History for April 3

History for April 3 - On-This-Day.com:
John Harrison 1693 - Carpenter, clockmaker, inventor of the marine chronometer, Washington Irving 1783 - Author ("Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"), Edward Everett Hale 1822
 

Doris Day (Doris Mary Ann Von Kappelhoff) 1924 - Singer, actress, Marlon Brando 1924 - Actor ("The Godfather", "Apocalypse Now"), Wayne Newton 1942 - Singer


1860 - The first Pony Express riders left St. Joseph, MO and Sacramento, CA. The trip across country took about 10 days. The Pony Express only lasted about a year and a half.


1882 - The American outlaw Jesse James was shot in the back and killed by Robert Ford for a $5,000 reward. There was later controversy over whether it was actually Jesse James that had been killed.


1910 - Alaska's Mt. McKinley, the highest mountain in North America was climbed.


1936 - Richard Bruno Hauptmann was executed for the kidnapping and death of the son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh.


1948 - U.S. President Harry Truman signed the Marshall Plan to revive war-torn Europe. It was $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.


1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "mountaintop" speech just 24 hours before he was assassinated.


1986 - The U.S. national debt hit $2 trillion.
ONLY $2 MILLION?

1996 - Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski was arrested. He pled guilty in January 1998 to five Unabomber attacks in exchange for a life sentence without chance for parole.