Today is also my brother Joel's b-day, and there are many other b-days and events of note for April 3rd:
1860 - First successful run of the Pony Express departs St. Joseph's MO.
1882 - Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford
1885 - Gottlieb Daimler receives a patent for the 'Daimler-Benz' engine
1917 - Lenin arrives in St. Petersberg, Russia, on the infamous 'sealed train' from Switzerland ("From Lake Geneva to the Finland Station")
1948 - Truman signs Marshall Plan
1953 - First issue of TV Guide published
1964 - The Beatles occupy spots 1-5 on the Hot 100 music chart (and something like every 6th song of the total list)
1968 - MLK Jr. delivers "I've Been To The Mountaintop" speech (and is assassinated less than 24 hrs after saying "I might not get there with you.")
1973 - First portable cell phone call takes place in NY City.
1996 - Unabomber Ted Kaczynski is arrested
Birthdays:
Washington Irving
'Boss' William Tweed
Henry Luce
Herb Caen
Marlon Brando
Doris Day (same year as Brando, 1924, maybe next year Li'l Steven will do a tribute to her?)
Helmut Kohl
Jane Goodall
Wayne Newton
Tony Orlando
Richard Thompson
Alec ("Second prize is a set of steak knives") Baldwin
David Hyde Pierce
Eddie Murphy
Mike Ness (Social D)
Sebastian Bach (Skid Row)
Picabo Street
Really quite an impressive list.
