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03 Apr 1312
2nd council of Vienna Knights Templars supressed
03 Apr 1559
Spain & France sign 2nd Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambrsis
03 Apr 1582
French van Valois honored as Duke of Gelre Earl of Zutphen
03 Apr 1645
English Long Parliament passes the Self-Denying Ordinance limiting regional armies significant step toward New Model Army
03 Apr 1764
Austrian Archduke Jozef crowned himself Holy Roman Emperor Josef II
03 Apr 1834
The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason.
03 Apr 1848
Thomas Douglas becomes 1st public teacher in San Francisco
03 Apr 1856
Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes badly damaged by gunpowder explosion kills 4000 on island of Rhodes
03 Apr 1860
Pony Express began between St Joseph Mo & Sacramento California
03 Apr 1865
Battle at Namozine Church Virginia (Appomattox Campaign)
03 Apr 1865
Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond & Petersberg Virginia
03 Apr 1868
A Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever - a 50-foot tidal wave
03 Apr 1882
Wood block alarm invented when alarm rang it dropped 20 wood blocks
03 Apr 1889
Savings Bank of Order of True Reformers opens in Richmond Virginia
03 Apr 1893
1st NSW v Queensland F-C game at Brisbane Exhibition Ground
03 Apr 1908
Frank Gotch wins world heavyweight wrestling championship in 2 hrs
03 Apr 1910
Highest mountain in North America Alaskas Mt McKinley claimed to have been 1st climbed by 4 local men
03 Apr 1911
Harry James Smiths Mrs Bumsted-Leigh premieres in NYC
03 Apr 1918
US House of Representatives accepts American Creed written by William Tyler
03 Apr 1923
2 Black Sox sue White Sox (unsuccessfully) for back salary
03 Apr 1925
Netherlands & Belgium sign accord of Westerschelde
03 Apr 1926
Italy establishes corp of force in order to break powerful unions
03 Apr 1927
Interstate Commerce Comm transfers Ohio to Eastern time zone
03 Apr 1929
RMS Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line.
03 Apr 1930
Stanley Cup Final Montreal Forum Montreal Quebec Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 4-3 for a 2-0 series sweep and their 3rd Championship
03 Apr 1933
Then longest North American hockey game requires a 14446 overtime as Maple Leaf Ken Doraty scores to beat Canadiens 1-0
03 Apr 1935
Yasuo Ikenada runs world record marathon (22644)
03 Apr 1936
Al Carr KOs Lew Massey on 1 punch 07 of 1st round
03 Apr 1936
Shortest boxing bout with gloves lasts only 10 seconds
03 Apr 1941
Rasjid al-Gailani forms pro-German regime in Iraq
03 Apr 1941
Waltons overture Scapino premieres in Chicago
03 Apr 1944
British dive bombers attack battle cruiser Tirpitz
03 Apr 1944
US Supreme Court (Smith v Allwright) white primaries unconstitutional
03 Apr 1945
Hengelo freed from Nazi control by Canadian army
03 Apr 1947
Barefoot Boy with Cheek opens at Martin Beck NYC for 108 performances
03 Apr 1948
US female Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
03 Apr 1949
KQW-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KCBS
03 Apr 1949
WLWS (now WCMH) TV channel 4 in Columbus OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
03 Apr 1951
Christopher Frys Sleep of Prisoners premieres in Oxford
03 Apr 1954
Me & Juliet closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 358 performances
03 Apr 1954
Don Perry climbs a 20 rope in under 2.8 seconds (AAU record)
03 Apr 1955
Baltimore Orioles pull their 1st triple play (3-6-2 vs KC Athletics)
03 Apr 1955
Night express train in Guadalajara derails killing 300
03 Apr 1956
Bulgarian vice premier Traitsjo Kostov rehabilitated
03 Apr 1956
German war criminals Hinrichsen Ruhl Siebens and Viebahn freed
03 Apr 1956
Hudsonville-Standale Tornado The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado
03 Apr 1958
Say Darling opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 332 performances
03 Apr 1961
Happiest Girl in the World opens at Martin Beck NYC for 97 performances
03 Apr 1961
Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia is sold to J Schleifer Properties
03 Apr 1962
American jockey Eddie Arcaro retires after 31 years (24092 races)
03 Apr 1962
Lt General Marshall S Carter USA becomes deputy director of CIA
03 Apr 1964
