Today is Monday, April 7, the 98th day of 2008. There are 268 days left in the year.
0451 _ Attila's Hun's plunder Metz
1712 _ Slave revolt (New York, N.Y.)
1805 _ Premiere of Beethoven's ``Eroica" (conducted by himself)
1827 _ English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches
1933 _ Prohibition ends, Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment
1943 _ Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet for an Axis conference in Salzburg
1948 _ World Health Organization established by U.N.
1956 _ Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco
1963 _ Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic
1978 _ President Jimmy Carter defers production of the neutron bomb