1) 1860: "the first Pony Express mail, traveling by horse and rider relay teams, simultaneously leaves St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California...It debuted at a time before radios and telephones, when California, which achieved statehood in 1850, was still largely cut off from the eastern part of the country..."
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2) 1882: Jesse James is betrayed by one of his cohorts - shot in the back for a handsome reward.
3) 1868: Martin Luther King delivers his last speech, "Ive been to the mountaintop." Watch it here:
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