Beatles hold top 6 spots on Sydney Australia record charts
03 Apr 1964
US & Panama agree to resume diplomatic relations
03 Apr 1966
Soviet Luna 10 completes its first orbit of the Moon
03 Apr 1966
Tom Seaver signs with the Mets for a reported 50000 bonus
03 Apr 1967
WNYE TV channel 25 in Brooklyn NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
03 Apr 1967
113 East Europeans attending World Amateur hockey championships in Vienna ask for political asylum
03 Apr 1968
N Vietnam agrees to meet US reps to set up preliminary peace talks
03 Apr 1968
Planet of the Apes United States wide premiere
03 Apr 1969
Vietnam War U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start a policy of Vietnamization reducing American involvement
03 Apr 1970
Miriam Hargrave of England passes her drivers test on 40th attempt
03 Apr 1970
As part of a new get tough policy in Northern Ireland Ian Freeland of the British Army warned that those throwing petrol bombs could be shot dead
03 Apr 1971
125th Grand National John Cook aboard 281 chance Specify wins a close finish between the leading 5 in the final furlong
03 Apr 1971
16th Eurovision Song Contest Severine for Monaco wins singing Un banc un arbre une rue in Dublin
03 Apr 1971
The Temptations score their second US No. 1 with Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)
03 Apr 1973
1st mobile phone call is made in downtown Manhattan NYC by Motorola employee Martin Cooper to the Bell Labs headquarters in New Jersey
03 Apr 1974
The Super Outbreak 2nd largest tornado outbreak over 24hr period with 148 confirmed tornadoes in 13 US states killing approximately 315 people and injuring nearly 5500
03 Apr 1976
Philadelphia Flyers win record tying 20th straight NHL home game
03 Apr 1976
130th Grand National John Burke wins aboard Rag Trade equal record 4th winner trained by Fred Rimell and 2nd winner owned by Pierre Raymond Bessone
03 Apr 1976
21st Eurovision Song Contest Brotherhood of Man for United Kingdom wins singing Save Your Kisses for Me in The Hague
03 Apr 1977
Boston Bruin Jean Ratelle scores his 1000th NHL point
03 Apr 1977
Netherlands Belgium and Luxembourg adopt summer time
03 Apr 1982
Buffalo Sabre Gil Perrault scores his 1000th NHL point
03 Apr 1982
UN Security Council demanded Argentina withdraw from Falkland Islands
03 Apr 1982
136th Grand National 48 year old Dick Saunders wins aboard 71 favourite Grittar oldest jockey to win the event
03 Apr 1983
2nd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship USC beats Louisiana Tech 69-67
03 Apr 1983
Nabisco Dinah Shore Womens Golf Mission Hills CC In strong winds Amy Alcott wins by 2 strokes ahead of Kathy Whitworth and Beth Daniel first year tournament regarded as a major title
03 Apr 1984
Bombay beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
03 Apr 1984
Soyuz T-11 carries 3 cosmonauts (1 Indian-Rakesh Sharma) to Salyut 7
03 Apr 1985
French government adopts equal electoral system
03 Apr 1985
Players Association agrees to expand LCS from 5 to 7 games
03 Apr 1985
Vic Elliot pockets 15780 pool balls in 24 hours in London
03 Apr 1979
Jane M Byrne (D) elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago Illinois
03 Apr 1981
Arnie Boldt of Saskatchewan jumps 6 8.25 with 1 leg
03 Apr 1986
Maureen OBoyle (future host of A Current Affair) is raped
03 Apr 1987
Bill Elliott sets NASCAR qualify record of 212.809 mph at Talladega
03 Apr 1987
Cubs trade Dennis Eckersley to As for 3 minor leaguers
03 Apr 1987
Duchess of Windsors jewels auctioned for 31380197
03 Apr 1988
Nabisco Dinah Shore Womens Golf Mission Hills CC Amy Alcott wins the 2nd of her 3 DS events 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Colleen Walker
03 Apr 1988
7th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Louisiana Tech beats Auburn 56-54
03 Apr 1988
NJ Devils beat Blackhawks 4-3 in OT to join playoffs for 1st time
03 Apr 1988
Somalia & Ethiopia sign accord about Ogaden desert
03 Apr 1989
Sunrise a Gannett newspaper begins publishing for Bronx
03 Apr 1989
51st NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Michigan beats Seton Hall 80-79 (OT)
03 Apr 1989
Mets win 11th consecutive home opener 8-4 over St Louis at Shea Stad
03 Apr 1991
Penn & Teller - Refrigerator Tour opens at Eugene ONeill Theater NYC
03 Apr 1991
