Dixon begins manufacturing lead pencils

1845 _ H. L. Fizeau and J. Leon Foucault take first photo of Sun

1902 _ First motion picture theater opens (Los Angeles, Calif.)

1908 _ The Mills Committee declares baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday

1912 _ Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power

1912 _ Sun Yat-sen forms the Nationalist party Kuomintang (KMT) in China

1931 _ Teenage girl strikes out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game in Chattanooga, Tenn.

1932 _ Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for kidnapped son

1935 _ Sir Watson-Watt patents radar