On this day in History - Apr. 3

• 0033 - Crucifixion of Jesus (traditional date)
• 0963 - William III, Duke of Aquitaine dies (b. 0915)
• 1043 - Eduardo o Confessor é coroado rei de Inglaterra na Catedral de Winchester.
• 1077 - Creation of the first Parliament of Friuli
• 1151 - Igor Svyatoslavich was born (d. 1202). Russian prince.
• 1189 - Conflict between Emperor Frederick Barbarossa of Germany and Pope Clement III were settled when the Peace of Strasbourg was signed.
• 1245 - King Philip III of France was born (d. 1285).
• 1287 - Pope Honorius IV [Giacomo Savelli] dies (b. c. 1210). Italian Pope (1285-87).
• 1350 - Eudes IV, Duke of Burgundy dies (b. 1295).
• 1367 - King Henry IV of England was born (d. 1413)
• 1376 - Battle of Navarrete (Najera), English beat France.
• 1493 - Los Reyes Católicos reciben en Barcelona a Cristóbal Colón, a su regreso del descubrimiento de América.
• 1507 - Martin Luther was ordained as a priest in the Roman Catholic Church.
• 1528 - German reformer Adolf Clarenbach was arrested in Cologne, Germany, for teaching Protestant (possibly Anabaptist or Waldensian) ideas. Clarenbach was burned at the stake the next year, becoming an early Protestant martyr.
• 1529 - Michael Neander was born (d. 1581). German mathematician and astronomer.
• 1559 - The treaty, Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis, is signed, ending the Italian Wars.
• 1593 - George Herbert was born (d. 1633). English poet and orator.
• 1606 - Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon, English politician (b. 1563)
• 1639 - Alessandro Stradella was born (d. 1682). Italian composer.
• 1643 - Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine was born (d. 1690). General of the Holy Roman Empire.
• 1680 - Shivaji dies (b. 1630). Founder of the Maratha Empire.
• 1682 - Bartolomé Estéban Murillo dies (b. 1618). Spanish painter.
• 1683 - Mark Catesby was born (d. 1749).English naturalist.
• 1691 - Jean Petitot dies (b. 1608). Swiss enamel painter.
• 1693 - George Edwards was born (d. 1773). Naturalist.
• 1695 - Melchior d'Hondecoeter dies. Dutch painter.
• 1715 - William Watson was born (d. 1787). English physician and scientist.
• 1717 - Jacques Ozanam dies (b. 1640). French mathematician.
• 1721 - Robert Walpole became the first prime minister of Britain.
• 1728 - James Anderson dies (b. 1662). Scottish lawyer.
• 1764 - John Abernathy was born (d. 1831). English surgeon.
• 1769 - Christian Gunther von Bernstorff was born (d. 1835). Danish and Prussian statesman and diplomat.
• 1770 - Theodoros Kolokotronis was born (d. 1843). Greek general in the Greek War of Independence.
• 1776 - Harvard College conferred the first honorary Doctor of Laws degree to George Washington.
• 1783 - Washington Irving was born (d. 1859). American author.
• 1792 - George Pocock dies (b. 1706). British admiral.
• 1792 - John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich dies (b. 1718). English statesman.
• 1804 - Jędrzej Kitowicz dies (b. 1927 or 1928). Polish priest.
• 1806 - Ivan Kireevsky was born (d. 1856). Russian literary critic and philosopher.
• 1814 - Lorenzo Snow was born (d. 1901). 5th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• 1822 - Edward Everett Hale was born (d. 1909). American writer
• 1823 - William Marcy Tweed was born (d. 1878). American political boss.
• 1827 - Ernst Chladni dies (b. 1856). German physicist.
• 1829 - James Carrington patented the coffee mill.
• 1842 - Nascia Hermann Karl Vogel (m. 13 Ago 1907). Astrónomo alemão que descobriu as estrelas binárias espectrocóspicas
• 1849 - Juliusz Słowacki dies (b. 1809). Polish poet.
• 1860 - Founding of the Pony Express : The legendary Pony Express begins mail service between Saint Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California.
• 1862 - James Clark Ross dies. English explorer.
• 1865 - American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the break-away Confederate States of America.
• 1868 - Franz Berwald dies (b. 1796). Swedish composer.
• 1871 - José Juan Tablada was born. Mexican poet (El Florilegio)
• 1878 - Marie Isidore Henri Liénard de Saint-Délis was born (d. 15 Nov 1949). French painter.
• 1879 - Tomás José da Anunciação morre (n. 1818). Pintor português da época do romantismo
• 1879 - Sofia, liberated from the Ottoman Empire by Russian troops, was named the capital of Bulgaria.
