April 3

Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day. 

Psalm 25:5

 April is:

• Fair Housing Month - By presidential proclamation.
  
  
• Fresh Florida Tomato Month - They are versatile, nutritious, and delicious. Celebrate Florida tomatoes. Sponsor: Florida Tomato Committee
  
  
• Holy Humor Month - Lighthearted Christians can give parties and playshops to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus.

Today is:

• American Circus Day - John Bill Ricketts organized the first American circus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1793.
  
  
• Close Call Day - In 1989, a large asteroid came within 500,000 mites of Earth. In astronomical terms, that's a close call!
  
  
• Don't Go to Work Unless It's Fun Day - Two-thirds of American workers are unhappy with their jobs. lf you are one of them, today is a day to consider your alternatives. Sponsor: Frank Sanitate Associates.
  
  
• Tweed Day - On the birthday of William ''Boss'' Tweed, we caution against political corruption. Boss Tweed was a political boss who bilked New York City out of millions of dollars.

Born on this Day

• 1895: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco was born in Florence.
  

• 1898: Publisher Henry Luce
  

• 1924: Actress Doris Day
  

• 1924: Actor Marlon Brando
  

• 1926: Astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom
  

• 1928: Country singer Don Gibson
  

• 1929: Actress Miyoshi Umeki
  

• 1930: German Chancellor Helmut Kohl
  

• 1930: Lawton Chiles
  

• 1932: Country singer Don Gibson
  

• 1934: Anthropologist Jane Goodall
  

• 1936: Jazz musician Jimmy McGriff
  

• 1941: Singer Jan Berry (Jan and Dean)
  

• 1942: Actress Marsha Mason
  

• 1942: Singer Wayne Newton
  

• 1942: Singer Billy Joe Royal
  

• 1944: Singer Tony Orlando
  

• 1948: The former president of Mexico, Carlos Salinas de Gortari
  

• 1949: Singer Richard Thompson
  

• 1950: Country musician Curtis Stone (Highway 101)
  

• 1951: Rock musician Mel Schacher (Grand Funk Railroad)
  

• 1956: Rock musician Mick Mars (Motley Crue)
  

• 1958: Actor Alec Baldwin
  

• 1959: Actor David Hyde Pierce
  

• 1961: Comedian-actor Eddie Murphy
  

• 1968: Rock singer Sebastian Bach (Skid Row)
  

• 1971: Rock musician Wes Berggren (Tripping Daisy)
  

• 1972: Actress Jennie Garth                
     

Events in History on this day
  

• 1776: George Washington received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Harvard College.
  

• 1834: The first edition of Robert Schumann's magazine, "Neue Zeitshrift fur Musik," was published. Schumann was an influential critic. He helped to launch the careers of Chopin and Brahms, and his attacks on other composers did much to establish their second-rate reputations.
  

• 1860: The Pony Express postal service began with riders leaving St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California, at the same time. (It lasted only a year and a-half before giving way to the transcontinental telegraph.)
  

• 1865: Union forces occupied the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.
  

• 1882: Outlaw Jesse James was shot to death in St. Joseph, Missouri, by Robert Ford, a member of his own gang.
  

• 1931: Paul Hindemith's "Concert Music for Strings and Brass" was premiered by the Boston Symphony. Some people think this is the finest piece Hindemith ever wrote.
  

• 1936: Bruno Hauptmann was electrocuted in Trenton, New Jersey, for the kidnap-murder of the Lindbergh infant.
  

• 1946: Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma, the Japanese commander responsible for the Bataan Death March, was executed outside Manila.
  

• 1948: President Truman signed the Marshall Plan, which allocated more than $5 billion in aid for 16 European countries.
  

• 1962: The federal government ordered New Orleans to integrate the first six grades of its public schools.
  

• 1968: North Vietnam agreed to meet with US representatives to set up preliminary peace talks.
  

• 1975: President Ford said the rest of the world should not regard losses in South Vietnam as a sign that American commitments would not be fulfilled elsewhere.
  

• 1979: Jane M. Byrne was elected mayor of Chicago, defeating Republican Wallace D. Johnson.
  

• 1985: The landmark Brown Derby restaurant in Hollywood closed after 56 years in business.
  

• 1987: Stock prices rocketed on Wall Street as the Dow Jones industrial average soared 69.89 points, ending the day at a record 2390.34.
  

• 1989: The University of Michigan Wolverines won the NCAA championship by defeating Seton Hall in overtime, 80-to-79.
  

• 1990: A delegation from the rebellious republic of Lithuania met with an adviser to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
  

• 1990: Jazz singer Sarah Vaughan died in suburban Los Angeles at age 66.
  

• 1991: The UN Security Council adopted a Gulf War truce resolution demanding that Iraq abolish weapons of mass destruction, renounce terrorism and pay reparations. 
  

• 1991: English novelist Graham Greene died at age 86. 
  

• 1992: President Bush, speaking in Philadelphia, said members of Congress should shorten their annual sessions and retire after 12 years, calling for changes in "a failed status quo" -- Democratic leaders accused Bush of "scapegoating."
  

• 1994: In his Easter Sunday address, Pope John Paul the Second expressed hope that the joy of Christianity would overwhelm the din of violence and hate.
  

• 1995: Former United Way of America President William Aramony was convicted in Alexandria, Virginia, of 25 counts of fraud for stealing nearly $600,000 from the nation's biggest charity.
  

• 1995: UCLA defeated Arkansas, 89-to-78, to win the NCAA basketball championship.
  

• 1996: An Air Force jetliner carrying Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and American business executives crashed in Croatia, killing all 35 people aboard.
  

• 1996: Suspected Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski was arrested.
  

• 1996: Former Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes, the first black elected mayor of a major US city, died at age 68.
  

• 1998: The Dow Jones industrial average climbed above 9000 for the first time, but finished with a 3.23-point drop at 8983.41.
  

• 1999: NATO missiles struck downtown Belgrade for the first time, destroying the headquarters of security forces accused of waging a campaign against Kosovo Albanians.
  

• 2000: A federal judge in Washington ruled that Microsoft Corporation had violated US antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on competitors during the race to link Americans to the Internet. 
  

• 2000: Michigan State won its second NCAA championship, defeating Florida, 89-to-76.
  

• 2001: The death toll in a meningitis outbreak in Burkina Faso tops 1,000. The government and the World Health Organization scramble to secure millions of vaccine doses to control the epidemic which is spreading to neighboring countries
  

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