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.
- 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.
[change] Births
- 1367 - King Henry IV of England (d. 1413)
- 1924 - Marlon Brando, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1924 - Doris Day, American actress
- 1930 - Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany
- 1934 - Jane Goodall, English zoologist
- 1961 - Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian
- 1985 - Leona Lewis, English singer
- 1986 - Amanda Bynes, American actress
[change] Deaths
- 963 - William III, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 915)
- 1868 - Franz Berwald, Swedish composer and inventor (b. 1796)
- 1897 - Johannes Brahms, German composer (b. 1833)
- 1986 - Peter Pears, English tenor (b. 1910)
- 1994 - Frank Wells, American businessman, president of the Walt Disney Company (b. 1932)