3 Aprile

The **3rd o Aprile** is the 93rd day o the year (94t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 272 days ti come.

## Events

* 1043 - Coronation o Edward the Confessor as Keeng o Ingland.
* 1559 - The Peace o Cateau-Cambresis ends the Spaingie-French War.
* 1865 - American Ceevil War: Union troops captur Richmond, Virginie.
* 1882 - American outlaw Jesse James is shot deed.
* 1885 - Gottlieb Daimler gets a patent for his ingine design.
* 1905 - Argentine fitbaw club Boca Juniors is foondit bi Italian immigrants in Buenos Aires.
* 1908 - H. H. Asquith becomes Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick, succeedin Scot Henry Campbell-Bannerman, wha dees 19 days later.
* 1922 - Joseph Stalin becomes leader o the Soviet Union.
* 1926 - Honduras introduces the Lempira as its currency.
* 1941 - Warld War II: Germany an Hungary mairch intae Yugoslavie.
* 1944 - A mine splosion in Heessen, Westphalie, Germany, kills 169 miners.
* 1966 - The Soviet Union's Luna 10 probe enters intae orbit aroond the Muin.
* 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. maks his last speech.
* 1973 - The fiirst-ever mobile phone call is placit bi Martin Cooper in New York Ceety.
* 1974 - 148 tornadoes affect 13 states o the Unitit States an 1 Canadian province, killin 315 fowk.
* 1975 - Bobby Fischer refuses tae play a chess match against Anatoly Karpov.
* 1992 - Ramiz Alia, Albanie's last Communist leader, demits.
* 2007 - A French TGV train sets a new speed record.
* 2013 - 50 fowk die in floods in Buenos Aires an La Plata, Argentinae.
* 2016 - Panama Papers: A leak o 11 million legal documents reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies.
* 2017 - 2017 Saunt Petersburg Metro bombin: 14 fowk are kilt efter a bomb is detonatit on Saunt Petersburg's subway seestem.
* 2019 - Brunei introduces a penalty o daith bi stonin for Gay sex.

## Births

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* 1761 - George Douglas, 16t Yerl o Morton, Scots peer (d. 1827)
* 1783 - Washington Irving, American writer (d. 1859)
* 1882 - Alcide De Gasperi, Italian statesman (d. 1954)
* 1915 - Piet de Jong, umwhile Prime meenister o the Netherlands (d. 2016)
* 1922 - Doris Day, American actress an sangster (d. 2019)
* 1924 - Marlon Brando, American actor (d. 2004)
* 1925 - Tony Benn, Inglis politeecian (d. 2014)
* 1926 - Gus Grissom, American astronaut (d. 1967)
* 1929 - Poul Schlüter, umwhile Prime meenister o Denmark
* 1930 - Helmut Kohl, umwhile Chancellor o Germany (d. 2017)
* 1934 - Jane Goodall, Inglis primatologist
* 1943 - John Hughes, Scots fitbawer
* 1948 - Carlos Salinas, umwhile Preses o Mexico
* 1958 - Alec Baldwin, American actor
* 1961 - Eddie Murphy, American actor
* 1964 - Nigel Farage, Inglis politeecian
* 1971 – Picabo Street, American skier
* 1972 - Kenny Logan, Scots rugby player
* 1978 - Tommy Haas, German-American tennis player
* 1980 - Suella Braverman, Inglis politeecian
* 1982 - Cobie Smulders, Canadian actress
* 1985 - Leona Lewis, Inglis sangster
* 1986 - Amanda Bynes, American actress
* 1989 - James McArdle, Scots fitbawer

## Daiths
* 1287 - Pape Honorius IV (b. 1210)
* 1854 - John Wilson, Scots writer (b. 1785)
* 1862 - James Clark Ross, Breetish naval officer an splorer (b. 1800)
* 1882 - Jesse James, American outlaw (b. 1847)
* 1897 - Johannes Brahms, German componer (b. 1833)
* 1990 - Sarah Vaughan, American sangster (b. 1924)
* 1991 - Graham Greene, Inglis writer (b. 1904)
* 2013 - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-born writer (b. 1927)
* 2016 - Cesare Maldini, Italian fitbawer (b. 1932)

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