About April 3
April 3, 2024 is the 94th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 272 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 301 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.
- 1559 –The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis treaty is signed, ending the Italian Wars.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1956 –Hudsonville-Standale Tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.
- 1961 –The Leadbeater’s Possum is rediscovered in Australia after 72 years.
- 1974 –The Super Outbreak occurs, the biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history. The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.
- 1981 –The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.
- 1996 –A United States Air Force airplane carrying United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown crashes in Croatia, killing all 35 on board.
- 1997 –The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
- 2004 –Islamic terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.
- 2008 –ATA Airlines, once one of the 10 largest U.S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in 5 years and ceases all operations.
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