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On April 3, 686: Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul.

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Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul.

The Maya civilization was a Mesoamerican civilization that existed from antiquity to the early modern period. It is known by its ancient temples and glyphs (script). The Maya script is the most sophisticated and highly developed writing system in the pre-Columbian Americas.

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Born on April 3

Chanel Harris-Tavita 1999– Samoa international rugby league footballer
Paris Jackson 1998– American model, actress and singer (born 1998)
Gabriel Jesus 1997– Brazilian footballer (born 1997)
Zhao Xintong 1997– Chinese snooker player (born 1997)
Mayo Hibi 1996– Japanese tennis player (born 1996)
Kodi Nikorima 1994– New Zealand international rugby league footballer
Dylann Roof 1994– American mass murderer (born 1994)
Pape Moussa Konaté 1993– Senegalese footballer (born 1993)
Simone Benedetti 1992– Italian professional footballer
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Yuliya Yefimova 1992– Russian swimmer (born 1992)
Hayley Kiyoko 1991– American singer and actress (born 1991)
Karim Ansarifard 1990– Iranian footballer (born 1990)
Madison Brengle 1990– American tennis player (born 1990)
Sotiris Ninis 1990– Greek footballer (born 1990)
Natasha Negovanlis 1990– Canadian actress and writer
Romain Alessandrini 1989– French footballer (born 1989)
Israel Folau 1989– Australian multi-code footballer
Joel Romelo 1989– Australian rugby league footballer

People

Died on April 3

Fred Curry American professional wrestler (1943–2026)
Theodore McCarrick American Catholic prelate (1930–2025)
Mick O'Dwyer Irish Gaelic football manager and player (1936–2025)
Bob Lanigan Australian rugby league footballer and coach (1942–2024)
Gaetano Pesce Italian architect (1939–2024)
June Brown English actress and author (1927–2022)
Stan Stephens Canadian-American politician (1929–2021)
Kishori Amonkar Indian classical singer (1931–2017)
Cesare Maldini Italian footballer (1932–2016)
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Joe Medicine Crow Native American writer and war chief (1913–2016)
Koji Wada Japanese singer (1974–2016)
Sarah Brady American gun-control advocate (1942–2015)
Bob Burns American drummer (1950–2015)
Shmuel Wosner Israeli Ashkenazi rabbi and posek
Régine Deforges French film director and writer
Fred Kida American cartoonist
Prince Michael of Prussia (born 1940) German writer (1940–2014)
Jovan Pavlović Serbian metropolitan (1936–2014)

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Every April 3 on record

  1. 686 Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul.

    Mesoamerican civilization (c. 2000 BC – 1697 AD)

    The Maya civilization was a Mesoamerican civilization that existed from antiquity to the early modern period. It is known by its ancient temples and glyphs (script). The Maya script is the most sophisticated and highly developed writing system in the pre-Columbian Americas.

  2. 956 Polyeuctus of Constantinople is elected as patriarch of Constantinople.

    Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 956 to 970

    Polyeuctus of Constantinople was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (956–970). His orthodox feast is on 5 February.

  3. 1043 Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.

    King of the English from 1042 to 1066

    Edward the Confessor was King of the English from 1042 until his death in 1066. He was the last reigning monarch of the House of Wessex.

  4. 1077 The Patriarchate of Friûl, the first Friulian state, is created.

    Historical region in northeast Italy

    Friuli is a historical region of northeast Italy. The region is marked by its separate regional and ethnic identity predominantly tied to the Friulians, who speak the Friulian language. e.

  5. 1559 The second of two treaties making up the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis is signed, ending the Italian Wars.

    Peace treaty that ended the Italian Wars

    The Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis in April 1559 ended the Italian Wars (1494–1559). It consisted of two separate treaties, one between England and France on 2 April, and another between France and Spain on 3 April. Although he was not a signatory, both were approved by Emperor Ferdinand I, since many of the territorial exchanges concerned states within the Holy Roman Empire.

  6. 1589 The janissaries revolt in response to the debasement of coins.
  7. 1721 Robert Walpole becomes, in effect, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain, though he himself denied that title.
  8. 1851 Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand after the death of his half-brother, Rama III.
  9. 1860 The first successful United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins.
  10. 1865 American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
  11. 1882 American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James.
  12. 1885 Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for a light, high-speed, four-stroke engine, which he uses seven months later to create the world's first motorcycle, the Daimler Reitwagen.
  13. 1888 Jack the Ripper: The first of 11 unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
  14. 1895 The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
  15. 1905 Association football club Boca Juniors is founded in Buenos Aires, Argentina
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  1. 1920 Attempts are made to carry out the failed assassination attempt on General Mannerheim, led by Aleksander Weckman by order of Eino Rahja, during the White Guard parade in Tampere, Finland.
  2. 1922 Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
  3. 1933 First flight over Mount Everest, the British Houston-Mount Everest Flight Expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston.
  4. 1936 Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the infant son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
  5. 1942 World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.
  6. 1946 Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
  7. 1948 Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
  8. 1948 In Jeju Province, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses known as the Jeju uprising begins.
  9. 1955 The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.
  10. 1956 Hudsonville–Standale tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.
  11. 1961 LAN-Chile Flight 621 crashes in the Andes mountains, killing 21 people, including Argentinian football player Eliseo Mouriño.
  12. 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech; he was assassinated the next day.
  13. 1969 Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.
  14. 1973 Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.
  15. 1974 The 1974 Super Outbreak occurs, the second largest tornado outbreak in recorded history (after the 2011 Super Outbreak). The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.

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