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Today
in History ~ April 3
Events
1043 - Edward the Confessor crowned
king of England
1657 - English Lord Protector Cromwell refuses crown
1679 - Edmund Halley meets Johannes Hevelius in Danzig
1764 - Austrian arch duke Jozef crowned himself Roman Catholic king
1776 - Washington receives honorary degree from Harvard College (he still
couldn't spell!)
1790 - Revenue Marine Service (US Coast Guard), created
1829 - James Carrington of Connecticut patented the coffee mill.
1856 - Gunpowder in church explodes killing 4,000 in Rhodes
1860 - Pony Express began between St Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento,
California. [H]
1865 - Battle at Namozine Church, Virginia (Appomattox Campaign)
1865 - Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond Va & Petersberg
1882 - Outlaw Jesse James was shot to death in St. Joseph, Mo.,
by Robert Ford, a member of James' gang. [H]
1882 - Wood block alarm invented, when alarm rang, it dropped 20 wood blocks
1910 - Alaska's Mt. McKinley (also known by its Native American name
"Denali"), the highest mountain in North America, was climbed for the
first time.
1913 - British suffragette Emily Pankhurst sentenced to 3 years in jail
1917 - Lenin leaves Switzerland for Petrograd
1919 - Austria expels all Habsburgs
1922 - Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party
1923 - 2 "Black Sox" sue White Sox (unsuccessfully) for back salary
1926 - 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 7th Symphony in C
1926 - 2nd flight of a liquid-fueled rocket by Robert Goddard
1926 - Italy establishes corp of force in order to break powerful unions
1930 - Ras Tafari becomes Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1933 - 1st airplane flight over Mt Everest
1941 - Churchill warns Stalin of German invasion
1941 - Walton's overture "Scapino," premieres in Chicago
1944 - British dive bombers attack battle cruiser Tirpitz
1944 - In a case out of Texas,(Smith v Allwright) the U.S. Supreme Court ruled
that "white primaries" barring blacks from voting violated the 15th
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
1945 - Nazi's begin evacuation of camp Buchenwald
1948 - 1st US figure skating championships held
1948 - Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries)
1948 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
1948 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
1949 - North Atlantic Treaty, pact signed by US, Britain, France & Canada
1951 - Christopher Fry's "Sleep of Prisoners," premieres in Oxford
1952 - Dutch Queen Juliana speaks to US Congress
1955 - Night express train in Guadalajara derails, killing 300
1955 - Dancer and entertainer Fred Astaire appeared on television for the first
time on "The Toast of the Town," with host Ed Sullivan.
1956 - "Silk Stockings" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 461
performances
1956 - German war criminals Hinrichsen/Ruhl/Siebens/Viebahn freed
1957 - Samuel Beckett's "Endgame," premieres in London
1958 - "Say, Darling" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 332 performances
1958 - Fidel Castro's rebels attack Havana
1962 - The federal government ordered New Orleans to integrate the first six
grades of its public schools.
1962 - Jockey Eddie Arcaro retires after 31 years (24,092 races)
1968 - N Vietnam agrees to meet US reps to set up preliminary peace talks
1968 - The day before he was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., civil rights leader
Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "mountaintop" speech to a
rally of striking sanitation workers.
1968 - The motion picture 2001: A Space Odyssey premiered. Good morning, Dave,
said HAL 9000.
1974 - Tornadoes in the east, south & midwest killed approximately 315
1975 - Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend
1977 - Egyptian Pres Anwar Sadat 1st meeting with President Jimmy Carter
1978 - 50th Academy Awards - "Annie Hall," Richard Dreyfuss &
Diane Keaton win
1979 - Jane M Byrne (D), elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago Ill
1981 - Race riots in London's Brixton area
1982 - UN Security Council demanded Argentina withdraw from Falkland Islands
1982 - Britain dispatched a naval task force to the south Atlantic to reclaim
the disputed Falkland Islands from Argentina.
