Today in History - History - April 1st

1976Stephen Wozniak & steven jobs found Apple Computer

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

1930"Blue Angel" starring unknown Marlene Dietrich premieres in America

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

1924Hitler sentenced to 5 years labor but Gen Ludendorff acquitted

1857Herman Melville publishes The Confidence-Man.

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

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

1938Joe Louis KOs Harry Thomas in 5 for heavyweight boxing title

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

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

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

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