Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/April 3
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- 1860 - The first successful Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California is started (completed on April 13).
- 1865 - American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the break-away Confederate States of America.
- 1882 - Old West outlaw Jesse James is shot in the back and killed in Saint Joseph, Missouri by Robert Ford for a $5,000 reward.
- 1942 - World War II: Japanese forces begin an all-out assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula. Bataan fell on April 9 and the Bataan Death March began.
- Let's save this for April 9th. -- PFHLai 04:02, 2005 Apr 2 (UTC)
- 1946 - Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed outside Manila in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
- Let's save this for April 9th. -- PFHLai 04:02, 2005 Apr 2 (UTC)
- 1948 - President Harry Truman signs the Marshall Plan which authorizes $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
- 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "mountaintop" speech.
- 1974 - The Super Outbreak occurred. 148 tornadoes affected 13 states in 26 hours. It was the biggest tornado outbreak in the planet's recorded history.
- 1986 - IBM unveils the PC Convertible, the first laptop computer.
- 1996 - Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is arrested at his Montana cabin.
[edit] re: tornado image
It is bad practice to place generic images in as representations of historical events. So I have removed the tornado image.
Let's try to use only images that are actually of the person or incident in question. Kingturtle 02:15, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Super Outbreak
The link for La Niña needs to be fixed. The title of its article is actually ENSO, for "El Niño-Southern Oscillation". --Kitch 11:50, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
