Ridley's Believe It Or Not April 3 History Good Friday

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—April 3, 2015 Trust your Good Friday is proving to be a great one and your Easter will be a joyous one. Hope you enjoyed an exciting win by Stanford over Miami to take its third NIT title. As always, I  hope you enjoy the holidays and observances albeit somewhat meager today, factoids of interest, music video of Crazy Town, and a relevant quote by Paul Hoffman, enjoying a large serving of chocolate mousse, blessed  with a positive attitude even though you know you will have to wade through tons of spam in your inbox, and secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable event like birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a unique customized poem at a great price tailored to the event and the recipient. You need only contact me for details.
       1. Good Friday—commemorating the crucifix of Christ.
       2.Weed Out Hate Day—hard to find a better way to honor Christ than by removing the weeds of others based on their creed, race, gender or ethnicity; in the same way that weeding a garden enables it to prosper so too does the weeding of hate from a person enables the soul and spirit to flourish.
      3. 2001 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song on this day in 20010, as part of a one week run, Butterfly by Crazy Town, an American rap metal band formed in 1995. Here is a video link to Crazy Town performing Butterfly, which was the band’s most notable hit from a very short list of hits:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKzX5zRdsq0
      4. National Chocolate Mousse Jelly Day—celebrating a true desert classic.
      5. I Could Have Been a Champ—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1924 of one of the greatest champions in acting—Marlin Brando.
On this day in
     a. 1860 the Pony Express commenced operations from St. Joseph, Missouri delivering mail to Sacramento, CA in the unheard of time of 10 days. The Pony Express operated for 18 months and was put out of business by the transcontinental telegraph.
     b. 1948 President Harry Truman signed legislation creating the Marshall Plan which provided $5 billion ($49 billion in today’s dollars) of aid to 16 countries which aid was credited in preventing Western Europe from falling to the Communists.
     c. 1973 Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first hand held mobile phone call to Joel Engels of Bell labs; it would take 10 more years before the DynaTAC 8000X became the first mobile phone to be commercially released with a price tag of $3995, 30 minutes of talk time and the ability to store up to 30 numbers. Amazing how far cell phone technology has advanced since the DynaTAC 8000X was introduced.    

                                                                     
     d. 1981 the Osborne 1 the first successful portable computer was introduced at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco. It weighed 23.5 pounds with 64 Kbs of memory and was priced at $1795 ($4884 in today’s dollars).  
      e. 2010 Apple, Inc. released the iPad, a tablet with computing power that makes the Osborne 1 look like someone computing with a hammer and chisel.                                        
    

Reflections on the Marshall Plan: “If he had listened to some of his advisors and had tried to make the Marshall Plan a political dumping ground for unqualified politicians, it couldn't have been a success.” Paul Hoffman, noted automobile executive who was a director of the Economic Cooperation Administration which administered the Marshall Plan.      Please enjoy the 140 character poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and join 155 growing followers and please follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs—click on the links below. Go to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—This Day In History, poems to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy and poems on breaking news items of importance. Go to Rhymes On The Newsworthy Times for comments on important and breaking news events that should be of interest. www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com Ridley's Believe It Or Not  Rhymes On The Newsworthy Times © April 3, 2015 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet Alaskanpoet for Hire, Poems to Admire Poet Extraordinaire Beyond Compare Rhymes for the Memorable Times The Perfect Gift, All Recipients to Receive a Lasting Lift