Today is Thursday, April 3, the 93rd day of 2014. 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
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
1965 ― First atomic powered spacecraft (SNAP) launched
1986 ― U.S. national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000