Today in History - History - April 3rd

19776th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Kathy Whitworth

1922Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party

1957Samuel Beckett's "Endgame" premieres in London

1882American Old West: Outlaw Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford.

1955The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.

197850th Academy Awards - "Annie Hall", Richard Dreyfuss & Diane Keaton win

2006Steve Yzerman scores his final NHL goal (#692) against the Calgary Flames

1917Lenin arrives in Petrograd from Switzerland [NS=April 16]

19302nd Academy Awards - "The Broadway Melody", Warner Baxter & Mary Pickford win

1975Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend it

1866J. B. M. Hertzog [Barry Hertzog], Cape Colony, South African General/Premier (1914-39)

1783Washington Irving, New York City New York, American writer (Legend of Sleepy Hollow)

1958Alec Baldwin, Amityville NY, actor (Joshua-Knots Landing, Beetlejuice)

1924Marlon Brando, Omaha Neb, actor (Superman, Godfather)

1991Graham Greene, Brit writer (3rd Man, Our man in Havana), dies at 86

1882Jesse James, outlaw, shot dead at 34, in St Joseph Mo by Robert Ford