Bo Jackson signs 1-year contract with Chicago White Sox
03 Apr 1991
UN Security Council adopts Gulf War truce resolution
03 Apr 1992
1st exhibition game at Camden Field - Orioles beat NY Mets
03 Apr 1993
147th Grand National race declared void after 30 of 39 runners carried on racing despite a false start bookmakers forced to refund estimated 75 million in bets staked
03 Apr 1994
13th NCAA Women Basketball Championship North Carolina beats Louisiana Tech 60-59
03 Apr 1994
1st roster of Silver Bullets (all-female pro baseball team) announced
03 Apr 1995
57th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship UCLA Bruins beats Arkansas 89-78
03 Apr 1996
South Australia grab exciting draw vs W A to win Sheffield Shield
03 Apr 1996
St Francis Fighting Saints scores college baseball run record 71-1
03 Apr 1997
Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical opens at Royale NYC for 109 performance
03 Apr 1997
Thalit massacre begins in Algeria all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas
03 Apr 2000
62nd NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Michigan State beats Florida 89-76
03 Apr 2004
Islamic terrorists involved in the 11 March Madrid attacks are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves
03 Apr 2004
157th Grand National Graham Lee wins aboard Amberleigh House trainer Ginger McCains equal record 4th GN victory
03 Apr 2006
68th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Florida beats UCLA 73-57
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.
03 Apr 2007
26th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Tennessee beats Rutgers 59-46
03 Apr 2009
Australia formally adopts the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
03 Apr 2010
Matt Smiths first appearance as the 11th Doctor in BBC program Doctor Who during The Eleventh Hour episode
03 Apr 2011
Kraft Nabisco Championship Womens Golf Mission Hills CC Stacy Lewis shoots final round 69 to win her first major 3 strokes ahead of defending champion Yani Tseng
03 Apr 2012
Spanish unemployment reaches record high youth unemployment stands at 50%
03 Apr 2012
31st NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Baylor beats Notre Dame 80-61
03 Apr 2013
46 people are killed and 100 are injured by a court-house suicide bombing in Farah Afghanistan
03 Apr 2013
50 people are killed by flooding across Argentina
03 Apr 2013
24 people are killed after a bus plunges off a cliff in Papua New Guinea
03 Apr 2014
Marie Louise Coleiro Preca is elected President of Malta
03 Apr 2016
Panama Papers published - 11.5 million confidential documents from offshore law firm Mossack Fonseca expose widespread illegal activities including fraud kleptocracy tax evasion and the violation of international sanctions by the worlds elite in the worlds largest ever data leak
03 Apr 2016
ICC Womens Cricket T20 World Cup Eden Gardens Kolkata Hayley Matthews with 66 from 45 balls leads West Indies to 1492 beat Australia 1485 by 4 wickets with 2 balls to spare
03 Apr 2017
Bomb on St Petersburg metro kills 11 2nd bomb defused
03 Apr 1860
Pony Express began between St Joseph Missouri & Sacramento California
03 Apr 1945
World War II Dutch city of Hengelo freed from Nazi control by the Canadian Army
03 Apr 1983
2nd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship USC beats Louisiana Tech 69-67 Trojans forward Cheryl Miller tournament MOP
03 Apr 1988
7th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Louisiana Tech beats Auburn 56-54 Lady Techsters Erica Westbrooks MOP
03 Apr 1989
51st NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Michigan beats Seton Hall 80-79 (OT) Wolverines first title small forward Glen Rice named tournament MOP
03 Apr 1994
13th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship North Carolina beats Louisiana Tech 60-59 Tar Heels first NCAA title on 3-point shot by Charlotte Smith as time expires
03 Apr 1995
57th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship UCLA beats Arkansas 89-78 Bruins 11th national title
03 Apr 2000
62nd NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Michigan State beats Florida 89-76 Spartans only top-4 seed to advance to the Final Four
03 Apr 2006
68th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Florida beats UCLA 73-57 Gators first title center Joakim Noah named tournament Most Outstanding Player
