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Today in HistoryThe Associated PressToday is Friday, April 3. the 93rd day of 2009. There are 272 days left in the year.Today’s Highlight in History: On April 3, 1860, the Pony Express began service between St. Joseph, Mo., and Sacramento, Calif.On this date:In 1776, George Washington received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Harvard College.In 1865. Union forces occupied the Confederate capital of Richmond, Va.In 1882, outlaw Jesse James was shot to death in St. Joseph, Mo., by Robert Ford, a member of James’ gang.In 1936, Bruno Hauptmann was electrocuted in Trenton, N.J., for the kidnap-murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr.In 1948. President Harry S. Truman signed into law the Marshall Plan, designed to help European allies rebuild after World War II and resist Communism.In 1968, the day before he was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “mountaintop speech to a rally of striking sanitation workers.In 1974, deadly tornadoes struck wide parts of the South and Midwest before jumping across the border into Canada; more than 3(X) fatalities resulted.In 1996, an Air Force jetliner carry ing Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and American business executives crashed in Croatia, killing all 35 people aboard.Ten years ago: NATO missiles struck downtown Belgrade for the first time, destroying the headquarters of security forces accused of waging a campaign against Kosovo Albanians.Five years ago: Surrounded by police, five suspects in the Madrid railway bombings blew themselves up in a building outside the Spanish capital, also killing a special forces agent.One year ago: NATO allies meeting in Bucharest, Romania, gave President George W. Bush strong support for a missile defense system in Europe and urged Moscow to drop its opposition to the program.Today's Birthdays: Adress-singer Doris Day is 86. Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl is 79. Actress Marsha Mason is 67. Singer Wayne Newton is 67. Singer Tony Orlando is 65. Actor Alec Baldwin is 51. Actor David Hyde Pierce is 50. Comedian-actor Eddie Murphy is 48. Minnesota Vikings star Jared Allen is 27. Rock-pop singer Leona Lewis is 24.Thought for Today: “Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can. — Elsa Maxwell, American socialite (1883-1963).
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