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Events on April 3

• 1860 At the initiative of William Hepburn Russell, the Pony Express begins mail-delivery operations in the United States. The company becomes a financial disaster, but develops into a national myth.
• 1882 Former leader of the James-Younger Gang Jesse James is shot from behind by Robert Ford, a member of his gang, while dusting off a picture in his home in St. Joseph, Missouri, for a reward of 5,000 US dollars.
• 1885 Gottlieb Daimler receives a patent for the grandfather-clock motor he invented. He powers the first motorcycle with a gasoline engine, the so-called Reitwagen.
• 1922 Josef Stalin is elected General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Russia.
• 1936 Bruno Hauptmann, convicted of the kidnapping and murder of the nearly two-year-old Charles Lindbergh III, is executed in the electric chair. To this day, there are doubts about his guilt.
• 1948 US President Harry S. Truman signs the European Recovery Program, developed by Secretary of State George C. Marshall, for the reconstruction of Western Europe after the Second World War. After its developer, the program is given the popular name Marshall Plan.
• 1966 With the Soviet space probe Luna 10, a satellite enters an orbit around the Moon for the first time. The Soviet Union thereby retains its lead over the USA in the space race.
• 1971 During the Bundesliga match between Borussia Mönchengladbach and Werder Bremen, the goal frame collapses. Since no replacement can be obtained, the match is abandoned and credited as a win for Bremen.
• 1975 World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer refuses to play against Anatoli Karpow. FIDE then awards Karpow the world championship title.
• 1996 The letter-bomb terrorist Theodore Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, is arrested by the FBI in Montana.
• 2001 ZDF broadcasts the first episode of the magazine Frontal21, the successor to Frontal and Kennzeichen D.
• 2007 A converted high-speed train, the TGV V150, reaches 574.8 km/h on the Strasbourg–Paris route and thereby sets a new speed record for rail vehicles, a record previously held by the TGV Atlantique.

Born on April 3

• 1893 Hans Riegel, German entrepreneur and founder of Haribo
• 1902 Reinhard Gehlen, German general and first President of the Federal Intelligence Service
• 1903 Peter Huchel, German lyric poet
• 1922 Doris Day, American actress and singer
• 1930 Helmut Kohl, German Federal Chancellor
• 1941 Roland W., German pop singer
• 1950 Diether Dehm, German politician, singer-songwriter and author
• 1961 Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian
• 1972 Jennie Garth, American actress
• 1991 Markus Eisenbichler, German ski jumper

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „3. April“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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