About April 3
April 3, 2025 is the 93rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 272 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Aries is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 320 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 3
- 33 –Generally agreed-upon date for the historical crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth, the central figure of Christianity.
- 1043 –Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
- 1077 –The first Parliament of Friuli is created.
- 1834 –The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason.
- 1882 –American Old West: Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford.
- 1895 –Trial of the libel case instigated 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.
- 1948 –In Jeju, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses begins, known as the Jeju massacre.
- 1948 –President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
- 1955 –The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg’s book Howl against obscenity charges.
- 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 made the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs, though it took ten years for the DynaTAC 8000X to become the first such phone to be commercially released.
- 1974 –The Super Outbreak occurs, the biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history. The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.
- 1996 –A United States Air Force airplane carrying United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown crashes in Croatia, killing all 35 on board.
- 1996 –Suspected “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski is arrested at his cabin in Montana, United States.
- 2000 –United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping “an oppressive thumb” on its competitors.
- 2004 –Islamic terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.
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