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Historical events & facts — April 3
What happened on April 3?
On April 3, 1973, Motorola engineer Martin Cooper made the first-ever call on a mobile phone, from a street in New York. The device, the DynaTAC, weighed more than a kilogram and took 10 hours to charge for 30 minutes of conversation. Cooper called his rival at Bell Labs to give him the news. The device reached the market eleven years later, in 1984.
On April 3, 1968, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. delivered in Memphis his final speech before being assassinated the next day — the "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech, in which he prophetically said he might not reach the "Promised Land" with his people, but that he had seen it from the summit. The following day, a sniper shot him on the balcony of his hotel.
On April 3, 1860, the Pony Express service began — for 18 months connecting St. Joseph (Missouri) with Sacramento (California) through a chain of riders who swapped horses every 15-25 km to cover the 3,000 km in 10 days. The arrival of the transcontinental telegraph in October 1861 made it obsolete. The Pony Express became one of the most romantic legends of the American Wild West.
Notable birthdays — April 3
Famous people born on April 3
Sam Manekshaw
Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw,, nicknamed as Sam Bahadur, was an Indian Army general officer who was the Chief of the army staff during the India–Pakistan war of 1971, and the first Indian army officer to be promoted to the rank of field marshal. His active military career spanned four decades, beginning with service in World War II.
Jane Goodall
Dame Valerie Jane Morris Goodall was an English primatologist and anthropologist. Regarded as a pioneer in primate ethology, and described by many publications as "the world's preeminent chimpanzee expert", she was best known for more than six decades of field research on the social and family life of wild chimpanzees in the Kasakela chimpanzee community at Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania.
Doris Day
Doris Day was an American actress and singer. With an entertainment career that spanned 75 years, Day was one of the most popular and acclaimed female singers of the 1940s and 1950s, with a parallel career as a leading actress in Hollywood films, where she became one of the biggest box-office stars of the 1960s. She was known for her on-screen girl next door image and her distinctive singing voice.
Wayne Newton
Carson Wayne Newton, also known as Mr. Las Vegas, is an American singer and actor. One of the most popular singers in the United States from the mid-to-late 20th century, Newton remains one of the best-known entertainers in Las Vegas and has performed there since 1958, headlining since 1963. He is known by other nicknames such as "The Midnight Idol" and "Mr. Entertainment".
Gus Grissom
Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom was an American astronaut, and one of the original Mercury Seven selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for Project Mercury, a program to train and launch astronauts into outer space. Grissom went on to be a Project Gemini and Apollo program astronaut for NASA.
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