Today is Saturday, April 17, the 107th day of 2010. There are 258 days left in the year.
1492 _ Christopher Columbus signs contract with Spain to find the Indies
1521 _ Martin Luther is excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church
1534 _ Sir Thomas More confined in London Tower
1629 _ first commercial fishery established
1956 _ USSR's Cominform (Parliament) dissolves
1969 _ Czechoslovakia's Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek deposed
1971 _ People's Republic Bangladesh forms, under sheik Mujib ur-Rahman
1975 _ Phnom Penh fell to Communist insurgents, ending Cambodia's five-year war
1983 _ India entered space age launching SLV-3 rocket
1986 _ IBM produces first megabit-chip