Today is Wednesday, April 7, the 97th day of 2010. There are 268 days left in the year.
1805 _ Premiere of Beethoven's ``Eroica" (conducted by himself)
1923 _ Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes official communist party
1933 _ Prohibition ends, Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment
1934 _ In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspends his campaign of civil disobedience
1945 _ U.S. planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide mission; super-battleship Yamato and four destroyers are sunk
1948 _ World Health Organization established by U.N.
1954 _ President Dwight Eisenhower fears ``domino-effect" in Indo-China
1976 _ Chinese Politburo fires Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping
1980 _ Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
1988 _ Russia announces it will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan