Today is Monday, April 7, the 97th day of 2014. There are 268 days left in the year.
451 ― Attila’s Hun’s plunder Metz
1805 ― Premiere of Beethoven’s “Eroica” (conducted by himself)
1827 ― English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches
1923 ― Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes official communist party
1943 ― Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet for an Axis conference in Salzburg
1945 ― U.S. planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide mission; superbattleship Yamato and four destroyers are sunk
1948 ― World Health Organization established by U.N.
1954 ― President Dwight Eisenhower fears “dominoeffect” in Indochina
1976 ― Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping
1994 ― Vatican acknowledges Holocaust (Nazi's killing Jews) for first time