GOOD MORNING – TODAY IS MONDAY, April 7, the 97th day of 2014 with 267 to follow.

Sunrise in the Boston area is @ 6:17 and sunset is @ 7:15.

The first qtr. moon (exact @ 4:32 AM EDT) is waxing.

The morning stars are Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn & Venus. The evening stars is Jupiter.

ON THIS DAY IN: 1652 – The Dutch established a settlement at Cape Town, South Africa.
1795 – The metric system was adopted in France, where it had been developed.

1798 – The territory of Mississippi was organized.

1862 – Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.

1906 – The Italian volcano, Vesuvius, erupted.

1933 – President Franklin Roosevelt signed legislation ending Prohibition in the United States.

1948 – The World Health Organization was founded.
1953 – The United Nations General Assembly elected Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden to be Secretary-General.

1957 – The last of New York’s electric trolleys ran from Queens to Manhattan.

1963 – Yugoslavia proclaimed itself a Socialist republic and proclaimed Josip Broz Tito the president for life of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

1992 – The European Community formally recognized the independence of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

2001 – NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft took off on a six-month, 286-million-mile journey to the planet.