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1860 - The Pony Express began operating.

As much a part of the legend of the West as the Alamo and the Chisholm trail, the Pony Express operated for only 16 months and lost a fortune in 19th-century dollars.

1865 - Union forces occupied Richmond, Virginia. The Confederate government had left the previous day. A week later, the war would be officially over.

1882 - Jesse James was killed in St. Joseph, Missouri, ending one of the most infamous criminal careers in American history. With a large reward on his head, James was murdered by a double-dealing criminal colleague.

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1936 - Bruno Hauptmann was executed for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's son.

No one knows who really kidnapped and killed the infant. Probably no one will ever know.

1946 - Lt. General Masaharu Homma, the Japanese commander responsible for the Bataan Death March, was executed in the Philippines, thus demonstrating the truth of the proverb, "Be careful whom you kick on the way up; you'll meet him on the way down."

1948 - Pres. Truman signed the Marshall Plan, which would promote the recovery of Europe in the aftermath of WW II.

1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. gave his eerily prophetic "I have been to the Mountaintop" speech the day before his assassination in Memphis.

1996 - U.S. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and 34 others were killed in an airplane crash in Croatia.

1996 - Theodore Kaczynski, accused of being the Unabomber was arrested.

- Jim

Jim,
Thanks for these posts. You saved my hide. I thought tomorrow was the 3rd. Wife's Bday. Soon as I saw it I made amends before it was toooooo late.

You owe me big-time. The bill will be in the mail.

Happy birthday to Mrs. Longtooth.

- Jim

1973 - A manager with Motorola made the first cellular phone call on a functioning public network in New York.

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He used a prototype portable handset, but commercially available cell phones were limited to mounting in cars for some years. They were such a status symbol at the time, I actually saw a few phonies put ordinary telephone handsets in their cars and pretend to talk on them.

- Jim