📜 April 3: On This Day in History |  | Special delivery |  Image: St. Joseph | Each of the following events happened on April 3. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom! - A) The first Pony Express mail, traveling by horse and rider relay teams, simultaneously leaves Missouri and California. Ten days later, the westbound rider and mail packet completes the ~1,800-mile journey to California, beating the eastbound packet’s arrival by two days and setting a new standard for speedy mail delivery.
- B) A Motorola engineer makes the first known call from a handheld cell phone. The 2.2-pound, brick-size device, called the DynaTAC, wouldn’t become commercially available for another decade.
- C) Jesse James, one of America’s most famous criminals, is shot to death by fellow gang member Bob Ford for the reward money offered by authorities.
- D) Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León arrives in Florida while searching for the fabled “Fountain of Youth” and claims the territory for the Spanish crown. He names the peninsula “La Florida” in honor of the Easter feast, or Pascua Florida.
Hint: The inaugural Pony express delivery had two teams |
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📜 Answers |  | D, A, C, B - D) 1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León comes lands on the Florida coast and claims the territory for the Spanish crown.
- A) 1860 – The first Pony Express mail run begins.
- C) 1882 – Notorious criminal Jesse James is shot to death by fellow gang member Bob Ford.
- B) 1973 – A Motorola engineer makes the first known call from a handheld cell phone.
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