April 3 in History

Historical Events on April 3

1882 American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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Famous Birthdays on April 3

1924 Marlon Brando

1925 Tony Benn

1964 Nigel Farage

1985 Leona Lewis

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Famous Deaths on April 3

1680 Shivaji

1882 Jesse James

1901 Richard D'Oyly Carte

2000 Terence McKenna

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