Today is Wednesday, April 8, the 98th day of 2009. There are 267 days left in the year.
1781 _ Premiere of Mozart's violin sonata K379
1783 _ Catharina II of Russia annexes the Krim
1865 _ General Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House in Virginia
1879 _ Milk is sold in glass bottles for first time
1913 _ Opening of China's first parliament takes place in Peking (now Beijing)
1945 _ Nazi occupiers executed, Nazi General Christiansen flees Netherlands
1946 _ League of Nations assembles for last time
1952 _ President Harry Truman seizes the steel mills to prevent a strike
1992 _ After 151 years Britain's ``Punch Magazine" final issue
1994 _ Smoking banned in Pentagon and all U.S. military bases