TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – APRIL 3
0628 In Persia, Kavadh sues for peace with the Byzantines.
1790 Revenue Marine Service (US Coast Guard), created
1860 The Pony Express connects St. Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California.
1882 Wood block alarm invented, when alarm rang, it dropped 20 wood blocks
1882 The American outlaw Jesse James is shot in the back and killed by his cousin, Bob Ford.
1918 House of Representatives accepts American Creed written by William Tyler
1922 Joseph Stalin appointed General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party by Vladimir Lenin
1936 Bruno Hauptmann, killer of the Lindbergh baby, is executed.
1940 Soviet troops massacre about 22,000 Polish nationals
The Katyn massacre is considered the worst massacre of prisoners of war in history. The order to execute all captive members of the Polish Officer Corps was signed by Joseph Stalin.
1944 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that black citizens are eligible to vote in all elections, including primaries.
1948 President Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan. It will revive war-torn Europe.
1955 An express train is derailed and falls into a canyon near Guadalajara, Mexico leaving 300 dead after the crash.
1958 Fidel Castro’s rebels attacked Havana
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 Following the start of the investigation into the Watergate scandal, President Nixon was also facing serious questions about his taxes and agreed to pay $432,787.13 plus interest in back taxes for the years 1969 through 1972
1986 US national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000
1996 The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, is arrested
The mathematician who was driven by anarchist ideas sent out 16 letter bombs between 1978 and 1995, killing 3 people and injuring 23.
2004 Five suspects in the Madrid railway bombings blew themselves up in a building outside the Spanish capital.
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 leak
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