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Events on the 3rd of April in history

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03 Apr 0419 [Etalius] ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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03 Apr 0503 According to the Fasti Triumphales, Roman consul Publius Postumius Tubertus celebrated an ovation for a military victory over the Sabines.
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03 Apr 0686 Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul.
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03 Apr 0801 King Louis the Pious captures Barcelona from the Moors after a siege of several months.
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03 Apr 1043 Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
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03 Apr 1077 The first Parliament of Friuli is created.
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03 Apr 1312 2nd council of Vienna
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03 Apr 1376 Battle of Navarrete (Najera), English beat France
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03 Apr 1559 The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis treaty is signed, ending the Italian Wars.
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03 Apr 1582 French van Valois honored as Duke of Gelre / Earl of Zutphen
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03 Apr 1645 English parliament accept Self-Denying Ordinance
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03 Apr 1657 English Lord Protector Cromwell refuses crown
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03 Apr 1679 Edmund Halley meets Johannes Hevelius in Danzig
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03 Apr 1764 Austrian Archduke Jozef crowned himself Roman Catholic King
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03 Apr 1776 Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College
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03 Apr 1783 Sweden & US sign a treaty of Amity & Commerce
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03 Apr 1790 Revenue Marine Service (US Coast Guard), created
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03 Apr 1834 The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason.
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03 Apr 1848 Thomas Douglas becomes 1st SF public teacher
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03 Apr 1856 Gunpowder in church explodes killing 4,000 in Rhodos
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03 Apr 1860 Pony Express began between St. Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California
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03 Apr 1860 The first successful United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins.
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03 Apr 1864 Skirmish at Okolona, Arkansas
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03 Apr 1865 Battle at Namozine Church, Virginia (Appomattox Campaign)
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03 Apr 1865 Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond Va and Petersberg
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03 Apr 1865 American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
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03 Apr 1882 Wood block alarm invented, when alarm rang, it dropped 20 wood blocks
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03 Apr 1882 American Old West: Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford.
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03 Apr 1885 Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.
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03 Apr 1888 The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
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03 Apr 1889 Savings Bank of Order of True Reformers opens in Richmond, Virginia
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03 Apr 1893 1st NSW vs. Queensland F-C game, at Brisbane Exhibition Ground
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03 Apr 1895 The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
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03 Apr 1908 Frank Gotch wins world heavyweight wrestling championship in 2 hours
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03 Apr 1913 British suffragette Emily Pankhurst sentenced to 3 years in jail
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03 Apr 1917 Lenin leaves Switzerland for Petrograd
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03 Apr 1918 House of Reps accepts American Creed written by William Tyler
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03 Apr 1919 Austria expels all Habsburgers
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03 Apr 1922 Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party
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03 Apr 1922 Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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03 Apr 1923 2 "Black Sox" sue White Sox (unsuccessfully) for back salary
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03 Apr 1925 Great Britain goes back to gold standard
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03 Apr 1925 Netherlands and Belgium sign accord of Westerschelde
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03 Apr 1926 2nd flight of a liquid-fueled rocket by Robert Goddard
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03 Apr 1926 Italy establishes corp of force in order to break powerful unions
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03 Apr 1927 Interstate Commerce Comm transfers Ohio to Eastern time zone
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03 Apr 1929 Persia agrees to Litvinov Pact
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03 Apr 1929 RMS Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line.
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03 Apr 1930 Ras Tafari becomes Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
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03 Apr 1930 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in 2 games
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03 Apr 1933 1st airplane flight over Mt Everest
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03 Apr 1933 Then longest North American hockey game requires a 1:44:46 overtime as Maple Leaf Ken Doraty scores to beat Canadiens 1-0
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03 Apr 1933 First flight over Mount Everest, a British expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale, and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston.
