Today is Monday, April 12, the 102nd day of 2010. There are 263 days left in the year.
1204 _ 4th Crusade occupies and plunders Constantinople
1654 _ England, Ireland and Scotland unite
1826 _ Weber's opera ``Oberon", premieres in London
1857 _ Gustave Flaubert's ``Madame Bovary" published
1919 _ British Parliament passes a 48-hour work week with minimum wages
1942 _ Japan kills about 400 Filipino officers in Bataan
1961 _ Douglas MacArthur declines offer to become baseball commissioner
1966 _ First B-52 bombing on North Vietnam
1988 _ Harvard University patents genetically engineered mouse (first for animal life)
1990 _ First meeting of East German democratically elected parliament, acknowledges responsibility for Nazi holocaust and asks for forgiveness