1986 - US national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000
1987 - Duchess of Windsor's jewels auctioned for 31,380,197 pounds
1991 - "Penn & Teller - Refrigerator Tour" opens at Eugene O'Neill
NYC
1991 - Bo Jackson signs 1-year contract with Chicago White Sox
1991 - UN Security Council adopts Gulf War truce resolution
1992 - President Bush, speaking in Philadelphia, said members of Congress should
shorten their annual sessions and retire after 12 years, calling for changes in
"a failed status quo"; Democratic leaders accused Bush of "scapegoating."
1995 - Sandra Day O'Connor became the first woman to preside over the US Supreme
Court when she sat in for Chief Justice William H. Renquist.
1996 - Theodore Kaczynski Jr. was arrested by FBI agents and charged with being
the "Unabomber". [H]
1997 - About 2,000 youngsters in California and Georgia lined up for shots to
protect them against hepatitis from a contaminated shipment of frozen
strawberries.
1991 - President Bush warned China it risked damaging relations with the United
States unless it quickly released the American crew of a damaged Navy spy plane.
(The plane had made an emergency landing in China after colliding with a Chinese
fighter.)
Birthdays Today
1367 - Henry IV, Bolingbroke Lincolnshire, King of England (1399-1413)
1569 - Giovanni Battista Massarengo, composer
1593 - George Herbert, English metaphysical poet (5 Mystical Songs)
1603 - William Smith, composer
1649 - Joseph-Francois Salomon, composer
1751 - Jean-Baptiste Lamoyne, composer
1764 - John Abernethy, London, surgeon
1783 - Washington Irving (author: Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, Life of Washington)
1822 - Edward Everett Hale, US, clergyman/author (Man without a Country)
1823 - William Macy "Boss" Tweed, corrupt political boss (NYC)
1838 - Leon Michel Gambetta, French attorney/premier (1881-82)
1859 - Reginald De Koven, composer (Robin Hood)
1874 - Eduardo Sanchez de Fuentes, composer
1885 - Harry St John Philby, [sheik Abdullah], British explorer
1893 - Leslie Howard, [Stainer], London, actor (Gone With the Wind)
1895 - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Firenze (Florence) Italy, composer
1898 - George Jessel (comedian, actor: Valley of the Dolls, Diary of a Young Comic)
1904 - Iron Eyes Cody, Tulsa OK, actor (Black Gold, Ernest Goes to Camp)
1904 - Sally Rand (Helen Gould Beck) (actress, stripper: inventor of the fan dance)
1915 - Paul Touvier, war criminal
1916 - Herb Caen, Sacramento Calif, columnist (SF Chronicle)
1918 - Sixten Ehrling, Malmo Sweden, conductor (Royal Opera of Stockholm)
1923 - Jan Sterling (Adriance) (actress: The Harder They Fall, Pony Express, High School Confidential, The Incident, Split Second)
1924 - Doris Day (Von Kappelhoff) Cincinnati Oh, "girl next door"
(singer: Whatever Will Be, Will Be, Everybody Loves A Lover, Sentimental Journey; actress: Young at Heart, Pillow Talk, April in Paris, Lullaby of Broadway)
1924 - Marlon Brando (Academy Award-winning actor: On the Waterfront [1954], The Godfather [1972]; Apocalypse Now, Last Tango in Paris, One-eyed Jacks; Emmy Award: Roots: Next Generation)
1924 - Murray Dickie, opera singer/director
1925 - Tony Benn, British minister of technology (1968)
1926 - Virgil Grissom, Mitchell Ind, Lt Col USAF/astronaut (Merc 4, Gemini 3)
1928 - Don Gibson (singer: Oh Lonesome Me, Blue Blue Day, Just One Time, Sea of Heartbreak)