• 1880 - Otto Weininger was born (d. 1903). Austrian philosopher.
• 1881 - Alcide De Gasperi was born (d. 1954). Former Prime Minister of Italy
• 1882 - Morreu no Rio de Janeiro, Augusto Emílio Zaluar (n. em Lisboa em 14 Fev 1825). Fundador (em parceria com Quintino Bocaiúva) do "Parayba", periódico de Petropolis.
• 1882 - Jesse James is shot in the back by Robert Ford, a member of his own gang, seeking to claim reward money (b. 1847). American bank and train robber
• 1885 - Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.
• 1885 - Allan Dwan was born (d. 1981). American film director.
• 1885 - Bud Fisher was born (d. 1954). American cartoonist (Mutt and Jeff).
• 1889 - Grigoraş Dinicu was born (d. 1949). Romanian composer and violinist.
• 1893 - Leslie Howard was born (d. 1943). English actor.
• 1895 - The libel trial instigated by Oscar Wilde against the Marquess of Queensbury begins, eventually resulting in Wilde's arrest, trial and imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
• 1895 - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco was born (d. 1968). Italian composer.
• 1896 - The first publication of La Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper in Italy.
• 1897 - Johannes Brahms dies (b. 1833). German composer.
• 1898 - George Jessel was born (d. 1981). American comedian.
• 1898 - Henry Luce was born (d. 1967). American publisher.
• 1901 - Richard D'Oyly Carte dies (b. 1844). British Industrialist.
• 1903 - Peter Huchel was born (d. 1981) . Lyricist and author of radio plays.
• 1904 - Iron Eyes Cody was born (d. 1999). American actor.
• 1905 - Boca Juniors (Argentina) is founded.
• 1905 - Robert Frederick Sink was born (d. 1965). United States Army Officer.
• 1907 - Iron Eyes Cody was born (d. 1999). Actor.
• 1910 - Inauguración de un túnel transandino que une Chile y Argentina.
• 1913 - Per Borten was born (d. 2005). Former Premier of Norway
• 1916 - Herb Caen was born (d. 1997). Newspaper columnist.
• 1917 - Vladimir Lenin arrives at Petrograd Station in Russia from exile, marking the beginning of Bolshevik leadership in the Russian Revolution.
• 1917 - Um submarino alemão afunda, na costa da França, o navio brasileiro Paraná durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial
• 1918 - Louis Applebaum was born (d. 2000). Canadian composer, conductor and administrator.
• 1920 - F. Scott Fitzgerald got married with Zelda Sayre
• 1921 - Maria Clara Machado, nasce em Belo Horizonte (MG), autora, diretora e atriz de teatro.
• 1921 - Jan Sterling was born (d. 2004). American actress.
• 1921 - Dario Moreno was born (d. 1968). Turkish-Jewish singer and songwriter.
• 1922 - Joseph Stalin succeeds Lenin as leader of the Soviet Union.
• 1924 - Marlon Brando was born (d. 2004). Award winning actor.
• 1924 - Doris Day was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. American singer and actress.
• 1925 - Tony Benn was born. British politician
• 1925 - Se constituye en la ciudad suiza de Ginebra la Unión Internacional de Radiodifusión.
• 1925 - Great Britain goes back to gold standard 1925 Netherlands & Belgium sign accord of Westerschelde.
• 1926 - 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 7th Symphony in C.
• 1926 - Gus Grissom was born (d. 1967). Astronaut.
• 1926 - Luís de Sttau Monteiro was born. Portuguese dramatist and writer.
• 1926 - Alex Grammas was born. Baseball player.
• 1928 - Don Gibson was born (d. 2003). American country musician.
• 1928 - Kevin Hagen was born (d. 2005). American actor.
• 1929 - Miyoshi Umeki was born. Japanese actress
• 1929 - RMS Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line.
• 1929 - Fazlur R. Khan was born. Bangladeshi American civil engineer whose many skyscraper projects included Chicago's Sears Tower (1973; then the world's tallest building
• 1930 - Helmut Kohl was born. Chancellor of West Germany from 1982 to 1990 and, after presiding over the integration of East Germany into West Germany in 1990, chancellor of reunified Germany until 1998.
• 1930 - Lawton Chiles was born. U.S. Senator from Florida (1977-1989) and Florida Governor ( 1991-1998).
• 1930 - Wally Moon was born. Baseball player
• 1930 - Ras Tafari becomes Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) .
