Today is Wednesday, April 8, the 98th day of 2015. There are 267 days left in the year.
1766 ― First fire escape patented, wicker basket on a pulley and chain
1781 ― Premiere of Mozart's violin sonata K379
1783 ― Catharina II of Russia annexes the Krim
1879 ― Milk is sold in glass bottles for 1st time
1946 ― League of Nations assembles for last time
1979 ― People's Republic of China joins IOC
1986 ― Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel, Calif.
1988 ― Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, 52, was defrocked by the Assemblies of God following the disclosure of his involvement with a prostitute. (Swaggart was ordered to stay off TV for a year, but had returned after only three months.)
1992 ― After 151 years Britain's ``Punch Magazine" final issue
1994 ― Smoking banned in Pentagon and all U.S. military bases
1997 ― Microsoft Corp. releases Internet Explorer 4.0