Today, April 3<\/p>\n
801 \u2013 During the early stages of the Reconquista of Spain, King Louis the Pious, son of Charlemagne, recaptures Barcelona from the Moors after a siege of several months.<\/p>\n
1860 \u2013 The first successful Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins.<\/p>\n
1865 \u2013 Union forces occupy Richmond, Virginia.<\/p>\n
1882 \u2013 In St. Joseph Missouri, Robert Ford assassinates Jesse James.<\/p>\n
1885 \u2013 Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.<\/p>\n
1888 \u2013 In the Whitechapel section of London, ‘Jack the Ripper’ commits the first of 11 unsolved murders of women.<\/p>\n
1936 \u2013 In the New Jersey State Penitentiary at Trenton, Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed in the electric chair for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.<\/p>\n
1942 \u2013 Under the command of\u00a0 Lt. General Masaharu Homma IJA,\u00a0 Japanese forces begin a final assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.<\/p>\n
1946 \u2013 Lt. General Masaharu Homma IJA, is executed by firing squad in the Philippines for war crimes c<\/em>ommitted by forces under his command during\u00a0the Bataan Death March.<\/p>\n 1948 \u2013 President Harry S. Truman signs the ‘Marshall Plan’ into law, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries in western Europe.<\/p>\n 1973 \u2013 Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to his competitor, Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.<\/p>\n 1974 \u2013 The 1974 Tornado Super Outbreak occurs, the biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history for a 24 hour period until the 2011 Super Outbreak. The 148 tornadoes across the central and southeast U.S. kill 315 people, with nearly 5,500 more injured.<\/p>\n 1980 \u2013 Congress restores a federal trust relationship with the Shvwits, Kanosh, Koosharem, and the Indian Peaks and Cedar City bands of the Paiute Indian Nation of Utah.<\/p>\n 1981 \u2013 The\u00a0\u00a0Osborne Computer Corporation, exhibits the first portable computer, the Osborne 1,<\/em>\u00a0at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.<\/p>\n 1989 \u2013 In the case of Mississippi Choctaw Band v. Holyfield, <\/em>the Supreme Court upholds the jurisdictional rights of tribal courts under the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978.<\/em><\/p>\n 1996 \u2013 The “Unabomber”,\u00a0 Theodore Kaczynski, is arrested at his remote\u00a0 cabin in the wilderness near Lincoln, Montana.<\/p>\n 2000 \u2013 In the case of United States v. Microsoft Corp, <\/em>the Supreme Court rules that Microsoft violated U.S. antitrust law by keeping “an oppressive thumb” on its competitors.<\/p>\n 2004 \u2013 Islamic moslem terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings are trapped by the police in their apartment in Legan\u00e9s, south of Madrid and commit suicide by blowing themselves up.<\/p>\n 2008 \u2013 Texas law enforcement cordons off the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saint’s\u00a0 Yearning For Zion Ranch near Eldorado, Texas and during a search take 533 women and children into state custody, finally releasing them under a writ of mandamus, on May 29th.<\/p>\n 2009 \u2013 Jiverly Antares Wong, a former student, opens fire at the American Civic Association immigration center in Binghamton, New York, killing 13 people and wounding 4 before committing suicide.<\/p>\n 2010 \u2013 Apple Inc. releases the first generation iPad tablet computer.<\/p>\n 2016 \u2013 The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on offshore banks, companies and shell corporations used by the wealthy and some public officials for, fraud, tax evasion, money laundering and evading international sanctions.<\/p>\n 2018 \u2013 Nasim Najafi Aghdam opens fire at the YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California, wounding 3 people before committing suicide.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, April 3 801 \u2013 During the early stages of the Reconquista of Spain, King Louis the Pious, son of Charlemagne, recaptures Barcelona from the Moors after a siege of several months. 1860 \u2013 The first successful Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins. 1865 \u2013 Union forces occupy Richmond, Virginia. … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66468"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91482,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66468\/revisions\/91482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}