WikiRug:Selected anniversaries/April 3
This is a list of selected April 3 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Martin Cooper, demonstrating an old-style mobile phone
Oscar Wilde
One of a number of posters created to promote the Marshall Plan in Europe
George Marshall
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Bruno Hauptmann
Westbound Pony Express postmark
Seal of Edward the Confessor
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1936 – Richard Hauptmann was executed in the electric chair for the kidnapping and murder of the "Lindbergh baby". | lots of CN tags |
| 1948 – The Marshall Plan, an economic recovery program established by US Secretary of State George Marshall to assist the post-World War II re-building of Europe, was signed into law. | refimprove section |
| 1961 – An individual Leadbeater's possum, thought to have been extinct for over 50 years, was discovered in New South Wales, Australia. | lots of CN tags |
| 1966 – Luna 10 entered orbit around the Moon, becoming the first space probe to orbit an astronomical body other than Earth. | unreferenced |
| 1971 – The Japanese tokusatsu television series Kamen Rider premiered, the first property in a long-running media franchise. | refimprove sections |
| 1973 – On a New York City street, Motorola researcher Martin Cooper made the first public call on a handheld mobile phone. | Cooper: refimprove section; Phone: expansion, outdated |
| 1974 – The Super Outbreak of 148 tornadoes began, killing at least 315 people and injuring 5,484 in 13 US states at the end of a very strong La Niña event. | needs more footnotes |
| 2008 – Texas law enforcement authorities raided the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints' YFZ Ranch, eventually removing 533 women and children from the premises. | lead too short |
Eligible
- 1043 – Edward the Confessor was crowned King of England, the last king of the House of Wessex.
- 1888 – The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurred.
- 1922 – Joseph Stalin became the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1948 – An uprising began on Jeju Island, eventually leading to the deaths of between 14,000 and 30,000 individuals due to fighting between its various factions, and the violent suppression of the rebellion by the South Korean army.
- 1981 – The Osborne 1 (pictured), the first successful portable computer, was unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.
- 1996 – A U.S. Air Force CT-43 crashed into a mountainside while attempting an instrument approach to Dubrovnik Airport in Dubrovnik, Croatia, killing Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown and all the other 34 people on board.
- 2013 – The northeastern section of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, experienced several flash floods that claimed the lives of at least 100 people.
- Born/died: Mary Carpenter (b. 1807) · Ernst Chladni (d. 1827) · Thomas C. Kinkaid (b. 1888) · Tony Benn (b. 1925) · Pál Teleki (d. 1941) · Graham Greene (d. 1991)
Notes
- 1920 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak appears on March 28 and April 2, 2006 tornado outbreak appears on April 2 and 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak appears on April 5, so Super Outbreak should not appear in the same year
- 1559 – Henry II of France and Philip II of Spain signed a treaty to end the Italian War of 1551–1559.
- 1860 – The Pony Express, a mail service that became the most direct means of long distance communication to the American West, began operation.
- 1895 – The libel trial instigated by Irish author Oscar Wilde (pictured) began, eventually resulting in his arrest, trial and imprisonment on charges of gross indecency.
- 1946 – Imperial Japanese Army officer Masaharu Homma was executed for war crimes relating to the Bataan Death March.
- 2009 – A gunman opened fire at an American Civic Association immigration center in Binghamton, New York, U.S., killing thirteen and wounding four before committing suicide.
Al-Adil ibn al-Sallar (d. 1154) · Gus Grissom (b. 1926) · Mary Cartwright (d. 1998)