more events on April 3
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1984
Coach John Thompson of Georgetown University becomes the first African-American coach to win an NCAA basketball tournament.
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1972
Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States after a twenty-year absence.
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1966
Three-thousand South Vietnamese Army troops lead a protest against the Ky regime in Saigon.
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1948
President Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan. It will revive war-torn Europe.
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1944
The U.S. Supreme Court rules that black citizens are eligible to vote in all elections, including primaries.
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1942
The Japanese begin their all-out assault on the U.S. and Filipino troops at Bataan.
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1936
Bruno Hauptmann, killer of the Lindbergh baby, is executed.
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1934
Jane Goodall, British anthropologist, known for her work with African chimpanzees.
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1930
Helmut Kohl, chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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1924
Doris Von Kappelhoff [Doris Day], American singer and actress.
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Marlon Brando, actor (On the Waterfront, The Godfather).
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1920
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre are married at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City.
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1910
Alaska’s Mount McKinley, the highest mountain in North America is climbed.
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1898
Henry R. Luce, magazine publisher, founder of Time, Fortune and Life.
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1888
Gertrude Bridget “Ma” Rainey, American singer, “the mother of the blues.”
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1882
The American outlaw Jesse James is shot in the back and killed by his cousin, Bob Ford.
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1865
Union forces occupy the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.
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1862
Slavery is abolished in Washington, D.C.
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1860
The Pony Express connects St. Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California.
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1842
Hermann Karl Vogel, German astronomer.
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1837
John Burroughs, nature writer.
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1823
William Macy “Boss” Tweed, New York City political boss.
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1822
Edward Everett Hale, American clergyman and author (Man without a Country).
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1783
Washington Irving, American writer (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle).
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1559
Philip II of Spain and Henry II of France sign the peace of Cateau-Cambresis, ending a long series of wars between the Hapsburg and Valois dynasties.
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1367
John of Gaunt and Edward the Black Prince win the Battle of Najera, in Spain.
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628
In Persia, Kavadh sues for peace with the Byzantines.