April 3, 2000 62nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at RCA Dome Indianapolis
April 3, 1998 World Ice Dance Figure Skating Championship in Minnesota
April 3, 1997 "Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical," opens at Royale New York City for 109 performance
April 3, 1996 South Australia grab exciting draw vs W A to win Sheffield Shield
April 3, 1996 St. Francis Fighting Saints scores college baseball run record 71-1
April 3, 1995 57th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: UCLA Bruins beats Arkansas 89-78
April 3, 1995 Howard Stern gets in trouble for disparaging remarks about Selena
April 3, 1994 13th NCAA Women Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Louisiana Tech 60-59
April 3, 1994 1st roster of Silver Bullets, all-female pro baseball team, announced
April 3, 1994 6th Seniors Golf Tradition: Ray Floyd
April 3, 1991 12th Emmy Sports Award presentation
April 3, 1991 Bo Jackson signs 1-year contract with Chicago White Sox
April 3, 1991 Thomas Bos skates world record 3 km (3:65.16)
April 3, 1991 U.N. Security Council adopts Gulf War truce resolution
April 3, 1989 "Sunrise" a Gannett newspaper begins publishing for Bronx
April 3, 1989 51st NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: Mich beats Seton Hall 80-79 (OT)
April 3, 1988 New Jersey Devils beat Blackhawks, 4-3 in OT to join playoffs for 1st time
April 3, 1988 Somalia and Ethiopia sign accord about Ogaden desert
April 3, 1988 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
April 3, 1987 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
April 3, 1986 U.S. national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000
April 3, 1985 French government adopts equal electoral system
April 3, 1985 Players' Association agrees to expand LCS from 5 to 7 games
April 3, 1985 Vic Elliot pocketed 15,780 pool balls in 24 hours in London
April 3, 1984 Bombay beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
April 3, 1984 Guinea suspends constitution after coup
April 3, 1984 Soyuz T-11 carries 3 cosmonauts (1 Indian-Rakesh Sharma) to Salyut 7
April 3, 1983 12th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott
April 3, 1983 2nd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship: South California beats LA Tech 69-67
April 3, 1981 Arnie Boldt of Saskatchewan jumped 6' 8.25," with 1 leg
April 3, 1981 Race riots in London's Brixton area
April 3, 1980 France performs nuclear test
April 3, 1980 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
April 3, 1979 Belgium's Martens government forms
April 3, 1979 Jane Byrne, elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago, Illinois
April 3, 1978 50th Academy Awards - "Annie Hall," Rich Dreyfuss and Diane Keaton win
April 3, 1978 European market and China signs trade agreement
April 3, 1978 Larry King moves his radio show from Miami to Washington D.C.
April 3, 1977 Netherlands/Belgium/Luxembourg adopt summer time
April 3, 1976 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
April 3, 1976 Philadelphia Flyers win record tying 20th straight NHL home game
April 3, 1975 Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend it
April 3, 1975 James Rupers kills his family to inherit
April 3, 1974 148 tornadoes are reported over an area covering a dozen states
April 3, 1974 Gold hits record $197 an ounce in Paris
April 3, 1970 Miriam Hargrave of England passes her drivers test on 40th try
April 3, 1967 113 East Europeans attending World Amateur hockey championships in Vienna, ask for political asylum
April 3, 1966 Luna 10 orbits Moon
April 3, 1965 1st atomic powered spacecraft launched
April 3, 1964 Beatles hold top 6 spots on Sydney Australia record charts
April 3, 1964 U.S. and Panama agree to resume diplomatic relations
April 3, 1962 Jockey Eddie Arcaro retires after 31 years (24,092 races)
April 3, 1962 Lt General Marshall S Carter, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA
April 3, 1961 "Happiest Girl in the World" opens at Martin Beck New York City for 97 performances
April 3, 1958 Fidel Castro's rebels attacked Havana
April 3, 1957 Samuel Beckett's "Endgame," premieres in London
April 3, 1957 U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test
April 3, 1956 "Silk Stockings" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 461 performances
April 3, 1955 Fire in cinema to Sclessin Belgium, kills 39
April 3, 1955 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Oklahoma City Golf Open
April 3, 1955 Night express train in Guadalajara derails, killing 300
April 3, 1954 "Me and Juliet" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 358 performances
April 3, 1954 Don Perry climbs a 20' rope in under 2.8 seconds (AAU record)
April 3, 1952 Dutch Queen Juliana speaks to U.S. Congress
April 3, 1951 Christopher Fry's "Sleep of Prisoners," premieres in Oxford
April 3, 1949 KQW-AM in San Francisco, California changes call letters to KCBS
April 3, 1948 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
April 3, 1947 "Barefoot Boy with Cheek" opens at Martin Beck New York City for 108 performances
April 3, 1945 Hengelo freed from nazi control by Canadian army
April 3, 1945 Nazi's begin evacuation of camp Buchenwald
April 3, 1943 Jan Dieters (leader of illegal CPN) arrested
April 3, 1941 Churchill warns Stalin of German invasion
April 3, 1941 Rasjid al-Gailani forms pro-German regime in Iraq
April 3, 1941 Waltons overture "Scapino," premieres in Chicago
April 3, 1936 Al Carr KOs Lew Massey on 1 punch, :07 of 1st round
April 3, 1936 Shortest boxing bout with gloves lasts only 10 seconds
April 3, 1935 Yasuo Ikenada runs world record marathon (2:26:44)
April 3, 1933 1st airplane flight over Mt. Everest
April 3, 1930 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in 2 games
April 3, 1929 Persia agrees to Litvinov Pact
April 3, 1927 Interstate Commerce Commission transfers Ohio to Eastern time zone
April 3, 1926 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 7th Symphony in C
April 3, 1922 Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party
April 3, 1919 Austria expels all Habsburgers
April 3, 1918 House of Representatives accepts American Creed written by William Tyler
April 3, 1917 Lenin leaves Switzerland for Petrograd
April 3, 1913 British suffragette Emily Pankhurst sentenced to 3 years in jail
April 3, 1911 Harry James Smith' "Mrs. Bumsted-Leigh," premieres in New York City
April 3, 1910 Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mt McKinley climbed
April 3, 1908 Frank Gotch wins world heavyweight wrestling championship in 2 hrs