On this day :
1860 Pony Express debuts, 1776 Congress authorizes privateers to attack British vessels, 2009 Fast Furious is top openingday car movie, 1865 Confederate capital of Richmond is captured, 1948 Truman signs Foreign Assistance Act, 1882 Jesse James is murdered, 1974 Series of deadly twisters hits US heartland, 1882 Jesse James shot in the back, 1936 Bruno Hauptmann executed, 1948 Truman signs Marshall Plan, 1996 Ron Brown killed in plane crash, 1996 Unabomber arrested, 1978 Annie Hall beats out Star Wars for Best Picture, 1955 ACLU says it will contest obscenity of HOWL, 1948 The Louisiana Hayride radio program premieres on KWKHAM Shreveport, 1817 Texas Ranger Big Foot Wallace born, 1948 President Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan, 1988 Lemieux wins NHL scoring title stops Gretzky streak, 1969 Nixon administration will Vietnamize the war, 1972 Nixon orders response to North Vietnamese invasion, 1918 Ferdinand Foch becomes supreme Allied commander, 1942 Japanese launch major offensive against Bataan,
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