Today is Tuesday, April 1, the 92nd day of 2008. There are 274 days left in the year.
1578 _ William Harvey of England discovers blood circulation
1748 _ Ruins of Pompeii found
1789 _ House of Representatives first full meeting, New York, N.Y., F Muhlenberg first speaker
1866 _ Congress rejects presidential veto gives all equal rights in U.S.
1891 _ London-Paris telephone connection opens
1891 _ Painter Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti
1945 _ U.S. forces launch invasion of Okinawa during WWII
1952 _ Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow
1979 _ Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of Shah
1983 _ Anti-nuke demonstrators link arms in 14-mile human chain in England