April 3rd Events |
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April 3rd, 2007 (April 03 2007) | Event | Conventional-Train World Speed Record: a French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record. | |
April 3rd, 2004 (April 03 2004) | Event | Islamic terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves. | |
April 3rd, 2000 (April 03 2000) | Event | United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors. | |
April 3rd, 1997 (April 03 1997) | Event | Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas. | |
April 3rd, 1996 (April 03 1996) | Event | Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is arrested at his Montana, United States cabin. | |
April 3rd, 1996 (April 03 1996) | Event | A United States Air Force airplane carrying United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown crashes in Croatia, killing all 35 on board. | |
April 3rd, 1982 (April 03 1982) | Event | Great Britain sends a naval task force to the south Atlantic to reclaim the disputed Falkland Islands from Argentina. | |
April 3rd, 1975 (April 03 1975) | Event | Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default. | Bobby Fischer Quotes |
April 3rd, 1974 (April 03 1974) | Event | The Super Outbreak occurs, the biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history. The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured. | |
April 3rd, 1973 (April 03 1973) | Event | The first portable cell phone call is made in New York City, United States. | |
April 3rd, 1969 (April 03 1969) | Event | Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort. | |
April 3rd, 1968 (April 03 1968) | Event | Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I ve Been to the Mountaintop" speech. | Martin Luther Quotes |
April 3rd, 1956 (April 03 1956) | Event | Hudsonville-Standale Tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado. | |
April 3rd, 1955 (April 03 1955) | Event | The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg s book Howl against obscenity charges. | |
April 3rd, 1948 (April 03 1948) | Event | President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries. | Harry S. Truman Quotes |
April 3rd, 1948 (April 03 1948) | Event | In Jeju, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses begins, known as the Jeju massacre. | |
April 3rd, 1946 (April 03 1946) | Event | Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March. | |
April 3rd, 1942 (April 03 1942) | Event | World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula. | |
April 3rd, 1936 (April 03 1936) | Event | Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh II, the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh. | |
April 3rd, 1929 (April 03 1929) | Event | RMS Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line. | |
April 3rd, 1922 (April 03 1922) | Event | Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. | Joseph Stalin Quotes |
April 3rd, 1917 (April 03 1917) | Event | Vladimir Lenin arrives in Russia from exile, marking the beginning of Bolshevik leadership in the Russian Revolution. | Vladimir Lenin Quotes |
April 3rd, 1895 (April 03 1895) | Event | Trial of the libel case instigated by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality. | Oscar Wilde Quotes |
April 3rd, 1885 (April 03 1885) | Event | Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design. | |
April 3rd, 1882 (April 03 1882) | Event | American Old West: Outlaw Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford. | |
April 3rd, 1865 (April 03 1865) | Event | American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America. | |
April 3rd, 1860 (April 03 1860) | Event | The first successful United States Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California begins. | |
April 3rd, 1834 (April 03 1834) | Event | The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason. | |
April 3rd, 1559 (April 03 1559) | Event | The Peace of Cateau-Cambresis treaty is signed, ending the Italian Wars. | |
April 3rd, 1077 (April 03 1077) | Event | The first Parliament of Friuli is created. | |
April 3rd, 1043 (April 03 1043) | Event | Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. | |