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Today in HistoryThe Associated PressToday is Saturday, April 3, the 93rd day of 2010. There are 272 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On April 3, 1860. the legendary Pony Express began carrying mail between St. Joseph, Mo., and Sacramento, Calif. (The delivery system lasted 18 months, giv ing way to the transcontinental telegraph.)On this date:In 1865, Union forces occupied the Confederate capital of Richmond, Va.In 1936. Bruno Hauptmann was electrocuted in TVenton, 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 300 fatalities resulted.In 19%, an Air Force jetliner carrying Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and American business executives crashed in Croatia, killing all 35 people aboard.Ten years ago: U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled that Microsoft Corp. had violated antitrust laws by keeping “an oppressive thumb” on competitors. (Jackson later ordered the breakup of Microsoft, but the Justice Department ended up reaching a settlement with the software giant.)Five years ago: A day after the death of Pope John Paul II, the body of the pontiff lay in state. Millions prayed and wept at services across the globe, as the Vatican prepared for the ritual-filled funeral and conclave that would choose a successor.One year ago: The Labor Department reported unemployment reached 8.5 percent m March 2009, the highest in a quarter-century.Today's Birthdays: Actress-smger Doris Day is 87. Conservationist Dame Jane Goodall is 76. Singer Wayne Newton is 68. Actor Alec Baldwin is 52. Comedian-actor Eddie Murphy is 49. Olympic gold medal ski racer Picabo Street is 39. Rock-pop singer Leona Lewis is 25.Thought for Today: Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. — Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (1883-1955).
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