Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Today is Wednesday, April 3, the 93rd day of 2002 with 272 to follow. The moon is waning, moving toward its last quarter. Advertisement The morning star is Mercury. The evening stars are Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Those born on this date are under the sign of Aries. They include historian and story writer Washington Irving in 1783; author and naturalist John Burroughs in 1837; publisher Henry Luce in 1898; actress and inventor of the "fan dance" Sally Rand in 1904; actress Doris Day and actor Marlon Brando, both in 1924 (age 78); astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom in 1926; anthropologist Jane Goodall in 1934 (age 68); actress Marsha Mason and entertainer Wayne Newton, both in 1942 (age 60); singer Tony Orlando in 1944 (age 58); actors Alec Baldwin in 1958 (age 44) and David Hyde Pierce in 1959 (age 43); actor/comedian Eddie Murphy in 1961 (age 41); and actress Jennie Garth ("Beverly Hills 90210") and Olympic skier Picabo Street, both in 1971 (age 31). Advertisement On this date in history: In 1860, the Pony Express postal service began with riders leaving St. Joseph, Mo., and Sacramento, Calif., at the same time. In 1865, as the Civil War drew to a close, Richmond, Va., and nearly Petersburg surrendered to Union forces. In 1944, in a case out of Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that barring blacks from voting violated the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In 1962, the federal government ordered New Orleans to integrate the first six grades of its public schools. In 1968, the motion picture "2001: A Space Odyssey" premiered. "Good morning, Dave," said HAL 9000. In 1975, President Ford said the rest of the world should not regard losses in South Vietnam as a sign that American commitments would not be fulfilled elsewhere. In 1982, Argentina captured the Falkland Islands dependency of South Georgia. The U.N. Security Council demanded Argentina withdraw from the British-ruled islands. In 1989, Richard M. Daley was elected mayor of Chicago, the post his father had held for 21 years. In 1991, the U-N Security Council passed the cease-fire resolution to end the Persian Gulf War. In 1993, President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin held their first summit in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Advertisement In 1995, the owners and players of major-league baseball approved an agreement, ending the longest strike in sports history. In 1996, a plane crash in Croatia killed 35 people, including U.S. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and other officials and business leaders. Also in 1996, the FBI raided a Montana cabin and arrested former college professor Theodore Kaczynski, accusing him of being the Unabomber whose mail bombs had killed three people and injured 23 more since the 1970s. In 1997, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said construction of a Jewish settlement in Arab East Jerusalem would continue, despite a series of fatal confrontations between Israeli troops and Palestinians. In 2000, U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled that Microsoft had violated U.S. antitrust laws. Microsoft immediately announced that it would appeal the decision. A thought for the day: "Money, the root of all evil ... but the cure for all sadness." Mike Gill said that.