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03 Apr 1935 Yasuo Ikenada runs world record marathon (2:26:44)
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03 Apr 1936 Al Carr KOs Lew Massey on 1 punch,: 07 of 1st round
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03 Apr 1936 Shortest boxing bout with gloves lasts only 10 seconds
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03 Apr 1936 Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
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03 Apr 1941 Churchill warns Stalin of German invasion
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03 Apr 1941 Rasjid al-Gailani forms pro-German regime in Iraq
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03 Apr 1941 Waltons overture "Scapino, " premieres in Chicago
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03 Apr 1942 World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.
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03 Apr 1943 Jan Dieters (leader of illegal CPN) arrested
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03 Apr 1944 British dive bombers attack battle cruiser Tirpitz
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03 Apr 1944 Supreme Court (Smith vs. Allwright) "white primaries" unconstitutional
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03 Apr 1945 Hengelo freed from Nazi control by Canadian army
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03 Apr 1945 US 1st army conquers Hofgeismar
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03 Apr 1946 Neth-German postal relations resume
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03 Apr 1946 Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
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03 Apr 1947 "Barefoot Boy with Cheek" opens at Martin Beck NYC for 108 performances
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03 Apr 1948 1st US figure skating championships held
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03 Apr 1948 Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries)
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03 Apr 1948 US female Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
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03 Apr 1948 US male Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
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03 Apr 1948 In Jeju Province, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses begins, known as the Jeju massacre.
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03 Apr 1948 United States President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
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03 Apr 1949 KQW-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KCBS
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03 Apr 1949 North Atlantic Treaty, pact signed by US, Britain, France and Canada
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03 Apr 1949 WLWS (now WCMH) TV channel 4 in Columbus, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
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03 Apr 1952 Dutch Queen Juliana speaks to US Congress
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03 Apr 1954 "Me & Juliet" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 358 performances
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03 Apr 1955 Baltimore Orioles pull their 1st triple play (3-6-2 vs. Kansas City Athletics)
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03 Apr 1955 Fire in cinema to Sclessin Belgium, kills 39
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03 Apr 1955 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Oklahoma City Golf Open
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03 Apr 1955 Night express train in Guadalajara derails, killing 300
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03 Apr 1955 The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.
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03 Apr 1956 "Silk Stockings" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 461 performances
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03 Apr 1956 Bulgarian Vice Premier Traitsjo Kostov rehabilitated
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03 Apr 1956 Hudsonville–Standale tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.
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03 Apr 1958 "Say, Darling" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 332 performances
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03 Apr 1961 "Happiest Girl in the World" opens at Martin Beck NYC for 97 performances
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03 Apr 1961 Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia is sold to J Schleifer Properties
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03 Apr 1961 The Leadbeater's possum is rediscovered in Australia after 72 years.
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03 Apr 1962 Jockey Eddie Arcaro retires after 31 years (24,092 races)
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03 Apr 1962 Lieutenant General Marshall S Carter, USA, becomes Deputy Director of CIA
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03 Apr 1964 Beatles hold top 6 spots on Sydney Australia record charts
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03 Apr 1965 1st atomic powered spacecraft (snap) launched
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03 Apr 1966 Luna 10 orbits Moon
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03 Apr 1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Venice Ladies Golf Open
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03 Apr 1966 Tom Seaver, signs with the Mets for a reported $50,000 bonus
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03 Apr 1967 113 East Europeans attending World Amateur hockey championships in Vienna, ask for political asylum
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03 Apr 1967 WNYE TV channel 25 in Brooklyn, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting
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03 Apr 1968 N Vietnam agrees to meet US reps to set up preliminary peace talks
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03 Apr 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech.
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03 Apr 1969 Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.
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03 Apr 1970 Miriam Hargrave of England passes her drivers test on 40th try
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03 Apr 1973 Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs, though it took ten years for the DynaTAC 8000X to become the first such phone to be commercially released.
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03 Apr 1974 148 tornadoes are reported over an area covering a dozen states
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03 Apr 1974 Gold hits record $197 an ounce in Paris
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03 Apr 1974 Tornadoes in the east, south and midwest killed approximately 315
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03 Apr 1974 The Super Outbreak occurs, the second biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history (after the April 25–28, 2011 tornado outbreak). The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.
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03 Apr 1975 Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend
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03 Apr 1975 James Rupers kills his family to inherit
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03 Apr 1975 Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.
