THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2011

Today is Thursday, April 14, the 104th day of 2011. There are 261 days left in the year.

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

1894 ― First public showing of Thomas Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures)

1895 ― First performance of Gustav Mahler's (incomplete) 2nd Symphony

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