YEAR | DAY | EVENT |
1657 | Apr 3 | English Lord Protector Cromwell refused the crown. |
1679 | Apr 3 | Edmund Halley met Johannes Hevelius in Danzig |
1790 | Apr 3 | Revenue Marine Service (US Coast Guard) was created. |
1838 | Apr 3 | Francesco Antommarchi (57), Napoleon’s physician on St Helena, died. |
1862 | Apr 3 | A bill was passed to abolish slavery in Washington, D.C. |
1897 | Apr 3 | Johannes Brahms (63), German composer, conductor (Hungarian Dances), died. |
1901 | Apr 3 | Richard D’Oyly Carte, promoter (Gilbert & Sullivan operas), died. |
1910 | Apr 3 | Alaska’s Mt. McKinley, the highest mountain in North America, was climbed. |
1913 | Apr 3 | British suffragette Emily Pankhurst was sentenced to 3 years in jail. |
1919 | Apr 3 | Austria expelled all Habsburgs. |
1922 | Apr 3 | Stalin was appointed General Secretary of Communist Party. |
1926 | Apr 3 | 1st performance of Jean Sibelius’ 7th Symphony in C. |
1926 | Apr 3 | Italy established corps of force in order to break powerful unions. |
1933 | Apr 3 | The dirigible Akron crashed into the Atlantic off of New Jersey and killed 73 0f the 76 men aboard. |
1941 | Apr 3 | Walton’s overture “Scapino,” premiered in Chicago. |
1944 | Apr 3 | British dive bombers attacked the battle cruiser Tirpitz. |
1946 | Apr 3 | Lt. General Masaharu Homma, the Japanese commander responsible for the Bataan Death March, was executed outside Manila in the Philippines. |
1948 | Apr 3 | The 1st US figure skating championships were held. |
1951 | Apr 3 | Christopher Fry’s “Sleep of Prisoners,” premiered in Oxford. |
1952 | Apr 3 | Dutch Queen Juliana spoke to the US Congress. |
1956 | Apr 3 | “Silk Stockings” closed at Imperial Theater in NYC after 461 performances. |
1961 | Apr 3 | In San Francisco thousands of people took part in the 39th Easter Sunrise Service on Mount Davidson. |
1968 | Apr 3 | North Vietnam agreed to meet with US representatives to set up preliminary peace talks. |
1972 | Apr 3 | Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) returned to the US after a twenty-year absence. |
1975 | Apr 3 | Bobby Fischer (1943-2008) was stripped of the world chess title for refusing to defend it. |
1979 | Apr 3 | In Belgium Wilfried Achiel Emma Martens (b.1936) became prime minister for the 1st of 9 times. |
1984 | Apr 3 | Coach John Thompson of Georgetown University became the first African-American coach to win an NCAA basketball tournament. |
1985 | Apr 3 | The landmark Brown Derby restaurant in Hollywood closed after 56 years in business. |
1988 | Apr 3 | Secretary of State George P. Shultz arrived in Israel to launch a fresh U.S. peace initiative, telling the Israelis that the Palestinians must be included in negotiations. |
1990 | Apr 3 | Sarah Vaughan (66), Jazz singer, died in suburban Los Angeles. |
1991 | Apr 3 | “Penn & Teller Refrigerator Tour” opened at Eugene O’Neill in NYC. |
1992 | Apr 3 | President Bush, speaking in Philadelphia, said members of Congress should shorten their annual sessions and retire after 12 years, calling for changes in “a failed status quo”; Democratic leaders accused Bush of “scapegoating.” |
1994 | Apr 3 | Frank Wells, president of the Walt Disney Co., died in helicopter crash while returning from a ski trip in Nevada’s Ruby Mountains. |
1995 | Apr 3 | UCLA defeated Arkansas, 89-78, to win the NCAA basketball championship. |
1996 | Apr 3 | Much of North America was treated to a total lunar eclipse. |
1997 | Apr 3 | About 2,000 youngsters in California and Georgia lined up for shots to protect them against hepatitis from a contaminated shipment of frozen strawberries. |
1998 | Apr 3 | Douglas Fred Groat, a disgruntled spy fired by the CIA, was charged with espionage and extortion. Groat later pleaded guilty to extortion, and was sentenced to five years in prison |
1999 | Apr 3 | In Louisiana a tornado hit north of Shreveport and 10 people sere reported killed with some 100 injured. |
2000 | Apr 3 | In Indianapolis Michigan State beat the Florida Gators for the NCAA basketball championship, 89-to-76. |
2001 | Apr 3 | The DJIA fell 292 to 9,485. The Nasdaq fell almost 110 to 1,673. |
2002 | Apr 3 | Cincinnati, Ohio, agreed to restrictions on the use of force and announced plans to establish an independent agency to investigate police brutality complaints. |
2003 | Apr 3 | Moving with a sense of wartime urgency, the House and Senate separately agreed to give President Bush nearly $80 billion to carry out the battle against Iraq and meet the threat of terrorism. |
2004 | Apr 3 | Soccer player Freddy Adu (14), became the youngest athlete in a major American professional sport in well over a century as he entered a game between his team, D.C. United, and the San Jose Earthquakes (D.C. United won, 2-1). |
2005 | Apr 3 | Daylight Savings Time (DST) began on this 1st Sunday in April. |
2006 | Apr 3 | Dozens of Mexican newspapers, frustrated by fruitless police probes of slain and missing journalists, simultaneously published the first in a series of reports on the cases. |
2007 | Apr 3 | President Bush denounced Democrats for going on spring break without approving money for the Iraq war; he also criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Syria. |
2008 | Apr 3 | Japanese police arrested Olatunbosun Ugbogu (22), a Nigerian national serving in the US Navy, in the March 19 stabbing death of a taxi driver near an American naval base outside Tokyo. He was handed over to Japanese authorities just before the arrest under a bilateral security pact. |
2009 | Apr 3 | US administration officials said Pres. Obama planned to lift some curbs on travel to Cuba, including a ban on family travel and remittances to Cuba. |
2010 | Apr 3 | In Portland, Maine, about two dozen women drew a crowd of onlookers when they shed their shirts and marched downtown to promote what they call equal-opportunity public toplessness. |
2011 | Apr 3 | In Afghanistan demonstrators battled police in Kandahar city, where an officer was shot dead. Demonstrators also took to the streets of Jalalabad for the first time as Western pleas failed to halt a third day of rage over a Florida pastor’s burning of the Quran. A NATO service member was killed in an insurgent attack in the east. |
2012 | Apr 3 | American regulators finalized a rule enabling them to expand the designation of “systematically important” institutions to non-banks. |
2013 | Apr 3 | The United States said it will soon send a missile defense system to Guam to defend it from North Korea, as the US military adjusts to what US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel described as a “real and clear danger” from Pyongyang. |
2014 | Apr 3 | Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II paid a private call on Pope Francis at the Vatican, making him the fifth pontiff she has met. |
Today In History ( April 3)
Excited
0
Happy
0
In Love
0
Not Sure
0
Silly
0