Today is Saturday, April 9, the 99th day of 2011. There are 266 days left in the year.
1770 ― Captain James Cook discovers Botany Bay (Australia)
1831 ― Robert Jenkins loses an ear, starts war between Britain and Spain
1872 ― Samuel R. Percy patents dried milk
1878 ― First Lady Lucy Hayes begins egg rolling contest on White House lawn
1894 ― First performance of Anton Bruckner's 5th Symphony in B in Graz
1963 ― Sir Winston Churchill proclaimed honorary U.S. citizen in White House ceremony
1967 ― First Boeing 737 rolls out
1968 ― Martin Luther King Jr., buried in Atlanta, Ga.
1970 ― Paul McCartney announces official split of the Beatles
1979 ― Longest doubles ping-pong match of 101 hours, begins