What happened on April 3rd?
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| 1860 | The Pony Express service began as the first rider departed St. Joseph, Missouri. Learn more.. |
| 1865 | The Confederate capital of Richmond surrendered to Union forces after the withdrawal of General Robert E. Lee's troops. Learn more.. |
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| 1879 | Sofia, liberated from the Ottoman Empire by Russian troops, is named the capital of Bulgaria Learn more.. |
| 1882 | Jesse James is killed Learn more.. |
| 1885 | Gottlieb Daimler patents his so-called Grandfather Clock Engine, which is considered a milestone for the development of the automobile Learn more.. |
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| 1922 | American singer and actress Doris Day, whose performances made her a leading Hollywood star, is born in Cincinnati, Ohio Learn more.. |
| Joseph Stalin becomes secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Learn more.. | |
| 1924 | American stage and motion-picture actor Marlon Brando is born in Omaha, Nebraska Learn more.. |
| 1929 | Fazlur R. Khan, designer of the 110-story Willis Tower (originally Sears Tower) in Chicago, is born in Dhaka, India (now Bangladesh) Learn more.. |
| 1930 | Helmut Kohl, who served as chancellor of Germany during reunification, is born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany Learn more.. |
| 1940 | The Katyn massacre of 22,000 Polish nationals takes place - it is considered the worst massacre of prisoners of war in history Learn more.. |
| 1944 | The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 that African Americans can not be barred from voting in the Texas Democratic primaries. Learn more.. |
| 1946 | The Japanese army general Homma Masaharu is executed for forcing the Bataan Death March Learn more.. |
| 1948 | The European Recovery Program, better known as the Marshall Plan, was created. Learn more.. |
| 1954 | Oxford wins the 100th Boat Race in rough conditions on the River Thames Learn more.. |
| 1961 | American comedian and actor Eddie Murphy is born in Brooklyn, New York Learn more.. |
| 1968 | At an event for the Memphis sanitation workers strike, Martin Luther King, Jr., delivers his Mountaintop Speech - the following day he is assassinated Learn more.. |
| Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey is released Learn more.. | |
| 1973 | The first call made on a portable cellular phone by Motorola engineer Martin Cooper while walking down Sixth Avenue in New York Learn more.. |
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| 1987 | The Duchess of Windsor's jewellery is sold for £31m - six times the expected figure Learn more.. |
| 1991 | Graham Greene, English author, playwright and critic, dies in Switzerland aged 86 Learn more.. |
| 1996 | Federal agents in Montana apprehended Ted Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber (University and Airline Bomber) Learn more.. |
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| 2008 | The Jules Verne successfully docks at the International Space Station Learn more.. |
| The barricades on Ledra Street in Nicosia, Cyprus, that have divided the city's Greek and Turkish areas for 44 years are pulled down Learn more.. | |
| 2016 | The "Panama Papers" are made public revealing how wealthy clients concealed their money and avoided paying taxes Learn more.. |
| 2025 | Today |
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