Today is Wednesday, April 3, the 93rd day of 2013. There are 272 days left in the year.
1657 ― English Lord Protector Cromwell refuses crown
1922 ― Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party
1933 ― First airplane flight over Mt. Everest
1948 ― Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5-billion aid to 16 European countries)
1949 ― North Atlantic Treaty, pact signed by U.S., Britain, France and Canada
1958 ― Fidel Castro’s rebels attacked Havana
1964 ― Beatles hold the top six spots on the Sydney, Australia, record charts
1974 ― 148 tornadoes are reported over an area covering a dozen states in the east, south and midwest killed approximately 315
1986 ― U.S. national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000
1991 ― U.N. Security Council adopts Gulf War truce resolution