Today is Friday, April 9, the 99th day of 2010. 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)
1866 _ Civil Rights Bill passes over President Andrew Johnson's veto
1872 _ Samuel R. Percy patents dried milk
1912 _ Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for New York
1940 _ Germany invades Norway and Denmark during WWII (Denmark surrenders)
1963 _ Sir Winston Churchill proclaimed honorary U.S. citizen in White House ceremony
1965 _ India and Pakistan engage in border fight
1968 _ Martin Luther King Jr., buried in Atlanta, Ga.
1969 _ First flight of Concorde 002 (Filton-Bristol)