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• craigswan 25,467 Posts

  Sat, Apr 2 2022 2:44 AM

  Today in history .

  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..

  
  

• craigswan 25,467 Posts

  Sat, Apr 2 2022 2:45 AM

  1865.

  In the face of advancing Union forces, Confederate troops evacuated Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War..

• craigswan 25,467 Posts

  Sat, Apr 2 2022 2:48 AM

  1922.

  First Airline Steward Jack Sanderson begins work for Daimler Airways..

• craigswan 25,467 Posts

  Sat, Apr 2 2022 2:50 AM

  1908 .

  Buddy ebsom waa born .

  American actor. TV: The Beverly Hillbillies (1962-71, Jed Clampett) and Barnaby Jones (1973-80, title role). He was originally cast as the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz (1939), but had to quit because he was allergic to the silver makeup..

• craigswan 25,467 Posts

  Sat, Apr 2 2022 2:51 AM

  1725 .

  Casanova was born .

  Italian lover, adventurer. Considered history's greatest romantic, his name is synonymous with "womanizer". His autobiography, Story of My Life, is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs of European social life during the 18th century..

• craigswan 25,467 Posts

  Sat, Apr 2 2022 2:52 AM

  First Professional Football Player

  William Walter "Pudge" Heffelfinger

  Died April 2, 1954 b. 1867

  American athlete. He became the first professional football player in 1892, when he was paid a $500 bonus (about $13,500 in today's money) after scoring the winning touchdown for the Allegheny Athletic Association against the Pittsburgh Athletic Club (4-0). A touchdown counted for 4 points at the time.

• craigswan 25,467 Posts

  Sun, Apr 3 2022 12:46 AM

  Word of the Day: SMELLIZE - to imagine the smell of food.

• craigswan 25,467 Posts

  Sun, Apr 3 2022 12:47 AM

  There was less lightning in the world during the Covid lockdowns.

• craigswan 25,467 Posts

  Sun, Apr 3 2022 10:05 AM

  With 500 horses stationed along the route at 10 mile intervals – the most a horse could gallop at full tilt – and ‘skinny expert riders willing to risk death daily’ the first Pony Express set off #OnThisDay in 1860..

  

• craigswan 25,467 Posts

  Sun, Apr 3 2022 10:10 AM

  1975 .

  Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft, which became the world's largest personal-computer software company..