GOOD MORNING - TODAY IS THURSDAY, April 3, the 93rd day of 2014 with 271 to follow. Sunrise in the Boston area is @ 6:24 and sunset is @ 7:11. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Mercury, Neptune, Saturn & Venus. The evening stars are Mars, Jupiter, & Uranus. ON THIS DAY IN: 1721 - Robert Walpole became the first prime minister of Britain. 1776 - George Washington received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Harvard College. 1829 - James Carrington of Connecticut patented the coffee mill. 1860 - The legendary Pony Express began service between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento,California. The mail was carried by Henry Wallace riding west and John Roff riding east. 1922 - In the USSR, Joseph Stalin was appointed as general secretary of the Communist Party. 1930 - Haile Selassie became emperor of Ethiopia. 1948 - President Harry Truman signed the Marshall Plan, which channeled more than $13 billion in aid to European countries between 1948-1951. 1953 - TV Guide was published for the first time. 1968 - Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous Mountaintop speech to a rally in Memphis, less than 24 hours before he was assassinated. 1982 - British prime minister Margaret Thatcher ordered a naval task force to the Falkland Islands. 1996 - Theodore John Kaczynski was arrested by FBI agents in Montana and accused of being theUnabomber, the terrorist who sent 16 mail bombs that killed three people and injured 23 during an 18-year period. 2000 - A federal judge in Washington ruled that Microsoft Corporation had violated U.S. antitrust laws by keeping an oppressive thumb on competitors.
Posted on: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 10:49:29 +0000