1860 — The Pony Express began operations, crossing parts of Nebraska.

1924 — Actor Marlon Brando was born in Omaha.

1944 – Evelyn Sharp of Ord, the first woman to deliver airmail in the United States, died when a P-38 fighter plane she was piloting crashed in Pennsylvania. She was 24.

2008 — An 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a woman against a Lancaster County District judge who barred the word “rape” in a sexual-assault trial.