About April 3
April 3, 2023 is the 93rd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 272 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 313 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 3
- 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 Saint 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: Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford.
- 1885 –Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.
- 1888 –The first of 11 unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
- 1895 –Trial of the libel case instigated by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
- 1929 –RMS Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line.
- 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.
- 1946 –Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 –Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS’s YFZ Ranch. Eventually 533 women and children will be removed and taken into state custody.
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