April 3 in history
Events on April 3
Notable events that happened on April 3 in past years.
- 2018
YouTube headquarters shooting: A 38-year-old gunwoman opens fire at YouTube Headquarters in San Bruno, California, injuring three people before committing suicide.
Wikipedia article: 2018 YouTube headquarters shooting - 2010
Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer.
Wikipedia article: Apple Inc. - 2008
Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS's YFZ Ranch. Eventually 533 women and children will be taken into state custody.
Wikipedia article: Texas - 1997
The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but one of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
Wikipedia article: Thalit massacre - 1993
The outcome of the Grand National horse race is declared void for the first (and only) time.
Wikipedia article: Grand National - 1975
Vietnam War: Operation Babylift, a mass evacuation of children in the closing stages of the war begins.
Wikipedia article: Operation Babylift - 1973
Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.
Wikipedia article: Martin Cooper (inventor) - 1956
Hudsonville–Standale tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.
Wikipedia article: Tornado outbreak of April 2–3, 1956 - 1948
In Jeju Province, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses known as the Jeju uprising begins.
Wikipedia article: Jeju Province - 1933
First flight over Mount Everest, the British Houston-Mount Everest Flight Expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston.
Wikipedia article: Mount Everest - 1905
Association football club Boca Juniors is founded in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Wikipedia article: Boca Juniors - 1882
American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James.
Wikipedia article: American frontier - 1851
Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand after the death of his half-brother, Rama III.
Wikipedia article: Mongkut - 1077
The Patriarchate of Friûl, the first Friulian state, is created.
- 686
Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul.
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