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The
3rd o Aprile
is the 93rd day o the year (94t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 272 days ti come.
Events
- 1043
- Coronation o
Edward the Confessor
as
Keeng
o
Ingland
.
- 1559
- The Peace o Cateau-Cambresis ends the
Spaingie
-
French
War.
- 1865
-
American Ceevil War
: Union troops captur Richmond,
Virginie
.
- 1882
- American outlaw
Jesse James
is shot deed.
- 1885
-
Gottlieb Daimler
gets a patent for his ingine design.
- 1905
-
Argentine
fitbaw club
Boca Juniors
is foondit bi Italian immigrants in
Buenos Aires
.
- 1908
-
H. H. Asquith
becomes
Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick
, succeedin Scot
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
, wha dees 19 days later.
- 1922
-
Joseph Stalin
becomes leader o the
Soviet Union
.
- 1926
-
Honduras
introduces the
Lempira
as its currency.
- 1941
-
Warld War II
:
Germany
an
Hungary
mairch intae
Yugoslavie
.
- 1944
- A mine splosion in Heessen,
Westphalie
,
Germany
, kills 169 miners.
- 1966
- The
Soviet Union
's Luna 10 probe enters intae orbit aroond the
Muin
.
- 1968
-
Martin Luther King Jr.
maks his last speech.
- 1973
- The fiirst-ever
mobile phone
call is placit bi Martin Cooper in
New York Ceety
.
- 1974
- 148
tornadoes
affect 13 states o the
Unitit States
an 1
Canadian
province, killin 315 fowk.
- 1975
-
Bobby Fischer
refuses tae play a chess match against
Anatoly Karpov
.
- 1992
-
Ramiz Alia
,
Albanie
's last Communist leader, demits.
- 2007
- A French TGV
train
sets a new speed record.
- 2013
- 50 fowk die in floods in
Buenos Aires
an
La Plata
,
Argentinae
.
- 2016
-
Panama Papers
: A leak o 11 million legal documents reveals information on 214,488 offshore
companies
.
- 2017
-
2017 Saunt Petersburg Metro bombin
: 14 fowk are kilt efter a bomb is detonatit on
Saunt Petersburg
's subway seestem.
- 2019
-
Brunei
introduces a penalty o daith bi stonin for
Gay sex
.
Births
]]
- 1761
-
George Douglas, 16t Yerl o Morton
, Scots peer (d.
1827
)
- 1783
-
Washington Irving
, American writer (d.
1859
)
- 1882
-
Alcide De Gasperi
, Italian statesman (d.
1954
)
- 1915
-
Piet de Jong
, umwhile
Prime meenister
o the
Netherlands
(d.
2016
)
- 1922
-
Doris Day
, American actress an sangster (d.
2019
)
- 1924
-
Marlon Brando
, American actor (d.
2004
)
- 1925
-
Tony Benn
, Inglis politeecian (d.
2014
)
- 1926
-
Gus Grissom
, American astronaut (d.
1967
)
- 1929
-
Poul Schluter
, umwhile
Prime meenister
o
Denmark
- 1930
-
Helmut Kohl
, umwhile Chancellor o
Germany
(d.
2017
)
- 1934
-
Jane Goodall
, Inglis primatologist
- 1943
-
John Hughes
, Scots fitbawer
- 1948
-
Carlos Salinas
, umwhile
Preses
o
Mexico
- 1958
-
Alec Baldwin
, American actor
- 1961
-
Eddie Murphy
, American actor
- 1964
-
Nigel Farage
, Inglis politeecian
- 1971
?
Picabo Street
, American skier
- 1972
-
Kenny Logan
, Scots rugby player
- 1978
-
Tommy Haas
, German-American tennis player
- 1980
-
Suella Braverman
, Inglis politeecian
- 1982
-
Cobie Smulders
, Canadian actress
- 1985
-
Leona Lewis
, Inglis sangster
- 1986
-
Amanda Bynes
, American actress
- 1989
-
James McArdle
, Scots fitbawer
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