Today is Friday, April 1, the 91st day of 2011. There are 274 days left in the year.
1578 ― William Harvey of England discovers blood circulation
1748 ― Ruins of Pompeii found
1778 ― Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, creates ``$” symbol
1793 ― Volcano Unsen on Japan erupts killing about 53,000
1826 ― Samuel Mory patents internal combustion engine
1866 ― U.S. Congress rejects presidential veto gives all equal rights in U.S.
1933 ― Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews boycotting Jewish businesses
1938 ― Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, N.Y.
1952 ― Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe and Gamow
1974 ― Ayatollah Khomeini calls for an Islamic Republic