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This day in history: 3 April

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413 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 3 April.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
2018: YouTube headquarters shooting: A 38-year-old gunwoman opens fire at YouTube Headquarters in San Bruno, California, injuring three people before committing suicide.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Agape, Chionia, and Irene

Christian feast day: April 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Burgundofara

Christian feast day: Joseph the Hymnographer

Christian feast day: Luigi Scrosoppi

Christian feast day: Piotr Edward Dankowski

Christian feast day: Richard of Chichester

Events

2018YouTube headquarters shooting: A 38-year-old gunwoman opens fire at YouTube Headquarters in San Bruno, California, injuring three people before committing suicide.

2017A bomb explodes in the St Petersburg metro system, killing 14 and injuring several more people.

2016The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies.

2013More than 50 people die in floods resulting from record-breaking rainfall in La Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2010Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer.

2009Jiverly Antares Wong opens fire at the American Civic Association immigration center in Binghamton, New York, killing thirteen and wounding four before committing suicide.

2008ATA 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.

2008Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS's YFZ Ranch. Eventually 533 women and children will be taken into state custody.

2007Conventional-Train World Speed Record: A French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record of 574.8 km/h (159.6 m/s, 357.2 mph).

2004Islamic terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.

2000United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.

1997The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but one of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.

1996A United States Air Force Boeing T-43 crashes near Dubrovnik Airport in Croatia, killing 35, including Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown.

1996Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his Montana cabin in the United States.

1993The outcome of the Grand National horse race is declared void for the first (and only) time.

1989The US Supreme Court upholds the jurisdictional rights of tribal courts under the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 in Mississippi Choctaw Band v. Holyfield.

1981The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.

1980US Congress restores a federal trust relationship with the 501 members of the Shivwits, Kanosh, Koosharem, and the Indian Peaks and Cedar City bands of the Paiute people of Utah.

1975Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.

1975Vietnam War: Operation Babylift, a mass evacuation of children in the closing stages of the war begins.

1974The 1974 Super Outbreak occurs, the second largest tornado outbreak in recorded history (after the 2011 Super Outbreak). The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.

1973Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.

1969Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.

1968Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech; he was assassinated the next day.

1961LAN-Chile Flight 621 crashes in the Andes mountains, killing 21 people, including Argentinian football player Eliseo Mouriño.

1956Hudsonville–Standale tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.

1955The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.

1948Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.

1948In Jeju Province, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses known as the Jeju uprising begins.

1946Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.

1942World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.

1936Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the infant son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.

1933First flight over Mount Everest, the British Houston-Mount Everest Flight Expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston.

1922Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

1920Attempts are made to carry out the failed assassination attempt on General Mannerheim, led by Aleksander Weckman by order of Eino Rahja, during the White Guard parade in Tampere, Finland.

1905Association football club Boca Juniors is founded in Buenos Aires, Argentina

1895The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.

1888Jack the Ripper: The first of 11 unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.

1885Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for a light, high-speed, four-stroke engine, which he uses seven months later to create the world's first motorcycle, the Daimler Reitwagen.

1882American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James.

Born on this day

1999Chanel Harris-Tavita, New Zealand-Samoan rugby league player

1998Paris Jackson, American actress, model and singer

1997Gabriel Jesus, Brazilian footballer

1997Zhao Xintong, Chinese snooker player

1996Mayo Hibi, Japanese tennis player

1994Dylann Roof, American mass murderer

1994Kodi Nikorima, New Zealand rugby league player

1993Pape Moussa Konaté, Senegalese footballer

1992Simone Benedetti, Italian footballer

1992Yuliya Yefimova, Russian swimmer

1991Hayley Kiyoko, American actress and singer

1990Karim Ansarifard, Iranian footballer

1990Madison Brengle, American tennis player

1990Natasha Negovanlis, Canadian actress and singer

1990Sotiris Ninis, Greek footballer

1989Israel Folau, Australian rugby player and footballer

1989Joel Romelo, Australian rugby league player

1989Romain Alessandrini, French footballer

1989Thisara Perera, Sri Lankan cricketer

1988Brandon Graham, American football player

1988Kam Chancellor, American football player

1988Peter Hartley, English footballer

1988Tim Krul, Dutch footballer

1987Jason Kipnis, American baseball player

1987Jay Bruce, American baseball player

1987Julie Sokolow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1987Martyn Rooney, English sprinter

1987Rachel Bloom, American actress, writer, and producer

1987Yileen Gordon, Australian rugby league player

1987Yuval Spungin, Israeli footballer

1986Amanda Bynes, American actress

1986Annalisa Cucinotta, Italian cyclist

1986Sergio Sánchez Ortega, Spanish footballer

1986Stephanie Cox, American soccer player

1985Jari-Matti Latvala, Finnish race car driver

1985Leona Lewis, English singer-songwriter and producer

1984Jonathan Blondel, Belgian footballer

1984Maxi López, Argentinian footballer

1983Ben Foster, English footballer

1983Stephen Weiss, Canadian ice hockey player

Died on this day

2026Fred Curry, Lebanese-American professional wrestler (born 1941)

2025Mick O'Dwyer, Irish Gaelic footballer and manager (born 1936)

2025Theodore McCarrick, American former cardinal (born 1930)

2024Bob Lanigan, Australian rugby league player (born 1942)

2024Gaetano Pesce, Italian architect and designer (born 1939)

2022June Brown, English actress (born 1927)

2021Stan Stephens, Canadian-American politician, 20th Governor of Montana (born 1929)

2017Kishori Amonkar, Indian classical vocalist (born 1931)

2016Cesare Maldini, Italian footballer and manager (born 1932)

2016Joe Medicine Crow, American anthropologist, historian, and author (born 1913)

2016Koji Wada, Japanese singer and songwriter (born 1974)

2015Bob Burns, American drummer and songwriter (born 1950)

2015Sarah Brady, American activist and author (born 1942)

2015Shmuel Wosner, Austrian-Israeli rabbi and author (born 1913)

2014Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, American guitarist, fiddler, and composer (born 1921)

2014Fred Kida, American illustrator (born 1920)

2014Jovan Pavlović, Serbian metropolitan (born 1936)

2014Prince Michael of Prussia (born 1940)

2014Régine Deforges, French author, playwright, and director (born 1935)

2013Mariví Bilbao, Spanish actress (born 1930)

2013Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-American author and screenwriter (born 1927)

2012Chief Jay Strongbow, American wrestler (born 1928)

2012Govind Narain, Indian politician, 8th Governor of Karnataka (born 1917)

2012José María Zárraga, Spanish footballer and manager (born 1930)

2012Mingote, Spanish cartoonist and journalist (born 1919)

2012Richard Descoings, French civil servant (born 1958)

2008Hrvoje Ćustić, Croatian footballer (born 1983)

2007Nina Wang, Chinese businesswoman (born 1937)

2005François Gérin, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1944)

2000Dina Abramowicz, Librarian and YIVO and Yiddish language expert (born 1909)

Quote of the day

“When walking, walk. When eating, eat.”

Zen proverb

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