{"id":4160,"date":"2019-04-03T10:32:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T05:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=4160"},"modified":"2019-06-07T15:16:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T09:46:21","slug":"history-of-3-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-3-april\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 3 April"},"content":{"rendered":"

History of 3 April<\/h2>\n

1922<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Joseph Stalin\u00a0becomes the first\u00a0General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

1933<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 First flight over\u00a0Mount Everest, by the British\u00a0Houston-Mount Everest Flight Expedition, led by the\u00a0Marquis of Clydesdale, and funded by\u00a0Lucy, Lady Houston.<\/p>\n

1936<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Bruno Richard Hauptmann\u00a0is executed for the kidnapping and death of\u00a0Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot\u00a0Charles Lindbergh.<\/p>\n

1942<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0World War II:\u00a0Japanese\u00a0forces begin an assault on the United States and\u00a0Filipino\u00a0troops on the\u00a0Bataan Peninsula.<\/p>\n

1946<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Japanese\u00a0Lt. General\u00a0Masaharu Homma\u00a0is executed in the Philippines for leading the\u00a0Bataan Death March.<\/p>\n

1948<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Cold War: U.S. President\u00a0Harry S. Truman\u00a0signs the\u00a0Marshall Plan, authorizing $5\u00a0billion in aid for 16 countries.<\/p>\n

1948<\/strong> \u2013 In\u00a0Jeju Province,\u00a0South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and\u00a0human rights abuses\u00a0begins, known as the\u00a0Jeju uprising.<\/p>\n

1955<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0American Civil Liberties Union\u00a0announces it will defend\u00a0Allen Ginsberg’s book\u00a0Howl<\/i>\u00a0against\u00a0obscenity\u00a0charges.<\/p>\n

1956<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Hudsonville\u2013Standale tornado: The western half of the\u00a0Lower Peninsula of Michigan\u00a0is struck by a deadly\u00a0F5\u00a0tornado.<\/p>\n

1967<\/strong> – The U.S. State Department said that Hanoi might be brainwashing American prisoners.<\/p>\n

1968<\/strong> – Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “mountaintop” speech just 24 hours before he was assassinated.<\/p>\n

1968<\/strong> – North Vietnam agreed to meet with U.S. representatives to set up preliminary peace talks.<\/p>\n

1972<\/strong> – Charlie Chaplin returned to the U.S. after a twenty-year absence.<\/p>\n

1979<\/strong> – Jane Byrne became the first female mayor in Chicago.<\/p>\n

1982<\/strong> – John Chancellor stepped down as anchor of the “The NBC Nightly News.” Roger Mudd and Tom Brokaw became the co-anchors of the show.<\/p>\n

1983<\/strong> – It was reported that Vietnamese occupation forces had overrun a key insurgent base in western Cambodia.<\/p>\n

1984<\/strong> – Sikh terrorists killed a member of the Indian Parliament in his home.<\/p>\n

1984<\/strong> – Col. Lansana Conte became the new president of Guinea when the armed forces seized power after the death of Sekou Toure.<\/p>\n

1985<\/strong> – The U.S. charged that Israel violated the Geneva Convention by deporting Shiite prisoners.<\/p>\n

1986<\/strong> – The U.S. national debt hit $2 trillion.<\/p>\n

1987<\/strong> – Riots disrupted mass during the Pope’s visit to Santiago, Chili.<\/p>\n

1993<\/strong> – The Norman Rockwell Museum opened in Stockbridge, MA.<\/p>\n

1996<\/strong> – An Air Force jetliner carrying Commerce Secretary Ron Brown crashed in Croatia, killing all 35 people aboard.<\/p>\n

1996<\/strong> – Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski was arrested. He pled guilty in January 1998 to five Unabomber attacks in exchange for a life sentence without a chance for parole.<\/p>\n

1998<\/strong> – The Dow Jones industrial average climbed above 9,000 for the first time.<\/p>\n

2000<\/strong> – A U.S. federal judge ruled that Microsoft had violated U.S. antitrust laws by keeping “an oppressive thumb” on its competitors. Microsoft said that they would appeal the ruling.<\/p>\n

2000<\/strong> – The Nasdaq set a one-day record when it lost 349.15 points to close at 4,233.68.<\/p>\n

2010<\/strong> – The first\u00a0Apple iPad\u00a0was released.<\/p>\n

2013<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 More than 50 people die in\u00a0floods\u00a0resulting from record-breaking rainfall in\u00a0La Plata\u00a0and\u00a0Buenos Aires,\u00a0Argentina.<\/p>\n

2016<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0Panama Papers, a\u00a0leak\u00a0of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488\u00a0offshore companies.<\/p>\n

2017<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A\u00a0bomb explodes\u00a0in the\u00a0St Petersburg\u00a0metro system, killing 14 and injuring several more people.<\/p>\n

2018<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0YouTube headquarters shooting.<\/p>\n

Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
    \n
  • 1981<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Aaron Bertram, American trumpet player<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0DeShawn Stevenson, American basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jared Allen, American football player<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Iain Fyfe, Australian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Cobie Smulders, Canadian actress<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ben Foster, English footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Stephen Weiss, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jonathan Blondel, Belgian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Maxi L\u00f3pez, the Argentinian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jari-Matti Latvala, Finnish race car driver<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Leona Lewis, English singer-songwriter and producer<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Amanda Bynes, American actress<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Stephanie Cox, American soccer player<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Annalisa Cucinotta, Italian cyclist<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Sergio S\u00e1nchez Ortega, Spanish footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Rachel Bloom, American actress, writer, and producer<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jay Bruce, American baseball player<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Yileen Gordon, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jason Kipnis, American baseball player<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Martyn Rooney, English sprinter<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Julie Sokolow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Kam Chancellor, American football player<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Brandon Graham, American football player<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Peter Hartley, English footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Tim Krul, Dutch footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Romain Alessandrini, French footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Israel Folau, Australian rugby player and footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Joel Romelo, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Thisara Perera, Sri Lankan cricketer<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Karim Ansarifard, Iranian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Madison Brengle, an American tennis player<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Sotiris Ninis, Greek footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Natasha Negovanlis, Canadian actress and singer<\/li>\n
  • 1991<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Stanislav Engovatov, Russian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1991<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Hayley Kiyoko, American actress, and singer<\/li>\n
  • 1992<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Simone Benedetti, Italian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Yuliya Yefimova, Russian swimmer<\/li>\n
  • 1993<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Pape Moussa Konat\u00e9, Senegalese footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1994<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Kodi Nikorima, New Zealand rugby league player<\/li>\n
  • 1996<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mayo Hibi, a Japanese tennis player<\/li>\n
  • 1997<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Gabriel Jesus, Brazilian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1998<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Paris Jackson, American actress, model, and singer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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