This Day In History

April 3

St. Richard

1882  Jesse James killed in St. Joseph, Missouri, by fellow gang member Robert Ford.
1936  Bruno Hauptmann electrocuted in Trenton, New Jersey, for the Lindberg baby kidnapping.
1968  North Vietnam agrees to meet with the US to set up preliminary peace talks.
1979  Jane Byrne became the first female mayor in Chicago's history.
1982  England sent a naval task force to the South Atlantic to reclaim the Falkland Islands.

1829  Coffee mill patented by James Carrington of Wallingford, Connecticut.
1860  The Pony Express began service runs between St. Joseph, Missouri and Sacremento, California at $5 per ounce. Service lasted less than two years before the telegraph took over.
1866  Rudolph Eickemeyer & G. Osterheld of Yonkers, New York, patented a blocking and shaping machine for hats.

1949  Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis debuted on NBC radio and ran until 1952.
1953  TV Guide was published for the first time from Radnor, Pennsylvania with a circulation of 1.5 million in its first year.
1985  Famed landmark The Brown Derby restaurant in Hollywood, also where where Clark Gable proposed to Carole Lombard, closed after 57 years.

1783  Washington Irving, author of Rip Van Winkle & The Legend of Sleepy Hollow born in New York
1924  Actor Marlon Brando
1924  Actress & Singer Doris Day
1942  Actress Marsha Mason
1942  Singer Wayne Newton
1944  Singer & Television Entertainer Tony Orlando (Cassevitis)
1958  Actor Alec Baldwin
1961  Comedian, Actor and Saturday Night Live Alumni Eddie Murphy

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