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
- 1559 –The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis treaty is signed, ending the Italian Wars.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1969 –Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to “Vietnamize” the war effort.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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