Today in History - History - April 1st

2011Alan Rickman's last performance in "Seminar" on Broadway

1854Hard Times begins serialisation in Charles Dickens magazine, Household Words.

1934Clyde Barrow kills two young highway patrolmen, H. D. Murphy and Edward Bryant Wheeler, at the intersection of Route 114 and Dove Road near Grapevine, Texas. Bonnie Parker's role in the murders was greatly exaggerated, but helped turn public perception against the gang for good

1981CNN airs a videotape that shows that Tamara Rand predicted that Reagan is in danger from someone named Jack Humley (a hoax)

1918Henry Miller's Theater opens at 124 W 43rd St NYC

1724Jonathan Swift publishes Drapier's letters

1936Charles "Lucky" Luciano" is arrested in Arkansas on a criminal warrant from New York

1976Stephen Wozniak & steven jobs found Apple Computer

1964John Lennon is reunited with his father Freddie after 17 years

527Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne

1815Otto Von Bismarck, Germany, chancellor (1866-90)

1920Toshiro Mifune, Tsing-tao China, writer/actor (Shogun)

1950Charles R. Drew, surgeon/developer of blood bank concept, dies at 45

1917Scott Joplin, ragtime composer (The Entertainer), dies at 48