Today is Thursday, April 7, the 97th day of 2011. There are 268 days left in the year.
451 ― Attila's Hun's plunder Metz
1805 ― Premiere of Beethoven's ``Eroica" (conducted by himself)
1923 _ Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes official communist party
1926 ― Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose
1948 ― World Health Organization established by U.N.
1954 ―President Dwight Eisenhower fears ``domino-effect" in Indochina
1966 ― U.S. recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops!)
1976 ― Chinese Politburo fires Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping
1980 ― Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
1983 ― Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt