3 April
Notable Births
Chanel Harris-Tavita
b. 1999
Samoa international rugby league footballer
Paris Jackson
b. 1998
American model, actress, and singer (born 1998)
Gabriel Jesus
b. 1997
Brazilian footballer (born 1997)
Zhao Xintong
b. 1997
Chinese snooker player (born 1997)
Mayo Hibi
b. 1996
Japanese tennis player (born 1996)
Kodi Nikorima
b. 1994
New Zealand international rugby league footballer
Dylann Roof
b. 1994
American mass murderer (born 1994)
Moussa Konaté (footballer)
b. 1993
Senegalese footballer (born 1993)
Simone Benedetti
b. 1992
Italian professional footballer
Yuliya Yefimova
b. 1992
Russian swimmer
Hayley Kiyoko
b. 1991
American singer and actress (born 1991)
Karim Ansarifard
b. 1990
Iranian footballer (born 1990)
Madison Brengle
b. 1990
American tennis player (born 1990)
Sotiris Ninis
b. 1990
Greek footballer (born 1990)
Natasha Negovanlis
b. 1990
Canadian actress and writer
Eddie Murphy
b. 1961
American comedian, actor, and singer (born 1961)
Alec Baldwin
b. 1958
American actor (born 1958)
Jane Goodall
b. 1934
English zoologist (1934–2025)
Marlon Brando
b. 1924
American actor (1924–2004)
Doris Day
b. 1922
American actress and singer (1922–2019)
Notable Deaths
Theodore McCarrick
d. 2025
American Catholic prelate (1930–2025)
Mick O'Dwyer
d. 2025
Irish Gaelic football manager and player (1936–2025)
Gaetano Pesce
d. 2024
Italian architect (1939–2024)
June Brown
d. 2022
English actress (1927–2022)
Stan Stephens
d. 2021
Canadian-American politician (1929–2021)
Kishori Amonkar
d. 2017
Indian classical singer (1931–2017)
Cesare Maldini
d. 2016
Italian footballer (1932–2016)
Joe Medicine Crow
d. 2016
Native American writer and war chief (1913–2016)
Kōji Wada
d. 2016
Japanese singer (1974–2016)
Sarah Brady
d. 2015
American gun-control advocate (1942–2015)
Bob Burns (drummer)
d. 2015
American drummer (1950–2015)
Shmuel Wosner
d. 2015
Israeli Ashkenazi rabbi and posek
Régine Deforges
d. 2014
French film director and writer
Fred Kida
d. 2014
American cartoonist
Michael Prinz von Preussen
d. 2014
German writer (1940–2014)
Jovan Pavlović
d. 2014
Serbian metropolitan (1936–2014)
Mariví Bilbao
d. 2013
Spanish actress (1930–2013)
Graham Greene
d. 1991
British writer and playwright (1904–1991)
Johannes Brahms
d. 1897
German composer and pianist (1833–1897)
Jesse James
d. 1882
American outlaw (1847–1882)
On This Day in History
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2018
YouTube headquarters shooting: A 38-year-old gunwoman opens fire at YouTube Headquarters in San Bruno, California, injuring three people before committing suicide.
YouTube headquarters shooting
2017
A bomb explodes in the St Petersburg metro system, killing 14 and injuring several more people.
2017 Saint Petersburg Metro bombing
2016
The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies.
Panama Papers
2013
More than 50 people die in floods resulting from record-breaking rainfall in La Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2013 Argentina floods
2010
Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer.
Apple Inc.
2009
Jiverly Antares Wong opens fire at the American Civic Association immigration center in Binghamton, New York, killing thirteen and wounding four before committing suicide.
2009 Binghamton shooting
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.
ATA Airlines
2008
Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS's YFZ Ranch. Eventually 533 women and children will be taken into state custody.
Texas
2007
Conventional-Train World Speed Record: A French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record of 574.8 km/h (159.6 m/s, 357.2 mph).
TGV world speed record
2004
Islamic terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.
Islamic terrorism
2000
United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
United States v. Microsoft Corp.
1997
The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but one of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
Thalit massacre
1996
Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his Montana cabin in the United States.
Ted Kaczynski
1996
A United States Air Force Boeing T-43 crashes near Dubrovnik Airport in Croatia, killing 35, including Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown.
United States Air Force
1993
The outcome of the Grand National horse race is declared void for the first (and only) time.
Grand National
1989
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.
Supreme Court of the United States
1981
The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.
Osborne 1
1980
US Congress restores a federal trust relationship with the 501 members of the Shivwits, Kanosh, Koosharem, and the Indian Peaks and Cedar City bands of the Paiute people of Utah.
United States Congress
1975
Vietnam War: Operation Babylift, a mass evacuation of children in the closing stages of the war begins.
Operation Babylift
1975
Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.
Bobby Fischer