History Events on April 03
![Parliament](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_03%2Ffilter0YDGcFti5UTMmaLfGq86.jpg?generation=1608818798156078&alt=media)
The first Parliament of Friuli is created.
#Parliament
![Whitechapel murders](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_03%2Ffilter3Ya8yDIDmtHFTJCyxPpv.jpg?generation=1608818798546832&alt=media)
The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
#Whitechapel_murders
![American Civil Liberties Union](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_03%2Ffilter40PzpSeK5DGItJqfs6DO.png?generation=1608818799004010&alt=media)
The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.
#American_Civil_Liberties_Union
![Jeju Province](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_03%2Ffilter42qyRxPzTvwidy6vBxRu.png?generation=1608818799768664&alt=media)
In Jeju Province, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses begins, known as the Jeju uprising.
#Jeju_Province
![Joseph Stalin](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_03%2Ffilter4tRg8FAU9OJWqcnIAW0k.jpg?generation=1608818800177068&alt=media)
Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
#Joseph_Stalin
![Texas](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_03%2Ffilter5FMg8CibdPWcGTsD5AdV.png?generation=1608818800533825&alt=media)
Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS's YFZ Ranch. Eventually 533 women and children will be taken into state custody.
#Texas
![Gottlieb Daimler](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_03%2Ffilter6a0bdIbIA2yoqbMhAqD6.jpg?generation=1608818800921474&alt=media)
Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.
#Gottlieb_Daimler
![Cold War](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_03%2FfilterA2wbk03DVXxaqnLEjhjx.png?generation=1608818801692126&alt=media)
Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
#Cold_War
![Pony Express](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_03%2FfilterCBmjWjYXNORZExr3n3MJ.jpg?generation=1608818802061581&alt=media)
The first successful United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins.
#Pony_Express
![ATA Airlines](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_03%2FfilterEOH7wL83YF4GvEJvmYQr.png?generation=1608818803424849&alt=media)
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.
#ATA_Airlines
![Edward the Confessor](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_03%2FfilterIxGVrXVycHB2AZ14Gr5J.jpg?generation=1608818803840494&alt=media)
Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
#Edward_the_Confessor
![Mount Everest](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_03%2FfilterJ3gvuCsNFB4jJILC7610.jpg?generation=1608818804230828&alt=media)
First flight over Mount Everest, by the British Houston-Mount Everest Flight Expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale, and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston.
#Mount_Everest
![Apple Inc.](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_03%2FfilterJbp2jz5I5FUAFMs0qpDz.jpg?generation=1608818804647500&alt=media)
Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer.
#Apple_Inc.
![YouTube headquarters shooting](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_03%2FfilterKkDtDPEi05EOcIhE48ey.jpg?generation=1608818805075932&alt=media)
YouTube headquarters shooting.
#YouTube_headquarters_shooting
![Bobby Fischer](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_03%2FfilterLujxrNDyhGorau2x239u.jpg?generation=1608818805449191&alt=media)
Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.
#Bobby_Fischer
![Vietnam War](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_03%2FfilterMXl5FXwcf1YpeREOWD9N.png?generation=1608818806212667&alt=media)
Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.
#Vietnam_War
![Maya civilization](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_03%2FfilterOybmXC8QWgEWuSwfYsQx.jpg?generation=1608818806621726&alt=media)
Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul.
#Maya_civilization
![Osborne 1](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_03%2FfilterSMaeR8WJUHS4ZhH3N50K.jpg?generation=1608818807007955&alt=media)
The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.
#Osborne_1
![Martin Cooper (inventor)](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_03%2FfilterSga45w7weNQeCGqH8aPU.jpg?generation=1608818807438186&alt=media)
Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.
#Martin_Cooper_(inventor)
![Thalit massacre](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_03%2FfilterU3QKP1H9VY88g2aI0sbr.png?generation=1608818808222426&alt=media)
The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but one of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
#Thalit_massacre
![Martin Luther King Jr.](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_03%2FfilterdNcmSkNelBLtRFVAWzOg.jpg?generation=1608818808607641&alt=media)
Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech. He was assassinated the next day.
#Martin_Luther_King_Jr.
![World War II](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_03%2Ffilterf9xhq0UiyHZ4zUTD3OhZ.jpg?generation=1608818809028163&alt=media)
World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.
#World_War_II
![Louis the Pious](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_03%2FfilterisqhUR94ahwH1KRnZkBI.jpg?generation=1608818809443801&alt=media)
King Louis the Pious captures Barcelona from the Moors after a siege of several months.
#Louis_the_Pious
![TGV world speed record](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_03%2FfilterjDek56ia55wqZ9l25bkc.png?generation=1608818810210364&alt=media)
Conventional-Train World Speed Record: A French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record.
#TGV_world_speed_record
![Panama Papers](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_03%2FfiltermQiARyqz1o48ubkbmsv7.png?generation=1608818810995025&alt=media)
The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies.
#Panama_Papers
![1974 Super Outbreak](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_03%2Ffiltern7FeM0GyTEqBOE4Ij3af.jpg?generation=1608818811406459&alt=media)
The 1974 Super Outbreak occurs, the second biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history (after the 2011 Super Outbreak). The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.
#1974_Super_Outbreak
![Greek War of Independence](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_03%2FfilterqxlJGY8Va8jM8qpGeeBm.jpg?generation=1608818811811510&alt=media)
The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason.
#Greek_War_of_Independence
![American Civil War](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_03%2FfilteryJ30RbhpfzyqzD0y7ytW.png?generation=1608818812619894&alt=media)
American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
#American_Civil_War