Today is Thursday, April 4, the 94th day of 2013. There are 271 days left in the year.
1581 ― Francis Drake completes circumnavigation of the world and is knighted
1850 ― City of Los Angeles incorporated
1912 ― Chinese republic proclaimed in Tibet
1932―Vitamin C first isolated, C. C. King, University of Pittsburgh
1932 ― George Bernard Shaw's “Too True to be Good,” premieres in NYC
1958 ― Eugene Ionesco's “Tueur sans Gages” premieres in Darmstadt
1960 ― 32nd Academy Awards; “Ben-Hur," Charlton Heston and Simone Signore win
1969 ― Dr. Denton Cooley implants first temporary artificial heart
1986 ― Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 213th point of season
1989― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's last NBA game in Seattle