History Events on April 03

The first Parliament of Friuli is created.

#Parliament

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

The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.

#American_Civil_Liberties_Union

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 becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

#Joseph_Stalin

Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS's YFZ Ranch. Eventually 533 women and children will be taken into state custody.

#Texas

Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.

#Gottlieb_Daimler

Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.

#Cold_War

The first successful United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins.

#Pony_Express

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 is crowned King of England.

#Edward_the_Confessor

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. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer.

#Apple_Inc.

YouTube headquarters shooting.

#YouTube_headquarters_shooting

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: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.

#Vietnam_War

Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul.

#Maya_civilization

The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.

#Osborne_1

Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.

#Martin_Cooper_(inventor)

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. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech. He was assassinated the next day.

#Martin_Luther_King_Jr.

World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.

#World_War_II

King Louis the Pious captures Barcelona from the Moors after a siege of several months.

#Louis_the_Pious

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

The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies.

#Panama_Papers

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

The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason.

#Greek_War_of_Independence

American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.

#American_Civil_War

A bomb explodes in the St Petersburg metro system, killing 14 and injuring several more people.

More than 50 people die in floods resulting from record-breaking rainfall in La Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Jiverly Antares Wong opens fire at the American Civic Association immigration center in Binghamton, New York, killing thirteen and wounding four before committing suicide.

Islamic terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.

United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.

Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his Montana cabin in the United States.

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.

US Congress restores a federal trust relationship with the 501 members of the Shvwits, Kanosh, Koosharem, and the Indian Peaks and Cedar City bands of the Paiute people of Utah.

Hudsonville-Standale tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.

Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.

Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.

The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.

American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James.

The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis treaty is signed, ending the Italian Wars.