FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 2012

Today is Friday, April 6, the 97th day of 2012. There are 269 days left in the year.

648 B.C. ― Earliest total solar eclipse; chronicled by Greeks

610 ― Lailat-ul Qadar, the night the Koran descended to Earth

1327 ― Italian poet Petrarch first sets eyes on his beloved Laura

1722 ― Peter the Great ends tax on men with beards

1868 ― Brigham Young marries his 27th & final wife

1869 ― First plastic, Celluloid, patented

1906 ― First animated cartoon copyrighted

1909 ― North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson

1917 ― U.S. declares war on Germany, enters World War I

1980 ― Post-It notes are introduced