1721: Robert Walpole gained the title of first Prime Minister of Britain.
1860: Start of the Pony Express, delivers mail by horse and rider relay teams between St Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California.
1885: Gottlieb Daimler patents his engine design
The German engineer’s so-called “grandfather clock engine” was lighter than previous four-stroke engines and is considered a milestone for the invention of the automobile.
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1888: The first of 11 brutal murders of women occurred in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London. The crimes remain unsolved to this day. At various points, some or all of the killings were ascribed to the notorious, unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper.
1900: Captured Gen. Cronje and his wife are shipped to St Helena
General Pieter Arnoldus (Piet) Cronje, commandant-general of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR, also known as the Transvaal Republic), and his wife Hester, with about 1 000 Republican prisoners of war, left Cape Town for St Helena as prisoners of war during Anglo-Boer War 2 (1899-1902).
1940: Soviet troops massacre about 22,000 Polish nationals
The Katyn massacre is considered the worst massacre of prisoners of war in history. The order to execute all captive members of the Polish Officer Corps was signed by Joseph Stalin.
1948: Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan
$12.4 billion was allocated to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II and prevent communists from seizing control.
1968: At an event for the Memphis sanitation workers strike, American civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his Mountaintop Speech; the following day he was assassinated.
1973: The first public mobile telephone call is placed on a Manhattan sidewalk
Motorola’s Martin Cooper called Joel Engel of Bell Labs. He later told the BBC that his first words were “Joel, I’m calling you from a ‘real’ cellular telephone. A portable handheld telephone.”
1996: Ted Kaczynski, The Unabomber, was caught and arrested.
The Unabomber sent mail bombs to universities, airlines, and others over 17 years, killing three and injuring nearly two dozen people.
1998: Nigeria and Cameroon exchanged 211 prisoners captured during clashes in the disputed Bakassi Peninsula. Nigeria exchanged 86 captured Cameroonian soldiers and 38 civilians for 86 captured Nigerian soldiers and one civilian.
2016: 11.5 million private documents were leaked and became known as The Panama Papers.
The papers detailed transactions and money laundering activities of many of the world’s rich and powerful. They show them committing crimes such as tax evasion, fraud, and circumventing international sanctions. “Panama Papers” represented one of the biggest leaks of confidential data.
2018: Sudan’s Salma al-Majidi becomes the first woman to coach Sudan’s male national football club, the Falcons of Jediane.
2022: Benin’s singer and songwriter Angelique Kidgo wins what is considered the world music industry’s highest honour, a Grammy Award for World Best Album for her album Mother Nature. The album’s songs are as diverse as her collaborators: African producers and musicians, Yemi Alade, Burna Boy, Mr Eazi, Zeynab, Shungudzo, Sampa the Great, Rexxie, and Salif Keita.
Births on This Day, April 3
Alec Baldwin, 66 years
Born in 1958, Alexander Rae Baldwin III is an American actor, comedian, and producer. He is known for his leading and supporting roles in a variety of genres, from comedy to drama, and has received numerous accolades including three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Tony Award.
Eddie Murphy, 63 Years
Edward Regan Murphy is an American comedian, actor, and singer born in Brooklyn in 1961. He shot to fame on the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, for which he was a regular cast member from 1980 to 1984. He is widely recognized as one of the greatest comedians of all time.
Francesca Woodman (3 April 1958-19 January 1981)
Francesca Stern Woodman was an American photographer, born in Denver Colorado in 1958. Best known for her black-and-white pictures featuring either herself or female models. Many of her photographs show women, naked or clothed, blurred, merging with their surroundings, or whose faces are obscured. She died at the age of 22.
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