Today is Tuesday, April 24, the 115th day of 2012. There are 251 days left in the year.
1061 ― Halley's Comet sparks English monk to predict country will be destroyed
1871 ― Giuseppe Verdi's opera ``Aida" is produced (Cairo)
1872 ― Volcano Vesuvius erupts
1950 ― President Harry Truman denies there are communists in U.S.. government
1953 ―Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
1955 ― Conference of Bandung against colonialism and for self determination ends
1955 ― Gaullists lose elections in France
1961 ― JFK accepts ``sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs
1969 ― Paul McCartney says there is no truth to the rumors he is dead
1970 ― People's Republic of China launches its first satellite transmitting song ``East is Red"