07/04/10

Charles University in Prague was founded in 1348.  Mount Vesuvius had a major eruption in 1906 which killed more than 100 people, destroyed a few villages and covered Naples in ash.  Josip Broz Tito was declared President for Life in 1963.

Born today:  William Wordsworth (1770-1850), Billie Holiday (1915-1959), Ravi Shankar (1920), Andrew Sachs (1930), Ian Richardson (1934-2007), Francis Ford Coppola (1939), David Frost (1939), Gordon Kay (1941), Janis Ian (1951), Jackie Chan (1954), Russell Crowe (1964), Franck Ribéry (1983).

It is the feast day of Blessed Notker.