• 1930 - 2nd Annual Academy Awards presentation, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, for movies made during the 1928-1929 year. The Best Director was Frank Lloyd for The Divine Lady; Warner Baxter was voted Best Actor for his role in In Old Arizona, while Mary Pickford took home the Best Actress award for her part in Coquette. Hanns Kräly penned the script for The Patriot, winning the Best Writing award and the Best Picture of the year was The Broadway Melody produced by Harry Rapf.
• 1930 - Emma Albani dies (b. 1847). Canadian soprano.
• 1932 - Wilhelm Ostwald dies (b. 1853). German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1932 - Anthony Perkins was born (d. 12 Sep 1992). Actor : Psycho series, The Sins of Dorian Gray, Mahogany, Murder on the Orient Express, On the Beach, Desire Under the Elms, Friendly Persuasion.
• 1933 - Unsuccessful boycott of Jewish stores in Nazi Germany.
• 1934 - The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason.
• 1934 - Jane Goodall was born. English zoologist
• 1936 - Richard Bruno Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, the baby son of Anne and world-famous pilot Charles Lindbergh.
• 1936 - Jimmy McGriff was born. Jazz musician.
• 1936 - Scott LaFaro was born (d. 1961). American musician.
• 1936 - Jimmy McGriff was born. American jazz organist
• 1937 - William Gaunt was born. Actor.
• 1938 - Jeff Barry was born. American songwriter and record producer
• 1941 - Hungarian, Italian and German Nazi troops march into Yugoslavia.
• 1941 - Eric Braeden was born. Actor
• 1941 - Philippe Wynne was born (d. 1984). Musician.
• 1941 - Carl Boenish was born (d. 1974). American father of BASE jumping
• 1941 - Eric Braeden was born. German-born actor
• 1941 - Philippe Wynne was born (d. 1984). American musician
• 1941 - Jan Berry was born (d. 2004). American musician (Jan and Dean)
• 1942 - Marek Perepeczko was born (d. 2005). Polish actor
• 1942 - Billy Joe Royal was born. American singer
• 1942 - Marsha Mason was born. Actress
• 1942 - Wayne Newton was born. Singer.
• 1942 - World War II: Japanese forces begin an all-out assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula. Bataan fell on April 9 and the Bataan Death March began.
• 1943 - Jonathan Lynn was born. British actor and comedy writer.
• 1943 - Richard Manuel was born (d. 1986). Canadian musician and songwriter.
• 1943 - Conrad Veidt dies (b. 1893). German actor.
• 1944 - Tony Orlando was born. American musician.
• 1945 - Nazi's begin evacuation of camp Buchenwald.
• 1946 - Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed outside Manila in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
• 1946 - Carlos Salinas de Gortari was born. Mexican President (1988-94)
• 1946 - Marisa Luísa Paredes Bartolomé was born in Madrid, Spain. Actress. President of the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences(18 Dec 2000 - 09 Oct2003).President of the Spanish Cinema's Academy (2000-Present)
• 1946 - The Japanese army general Homma Masaharu was executed outside Manila, Philippines for forcing the Bataan Death March.
• 1947 - Clarisse Mattos Abujamra was born. Brazilien actress.
• 1948 - President Harry Truman signs the Marshall Plan which authorizes $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
• 1948 - In Jeju, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses begins, known as the Jeju massacre.
• 1948 - Carlos Salinas was born. President of Mexico
• 1948 - Arlette Cousture was born. French Canadian writer
• 1949 - Representatives of Transjordan and Israel met in Rhodes to sign an armistice.
• 1949 - Richard Thompson was born. British musician and songwriter
• 1949 - Lyle Alzado was born (d. 1992). American football player.
• 1950 - Kurt Weill dies (b. 02 Mar 1900). German composer.
• 1950 - Carter G. Woodson dies (b. 1875). African American historian, author, journalist and the founder of Black History Month.
• 1950 - Kurt Weill dies (b. 1900). German composer.
• 1951 - Doris Day marries with Martin Melcher her 3rd husband.
• 1952 - Miina Sillanpää dies (b. 1866). Finnish politician, first female Finnish minister
• 1953 - TV Guide debuts.
• 1954 - Aristides de Sousa Mendes dies. Portuguese diplomate who saved thousands of Jewish people during the II War giving them cards to Portugal / Aristides de Sousa Mendes morre. Cônsul de Portugal em Bordéus. Salvou dezenas de milhares de pessoas do Holocausto.
• 1954 - Elisabetta Brusa was born. Italian composer
• 1955 - The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges
• 1955 - Night express train in Guadalajara derails, killing 300.
• 1956 - Elvis Presley sings "Heartbreak Hotel" on the Milton Berle Show, with an estimated 25% of the United States population viewing.
