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April 3
1860 - The first Pony Express service began.
1865 - Union forces occupied the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.
1882 - Outlaw Jesse James was shot in the back in St. Joseph, Missouri by Bob Ford, one of his own gang members, reportedly for a $10,000 reward.
1930 - Ras Tafari became Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia.
1936 - Bruno Hauptmann was electrocuted in Trenton, New Jersey for the kidnapping and murder of the 20-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh.
1942 - During World War II, Japanese forces began their final assault on Bataan against American and Filipino troops who surrendered six days later; the capitulation was followed by the notorious Bataan Death March.
1944 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in Smith v. Allwright, struck down a Democratic Party of Texas rule that allowed only white voters to participate in Democratic primaries.
1948 - President Harry S. Truman signed the Marshall Plan, which would foster the recovery of war-torn Europe.
1968 - Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered what turned out to be his final speech, telling a rally of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, that “I’ve been to the mountaintop” and “seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land!” (About 20 hours later, King was felled by an assassin’s bullet at the Lorraine Motel.)
1973 - The first handheld portable telephone was demonstrated for reporters on a New York City street corner as Motorola executive Martin Cooper called Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.
1974 - Deadly tornadoes began hitting wide parts of the South and Midwest before jumping across the border into Canada; more than 300 fatalities resulted from what became known as the Super Outbreak.
1996 - U.S. Commerce Secretary Ronald Brown died in a plane crash in Croatia.
1996 - Theodore Kaczynski, the so-called "Unabomber," was arrested at his remote Montana cabin.
2004 - A suspect in Madrid's terrorist train bombings blew himself and three others up.
2014 - David Letterman announced during a taping of the “Late Show” on CBS that he would retire as host in 2015. (Stephen Colbert was named as his replacement a week later.)
2017 - A divided Senate Judiciary Committee panel voted 11-9 along party lines to favorably recommend Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch to the full Senate.
2020 - President Donald Trump announced new federal guidelines recommending that Americans wear face coverings when in public to help fight the spread of the coronavirus, but Trump immediately said he had no intention of following that advice himself; he said he could not envision himself covering his face while sitting in the Oval Office greeting world leaders.
2022 - Ukrainian authorities found bodies with bound hands, close-range gunshot wounds and signs of torture scattered in a city on the outskirts of Kyiv after the withdrawal of Russian troops.
Birthdays
26 - Paris Jackson (model)
33 - Hayley Kiyoko (actress)
37 - Rachel Bloom (actress/comedian)
38 - Amanda Bynes (actress)
39 - Leona Lewis (singer)
42 - Cobie Smulders (actress)
46 - Matthew Goode (actor)
51 - Adam Scott (actor)
52 - Jennie Garth (actress)
53 - Picabo Street (skier)
56 - Sebastian Bach (singer)
63 - Eddie Murphy (actor/comedian)
65 - David Hyde Pierce (actor)
66 - Alec Baldwin (actor)
69 - John Mooney (singer)
75 - Richard Thompson (singer)
80 - Tony Orlando (singer)
82 - Wayne Newton (singer)
82 - Marsha Mason (actress)
83 - Eric Braeden (actor)
87 - William Gaunt (actor)
90 - Jane Goodall (conservationist)
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Today in Sports History - April 3
1930 - The Montreal Canadiens defeated the Boston Bruins to win the Stanley Cup.
1977 - Montreal Canadiens became the first team in NHL history to win 60 games in a season. They beat the Washington Capitals 2-1 to end the season with a record of 60-8-12.
1983 - USC defeats Louisiana Tech 69-67 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
1985 - The Major League Baseball Players' Association agreed to a proposal of the team owners to expand the 1985 League Championship Series from the best-of-five games to best-of-seven.
1988 - Louisiana Tech defeats Auburn 56-54 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
1988 - Mario Lemieux of the Pittsburgh Penguins wins the NHL regular season scoring title, snapping a seven-year streak of Wayne Gretzky taking the honor.
1989 - Michigan defeats Seton Hall 80-79 in overtime to win the NCAA Tournament.
1994 - North Carolina defeats Louisiana Tech 60-59 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
1995 - UCLA defeats Arkansas 89-78 to win their 11th NCAA Tournament championship.
2000 - Michigan State defeats Florida 89-76 to win the NCAA Tournament.
2006 - Florida defeats UCLA 73-57 to win the NCAA Tournament.
2007 - Tennessee defeats Rutgers 59-46 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
2012 - Baylor defeats Notre Dame 80-61 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
2017 - North Carolina defeats Gonzaga 71-65 to win the NCAA Tournament.
2019 - San Antonio Spurs head coach Greg Popovich is ejected just 63 seconds into a game against the Denver Nuggets, receiving two technical fouls in a verbal confrontation with a referee.
2022 - South Carolina defeats Connecticut 64-49 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
1860 - The first Pony Express service began.
