Today is Thursday, April 9, the 99th day of 2009. There are 266 days left in the year.
1770 _ Captain James Cook discovers Botany Bay (Australia)
1864 _ Battle of Pleasant Hill, La., 2,870 casualties
1872 _ Samuel R. Percy patents dried milk
1912 _ Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for New York
1914 _ First full color film shown ``The World, The Flesh & the Devil" (London)
1966 _ Sophia Loren marries married Carlo Ponti in Paris, France
1967 _ First Boeing 737 rolls out
1968 _ Martin Luther King Jr. buried in Atlanta Ga.
1969 _ First flight of Concorde 002 (Filton-Bristol)
1970 _ Paul McCartney announces official split of the Beatles