April 3 in History

Historical Events on April 3

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.
1043

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: Robert Ford kills Jesse James.
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.
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.
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.
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 Montana cabin in the United States.
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 taken into state custody.
2009

Jiverly Antares Wong opens fire at the 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.
2016

The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies.
2017

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

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