This day in History<\/p>\n
April 3<\/p>\n
1860
\nFirst Pony Express service began.<\/p>\n
1882
\nOutlaw Jesse James was shot in the back by Bob Ford, one of his own gang members, reportedly for a $10,000 reward.<\/p>\n
1930
\nRas Tafari became Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia.<\/p>\n
1936
\nBruno Hauptmann was electrocuted for the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby.<\/p>\n
1948
\nPresident Truman signed the Marshall Plan, which would foster the recovery of war-torn Europe.<\/p>\n
1974
\n“Super Tornado Outbreak” strikes 13 U.S. states.<\/p>\n
1996
\nU.S. commerce secretary Ronald Brown died in plane crash in Croatia.<\/p>\n
2004
\nA suspect in Madrid’s March bombings blew up himself and three others.<\/p>\n
Birthdays<\/p>\n
Washington Irving
\nAmerican author and diplomat (1783)<\/p>\n
Mary Carpenter
\neducator (1807)<\/p>\n
William Marcy Tweed
\npolitician (1823)<\/p>\n
Henry Robinson Luce
\npublisher (1898)<\/p>\n
Marlon Brando
\nactor (1924)<\/p>\n
Virgil \u201cGus\u201d Grissom
\nastronaut (1926)<\/p>\n
Jane Goodall
\nethnologist (1934)<\/p>\n
Eddie Murphy
\nactor (1961)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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