# What happened on April 3 in history?

**Date:** April 3  
**Events recorded:** 50  
**Years spanned:** 686 – 2018  
**Full page:** https://thisday.info/events/april/3/

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## Featured Event

**2018** — YouTube headquarters shooting: A 38-year-old gunwoman opens fire at YouTube Headquarters in San Bruno, California, injuring three people before committing suicide.

[Read more on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_headquarters_shooting)

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## Events on this date

- **686** — Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_civilization))
- **956** — Polyeuctus of Constantinople is elected as patriarch of Constantinople. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyeuctus_of_Constantinople))
- **1043** — Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_the_Confessor))
- **1077** — The Patriarchate of Friûl, the first Friulian state, is created. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friuli))
- **1559** — The second of two treaties making up the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis is signed, ending the Italian Wars. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Cateau-Cambr%C3%A9sis))
- **1589** — The janissaries revolt in response to the debasement of coins. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janissary))
- **1721** — Robert Walpole becomes, in effect, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain, though he himself denied that title. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Walpole))
- **1851** — Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand after the death of his half-brother, Rama III. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongkut))
- **1860** — The first successful United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pony_Express))
- **1865** — American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War))
- **1882** — American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_frontier))
- **1885** — Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for a light, high-speed, four-stroke engine, which he uses seven months later to create the world's first motorcycle, the Daimler Reitwagen. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlieb_Daimler))
- **1888** — Jack the Ripper: The first of 11 unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper))
- **1895** — The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation))
- **1905** — Association football club Boca Juniors is founded in Buenos Aires, Argentina ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boca_Juniors))
- **1920** — Attempts are made to carry out the failed assassination attempt on General Mannerheim, led by Aleksander Weckman by order of Eino Rahja, during the White Guard parade in Tampere, Finland. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gustaf_Emil_Mannerheim))
- **1922** — Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin))
- **1933** — First flight over Mount Everest, the British Houston-Mount Everest Flight Expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest))
- **1936** — Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the infant son of pilot Charles Lindbergh. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Richard_Hauptmann))
- **1942** — World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II))
- **1946** — Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant_general))
- **1948** — Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War))
- **1948** — In Jeju Province, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses known as the Jeju uprising begins. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju_Province))
- **1955** — The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union))
- **1956** — Hudsonville–Standale tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_outbreak_of_April_2%E2%80%933%2C_1956))
- **1961** — LAN-Chile Flight 621 crashes in the Andes mountains, killing 21 people, including Argentinian football player Eliseo Mouriño. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAN-Chile_Flight_621))
- **1968** — Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech; he was assassinated the next day. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.))
- **1969** — Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War))
- **1973** — Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Cooper_(inventor)))
- **1974** — The 1974 Super Outbreak occurs, the second largest tornado outbreak in recorded history (after the 2011 Super Outbreak). The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_Super_Outbreak))
- **1975** — Vietnam War: Operation Babylift, a mass evacuation of children in the closing stages of the war begins. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Babylift))
- **1975** — Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer))
- **1980** — US Congress restores a federal trust relationship with the 501 members of the Shivwits, Kanosh, Koosharem, and the Indian Peaks and Cedar City bands of the Paiute people of Utah. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress))
- **1981** — The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_1))
- **1989** — The US Supreme Court upholds the jurisdictional rights of tribal courts under the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 in Mississippi Choctaw Band v. Holyfield. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States))
- **1993** — The outcome of the Grand National horse race is declared void for the first (and only) time. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_National))
- **1996** — Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his Montana cabin in the United States. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski))
- **1996** — A United States Air Force Boeing T-43 crashes near Dubrovnik Airport in Croatia, killing 35, including Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force))
- **1997** — The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but one of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalit_massacre))
- **2000** — United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.))
- **2004** — Islamic terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_terrorism))
- **2007** — Conventional-Train World Speed Record: A French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record of 574.8 km/h (159.6 m/s, 357.2 mph). ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGV_world_speed_record))
- **2008** — ATA Airlines, once one of the ten largest U.S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in five years and ceases all operations. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATA_Airlines))
- **2008** — Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS's YFZ Ranch. Eventually 533 women and children will be taken into state custody. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas))
- **2009** — Jiverly Antares Wong opens fire at the American Civic Association immigration center in Binghamton, New York, killing thirteen and wounding four before committing suicide. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Binghamton_shooting))
- **2010** — Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.))
- **2013** — More than 50 people die in floods resulting from record-breaking rainfall in La Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Argentina_floods))
- **2016** — The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers))
- **2017** — A bomb explodes in the St Petersburg metro system, killing 14 and injuring several more people. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Saint_Petersburg_Metro_bombing))
- **2018** — YouTube headquarters shooting: A 38-year-old gunwoman opens fire at YouTube Headquarters in San Bruno, California, injuring three people before committing suicide. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_headquarters_shooting))

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## Notable births on April 3

- **1999** — **Chanel Harris-Tavita** — New Zealand-Samoan rugby league player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanel_Harris-Tavita))
- **1998** — **Paris Jackson** — American actress, model and singer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Jackson))
- **1997** — **Gabriel Jesus** — Brazilian footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Jesus))
- **1997** — **Zhao Xintong** — Chinese snooker player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Xintong))
- **1996** — **Mayo Hibi** — Japanese tennis player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayo_Hibi))
- **1994** — **Kodi Nikorima** — New Zealand rugby league player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodi_Nikorima))
- **1994** — **Dylann Roof** — American mass murderer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylann_Roof))
- **1993** — **Pape Moussa Konaté** — Senegalese footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moussa_Konat%C3%A9_(footballer)))
- **1992** — **Simone Benedetti** — Italian footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Benedetti))
- **1992** — **Yuliya Yefimova** — Russian swimmer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuliya_Yefimova))

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## Notable deaths on April 3

- **2026** — **Fred Curry** — Lebanese-American professional wrestler (born 1941) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Curry))
- **2025** — **Theodore McCarrick** — American former cardinal (born 1930) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_McCarrick))
- **2025** — **Mick O'Dwyer** — Irish Gaelic footballer and manager (born 1936) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_O'Dwyer))
- **2024** — **Bob Lanigan** — Australian rugby league player (born 1942) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Lanigan))
- **2024** — **Gaetano Pesce** — Italian architect and designer (born 1939) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaetano_Pesce))
- **2022** — **June Brown** — English actress (born 1927) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Brown))
- **2021** — **Stan Stephens** — Canadian-American politician, 20th Governor of Montana (born 1929) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Stephens))
- **2017** — **Kishori Amonkar** — Indian classical vocalist (born 1931) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishori_Amonkar))
- **2016** — **Cesare Maldini** — Italian footballer and manager (born 1932) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Maldini))
- **2016** — **Joe Medicine Crow** — American anthropologist, historian, and author (born 1913) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Medicine_Crow))

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