Spring speech contest; the toastmaster organization begins their annual spring contest that ends in August at their international convention.The process goes through the club , the area, division ,  district, region and international and ultimately involves about 30,000 people as contestants.

The toastmaster organization has its roots in the YMCA and began in 1924 in California USA.

Today in history, April 1st 1973

A tiger conservation project begins in India.