03 Apr 2007
26th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Tennessee beats Rutgers 59-46 Volunteers 7th national title Candace Parker is named Most Outstanding Player
03 Apr 2011
WrestleMania XXVII Georgia Dome Atlanta GA (71617) Edge defeats Alberto Del Rio The Undertaker downs Triple H The Miz beats John Cena
03 Apr 2012
31st NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Baylor beats Notre Dame 80-61 Lady Bears second National title
03 Apr 2016
ANA Inspiration Womens Golf Mission Hills CC Lydia Ko of New Zealand wins by 1 from Charley Hull & Chun In-gee for her second major title
03 Apr 2016
WrestleMania XXXII AT&T Stadium Arlington TX (101763) Roman Reigns defeats Triple H The Undertaker beats Shane McMahon in Hell in a Cell
03 Apr 2017
79th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship North Carolina defeats Gonzaga 7165 Tar Heels point guard Joel DeWayne Berry II 22 points
03 Apr 2019
San Antonio coach Geg Popovich is ejected after an NBA record low 63 seconds in the Spurs 113-85 loss in Denver receives 2 technical fouls in a verbal confrontation with a referee
03 Apr 2019
Lori Lightfoot elected first female African American Mayor of Chicago
03 Apr 2019
Brunei brings into force new Sharia laws punishing gay sex and adultery with death by stoning prompting widespread condemnation
03 Apr 1312
2nd council of Vienna Knights Templars suppressed
03 Apr 1582
Francis of Valois Duke of Anjou honored as Duke of Gelre Earl of Zutphen
03 Apr 1968
Planet of the Apes starring Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowell premiers nationally in United States
03 Apr 1987
MLB Chicago Cubs trade Dennis Eckersley to Oakland As for 3 minor league players
03 Apr 2020
US aircraft carrier captain Brett Crozier cheered off his ship after being fired for a letter demanding more help for his sailors infected with COVID-19
03 Apr 2020
27 people swept off a ferry and feared dead in the Solomon Islands during Cyclone Harold
03 Apr 1944
British dive bombers attack German battleship Tirpitz at Kfjorden Norway
03 Apr 1947
Sidney Lippman and Sylvia Dees musical farce Barefoot Boy with Cheek opens at Martin Beck Theatre NYC runs for 108 performances
03 Apr 1954
Rodgers & Hammersteins musical Me and Juliet closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 358 performances
03 Apr 1955
Night express train in Guadalajara Mexico derails killing 300
03 Apr 1956
Bulgarian vice premier Traitsjo Kostov rehabilitated (executed 1949)
03 Apr 1958
Abe Burrows Richard and Marian Bissells comedy Say Darling opens at ANTA Theater NYC runs for 332 performances
03 Apr 1961
Jacques Offenbach and Yip Harburgs musical The Happiest Girl in the World starring Cyril Ritchard and Justine Rule opens at Martin Beck Theatre NYC runs for 97 performances
03 Apr 1997
Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical opens at Royale Theatre NYC runs for 109 performance
03 Apr 1954
Rodgers & Hammersteins musical Me and Juliet closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 358 performances
03 Apr 2016
ICC Mens Cricket T20 World Cup Kolkata West Indies beat England by 4 wickets with 2 balls remaining for their second title Player of the Series Indian batsman Virat Kohli (273 runs 1 wicket)
03 Apr 1982
Marco van Basten plays his first match for Ajax scoring a debut goal in a 5-0 victory over NEC
03 Apr 2007
Conventional train world speed record a French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets new official world speed record - 574.8 kmh (357 mph)
03 Apr 2018
Alex Puccio ascends Penrose Step V14 (8B) in Leavenworth USA
03 Apr 2022
Chevron Championship Womens Golf Mission Hills CC American Jennifer Kupcho wins her first LPGA tournament by 2 strokes over Jessica Korda
03 Apr 2022
The Taliban government bans cultivation of opium in Afghanistan with consequences for world supply as it produces 80% [1]
03 Apr 2023
NASA announces the four astronauts for 2024 Artemis II lunar mission around the Moon - Christina Hammock Koch Victor Glover Reid Wiseman and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen [1]
03 Apr 1964
The Beatles hold top 6 spots on the record chart in Sydney Australia
03 Apr 1978
