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, 484,344 hours 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

• 33 –
  Generally agreed-upon date for the historical crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth, the central figure of Christianity.
• 1559 –
  The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis treaty is signed, ending the Italian Wars.
• 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.
• 1961 –
  The Leadbeater’s Possum is rediscovered in Australia after 72 years.
• 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.
• 1974 –
  The Super Outbreak occurs, the biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history. The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.
• 2004 –
  Islamic terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.
• 2007 –
  Conventional-Train World Speed Record: a French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record.
• 2008 –
  Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS’s YFZ Ranch. Eventually 533 women and children will be removed and taken into state custody.

Who were born on April 3?

• 1881 –
  Alcide De Gasperi, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1954)
• 1904 –
  Sally Rand, American burlesque dancer (d. 1979)
• 1921 –
  Jan Sterling, American actress (d. 2004)
• 1936 –
  Jimmy McGriff, American jazz organist (d. 2008)
• 1942 –
  Wayne Newton, American singer
• 1956 –
  Miguel Bosé, Spanish musician and actor
• 1967 –
  Mark Skaife, Australian racing driver
• 1968 –
  Jamie Hewlett, English illustrator
• 1983 –
  Ben Foster, English footballer
• 1985 –
  Jari-Matti Latvala, Finnish rally driver

Who died on April 3?

• 1606 –
  Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon, English politician (b. 1563)
• 1717 –
  Jacques Ozanam, French mathematician (b. 1640)
• 1838 –
  François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician (b. 1780)
• 1882 –
  Jesse James, American outlaw (b. 1847)
• 1941 –
  Tachiyama Mineemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 22nd Yokozuna (b. 1877)
• 1972 –
  Ferde Grofé, American composer (b. 1882)
• 1981 –
  Juan Trippe, Airline entrepreneur and pioneer, Pan Am founder (b. 1899)
• 1991 –
  Graham Greene, English writer (b. 1904)
• 1996 –
  Ron Brown, U.S. Secretary of Commerce (b. 1941)
• 2003 –
  Michael Kelly, American journalist (b. 1957)