TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – APRIL 3
1559 Philip II of Spain and Henry II of France sign the peace of Cateau-Cambresis, ending a long series of wars between the Hapsburg and Valois dynasties.
1764 Austrian arch duke Jozef crowned himself Roman Catholic king
1790 Revenue Marine Service (US Coast Guard), created
1829 – James Carrington patented the coffee mill.
1860 The Pony Express connects St. Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California.
1865 Union forces occupy the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.
1882 The American outlaw Jesse James is shot in the back and killed by his cousin, Bob Ford.
1882 Wood block alarm invented, when alarm rang, it dropped 20 wood blocks
1918 House of Representatives accepts American Creed written by William Tyler
1922 Joseph Stalin is appointed General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party by an ailing Vladimir Lenin
1936 Bruno Hauptmann was electrocuted for the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby.
1944 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that black citizens are eligible to vote in all elections, including primaries.
1946 Lt. General Masaharu Homma, the Japanese commander responsible for the Bataan Death March, was executed in the Philippines.
1948 Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan
1953 “TV Guide” was published for the first time.
1968 North Vietnam agrees to meet US representatives to set up preliminary peace talks
1973 1st mobile phone call is made in downtown Manhattan, NYC by Motorola employee Martin Cooper to the Bell Labs headquarters in New Jersey
1974 “Super Tornado Outbreak” strikes 13 U.S. states.
1985 The U.S. charged that Israel violated the Geneva Convention by deporting Shiite prisoners.
1986 US national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000
1996 U.S. commerce secretary Ronald Brown died in plane crash in Croatia.
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.
2016 Panama Papers published – 11.5 million confidential documents from offshore law firm Mossack Fonseca expose widespread illegal activities including fraud, kleptocracy, tax evasion and the violation of international sanctions by the world’s elite in the world’s largest ever data
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