SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 2010

Today is Saturday, April 3, the 93rd day of 2010. 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

1922 _ Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party

1941 _ Churchill warns Stalin of German invasion

1948 _ Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries)

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

1978 _ European market and China signs trade agreement

1982 _ U.N. Security Council demands Argentina's withdrawal from Falkland Islands

1986 _ U.S. national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000

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