Today is Saturday, April 7, the 98th day of 2012. There are 268 days left in the year.
1118 ― Pope Gelasius II excommunicated Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor
1805 ― Premiere of Beethoven's ``Eroica" (conducted by himself)
1926 ― Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose
1933 ― Prohibition ends, Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment
1934 ― In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspends his campaign of civil disobedience
1954 ― President Dwight Eisenhower fears ``domino-effect" in Indochina
1976 ― Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping
1978 ― President Jimmy Carter defers production of the neutron bomb
1983 ― Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt
1994 ― Vatican acknowledges Holocaust (Nazi's killing Jews) for first time