1865 - Union forces occupied the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.
1882 - Outlaw Jesse James was shot in the back in St. Joseph, Missouri by Bob Ford, one of his own gang members, reportedly for a $10,000 reward.
1930 - Ras Tafari became Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia.
1936 - Bruno Hauptmann was electrocuted in Trenton, New Jersey for the kidnapping and murder of the 20-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh.
1942 - During World War II, Japanese forces began their final assault on Bataan against American and Filipino troops who surrendered six days later; the capitulation was followed by the notorious Bataan Death March.
1944 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in Smith v. Allwright, struck down a Democratic Party of Texas rule that allowed only white voters to participate in Democratic primaries.
1948 - President Harry S. Truman signed the Marshall Plan, which would foster the recovery of war-torn Europe.
1968 - Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered what turned out to be his final speech, telling a rally of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, that “I’ve been to the mountaintop” and “seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land!” (About 20 hours later, King was felled by an assassin’s bullet at the Lorraine Motel.)
1973 - The first handheld portable telephone was demonstrated for reporters on a New York City street corner as Motorola executive Martin Cooper called Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.
1974 - Deadly tornadoes began hitting wide parts of the South and Midwest before jumping across the border into Canada; more than 300 fatalities resulted from what became known as the Super Outbreak.
1996 - U.S. Commerce Secretary Ronald Brown died in a plane crash in Croatia.
1996 - Theodore Kaczynski, the so-called "Unabomber," was arrested at his remote Montana cabin.
2004 - A suspect in Madrid's terrorist train bombings blew himself and three others up.
2014 - David Letterman announced during a taping of the “Late Show” on CBS that he would retire as host in 2015. (Stephen Colbert was named as his replacement a week later.)
2017 - A divided Senate Judiciary Committee panel voted 11-9 along party lines to favorably recommend Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch to the full Senate.
2020 - President Donald Trump announced new federal guidelines recommending that Americans wear face coverings when in public to help fight the spread of the coronavirus, but Trump immediately said he had no intention of following that advice himself; he said he could not envision himself covering his face while sitting in the Oval Office greeting world leaders.
2022 - Ukrainian authorities found bodies with bound hands, close-range gunshot wounds and signs of torture scattered in a city on the outskirts of Kyiv after the withdrawal of Russian troops.
Birthdays
26 - Paris Jackson (model)
33 - Hayley Kiyoko (actress)
37 - Rachel Bloom (actress/comedian)
38 - Amanda Bynes (actress)
39 - Leona Lewis (singer)
42 - Cobie Smulders (actress)
46 - Matthew Goode (actor)
51 - Adam Scott (actor)
52 - Jennie Garth (actress)
53 - Picabo Street (skier)
56 - Sebastian Bach (singer)
63 - Eddie Murphy (actor/comedian)
65 - David Hyde Pierce (actor)
66 - Alec Baldwin (actor)
69 - John Mooney (singer)
75 - Richard Thompson (singer)
80 - Tony Orlando (singer)
82 - Wayne Newton (singer)
82 - Marsha Mason (actress)
83 - Eric Braeden (actor)
87 - William Gaunt (actor)
90 - Jane Goodall (conservationist)
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Today in Sports History - April 3
1930 - The Montreal Canadiens defeated the Boston Bruins to win the Stanley Cup.
1977 - Montreal Canadiens became the first team in NHL history to win 60 games in a season. They beat the Washington Capitals 2-1 to end the season with a record of 60-8-12.
1983 - USC defeats Louisiana Tech 69-67 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
1985 - The Major League Baseball Players' Association agreed to a proposal of the team owners to expand the 1985 League Championship Series from the best-of-five games to best-of-seven.
1988 - Louisiana Tech defeats Auburn 56-54 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
1988 - Mario Lemieux of the Pittsburgh Penguins wins the NHL regular season scoring title, snapping a seven-year streak of Wayne Gretzky taking the honor.
1989 - Michigan defeats Seton Hall 80-79 in overtime to win the NCAA Tournament.
1994 - North Carolina defeats Louisiana Tech 60-59 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
1995 - UCLA defeats Arkansas 89-78 to win their 11th NCAA Tournament championship.
2000 - Michigan State defeats Florida 89-76 to win the NCAA Tournament.
2006 - Florida defeats UCLA 73-57 to win the NCAA Tournament.
2007 - Tennessee defeats Rutgers 59-46 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
2012 - Baylor defeats Notre Dame 80-61 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
2017 - North Carolina defeats Gonzaga 71-65 to win the NCAA Tournament.
2019 - San Antonio Spurs head coach Greg Popovich is ejected just 63 seconds into a game against the Denver Nuggets, receiving two technical fouls in a verbal confrontation with a referee.
2022 - South Carolina defeats Connecticut 64-49 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.