April 3, 2022
QUOTE
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
--Harry S. Truman
BIRTHDAYS
1904 – Iron Eyes Cody, Actor and stuntman
1905 – Robert Sink, American general
1922 – Doris Day, Singer and actress
1924 – Marlon Brando, Actor and director
IN MEMORY
1882 – Jesse James, Criminal and outlaw
1993 – Pinky Lee, Television host
2015 – Bob Burns, Drummer and songwriter, first drummer for Lynyrd Skynyrd
2016 – Joe Medicine Crow, Anthropologist, historian, and author
IN ON THIS DAY
1865 – Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
1882 – Robert Ford kills Jesse James.
1895 – The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
1922 – Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Soviet Union.
1973 – Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.