TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2012

Today is Tuesday, April 3, the 94th day of 2012. There are 272 days left in the year.

1657 ― English Lord Protector Cromwell refuses crown

1856 ― Gunpowder in church explodes killing 4,000 in Rhodos

1868 ― An Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever, he rides a 50-feet tidal wave

1922 ― Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party

1933 ― First airplane flight over Mount Everest

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

1958 ― Fidel Castro's rebels attacked Havana

1965 ― First atomic powered spacecraft (SNAP) launched

1978 ― European market and China signs trade agreement

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