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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On April 1, 1912, the city of Branson, Mo., was incorporated.
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• On this date:
• In 1789, the U.S. House of Representatives held its first full meeting in New York; Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania was elected the first House speaker.
• In 1853, Cincinnati, Ohio, established a fire department made up of paid city employees.
• In 1918, the Royal Air Force was established in Britain.
• In 1933, Nazi Germany began persecuting Jews with a boycott of Jewish-owned businesses.
• In 1939, the United States recognized the government of Gen. Francisco Franco in Spain, the same day Franco went on radio to declare victory in the Spanish Civil War.
• In 1945, American forces launched the amphibious invasion of Okinawa during World War II.
• In 1962, the Katherine Anne Porter novel "Ship of Fools," an allegory about the rise of Nazism in Germany, was first published by Little, Brown & Co. on April Fool's Day.
• In 1972, the first Major League Baseball players' strike began; it lasted 12 days.
• In 1976, Apple Computer was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.

• In 1984, recording star Marvin Gaye was shot to death by his father, Marvin Gay (cq) Sr. in Los Angeles, the day before his 45th birthday. (The elder Gay pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter, and received probation.)
• In 1987, in his first speech on the AIDS epidemic, President Ronald Reagan told doctors in Philadelphia, "We've declared AIDS public health enemy no. 1."
• In 1992, the National Hockey League Players' Association went on its first-ever strike, which lasted 10 days.
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• Ten years ago: Israeli tanks and bulldozers rumbled into more Palestinian towns and massed on the edge of Bethlehem in an expansion of a West Bank offensive. Maryland won its first NCAA men's basketball championship with a 64-52 victory over Indiana.
• Five years ago: Iran's state television aired new video showing two of the 15 captured British sailors pointing to a spot on a map of the Persian Gulf where they

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