All of the following happened on April 3rd in the year . . .
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1043 – Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
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1860 – The first successful Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California begins.
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1882 – American Old West outlaw Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford for a $5,000 reward.
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1885 – Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.
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1936 – Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh II, the baby son of world-famous pilot Charles Lindbergh.
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1948 – President Harry Truman signs the Marshall Plan which authorizes $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
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1953 – TV Guide is published for the first time.
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1968 – Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech.
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1973 – The first portable cell phone call is placed in New York City.
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1974 – The Super Outbreak occurs, the biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history. The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.
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1975 – Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.
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2007 – An official new world record for conventional-train speed of 574.8 km/h (357.2 mph) is set by a French TGV on the LGV Est high speed line east of Paris.
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Next April 3rd, I’ll write that in 2008, Ladyperfection visited my blog!
Now you can write that I visited too!