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