• 1956 - The western part of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado (known as the Standale Tornado).
• 1956 - Ray Combs was born (d. 1996). Game show host, comedian.
• 1956 - Miguel Bosé was born. Spanish singer.
• 1957 - Nascimento de Filomena Edorinda Campos dos Santos Semana. Técnica de Serviço Social. [Nota do webmaster: Hoje vou jantar com ela]
• 1958 - Alec Baldwin was born. American actor
• 1959 - David Hyde Pierce was born. American actor (A Bug's Life , Osmosis Jones ...).
• 1960 - Arjen Anthony Lucassen, Dutch musician (Ayreon)
• 1960 - Marie-Denise Pelletier was born. Quebec singer
• 1961 - Un DC3 de LAN Chile se estrella en el cerro Las Lástimas; entre los muertos hay 8 jugadores de Green Croos, entre ellos Eliseo Mouriño.
• 1961 - Eddie Murphy was born. American actor and comedian.
• 1962 - Mike Ness was born. American musician ("Social Distortion")
• 1963 - Criss Oliva was born (d. 1993). American musician (Savatage) .
• 1964 - Bjarne Riis was born. Danish cyclist.
• 1965 - Maurício Mattar was born. Brazilian actor and singer.
• 1965 - Ernst Kirchweger dies. Austrian communist and resistance fighter
• 1966 - Miina Tominaga was born. Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
• 1967 - Brent Gilchrist was born. Canadian ice hockey player
• 1968 - Charlotte Coleman was born (d. 2001). British television actress.
• 1968 - Jamie Hewlett was born. British illustrator (Tank Girl and Gorillaz)
• 1968 - Sebastian Bach was born. Musician ("Skid Row")
• 1968 - Elvis Presley sings Heartbreak Hotel on the Milton Berle Show with an estimated 25% of the United States population viewing.
• 1968 - Simon and Garfunkel release the critically acclaimed album Bookends.
• 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "mountaintop" speech.
• 1969 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United Srares will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.
• 1969 - Lance Storm, wrestler
• 1969 - Paul E.M. Phillips was born. Scientist
• 1970 - Sticky Fingaz was born. American rapper and actor
• 1971 - In Dublin, Ireland, Séverine wins the sixteenth Eurovision Song Contest for Monaco singing "Un banc, un arbre, une rue" (A bench, a tree, a street).
• 1971 - Joseph Valachi dies (b. 1904). American gangster.
• 1972 - Jennie Garth was born. American actress.
• 1972 - Ferde Grofé dies (b. 1882). American composer.
• 1973 - The first ever Mobile phone call is placed by Martin Cooper, in New York City.
• 1973 - Matthew Ferguson was born. Canadian actor
• 1974 - The Super Outbreak occurred. 148 tornadoes affected 13 states in 26 hours. It was the biggest tornado outbreak in the planet's recorded history.
• 1975 - Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title.
• 1975 - Michael Olowokandi was born. Nigerian NBA basketball player
• 1975 - Aries Spears was born. American comedian.
• 1975 - Mickey Beyer-Clausen was born. Danish entrepreneur and philanthropist
• 1975 - Shawn Bates was born. American ice hockey player
• 1975 - Mary Ure dies (b. 1933). British actress.
• 1976 - In The Hague, Netherlands, Brotherhood of Man wins the twenty-first Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom singing "Save Your Kisses For Me".
• 1976 - É promulgada a Constituição Portuguesa de 1976 .
• 1976 - Drew Shirley was born. American musician (Switchfoot)
• 1976 - Will Mellor was born. British actor
• 1977 - Veronique De Kock was born. Miss Belgium-Universe (1996)
• 1978 - 50th Academy Awards - Best Picture - "Annie Hall"; Best Director -Woody Allen; Best Actress - Diane Keaton; The Best Actor statuette went to Richard Dreyfuss for his performance in The Goodbye Girl; Jason Robards was acclaimed as the Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Julia); his supporting co-star, Vanessa Redgrave also won the golden award; "Star Wars" was honoured with six Academy Awards, mainly for technical effects.
• 1978 - Tommy Haas was born. German tennis player
• 1978 - Matthew Goode was born. British actor
• 1978 - Ray Noble dies (b. 1903). British bandleader and composer.
• 1981 - Aaron Bertram was born. American musician, Suburban Legends
• 1981 - Juan Trippe dies (b. 1899). Airline entrepreneur and pioneer, Pan Am founder.
• 1982 - Fler was born. German rapper
• 1982 - Cobie Smulders was born. Canadian actress
• 1982 - Kasumi Nakane was born. Japanese gravure idol
• 1982 - Iain Fyfe was born. Australian footballer
• 1982 - Warren Oates dies (b. 1928). American Character actor.
