On this day …

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  • In 1043, Edward the Confessor was crowned King of England.
  • In 1860, the Pony Express mail service from St. Joseph, Mo., to Sacramento, Calif., began.
  • In 1865, Union forces captured Richmond, Va., the Confederate capital.
  • In 1882, famed outlaw Jesse James was killed by Robert Ford.
  • In 1885, Gottlieb Daimler was granted a German patent for his engine design.
  • In 1888, the first victim of serial killer Jack the Ripper was found in the Whitechapel district of London.
  • In 1922, Joseph Stalin became General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
  • In 1936, Bruno Hauptmann was executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Lindbergh Jr.
  • In 1996, Theodore Kaczynski, the “Unabomber,” was captured in a cabin in remote Montana.
  • In 2010, Apple released the first iPad tablet computer.