3 april 1991 was een woensdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♈. Het was de 92e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was George Bush.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 35 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op vrijdag 3 april 2026, 82 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op zaterdag 3 april 2027, in 282 dagen. Je hebt 12.866 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 308.789 uur, of ongeveer 18.527.350 minuten, of ongeveer 1.111.641.000 seconden.
Date: 03 April 1991
Reuters
The News Corporation, the international media concern headed by Rupert Murdoch, plans to cut costs by at least 10 percent in the next year, its new chief operating officer said in an interview published today. All sections of the company -- which owns TV Guide and the Fox Broadcasting Company in the United States -- face cuts, Gus Fischer told the Australian Financial Review in an interview in London.
Date: 03 April 1991
Reuters
The General Dynamics Corporation said today that Egypt and the United States Defense Department had signed an agreement for a new Egyptian order of General Dynamics' F-16 fighter aircraft. General Dynamics said the $1.54 billion order included 46 aircraft, spare engines, weapons and other equipment. The aircraft, which will be maanufactured in Fort Worth, will be delivered between November 1993 and mid-1995, the St. Louis-based company said. The new order by Egypt brings its total orders for F-16's to 174.
Date: 04 April 1991
* Chevron U.K. Ltd., a unit of Chevron Corp., San Francisco, will sell its 50 percent stake in several British North Sea blocks to ARCO British Ltd., a unit of ARCO, Los Angeles. No terms were disclosed. * W. R. Grace & Co., New York, said its Agracetus Inc. unit had received a patent for genetically engineered cotton.
Date: 03 April 1991
* Amcast Industrial Corp., Kettering, Ohio, an iron and aluminum products company, will invest $20 million to expand its cast-aluminum auto wheel business. * Anchor Bancorp Inc., Hewlett, L.I., a holding company, completed its reorganization plan under which Anchor Savings Bank became a wholly owned subsidiary of Anchor Bancorp.
Date: 04 April 1991
INTERNATIONAL A3-13 A resolution to end the gulf war was overwhelmingly approved by the Security Council. The plan would progressively lift most sanctions against Iraq if President Saddam Hussein accepts a series of tough military and financial conditions. Page A1 Thousands of Kurds are fleeing from the Iraqi Army in a mass exodus by truck, car, cart and mule to snow-bound mountains in Northern Iraq, journalists in the region report. A1
Date: 03 April 1991
International A3-9 The rebellion in Iraq may be over, U.S. officials said. Fighting ebbed in the south and Kurdish guerrillas in the north abandoned major cities, fleeing into the mountainous border with Turkey and Iran. Page A1
Date: 03 April 1991
A Federal District judge in Boston ruled that Mosaic Software must stop selling a spreadsheet program that copies the appearance of the 1-2-3 spreadsheet of the Lotus Development Corporation. The court had ruled in January that the Mosaic program called Twin infringed on Lotus's copyright. A Mosaic executive said the company would appeal.
Date: 03 April 1991
Reuters
A Federal grand jury is investigating allegations that employees at the Food and Drug Administration took cash in exchange for informing brokerage firms when the agency would approve certain drugs, an F.D.A. official said today. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said F.D.A. employees had been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury in Baltimore.
Date: 03 April 1991
AP
Continental Airlines and some of its aircraft lessors agreed today to a plan to cut costs, partly satisfying a judge's ruling that forces the airline to settle with the companies that lease its more than 100 planes. On Monday, a Federal District judge ruled that Continental, which is operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, must make payments on its $58 million debt for leased aircraft if it wants to keep flying the planes.
Date: 03 April 1991
By Bloomberg Business News
Bloomberg News
The Kinki Nippon Railway Company has submitted an application to sell 30 billion yen (about $215 million) in fixed-rate bonds to the Ministry of Finance, according to the newspaper Nihon Keizai. If approved, this would be the first sale of fixed interest-rate bonds in Japan since November 1988, except by public utility companies. The resumption of fixed-rate bond sales would indicate that Japanese companies are continuing to have trouble raising funds through equity finance because of the slump in the stock market, the newspaper added. Mitsubishi Estate was the last company to sell fixed-rate bonds.