Today is Thursday, April 9, the 99th day of 2015. There are 266 days left in the year.
1241 ― Battle of Liegnitz; Mongol armies defeat Poles and Germans
1667 ― First public art exhibition (Palais Royal, Paris, France)
1770 ― Captain James Cook discovers Botany Bay (Australia)
1833 ― First tax-supported public library (Peterborough, N.H.)
1866 ― Civil Rights Bill passes over President Andrew Johnson's veto
1872 ― Samuel R Percy patents dried milk
1912 ― Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for New York
1914 ― First full color film shown ``The World, The Flesh & the Devil" (London)
1953 ― "TV Guide" publishes 1st issue
1963 ― Sir Winston Churchill proclaimed honorary U.S. citizen in White House ceremony
1968 ― Martin Luther King, Jr. buried in Atlanta, Ga.
1979 ― Longest doubles ping-pong match of 101 hours, begins