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Friday April 3, 2015 This is the 93rd day of the year, with 272 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: spider web The irregular three-dimensional web of cobweb spiders has anchoring threads of sticky silk. An insect caught in the web or touching an anchor line becomes entangled, increasingly so if it struggles; if a thread breaks, the force of elasticity in it pulls the insect toward the center of the web. The ways by which spiders keep from becoming entangled in their own webs are not completely understood nor is their mechanism for cutting the extremely elastic silk threads used in web construction.
Holidays Feast day of Saints Agape, Chionia, and Irene, St. Pancras of Taormina, St. Richard of Chichester, St. Nicetas, St. Burgundofara, and St. Sixtus I, pope.
Guinea: Anniversary of the Second Republic (1984).
Events 1721 - Robert Walpole became the first prime minister of Britain.
1776 - George Washington received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Harvard College.
1829 - James Carrington of Connecticut patented the coffee mill.
1860 - The legendary Pony Express began service between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California. The mail was carried by Henry Wallace riding west and John Roff riding east.
1922 - In the USSR, Joseph Stalin was appointed as general secretary of the Communist Party.
1930 - Haile Selassie became emperor of Ethiopia.
1948 - President Harry Truman signed the Marshall Plan, which channeled more than $13 billion in aid to European countries between 1948-1951.
1953 - "TV Guide" was published for the first time.
1968 - Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "Mountaintop" speech to a rally in Memphis, less than 24 hours before he was assassinated.
1982 - British prime minister Margaret Thatcher ordered a naval task force to the Falkland Islands.
1996 - Theodore John Kaczynski was arrested by FBI agents in Montana and accused of being the Unabomber, the terrorist who sent 16 mail bombs that killed three people and injured 23 during an 18-year period.
2000 - A federal judge in Washington ruled that Microsoft Corporation had violated U.S. antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on competitors.
Births 1783 - Washington Irving, American author and historian.
1823 - William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, American politician, leader of corrupt Tammany Hall organization in New York City .
1837 - John Burroughs, American nature writer.
1898 - Henry R. Luce, American magazine publisher who created "Time," "Fortune," Life," and "Sports Illustrated."
1924 - Marlon Brando, American, Academy Award-winning actor.
1924 - Doris Day (born Doris Mary Ann von Kappelhoff), American singer and actress.
1942 - Wayne Newton, American singer.
Deaths 1882 - Jesse James, American outlaw.
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