04-03-2007, 05:04 AM
|
|
Registered User
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Maryland
Posts: 541,353
|
|
|
April 3rd
1783 ~ Birthday of Washington Irving, Author.
1882 ~ Jesse James was shot in the back and killed for a $5,000 reward.
1885 ~ Gottlieb Daimler was granted a German patent for his engine design.
1895 ~ The libel trial started by Oscar Wilde against the Marquess of Queensbury began, eventually resulting in Wilde's arrest, trial and imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
1897 ~ Death of Johannes Brahms, Composer.
1901 ~ Death of Richard D'Oyly Carte, Impresario.
1934 ~ Birthday of Jane Goodall, Zoologist.
1946 ~ Masaharu Homma, the Japanese general responsible for the Bataan Death March, was executed in the Philippines.
1948 ~ President Truman signed the Marshall Plan.
1996 ~ Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski was arrested at his Montana cabin.
__________________
Eudaimonia
|