Getting your player ready...
Today is April 8, the 98th day of 2007. There are 267 days left in the year.
1872: Sedalia Post Office opens.
1932: Charles Boettcher turns 80 and celebrates at his office in the Denver National Bank building.
1957: An avalanche touched off by howitzer shells for movie cameramen kills two men on Blue Mountain between Empire and the foot of Berthoud Pass. One of the victims was a photographer under contract to Walt Disney Studios.
Compiled by Jan Torpy and Barbara Hudson of the Denver Post Research Library
