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April 3: Day of the Week
April 3, 2024 was the 94th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 272 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Wednesday.
If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is mercredi.
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Here’s the April calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
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.
April 3 Historical Event(s)
1043
Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
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.
1929
RMS Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line.
1942
World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.
1955
The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg’s book Howl against obscenity charges.
1969
Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to “Vietnamize” the war effort.
1973
Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs, though it took ten years for the DynaTAC 8000X to become the first such phone to be commercially released.
1981
The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.
2000
United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping “an oppressive thumb” on its competitors.
2004
Islamic terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.
Who were born on April 3?
1529
Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1581)
1806
Ivan Kireevsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher (d. 1856)
1823
George Horatio Derby, Early American humorist (d. 1861)
1885
Allan Dwan, Canadian-born American film director (d. 1981)
1946
Marisa Paredes, Spanish actress
1949
Lyle Alzado, American football player (d. 1992)
1951
Mel Schacher, American musician
1956
Miguel Bosé, Spanish musician and actor
1964
Bjarne Riis, Danish cyclist
1989
Israel Folau, Australian rules footballer
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Holy Toledo! Did you know that coffee and word games are an excellent combination to sharpen your vocabulary? Let’s give it a quick spin. Within 30 seconds, how many words can you think of from these letters KBVUOIHS? Check your answers here: Unscramble words KBVUOIHS. (Sponsored by WordFinder.Cafe)
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