Today in History - History - April 1st

1836Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Cocos Islands

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

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

1983NY Isle Mike Bossy becomes 1st to score 60 goals in 3 cons seasons

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

199019th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King

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

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

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

1857Herman Melville publishes The Confidence-Man.

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