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Events from History on April 03

1947 : "Barefoot Boy with Cheek" opens at Martin Beck NYC for 108 perfs
1997 : "Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical," opens at Royale NYC for 109 performance
1961 : "Happiest Girl in the World" opens at Martin Beck NYC for 97 perfs
1954 : "Me & Juliet" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 358 performances
1991 : "Penn & Teller - Refrigerator Tour" opens at Eugene O'Neill NYC
1958 : "Say, Darling" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 332 performances
1956 : "Silk Stockings" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 461 performances
1989 : "Sunrise" a Gannett newspaper begins publishing for Bronx
1967 : 113 East Europeans attending World Amateur hockey championships
1991 : 12th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1983 : 12th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott
1994 : 13th NCAA Women Basketball Championship: NC beats Louisiana Tech 60-59
1974 : 148 tornadoes are reported over an area covering a dozen states
1988 : 17th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott
1933 : 1st airplane flight over Mt Everest
1965 : 1st atomic powered spacecraft (snap) launched
1926 : 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 7th Symphony in C
1994 : 1st roster of Silver Bullets (all-female pro baseball team) announced
1948 : 1st US figure skating championships held
1923 : 2 "Black Sox" sue White Sox (unsuccessfully) for back salary
1312 : 2nd council of Vienna
1926 : 2nd flight of a liquid-fueled rocket by Robert Goddard
1983 : 2nd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship: South Cal beats LA Tech 69-67
1989 : 51st NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: Mich beats Seton Hall 80-79 (OT)
1995 : 57th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: UCLA Bruins beats Arkansas 89-78
2000 : 62nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at RCA Dome Indianapolis
1977 : 6th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Kathy Whitworth
1994 : 6th Seniors Golf Tradition: Ray Floyd
1988 : 7th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Louisiana Tec beat Auburn 56-54
1936 : Al Carr KOs Lew Massey on 1 punch, :07 of 1st round
1868 : An Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever, he rides a 50' tidal wave
1981 : Arnie Boldt of Saskatchewan jumped 6' 8.25," with 1 leg
1933 : as Maple Leaf Ken Doraty scores to beat Canadiens 1-0
1919 : Austria expels all Habsburgers
1764 : Austrian arch duke Jozef crowned himself Roman Catholic king
1955 : Balt Orioles pull their 1st triple play (3-6-2 vs KC Athletics)
1865 : Battle at Namozine Church, Virginia (Appomattox Campaign)
1376 : Battle of Navarrete (Najera), English beat France
1964 : Beatles hold top 6 spots on Sydney Australia record charts
1979 : Belgium's Martens govt forms
1987 : Bill Elliott sets NASCAR qualify record of 212.809 mph at Talladega
1991 : Bo Jackson signs 1-year contract with Chicago White Sox
1944 : British dive bombers attack battle cruiser Tirpitz
1913 : British suffragette Emily Pankhurst sentenced to 3 years in jail
1956 : Bulgarian vice premier Traitsjo Kostov rehabilitated
1951 : Christopher Fry's "Sleep of Prisoners," premieres in Oxford
1941 : Churchill warns Stalin of German invasion
1961 : Connie Mack Stadium in Phila is sold to J Schleifer Properties
1987 : Cubs trade Dennis Eckersley to A's for 3 minor leaguers
1954 : Don Perry climbs a 20' rope in under 2.8 seconds (AAU record)
1952 : Dutch Queen Juliana speaks to US Congress
1960 : Earthquake at Havr‚, Belgium
1679 : Edmund Halley meets Johannes Hevelius in Danzig
1043 : Edward the Confessor crowned king of England
1977 : Egyptian Pres Anwar Sadat 1st meeting with President Jimmy Carter
1657 : English Lord Protector Cromwell refuses crown
1645 : English parliament accept Self-Denying Ordinance
1978 : European market & China signs trade agreement
1958 : Fidel Castro's rebels attacked Havana
1955 : Fire in cinema to Sclessin Belgium, kills 39
1976 : France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1985 : French government adopts equal electoral system
1582 : French van Valois honored as duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen
1956 : German war criminals Hinrichsen/Rhl/Siebens/Viebahn freed
1974 : Gold hits record $197 an ounce in Paris
1925 : Great Britain goes back to gold standard
