April 3
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April 3 is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 272 days remaining until the end of the year.
[change] Events
- 33 – Crucifixion of Jesus (traditional date)
- 1559 – The treaty, Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis, is signed, ending the Italian Wars.
- 1860 – The first successful Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California is started (completed on April 13).
- 1865 – American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the break-away Confederate States of America.
- 1905 – Boca Juniors football club is founded in Buenos Aires.
- 1922 – Joseph Stalin succeeds Vladimir Lenin as leader of the Soviet Union.
- 1941 – Hungarian and German troops march into Yugoslavia.
- 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces begin an all-out assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula. Bataan fell on April 9 and the Bataan Death March began.
- 1946 – Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed outside Manila in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
- 1948 – President Harry Truman signs the Marshall Plan which authorizes $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
- 1968 – Elvis Presley sings Heartbreak Hotel on the Milton Berle Show with an estimated 25% of the United States population viewing.
- 1968 – Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "mountaintop" speech.
- 1973 – The first ever Mobile phone call is placed by Martin Cooper, in New York City
- 1974 – The Super Outbreak occurred. 148 tornadoes affected 13 states and 1 Canadian province in 18 hours. It was the biggest tornado outbreak in the planet's recorded history. 315 people die, nearly 5,500 are injured.
- 1986 – IBM unveils the PC Convertible, their first laptop computer.
- 1996 – Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is arrested at his Montana cabin.
- 1997 – Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but 1 of the 53 people living in Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
- 2000 – Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
- 2004 – Islamist terrorists blow themselves up in Madrid, after a shootout with police.
- 2010 – South African far-right politician Eugene Terre'Blanche is beaten to death on his farm near the town of Ventersdorp.
[change] Births
- 1367 – King Henry IV of England (d. 1413)
- 1783 – Washington Irving, American writer (d. 1859)
- 1798 – Charles Wilkes, American navy officer and polar explorer (d. 1877)
- 1806 – Ivan Kireevsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher (d. 1856)
- 1880 – Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher (d. 1903)
- 1881 – Alcide De Gasperi, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1954)
- 1895 – Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian composer (d. 1968)
- 1899 – David Jack, English footballer (d. 1958)
- 1911 – Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Polish athlete (d. 1980)
- 1913 – Per Borten, Prime Minister of Norway (d. 2005)
- 1915 – Piet de Jong, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
- 1920 – Stan Freeman, American composer and lyricist (d. 2001)
- 1924 – Marlon Brando, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1924 – Doris Day, American actress
- 1925 – Tony Benn, British politician
- 1926 – Gus Grissom, American astronaut (d. 1967)
- 1930 – Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany
- 1934 – Jane Goodall, English zoologist
- 1948 – Carlos Salinas, President of Mexico
- 1948 – Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Dutch politician and former NATO Secretary-General
- 1958 – Alec Baldwin, American actor
- 1959 – David Hyde Pierce, American actor
- 1961 – Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian
- 1962 – Jennifer Rubin, American actress
- 1964 – Bjarne Riis, Danish cyclist
- 1964 – Andy Robinson, English rugby player and coach
- 1971 – Vitalijs Astafjevs, Latvian footballer
- 1973 – Jamie Bamber, English actor
- 1976 – Drew Shirley, American musician
- 1978 – Tommy Haas, German tennis player
- 1983 – Ben Foster, English footballer
- 1985 – Leona Lewis, English singer
- 1986 – Amanda Bynes, American actress
- 1988 – Tim Krul, Dutch footballer
[change] Deaths
- 963 – William III, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 915)
- 1617 – John Napier, Scottish mathematician (b. 1550)
- 1849 – Julius Slowacki, Polish poet (b. 1809)
- 1868 – Franz Berwald, Swedish composer and inventor (b. 1796)
- 1882 – Jesse James, American outlaw (b. 1847)
- 1897 – Johannes Brahms, German composer (b. 1833)
- 1936 – Bruno Hauptmann, German, convicted for the murder of Charles Lindbergh III (b. 1899)
- 1941 – Pal Teleki, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1879)
- 1950 – Kurt Weill, German composer (b. 1900)
- 1986 – Peter Pears, English tenor (b. 1910)
- 1991 – Graham Greene, English writer (b. 1904)
- 1994 – Frank Wells, American businessman, president of the Walt Disney Company (b. 1932)
- 1999 – Lionel Bart, English composer (b. 1930)
- 2008 – Hrvoje Custic, Croatian footballer (b. 1983)
- 2010 – Eugene Terre'Blanche, South African far-right politician (b. 1941)
