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
- 1043 –Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
- 1077 –The first Parliament of Friuli is created.
- 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.
- 1882 –American Old West: Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford.
- 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.
- 1922 –Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 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
- 1936 –Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
- 1946 –Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
- 1948 –In Jeju, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses begins, known as the Jeju massacre.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1981 –The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.
- 2004 –Islamic terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.
- 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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