SomeFacts | April 3

On this day - April 3

686 — Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the ...

1043 — Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.

1077 — The Patriarchate of Friûl, the first Friulian state, is ...

1559 — The second of two treaties making up the Peace of ...

1589 — The janissaries revolt in response to the debasement of coins.

1721 — Robert Walpole becomes, in effect, the first Prime Minister of ...

1851 — Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand after the death of his ...

1860 — The first successful United States Pony Express run from St. ...

1865 — American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, ...

1882 — American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James.

1885 — Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for a light, ...

1888 — Jack the Ripper: The first of 11 unsolved brutal murders of ...

1895 — The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, ...

1905 — Association football club Boca Juniors is founded in Buenos ...

1920 — Attempts are made to carry out the failed assassination ...

1922 — Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the ...

1933 — First flight over Mount Everest, the British Houston-Mount ...

1936 — Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and ...

1942 — World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United ...

1946 — Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the ...

1948 — In Jeju Province, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of ...

1948 — Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall ...

1955 — The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend ...

1956 — Hudsonville–Standale tornado: The western half of the Lower ...

1961 — LAN-Chile Flight 621 crashes in the Andes mountains, killing ...

1968 — Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to ...

1969 — Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird ...

1973 — Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile ...

1974 — The 1974 Super Outbreak occurs, the second largest tornado ...

1975 — Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly ...

1975 — Vietnam War: Operation Babylift, a mass evacuation of children ...

1980 — US Congress restores a federal trust relationship with the 501 ...

1981 — The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is ...

1989 — The US Supreme Court upholds the jurisdictional rights of ...

1993 — The outcome of the Grand National horse race is declared void ...

1996 — A United States Air Force Boeing T-43 crashes near Dubrovnik ...

1996 — Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured ...

1997 — The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but one of the 53 ...

2000 — United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have ...

2004 — Islamic terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings ...

2007 — Conventional-Train World Speed Record: A French TGV train on ...

2008 — Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS's YFZ Ranch. ...

2008 — ATA Airlines, once one of the ten largest U.S. passenger ...

2009 — Jiverly Antares Wong opens fire at the American Civic ...

2010 — Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet ...

2013 — More than 50 people die in floods resulting from ...

2016 — The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals ...

2017 — A bomb explodes in the St Petersburg metro system, killing 14 ...

2018 — YouTube headquarters shooting: A 38-year-old gunwoman opens ...