What are the important events that happened on April 3? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

April 3: Facts & Myths About This Day

April 3 is the 93^rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 272 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 21, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,743,638,400 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘enneacontatrigon’ day.

Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 320 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,486 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

April 3 Historical Events

• 1077 –
  The first Parliament of Friuli is created.
• 1834 –
  The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason.
• 1888 –
  The first of 11 unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
• 1946 –
  Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
• 1961 –
  The Leadbeater’s Possum is rediscovered in Australia after 72 years.
• 1975 –
  Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.
• 1981 –
  The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.
• 1996 –
  A United States Air Force airplane carrying United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown crashes in Croatia, killing all 35 on board.
• 1997 –
  The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
• 2000 –
  United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping “an oppressive thumb” on its competitors.

Who were born on April 3?

• 1367 –
  King Henry IV of England (d. 1413)
• 1905 –
  Robert Frederick Sink, United States Army Officer (d. 1965)
• 1920 –
  Yoshibayama Junnosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 43rd Yokozuna (d. 1977)
• 1928 –
  Don Gibson, American country musician (d. 2003)
• 1930 –
  Wally Moon, American baseball player
• 1944 –
  Tony Orlando, American musician
• 1948 –
  Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Dutch Politician and General Secretary of NATO
• 1952 –
  K. Krishnasamy, Indian politician and physician
• 1958 –
  Alec Baldwin, American actor
• 1975 –
  Aries Spears, American comedian

Who died on April 3?

• 1350 –
  Eudes IV, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1295)
• 1941 –
  Pál Teleki, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1879)
• 1941 –
  Tachiyama Mineemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 22nd Yokozuna (b. 1877)
• 1943 –
  Conrad Veidt, German actor (b. 1893)
• 1986 –
  Peter Pears, English tenor (b. 1910)
• 1988 –
  Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon) (b. 1907)
• 1991 –
  Graham Greene, English writer (b. 1904)
• 1995 –
  Alfred J. Billes, Canadian businessman (Canadian Tire) (b. 1902)
• 2003 –
  Michael Kelly, American journalist (b. 1957)
• 2004 –
  Gabriella Ferri, Italian singer (b. 1942)