Today is Saturday, April 4, the 94th day of 2009. There are 271 days left in the year.
1832 _ Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Rio de Janeiro
1905 _ Earthquake in Kangra India, kills 370,000
1912 _ Chinese Republic proclaimed in Tibet
1932 _ Vitamin C first isolated, C. C. King, University of Pittsburgh
1944 _ De Gaulle forms new regime in exile, with communists
1945 _ U.S. forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany
1947 _ U.N.'s International Civil Aviation Organization established
1949 _ North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed (Washington DC)
1960 _ 32nd Academy Awards _ ``Ben-Hur," Charlton Heston and Simone Signoret win
1974 _ Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's homerun record by hitting his 714th