European Market and China sign trade agreement
03 Apr 2024
7.4 magnitude earthquakes hits east coast of Taiwan south of Hualien killing at least 9 people and injuring 900 [1]
03 Apr 1645
English Long Parliament passes the Self-Denying Ordinance limiting regional armies a significant step toward the New Model Army
03 Apr 1783
Sweden and the US sign a Treaty of Amity and Commerce
03 Apr 1834
Theodoros Kolokotronis and Dimitris Plapoutas both military leaders in the Greek War of Independence are tried for high treason by the Bavarian Regency
03 Apr 1864
Skirmish at Okolona Arkansas between Confederate and Union armies
03 Apr 1865
Appomattox Campaign Battle of Namozine Church Virginia
03 Apr 1868
Hawaiian surfs on the highest wave ever a 50-foot wave
03 Apr 1893
First NSW vs Queensland first-class game at Brisbane Exhibition Ground
03 Apr 1919
Habsburg Law Austria dethrones the House of Habsburg-Lorraine
03 Apr 1923
Two Black Sox players unsuccessfully sue the White Sox for 400000 in damages and 6750 in back salary
03 Apr 1925
Netherlands and Belgium sign accord of Westerschelde
03 Apr 1926
Mussolinis Italy passes law to eliminate independent labor unions
03 Apr 1927
Interstate Commerce Commission transfers Ohio to Eastern time zone
03 Apr 1935
Yasuo Ikenada runs a world record marathon in 22644
03 Apr 1941
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani forms a pro-German regime in Iraq
03 Apr 1949
CBS purchases KQW-AM and changes call sign to KCBS
03 Apr 1949
WLWC-TV (now WCMH channel 4) in Columbus Ohio begins broadcasting (NBC)
03 Apr 1954
Don Perry climbs a 20-foot rope in a world record 2.8 seconds
03 Apr 1957
Soviet Union conducts atmospheric nuclear test
03 Apr 1962
Lieutenant General Marshall S. Carter is appointed deputy director of Central Intelligence
03 Apr 1963
NASA launches Explorer 17 and it reaches Earths orbit at an initial 254 km and then 914 km
03 Apr 1964
US and Panama agree to resume diplomatic relations
03 Apr 1965
First atomic-powered spacecraft SNAP-10A launches
03 Apr 1966
Soviet Unions Luna 10 becomes the first spacecraft to orbit the Moon
03 Apr 1967
WNYE TV channel 25 in Brooklyn New York (PBS) begins broadcasting
03 Apr 1968
North Vietnam agrees to meet with US representatives to set up preliminary peace talks
03 Apr 1973
First mobile phone call is made in downtown Manhattan NY by Motorola employee Martin Cooper to Bell Labs headquarters in New Jersey
03 Apr 1974
Price of gold hits record 197 an ounce in Paris
03 Apr 1977
Jean Ratelle of the Boston Bruins scores his 1000th NHL point
03 Apr 1982
Gil Perreault of the Buffalo Sabres scores his 1000th NHL point
03 Apr 1984
Bombay defeats Delhi on 1st innings to win the Ranji Trophy
03 Apr 1984
Military coup occurs in Guinea led by Colonel Lansana Cont
03 Apr 1984
Soviet Soyuz T-11 launches carrying three cosmonauts including the first Indian cosmonaut Rakesh Sharma
03 Apr 1985
French socialist government announces changes to the electoral system moving to proportional representation
03 Apr 1985
Players Association agrees to expand the League Championship Series from five to seven games
03 Apr 1988
New Jersey Devils defeat the Chicago Blackhawks 4-3 in overtime to join playoffs for the first time
03 Apr 1988
Somalia and Ethiopia sign an accord regarding the Ogaden Desert
03 Apr 1989
Gannett newspaper Sunrise begins publishing for Bronx
03 Apr 1989
New York Mets win their 11th consecutive home opener 8-4 over the St. Louis Cardinals at Shea Stadium
03 Apr 1991
UN Security Council adopts Resolution 687 to secure a Gulf War cease-fire
03 Apr 1992
Thomas Bos skates a world record in the 3000 m at 356.16
03 Apr 1994
First roster of Silver Bullets is announced an all-female professional baseball team
03 Apr 1996
St. Francis Fighting Saints score a college baseball run record of 71-1
03 Apr 2014
Tommy Lynn Sells is executed at Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville for the murder of nine-year-old Mary Perez he is thought to have committed 21 more murders
03 Apr 2016
Panama Papers are published - 11.5 million confidential documents from offshore law firm Mossack Fonseca expose widespread illegal activities including fraud kleptocracy tax evasion and the violation of international sanctions by the worlds elite in the largest data leak ever