April 3 in History

Historical Events on April 3

1865 American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.

1882 American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James.

1895 The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.

1942 World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.

1948 United States President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.

1968 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech.

1969 Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.

2004 Islamic terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.

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

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Famous Birthdays on April 3

1924 Marlon Brando

1925 Tony Benn

1964 Nigel Farage

1985 Leona Lewis

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Famous Deaths on April 3

1680 Shivaji

1882 Jesse James

1901 Richard D'Oyly Carte

2000 Terence McKenna

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