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03 Apr 1976 Philadelphia Flyers win record tying 20th straight NHL home game
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03 Apr 1977 6th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Kathy Whitworth
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03 Apr 1977 Boston Bruin Jean Ratelle scores his 1,000th NHL point
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03 Apr 1977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat 1st meeting with President Jimmy Carter
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03 Apr 1977 Netherlands / Belgium / Luxembourg adopt summer time
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03 Apr 1978 50th Academy Awards - "Annie Hall, " Rich Dreyfuss and Diane Keaton win
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03 Apr 1978 European market and China signs trade agreement
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03 Apr 1978 Larry King moves his radio show from Miami to Washington DC
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03 Apr 1979 Jane M Byrne (D), elected 1st woman Mayor of Chicago, Illinois
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03 Apr 1981 The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.
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03 Apr 1982 Buffalo Sabre Gil Perrault scores his 1,000th NHL point
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03 Apr 1982 UN Security Council demanded Argentina withdraw from Falkland Islands
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03 Apr 1983 2nd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship: South California beats LA Tech 69-67
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03 Apr 1984 Bombay beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
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03 Apr 1984 Guinea suspends constitution after coup
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03 Apr 1984 Soyuz T-11 carries 3 Cosmonauts (1 Indian-Rakesh Sharma) to Salyut 7
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03 Apr 1985 French government adopts equal electoral system
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03 Apr 1985 Vic Elliot pocketed 15,780 pool balls in 24 hours in London
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03 Apr 1986 US national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000
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03 Apr 1987 Bill Elliott sets NASCAR qualify record of 212.809 mph at Talladega
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03 Apr 1988 17th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott
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03 Apr 1988 New Jersey Devils beat Blackhawks, 4-3 in OT to join playoffs for 1st time
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03 Apr 1988 Somalia and Ethiopia sign accord about Ogaden desert
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03 Apr 1989 "Sunrise" a Gannett newspaper begins publishing for Bronx
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03 Apr 1989 Mets win 11th consecutive home opener 8-4 over St. Louis at Shea Stadium
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03 Apr 1991 12th Emmy Sports Award presentation
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03 Apr 1991 Bo Jackson signs 1-year contract with Chicago White Sox
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03 Apr 1991 Thomas Bos skates world record 3 km (3:65.16)
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03 Apr 1991 UN Security Council adopts Gulf War truce resolution
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03 Apr 1992 1st exhibition game at Camden Field-Orioles beat the New York Mets
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03 Apr 1994 13th NCAA Women Basketball Championship: NC beats Louisiana Tech 60-59
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03 Apr 1994 1st roster of Silver Bullets (all-female pro baseball team) announced
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03 Apr 1994 6th Seniors Golf Tradition: Ray Floyd
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03 Apr 1995 Howard Stern gets in trouble for disparaging remarks about Selena
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03 Apr 1996 South Australia grab exciting draw vs. W A to win Sheffield Shield
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03 Apr 1996 St. Francis Fighting Saints scores college baseball run record 71-1
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03 Apr 1996 A United States Air Force airplane carrying United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown crashes in Croatia, killing all 35 on board.
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03 Apr 1996 Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his cabin in Montana, United States.
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03 Apr 1997 "Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical, " opens at Royale NYC for 109 performances
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03 Apr 1997 The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but one of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
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03 Apr 1998 World Ice Dance Figure Skating Championship in Minnesota
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03 Apr 2000 United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
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03 Apr 2004 Islamic terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.
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03 Apr 2007 Conventional-Train World Speed Record: A French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record.
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03 Apr 2008 Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS's YFZ Ranch. Eventually 533 women and children will be removed and taken into state custody.
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03 Apr 2008 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.
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03 Apr 2009 Jiverly Antares Wong opens fire at an American Civic Association immigration center in Binghamton, New York, killing thirteen and wounding four before committing suicide.
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03 Apr 2010 Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer.
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03 Apr 2013 More than 50 people die in floods resulting from record-breaking rainfall in La Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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