YouTube headquarters shooting
2018
YouTube headquarters shooting: A 38-year-old gunwoman opens fire at YouTube Headquarters in San Bruno, California, injuring three people before committing suicide..
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Historical Events on April 3
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2017 Saint Petersburg Metro bombing
A bomb explodes in the St Petersburg metro system, killing 14 and injuring several more people.
2017
Panama Papers
The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies.
2016
2013 Argentina floods
More than 50 people die in floods resulting from record-breaking rainfall in La Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2013
Apple Inc.
Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer.
2010
2009 Binghamton shooting
2009
Jiverly Antares Wong opens fire at the American Civic Association immigration center in Binghamton, New York, killing thirteen and wounding four before committing suicide..
ATA Airlines
ATA Airlines, once one of the ten largest U.S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in five years and ceases all operations.
2008
Texas
Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS's YFZ Ranch. Eventually 533 women and children will be taken into state custody.
2008
TGV world speed record
Conventional-Train World Speed Record: A French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record of 574.8 km/h (159.6 m/s, 357.2 mph).
2007
Islamic terrorism
Islamic terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.
2004
United States v. Microsoft Corp.
2000
United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors..
Thalit massacre
The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but one of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
1997
Ted Kaczynski
Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his Montana cabin in the United States.
1996
United States Air Force
A United States Air Force Boeing T-43 crashes near Dubrovnik Airport in Croatia, killing 35, including Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown.
1996
Grand National
The outcome of the Grand National horse race is declared void for the first (and only) time.
1993
Supreme Court of the United States
1989
The US Supreme Court upholds the jurisdictional rights of tribal courts under the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 in Mississippi Choctaw Band v. Holyfield..
Osborne 1
The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.
1981
United States Congress
US Congress restores a federal trust relationship with the 501 members of the Shivwits, Kanosh, Koosharem, and the Indian Peaks and Cedar City bands of the Paiute people of Utah.
1980
Operation Babylift
Vietnam War: Operation Babylift, a mass evacuation of children in the closing stages of the war begins.
1975
Bobby Fischer
Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.
1975
1974 Super Outbreak
1974
The 1974 Super Outbreak occurs, the second largest tornado outbreak in recorded history (after the 2011 Super Outbreak). The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured..
Martin Cooper (inventor)
Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.
1973
Vietnam War
Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.
1969
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech; he was assassinated the next day.
1968
LAN-Chile Flight 621
LAN-Chile Flight 621 crashes in the Andes mountains, killing 21 people, including Argentinian football player Eliseo Mouriño.
1961
Tornado outbreak of April 2–3, 1956
1956
Hudsonville–Standale tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado..
American Civil Liberties Union
The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.
1955
Cold War
Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
1948
Jeju Province
In Jeju Province, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses known as the Jeju uprising begins.
1948
Lieutenant general
Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
1946
World War II
1942
World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula..
Richard Hauptmann
Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the infant son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
1936
Mount Everest
First flight over Mount Everest, the British Houston-Mount Everest Flight Expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston.
1933
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1922
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Attempts are made to carry out the failed assassination attempt on General Mannerheim, led by Aleksander Weckman by order of Eino Rahja, during the White Guard parade in Tampere, Finland.
1920
Boca Juniors
1905
Association football club Boca Juniors is founded in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Defamation
The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
1895
Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper: The first of 11 unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
1888
Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for a light, high-speed, four-stroke engine, which he uses seven months later to create the world's first motorcycle, the Daimler Reitwagen.
1885
American frontier
American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James.
1882
American Civil War
1865
American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America..
Pony Express
The first successful United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins.
1860
Mongkut
Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand after the death of his half-brother, Rama III.
1851
Robert Walpole
Robert Walpole becomes, in effect, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain, though he himself denied that title.
1721
Janissary
The janissaries revolt in response to the debasement of coins.
1589
Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis
1559
The second of two treaties making up the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis is signed, ending the Italian Wars..
Friuli
The Patriarchate of Friûl, the first Friulian state, is created.
1077
Edward the Confessor
Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
1043
Maya civilization
Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul.
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