SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 2012

Today is Saturday, April 7, the 98th day of 2012. There are 268 days left in the year.

1118 ― Pope Gelasius II excommunicated Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor

1805 ― Premiere of Beethoven's ``Eroica" (conducted by himself)

1926 ― Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose

1933 ― Prohibition ends, Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment

1934 ― In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspends his campaign of civil disobedience

1954 ― President Dwight Eisenhower fears ``domino-effect" in Indochina

1976 ― Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping

1978 ― President Jimmy Carter defers production of the neutron bomb

1983 ― Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt

1994 ― Vatican acknowledges Holocaust (Nazi's killing Jews) for first time