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03 April, 2007
An official new world record for conventional-train speed of 574.8 km/h (357.2 mph) is set by a French TGV on the LGV Est high speed line east of Paris.
03 April, 2004
Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.
03 April, 2000
United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
03 April, 1997
Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
03 April, 1996
Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is arrested at his Montana cabin.
03 April, 1996
A United States Air Force airplane carrying United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown crashes in Croatia, killing all 35 on board.
03 April, 1982
Great Britain dispatched a naval task force to the south Atlantic to reclaim the disputed Falkland Islands from Argentina.
03 April, 1975
Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.
03 April, 1974
The Super Outbreak occurs, the biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history. The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.
03 April, 1973
The first portable cell phone call is placed in New York City.
03 April, 1971
Japanese tokusatsu television series Kamen Rider premieres, marking the beginning of the long-running Kamen Rider franchise.
03 April, 1969
Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.
03 April, 1968
Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "Ive Been to the Mountaintop" speech.
03 April, 1956
The western part of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado (known as the Hudsonville-Standale Tornado).
03 April, 1955
The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsbergs book Howl against obscenity charges.
03 April, 1953
TV Guide debuts.
03 April, 1948
President Harry Truman signs the Marshall Plan which authorizes $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
03 April, 1948
In Jeju, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses begins, known as the Jeju massacre.
03 April, 1948
First run of the Texas Chief passenger train.
03 April, 1946
Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
03 April, 1942
World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.
03 April, 1936
Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh II, the baby son of world-famous pilot Charles Lindbergh.
03 April, 1933
Unsuccessful boycott of Jewish stores in Nazi Germany.
03 April, 1929
RMS Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line.
03 April, 1922
Joseph Stalin became the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
03 April, 1917
Vladimir Lenin arrives in Russia from exile, marking the beginning of Bolshevik leadership in the Russian Revolution.
03 April, 1895
The libel trial instigated by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
03 April, 1885
Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.
03 April, 1882
American Old West outlaw Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford for a $5,000 reward.
03 April, 1865
American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
03 April, 1860
The first successful Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California begins.
03 April, 1834
The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason.
03 April, 1559
The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis treaty is signed, ending the Italian Wars.
03 April, 1077
Creation of the first Parliament of Friuli.
03 April, 1043
Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.

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