1929 - Miyoski Umeki (actress: Flower Drum Song, The Horizontal Lieutenant, Sayonara)
1930 - Helmut Kohl, chancellor (Germany, 1982- )
1933 - Rod Funseth (golfer)
1934 - Jane Goodall, London England, ethologist (studied African chimps)
1937 - Sandra Spuzich (golfer: U.S. Open Champion [1966])
1938 - Phil (Philamon) Roddgers (golfer)
1941 - Jan Berry (songwriter, singer: group: Jan and Dean: The Little Old Lady from Pasadena, Dead Man's Curve, Heart and Soul, Linda, Baby Talk, Surf City)
1942 - Marsha Mason (actress: The Goodbye Girl, Cinderella Liberty, Blume in Love, Chapter Two, Heartbreak Ridge)
1942 - Wayne Newton (singer: Danke Shoen, Red Roses for a Blue Lady, Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast)
1944 - Tony Orlando (Cassevitis) (singer: Halfway to Paradise, Bless You; group: Tony Orlando and Dawn: Knock Three Times, Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree,
Candida)
1945 - Bernard (Bernie) Parent (hockey: Philadelphia Flyers goalie: NHL record for season wins [47 in 1973-74])
1948 - Garrick Ohlsson, Bronxville NY, pianist (Intl Busoni winner 1969)
1949 - Donny Anderson (football: Green Bay Packers running back and punter: Super Bowls I and II)
1958 - Alec Baldwin (actor: The Hunt for Red October, Beetlejuice, The Getaway, Married to the Mob, Talk Radio, Working Girl)
1959 - David Hyde Pierce, NY, actor (Niles Crane-Fraiser)
1961 - Eddie Murphy (comedian: Saturday Night Live; actor: 48HRS; Beverly Hills Cop, Trading Places, Coming to America)
1971 - Picabo Street, skier (Olympic-gold-94)
Famous deaths
0033 - Christ, crucified (according
to astronomers Humphreys & Waddington) (highly debated today)
0628 - Chosroes II, emperor of Persia (579..628), murdered by his son
1682 - Bartolome Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter, dies
1838 - Francesco Antommarchi, Napoleon's physician on St Helena, dies at 57
1868 - Franz Adolf Berwald, Swedish composer, dies at 71
1882 - Jesse James, outlaw, shot dead at 34, in St Joseph Missouri. [H]
1897 - Johannes Brahms, German composer/conductor (Hungarian Dances), dies at 63
1901 - Richard D'Oyly Carte, promotor (Gilbert & Sullivan operas), dies
1936 - Bruno Hauptmann, convicted of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the
Lindbergh baby (aviator Charles A. Lindbergh), was executed by electrocution
1941 - Andre Michelin, French tire manufacturer, dies at 88
1941 - Pal Teleki-von Szek, PM Hungary (1920-21, 39-41), suicide at 61
1946 - Lt. General Masaharu Homma, the Japanese commander responsible for the
Bataan Death March, was executed outside Manila.
1950 - Kurt Julian Weill, German composer (Dreigroschenoper), dies at 50
1962 - Manolis Kalomiris, Greek opera composer, dies at 78
1971 - Joseph Valachi, US gangster, dies at 66
1971 - Manfred Bonnington Lee, [Ellery Queen], detective writer, dies at 65
1972 - Ferde Grofe US composer (Grand Canyon Suite), dies at 80
1975 - Mary Ure, actress (Sons & Lovers, Where Eagles Dare), dies at 42
1986 - Peter Pears, English tenor (Death in Venice), dies at 75
1988 - Milton A Caniff, US cartoonist (Terry & the Pirates), dies at 81
1991 - Graham Greene, Brit writer (3rd Man, Our man in Havana), dies at 86
1996 - Carl Stokes, 1st black mayor of a major US city (Cleve), dies
1996 - Ronald H. Brown, the US secretary of commerce, was killed along with 32
other Americans when their US Air Force plane crashes into a mountain near
Dubrovnik, Croatia.
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