Today is Monday, April 3, the 93rd day of 2006. There are 272 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Monday, April 3, the 93rd day of 2006. There are 272 days left in the year. On this date in 1860, the legendary Pony Express begins service between St. Joseph, Mo., and Sacramento, Calif.
In 1865, Union forces occupy the Confederate capital of Richmond, Va. In 1882, outlaw Jesse James is shot to death in St. Joseph, Mo., by Robert Ford, a member of James' gang. In 1936, Bruno Hauptmann is electrocuted in Trenton, N.J., for the kidnap-murder of the Lindbergh child. In 1946, Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma, the Japanese commander responsible for the Bataan Death March, is executed outside Manila, Philippines. In 1948, President Truman signs the Marshall Plan, which allocates more than $5 billion in aid for 16 European countries. In 1968, North Vietnam agrees to meet with U.S. representatives to set up preliminary peace talks. In 1974, deadly tornadoes strike wide parts of the South and Midwest before jumping across the border into Canada; more than 300 fatalities result. In 1979, Jane M. Byrne is elected mayor of Chicago, defeating Republican Wallace D. Johnson. In 1991, English novelist Graham Greene dies at age 86.
April 3, 1981: While the Youngstown Education Association awaits a call from the Board of Education to resume negotiations, some 75 Youngstown teachers go to Columbus to march in protest against what they termed Gov. James A. Rhodes' "insensitivity" to the educational needs of the state.
Ohio Bell asks the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio for an 8 percent increase in service charges for business and residential customers and says the company must double its installation charges.
April 3, 1966: Youngstown district residents are pouring increasing amounts of money into Florida real estate and business. Chief among them is Edward DeBartolo Jr., who is building a $17 million shopping center in West Palm Beach.
The Army, in urgent need of trained specialists for its big Vietnam expansion, is asking 7,000 retired sergeants to return to active duty for two years.
For the second straight year, Chaney's "Red" Angelo is named Class AA Football Coach of the Year by the Mahoning Valley Coaches Association. Jack Gysegem of Warren Harding is named AA basketball coach of the year.
April 3, 1956: An explosion at the Oak Street School in New Castle breaks windows and dislodges a door.
Mrs. Ray Niemi, mother of two children and a senior in accounting at Youngstown University, wins a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for a year's graduate study at Western Reserve University.
April 3, 1931: Youngstown Mayor Joseph Heffernan says the city's councilman have wasted six months attempting to settle on a site for a new downtown fire station and are "acting like a bunch of damn fools."
Two daring masked bandits escaped with over $600 in three holdups, including a robbery at a coffee shop at 24 S. Phelps St., which sits at the back door of the police station.
The funeral of Knute Rockne, Notre Dame football coach, will be broadcast by the Columbia System. Radio stations in the Youngstown area that will carry the broadcast are WHK in Cleveland, WADO of Akron and WJAS of Pittsburgh.