Once Upon A Time – April 3 – 1973 – 1st Mobile Phone Call Made By Motorola Employee Martin Cooper To Bell Labs Headquarters

1645 English Long Parliament passes the Self-Denying Ordinance, limiting regional armies, significant step toward New Model Army

1922 Joseph Stalin is appointed General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party by an ailing Vladimir Lenin

1948 US President Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries)

1973 1st mobile phone call is made in downtown Manhattan, NYC by Motorola employee Martin Cooper to the Bell Labs headquarters in New Jersey

2016 Panama Papers published – 11.5 million confidential documents from offshore law firm Mossack Fonseca expose widespread illegal activities including fraud, kleptocracy, tax evasion and the violation of international sanctions by the world’s elite in the world’s largest ever data leak

Historical Events Today
Today in Film & TV
1953 American magazine “TV Guide” publishes 1st issue; cover features photo of Lucille Ball’s new born baby boy, Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV (later professionally known as Desi Arnaz Jr.)

Today in Music
1960 Elvis Presley records ‘It’s Now Or Never’, ‘Fever’ and ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight’ at RCA studios in Nashville, Tennessee

Today in Sport
1975 Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend it, title awarded to Russian Anatoly Karpov

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1882 American outlaw Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford at home in St Joseph

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1868 A Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever – a 50-foot tidal wave