April 3

On this day, April 3, 1860, the Pony Express began its first mail delivery across the American

Frontier. Writers carried letters nearly 2,000 miles from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento,

California, dramatically reducing communication time between the Eastern and Western United States.

Also on this day, in 1882, outlaw Jesse James was shot and killed by Robert Ford in St. Joseph,

Missouri. Also on this day, in 1973, Motorola engineer Martin Cooper made the first handheld mobile phone call.