MONDAY, APRIL 18, 2011

Today is Monday, April 18, the 108th day of 2011. There are 257 days left in the year.

1521 ― Parliament of Worms Cardinal Alexander questions Martin Luther

1834 ― Charles Darwin sails to Rio Santa Cruz up Patagonia

1902 ― Denmark is first country to adopt fingerprinting to identify criminals

1909 ― Joan of Arc declared a saint

1924 ― First crossword puzzle book published (Simon & Schuster)

1946 ― League of Nations dissolves (three months after the U.N. starts)

1948 ― International Court of Justice opens at Hague Netherlands

1954 ― Colonel Nasser seizes power and becomes P.M. of Egypt

1955 ― First Bandung Conference ― Afro-Asian conference opens

1994 ― Former President Richard Nixon suffers a stroke and dies four days later