@rh18bold:Today in History

Today is Tuesday, April 8, the 99th day of 2008. There are 267 days left in the year.

On this date

In 1973, artist Pablo Picasso died at his home near Mougins, France, at age 91.

In 1974, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 715th career home run in a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, breaking Babe Ruth's record.

In 1988, TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart resigned from the Assemblies of God after he was defrocked for rejecting an order from the church's national leaders to stop preaching for a year amid reports he'd consorted with a prostitute.

Thought for Today

"The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants." — Army Gen. Omar N. Bradley (born 1893, died this day in 1981).