April 3 - Helpers

Helpers

Tab A goes into slot, uh...

Overheard

While everybody was getting buckled into the car the other morning:
E: What are we gonna listen to? Can we listen to classical music on the radio?

This Day In History

1043

Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.

1860

The first successful United States Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California begins.

1885

Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.

1929

RMS Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line.

1973

Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.

1981

The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.

2007

Conventional-Train World Speed Record: a French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record of 357.2 mph.

Famous Birthdays

1367

King Henry IV of England (d. 1413)

1715

William Watson, English physician and scientist (d. 1787)

1783

Washington Irving, American author (d. 1859)

1823

William Magear "Boss" Tweed, American political boss (d. 1878)

1904

Sally Rand, American burlesque dancer (d. 1979)

1920

Stan Freeman, American composer and lyricist (d. 2001)

1924

Doris Day, American actress and singer
Marlon Brando, American actor (d. 2004)

1926

Virgil "Gus" Grissom, American astronaut (d. 1967)

1934

Jane Goodall, English zoologist

1953

Sandra Boynton, American greeting-card designer, illustrator, and author

1958

Alec Baldwin, American actor

1959

David Hyde Pierce, American actor

1971

Picabo Street, American alpine ski champion

1982

Cobie Smulders, Canadian actress