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April 3 is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 272 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 503 BC – According to the Fasti Triumphales, Roman consul Publius Postumius Tubertus celebrated an ovation for a military victory over the Sabines.
• 686 – Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul.
• 801 – King Louis the Pious captures Barcelona from the Moors after a siege of several months.
• 1042 – Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
• 1077 – The first Parliament of Friuli is created.
• 1559 – The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis treaty is signed, ending the Italian Wars.
• 1834 – The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason.
• 1860 – The first successful United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins.
• 1865 – American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
• 1882 – American Old West: Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford.
• 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.
• 1888 – The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
• 1895 – The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
• 1922 – Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• 1929 – RMS Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line.
• 1933 – First flight over Mount Everest, a British expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale, and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston.
• 1936 – Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
• 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.
• 1946 – Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
• 1948 – United States President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
• 1948 – In Jeju Province, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses begins, known as the Jeju uprising.
• 1955 – The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.
• 1956 – Hudsonville–Standale tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.
• 1961 – The Leadbeater's possum is rediscovered in Australia after 72 years.
• 1968 – Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech.
• 1969 – Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.
• 1973 – Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs, though it took ten years for the DynaTAC 8000X to become the first such phone to be commercially released.
• 1974 – The 1974 Super Outbreak occurs, the second biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history (after the 2011 Super Outbreak). The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.
• 1975 – Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.
• 1981 – The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.
• 1996 – Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his cabin in Montana, United States.
• 1996 – A United States Air Force airplane carrying United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown crashes in Croatia, killing all 35 on board.
• 1997 – The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but one of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
• 2000 – United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
• 2004 – Islamic terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.
• 2007 – Conventional-Train World Speed Record: A French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record.
• 2008 – ATA Airlines, once one of the ten largest U.S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in five years and ceases all operations.
• 2008 – Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS's YFZ Ranch. Eventually 533 women and children will be removed and taken into state custody.
• 2009 – Jiverly Antares Wong opens fire at an American Civic Association immigration center in Binghamton, New York, killing thirteen and wounding four before committing suicide.
• 2010 – Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer.
• 2013 – More than 50 people die in floods resulting from record-breaking rainfall in La Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Births

