Today is Wednesday, April 9, the 100th day of 2008. There are 266 days left in the year.
1667 _ First public art exhibition (Palais Royal, Paris France)
1770 _ Captain James Cook discovers Botany Bay (Australia)
1894 _ First performance of Anton Bruckner's 5th Symphony in B in Graz
1914 _ First full color film shown "The World, The Flesh & the Devil" (London)
1940 _ Germany invades Norway and Denmark during WWII (Denmark surrenders)
1953 _ ``TV Guide" publishes first issue
1965 _ First game at Astrodome, Houston beats Yankees 2-1 in exhibition as Mickey Mantle hits 1st indoor homerun
1967 _ First Boeing 737 rolls out
1968 _ Martin Luther King Jr. buried in Atlanta, Ga.
1969 _ First flight of Concorde 002 (Filton-Bristol)