In 1973 First Handheld Portable Telephone Was Demonstrated

Today is Thursday, April 3, the 93rd day of 2014. There are 272 days left in the year. On April 3, 1974, deadly tornadoes began hitting wide parts of the South and Midwest

before jumping across the border into Canada; within a 24-hour period, more than 300 fatalities resulted from what became known as the Super Outbreak.

In 1776, George Washington received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Harvard College.

In 1973, the first handheld portable telephone was demonstrated for reporters on a New York City street corner as Motorola executive Martin Cooper called Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.