Historical Events on April 3

Pony Express

Here are some historical events that happened on April 3rd:

1043 - Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.

1860 - The first successful United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins.

1882 - American outlaw Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford in St. Joseph, Missouri.

1885 - Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.

1948 - President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, an American initiative to aid Europe after World War II.

1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech in Memphis, Tennessee, one day before he is assassinated.

1973 - The first portable cell phone call is made by Martin Cooper of Motorola in New York City.

1974 - The Super Outbreak, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history, begins. Over 148 tornadoes strike 13 states, killing approximately 330 people.

1996 - The "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is arrested in Montana after a nearly 20-year investigation.

2000 - United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.

2010 - Apple Inc. releases the first-generation iPad, marking the beginning of a new era in tablet computing.

2013 - Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dies at the age of 87.

2018 - YouTube headquarters shooting: A woman opens fire at the headquarters of YouTube in San Bruno, California, injuring three people before taking her own life.

These are just a few events from history that have taken place on April 3rd throughout the years.