Day in history for April 3, 2006

1856 -- 150 years ago

People were anxiously looking for April showers yesterday, but instead of a snow we had a downright rain, accompanied by the music of thunder.

1881 -- 125 years ago

Solon Chase, Greenback from Maine, delivered a political address in Dart's Hall last night.

1906 -- 100 years ago

At a meeting of the Men's Club of the Broadway Presbyterian Church last night the Lake Forest Glee and Mandolin Club was heard in concert.

1931 -- 75 years ago

An hour's broadcast of the funeral services for Knute Rockne, famous Notre Dame coach killed in an airplane crash, is to be made tomorrow afternoon by its coast to coast network, the Columbia Broadcasting System announced today.

1956 -- 50 years ago

One of the country's largest planes, a C-124 Globemaster, one of the Air Force's cargo ships, is the largest ever to land at the Quad-City Airport. Workmen loaded aluminum sheeting from the Bettendorf Alcoa plant consigned to the west coast.

1981 -- 25 years ago

It's been a trying week for 28-year-old Sharon Rexroth, a Quad-City native and this year's Mrs. Iowa. Competition among the 50 contestants at the Mrs. America pageant in Las Vegas, Nev., has been stiff. The pageant will run through Saturday.

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