FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2009

Today is Friday, April 3, the 93rd day of 2009. There are 272 days left in the year.

1657 _ English Lord Protector Cromwell refuses crown

1910 _ Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mt. McKinley climbed

1917 _ Lenin leaves Switzerland for Petrograd

1922 _ Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party

1941 _ Churchill warns Stalin of German invasion

1957 _ Samuel Beckett's ``Endgame", premieres in London

1958 _ Fidel Castro's rebels attacked Havana

1968 _ North Vietnam agrees to meet U.S. representatives to set up preliminary peace talks

1978 _ European market and China signs trade agreement

1991 _ U.N. Security Council adopts Gulf War truce resolution