On This Very Day...

April 3rd

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  • 1860

    Pony Express begins, mail relay by horse from Missouri to California.

  • 1882

    Jesse James killed by Robert Ford in St. Joseph, Missouri.

  • 1882

    Wood block alarm invented, dropping 20 blocks when alarmed.

  • 1910

    Mt McKinley, highest in North America, claimed first climbed.

  • 1948

    Truman signs Marshall Plan, $5 billion aid for war-torn Europe.

  • 1955

    Train derails in Guadalajara, Mexico, 300 killed.

  • 1974

    Super Outbreak: 148 tornadoes in 13 US states, 315 dead.

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  • 2007

    French TGV sets train speed record at 574.8 km/h.

  • 1996

    Unabomber Ted Kaczynski arrested, ending his bombing campaign.

  • 1972

    Charlie Chaplin returns to the U.S. after a twenty-year absence.

  • 1986

    U.S. national debt reaches $2 trillion.

  • 2010

    First Apple iPad released.

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