posted on Sep, 26 2011 @ 07:47 PM
Well, historical for that date is...umm...large..
3rd April 1968 : Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "mountaintop" speech
3rd April 1860 : The Pony Express
3rd April 1936 : Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed in the electric chair for the kidnapping and the death of the Lindbergh baby
3rd April 1955 : An express train is derailed and falls into a canyon near Guadalajara, Mexico leaving 300 dead after the crash.
3rd April 1974 : 148 tornadoes hit North America from Georgia to Canada within 16 hours and at times there were as many as 15 separate tornadoes on
the ground at one time. The Super Outbreak affected a total of 11 US states and Ontario in Canada.
3rd April 1996 : Theodore John Kaczynski is arrested by the FBI accused of being the Unabomber
3rd April 1998 : The Dow Jones industrial average climbed above 9,000 for the first time.
2000, US Microsoft Antitrust Case
3rd April 2004 : Five suspects in the Madrid railway bombings blew themselves up in a building outside the Spanish capital.
3rd April 2006 : Al-Qaeda's Zacarias Moussaoui has been found eligible for the death penalty by a federal jury in Alexandria, Virginia. This is the
first U.S. trial for the 9-11 terrorist attacks
3rd April 2006 : Severe storms, with a number of tornadoes, have passed through several states, and killed about twenty-seven people.
3rd April 2010 : Apple released the much published Ipad a tablet computer