Deaths

• 963 – William III, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 915)
• 1203 – Arthur I, Duke of Brittany (b. 1196)
• 1287 – Pope Honorius IV (b. 1210)
• 1350 – Odo IV, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1295)
• 1606 – Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1563)
• 1680 – Shivaji, Indian emperor, founded the Maratha Empire (b. 1630)
• 1682 – Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter and educator (b. 1618)
• 1691 – Jean Petitot, French-Swiss painter (b. 1608)
• 1695 – Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Dutch painter (b. 1636)
• 1717 – Jacques Ozanam, French mathematician and academic (b. 1640)
• 1728 – James Anderson, Scottish lawyer and historian (b. 1662)
• 1792 – George Pocock, English admiral (b. 1706)
• 1804 – Jędrzej Kitowicz, Polish priest, historian, and author (b. 1727)
• 1827 – Ernst Chladni, German physicist and academic (b. 1756)
• 1838 – François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician and author (b. 1780)
• 1844 – Edward Bigge, English cleric, 1st Archdeacon of Lindisfarne (b. 1807)
• 1846 – William Braine, English soldier and explorer (b. 1814)
• 1849 – Juliusz Słowacki, Polish-French poet and playwright (b. 1809)
• 1868 – Franz Berwald, Swedish composer and surgeon (b. 1796)
• 1882 – Jesse James, American criminal (b. 1847)
• 1897 – Johannes Brahms, German pianist and composer (b. 1833)
• 1901 – Richard D'Oyly Carte, English composer and talent agent (b. 1844)
• 1902 – Esther Hobart Morris, American lawyer and judge (b. 1814)
• 1930 – Emma Albani, Canadian-English operatic soprano (b. 1847)
• 1936 – Richard Hauptmann, German-American murderer (b. 1899)
• 1941 – Tachiyama Mineemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 22nd Yokozuna (b. 1877)
• 1941 – Pál Teleki, Hungarian academic and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1879)
• 1943 – Conrad Veidt, German actor, director, and producer (b. 1893)
• 1946 – Masaharu Homma, Japanese general (b. 1887)
• 1950 – Kurt Weill, German-American composer and pianist (b. 1900)
• 1950 – Carter G. Woodson, American historian, author, and journalist, founded Black History Month (b. 1875)
• 1951 – Henrik Visnapuu, Estonian poet and playwright (b. 1890)
• 1952 – Miina Sillanpää, Finnish minister and politician (b. 1866)
• 1957 – Ned Sparks, Canadian-American actor (b. 1883)
• 1958 – Jaan Kärner, Estonian poet and author (b. 1891)
• 1962 – Manolis Kalomiris, Greek composer and educator (b. 1883)
• 1971 – Joseph Valachi, American gangster (b. 1904)
• 1972 – Ferde Grofé, American pianist and composer (b. 1892)
• 1975 – Mary Ure, Scottish-English actress (b. 1933)
• 1976 – David M. Dennison, American physicist and academic (b. 1900)
• 1976 – Claude-Henri Grignon, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1894)
• 1978 – Ray Noble, English bandleader, composer, and actor (b. 1903)
• 1978 – Winston Sharples, American composer (b. 1909)
• 1981 – Juan Trippe, American businessman, founded Pan American World Airways (b. 1899)
• 1982 – Warren Oates, American actor (b. 1928)
• 1983 – Jimmy Bloomfield, English footballer and manager (b. 1934)
• 1986 – Peter Pears, English tenor and educator (b. 1910)
• 1987 – Tom Sestak, American football player (b. 1936)
• 1988 – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (b. 1907)
• 1990 – Sarah Vaughan, American singer (b. 1924)
• 1991 – Charles Goren, American bridge player and author (b. 1901)
• 1991 – Graham Greene, English author, playwright, and critic (b. 1904)
• 1993 – Pinky Lee, American television host (b. 1907)
• 1994 – Frank Wells, American businessman (b. 1932)
• 1995 – Alfred J. Billes, Canadian businessman, co-founded Canadian Tire (b. 1902)
• 1996 – Ron Brown, American captain and politician, 30th United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1941)
• 1998 – Mary Cartwright, English mathematician and academic (b. 1900)
• 1999 – Lionel Bart, English composer (b. 1930)
• 1999 – Geoffrey Walsh, Canadian general (b. 1909)
• 2000 – Terence McKenna, American botanist and philosopher (b. 1946)
• 2005 – Tony Croatto, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Los TNT and Haciendo Punto en Otro Son) (b. 1940)
• 2005 – Jef Eygel, Belgian basketball player (b. 1933)
• 2005 – François Gérin, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1944)
• 2007 – Nina Wang, Chinese businesswoman (b. 1937)
• 2008 – Hrvoje Ćustić, Croatian footballer (b. 1983)
• 2012 – Mingote, Spanish cartoonist and journalist (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Richard Descoings, French civil servant (b. 1958)
• 2012 – Govind Narain, Indian politician, 8th Governor of Karnataka (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Chief Jay Strongbow, American wrestler (b. 1928)
• 2012 – José María Zárraga, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Mariví Bilbao, Spanish actress (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-American author and screenwriter (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Régine Deforges, French author, playwright, and director (b. 1935)
• 2014 – Fred Kida, American illustrator (b. 1920)
• 2014 – Prince Michael of Prussia (b. 1940)
• 2014 – Jovan Pavlović, Serbian metropolitan (b. 1936)
• 2014 – Tommy Lynn Sells, American serial killer (b. 1964)
• 2014 – Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, American guitarist, fiddler, and composer (b. 1921)
• 2015 – Sarah Brady, American activist and author (b. 1942)
• 2015 – Bob Burns, American drummer and songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1950)
• 2015 – Shmuel Wosner, Austrian-Israeli rabbi and author (b. 1913)
• 2015 – Kayahan, Turkish pop music singer-songwriter (b. 1949)

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Agape, Chionia, and Irene
  • Luigi Scrosoppi
  • Mary of Egypt (Roman Catholic)
  • Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 (Anglicanism)
  • April 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• Today in Canadian History

• Days of the year
• April