1984 : Guinea suspends constitution after coup
1856 : Gunpowder in church explodes killing 4,000 in Rhodos
1911 : Harry James Smith' "Mrs Bumsted-Leigh," premieres in NYC
1948 : Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries)
1945 : Hengelo freed from nazi control by Canadian army
1910 : Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mt McKinley climbed
1918 : House of Reps accepts American Creed written by William Tyler
1995 : Howard Stern gets in trouble for disparaging remarks about Selena
1967 : in Vienna, ask for political asylum
1927 : Interstate Commerce Comm transfers Ohio to Eastern time zone
1926 : Italy establishes corp of force in order to break powerful unions
1975 : James Rupers kills his family to inherit
1943 : Jan Dieters (leader of illegal CPN) arrested
1979 : Jane M Byrne (D), elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago Ill
1962 : Jockey Eddie Arcaro retires after 31 years (24,092 races)
1949 : KQW-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KCBS
1978 : Larry King moves his radio show from Miami to Washington DC
1917 : Lenin arrives in Petrograd from Switzerland [NS=April 16]
1917 : Lenin leaves Switzerland for Petrograd
1962 : Lt General Marshall S Carter, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA
1966 : Luna 10 orbits Moon
1986 : Maureen O'Boyle (future host of Current Affair) is raped
1970 : Miriam Hargrave of England passes her drivers test on 40th try
1968 : N Vietnam agrees to meet US reps to set up preliminary peace talks
1945 : Nazi's begin evacuation of camp Buchenwald
1925 : Neth & Belgium sign accord of Westerschelde
1977 : Netherlands/Belgium/Luxembourg adopt summer time
1946 : Neth-German postal relations resume
1955 : Night express train in Guadalajara derails, killing 300
1988 : NJ Devils beat Blackhawks, 4-3 in OT to join playoffs for 1st time
1949 : North Atlantic Treaty, pact signed by US, Britain, France & Canada
1929 : Persia agrees to Litvinov Pact
1860 : Pony Express began between St Joseph Mo & Sacramento Calif
1981 : Race riots in London's Brixton area
1930 : Ras Tafari becomes Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1941 : Rasjid al-Gailani forms pro-German regime in Iraq
1790 : Revenue Marine Service (US Coast Guard), created
1721 : Robert Walpole becomes England's 1st Lord of the Treasury
1889 : Savings Bank of Order of True Reformers opens in Richmond, Va
1936 : Shortest boxing bout with gloves lasts only 10 seconds
1864 : Skirmish at Okolona, Arkansas
1988 : Somalia & Ethiopia sign accord about Ogaden desert
1984 : Soyuz T-11 carries 3 cosmonauts (1 Indian-Rakesh Sharma) to Salyut 7
1559 : Spain & France signs 2nd Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambr‚sis
1996 : St Francis Fighting Saints scores college baseball run record 71-1
1922 : Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party
1944 : Supreme Court (Smith v Allwright) "white primaries" unconstitutional
1783 : Sweden & US sign a treaty of Amity & Commerce
1991 : Thomas Bos skates world record 3 km (3:65.16)
1848 : Thomas Douglas becomes 1st SF public teacher
1966 : Tom Seaver, signs with the Mets for a reported $50,000 bonus
1974 : Tornadoes in the east, south & midwest killed approximately 315
1991 : UN Security Council adopts Gulf War truce resolution
1982 : UN Security Council demanded Argentina withdraw from Falkland Islands
1865 : Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond Va & Petersberg
1964 : US & Panam agree to resume diplomatic relations
1945 : US 1st army conquers Hofgeismar
1948 : US female Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
1948 : US male Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
1986 : US national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000
1957 : USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1987 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 : Vic Elliot pocketed 15,780 pool balls in 24 hours in London
1941 : Waltons overture "Scapino," premieres in Chicago
1776 : Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College
1949 : WLWS (now WCMH) TV channel 4 in Columbus, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1967 : WNYE TV channel 25 in Brooklyn, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1882 : Wood block alarm invented, when alarm rang, it dropped 20 wood blocks
1998 : World Ice Dance Figure Skating Championship in Minn

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