MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2014

Today is Monday, April 7, the 97th day of 2014. There are 268 days left in the year.

451 ― Attila’s Hun’s plunder Metz

1805 ― Premiere of Beethoven’s “Eroica” (conducted by himself)

1827 ― English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches

1923 ― Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes official communist party

1943 ― Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet for an Axis conference in Salzburg

1945 ― U.S. planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide mission; superbattleship Yamato and four destroyers are sunk

1948 ― World Health Organization established by U.N.

1954 ― President Dwight Eisenhower fears “dominoeffect” in Indochina

1976 ― Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping

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