• 1984 - Col. Lansana Konte became the new president of Guinea when the armed forces seized power after the death of Sekou Toure.
• 1985 - Na África do Sul, o Reverendo Desmond Tutu comanda uma passeata exigindo a libertação de presos políticos no país.
• 1985 - Leona Lewis was born. British singer.
• 1986 - IBM unveils the PC Convertible, their first laptop computer.
• 1986 - Amanda Bynes was born. Actress and show host
• 1986 - Richard Manuel dies. Musician ("The Band")
• 1986 - Sergio Sánchez was born. Spanish footballer
• 1986 - Peter Pears dies (b. 1910). English tenor.
• 1987 - Tom Sestak dies (b. 1936). American football player.
• 1988 - Milt Caniff dies. Cartoonist .
• 1988 - Somalia & Ethiopia sign accord about Ogaden desert
• 1988 - Francisco da Costa dies. Portuguese writer.
• 1990 - Em El Salvador governo e guerrilha selam um acordo de paz.
• 1990 - Sarah Vaughn dies (b. 1924). American jazz singer.
• 1991 - Graham Greene dies (b. 1904). English writer.
• 1991 - Martha Graham dies. American dancer and choreographer.
• 1991 - The U.N. Security Council passes a cease-fire resolution to end the Persian Gulf War.
• 1991 - Forrest Towns dies (b. 1914). American hurdler.
• 1991 - Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over Merion, Pennsylvania.
• 1991 - Charles Goren dies (b. 1901). American bridge player, writer, and columnist.
• 1992 - Salgueiro Maia dies. Portuguese militar.
• 1993 - Portugal: No Hospital Distrital de Évora, dez hemodialisados morrem e um entra em coma como consequência do excesso de alumínio na água.
• 1992 - O escudo adere ao Sistema Monetário Europeu.
• 1993 - Dakoda Dowd was born. American golfer
• 1993 - Dieter Plage dies. German wildlife photographer
• 1993 - Pinky Lee dies. American children's television host
• 1993 - Alfred J. Billes dies (b. 1902). Canadian businessman (Canadian Tire)
• 1994 - Frank Wells was born (d. 1932). American entertainment businessman.
• 1994 - Morre Agostinho da Silva, um dos mais paradoxais pensadores portugueses do século XX.
• 1994 - Jérôme Lejeune dies. French medical geneticist
• 1995 - A woman, Linda Brighid, who was said to be a witch killed herself in a firy ritual involving rune stones.
• 1996 - Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is arrested at his Montana cabin.
• 1996 - An Air Force air transport carrying United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown crashes in Croatia, killing all 35 on-board.
• 1996 - Mullah Mohammed Omar Akhunzada, leader of the Taliban, was proclaimed by a loya jirga (assembly) of 1,000 Muslim clerics to be the "Amirul-Mumimeem," or Supreme Leader of the Muslims in Afghanistan.
• 1996 - Federal agents in Montana apprehended Theodore J. Kaczynski, an American terrorist known as the “Unabomber,” who had killed 3 persons and injured more than 20 with explosives sent through the U.S. postal system.
• 1996 - Ron Brown dies (b. 1941). U.S. Secretary of Commerce.
• 1996 - Carl Stokes dies (b. 1927). Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio.
• 1997 - Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
• 1998 - Mary Cartwright dies (b. 1900). English mathematician.
• 1999 - Lionel Bart dies (b. 1930). English composer (Oliver!).
• 2000 - Microsoft antitrust case: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
• 2000 - Terence McKenna dies (b. 1946). American writer and philosopher.
• 2001 - Nobrega e Sousa dies. Portuguese composer / Morreu o maestro e compositor português Nóbrega e Sousa.
• 2002 - Frank Tovey (aka Fad Gadget) dies (b. 1956). British singer and musician.
• 2003 - American troops of the 3rd Infantry Division capture Saddam Hussein international airport, located just 10 miles from the center of Baghdad, Iraq.
• 2004 - Mahavir Jayanti: Jain festival honoring Lord Mahavira on his birthday.
• 2004 - At least three suspects from the March 11, 2004 Madrid train bombings blow themselves up in the Madrid suburb Leganés when police officers try to arrest them. In addition to the suspects, one police officer is killed and 11 are injured
• 2004 - Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves with explosives.
• 2005 - Tony Croatto dies (b. 1940). Italian-born singer.
• Sizdah be dar (Outdoor thirteen). In Iran, people play jokes on each other on April 3, the thirteenth day of the Persian calendar new year (Norooz).