April 3 is the 93nd (94rd in leap years) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 272.
Railways
- 3 April 1922 Mustafa Kemal Pasha asked the General Directorate of Railways in Konya to replace Greek officials on Turkish railways with Turkish officials.
Events
- 1043 – Saint Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
- 1559 – Peace treaty signed, ending the Italian War.
- 1879 – Sofia is declared the capital of the Principality of Bulgaria.
- 1906 - The Lumière Brothers invented color photography.
- 1922 - Josef Stalin becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1930 – Women in Turkey were given the right to vote and be elected in municipal elections.
- 1937 – Turkey's Iron-Steel producer Karabük Iron and Steel Factory was laid in Karabük by the then Prime Minister İsmet İnönü, with the instruction of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
- 1948 - United States president Harry Truman signs the Marshall Plan, which includes economic aid.
- 1954 – A Turkish Airlines plane crashed in Adana, 25 people died. In the accident; Archaeologist, philosopher and politician Remzi Oğuz Arık also passed away at the age of 55.
- 1960 – The opera singer Leyla Gencer, who performed at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, La Traviata He had great success in his work.
- 1963 – May 27 was declared as Freedom and Constitution Day in Turkey.
- 1975 – İnönü University was founded in Malatya.
- 1975 – In Konya, a person named Kazım Ergün killed a family out of a blood feud. He was executed on September 12.
- 1981 – 1981 Kosovo protests suppressed, many injured or killed.
- 1986 - IBM introduced its first laptop computers.
- 1992 – Azize Dusser, who was appointed as the deputy to the District Governor of Ankara's Çankaya district, became the first female district governor of Turkey.
- 1996 - Theodore Kaczynski was captured.
- 2007 – In France, the high-speed train broke the world record by reaching a speed of 574,8 km per hour during the test run.
- 2010 - Apple launches the first series of tablet computers called iPads.
Births
- 1245 – III. Philippe, King of France (d. 1285)
- 1639 – Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (d. 1682)
- 1770 – Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek field marshal (d. 1843)
- 1783 – Washington Irving, American author, essayist, biographer, and historian (d. 1859)
- 1815 – Clotilde de Vaux, French poet and writer (d. 1846)
- 1881 – Alcide De Gasperi, Italian statesman, politician, and first Prime Minister of the Italian Republic (d. 1954)
- 1893 Leslie Howard, English actor (d. 1943)
- 1894 – Neva Gerber, American actress (d. 1974)
- 1914 – Marie-Madeleine Dienesch, French politician, ambassador (d. 1998)
- 1915 – İhsan Doğramacı, first President of Iraqi Turkmen YÖK, doctor and academic (d. 2010)
- 1918 – Mary Anderson, American actress, former figure skater (d. 2014)
- 1921 – Darío Moreno, Turkish-Jewish songwriter and singer (d. 1968)
- 1922 – Doris Day, American actress and producer (d. 2019)
- 1924 – Marlon Brando, American actor and winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor (d. 2004)
- 1927 – Fethi Naci, Turkish writer and critic (d. 2008)
- 1930 – Helmut Kohl, German politician and statesman (d. 2017)
- 1934 - Jane Goodall, English primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist
- 1935 – Ahmet Yüksel Özemre, first Turkish atomic engineer, academic and writer (d. 2008)
- 1948 – Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Dutch politician
- 1958 - Alec Baldwin, American actor
- 1961 – Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian
- 1962 – Sophie Moressée-Pichot, French fencer and modern pentathlete
- 1962 – Taner Yıldız, Turkish electrical engineer and politician
- 1963 – Criss Oliva, American musician (d. 1993)
- 1972 – Sandrine Testud, French tennis player
- 1978 – Ceynur, Turkish singer
- 1978 – Matthew Goode, English actor
- 1978 – Tommy Haas, German tennis player
- 1982 - Cobie Smulders, Canadian actor
- 1982 – Sofia Boutella, French dancer and actress
- 1982 – Fler, German singer
- 1984 – Maxi López, Argentine football player
- 1985 - Jari-Matti Latvala, Finnish World Rally Championship driver
- 1985 – Leona Lewis, English singer
- 1986 - Amanda Bynes, American actress
- 1987 – Park Jung Min, South Korean singer
- 1988 – Timothy Michael Krul, Dutch goalkeeper
- 1989 – Romain Alessandrini, French football player
- 1990 – Kerim Ensariferd, Iranian national football player
- 1990 – Sotiris Ninis, Greek national football player
- 1990 – Ken Samaras, (known as Nekfeu), French rapper and musician
- 1991 – Ibrahima Conte, Guinean national football player
- 1991 – Heirī Kiyoko, American actress, singer-songwriter, musician, and dancer
- 1992 – Simone Benedetti, Italian football player
- 1992 – Yulia Efimova, Russian swimmer
- 1993 – Konstantinos Triantafyllopoulos, Greek football player
- 1994 – Josip Radošević, Croatian national football player
- 1994 – Srbuhi Sargsyan, known as Srbuk, is an Armenian singer.
- 1995 – Adrien Rabiot, French football player
- 1996 - Naoki Nishibayashi, Japanese football player
- 1997 – Gabriel Jesus, Brazilian football player
- 1998 – Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson, an American model and actress
Deaths
- 1287 – Pope IV. Honorius, (b. 1210)
- 1582 – Takeda Katsiyori was a daimyō in the late Sengoku period (b. 1546)
- 1596 – Koca Sinan Pasha, Ottoman sultans III. Murad and III. He is an Ottoman statesman who served as grand vizier for a total of 5 years and 8 months, 5 times during the reign of Mehmed (b. 1520).
- 1617 – John Napier, Scottish mathematician, known as the inventor of logarithms (b. 1550)
- 1624 – Kemankeş Ali Pasha, Ottoman statesman
- 1680 – Shivahi Bhonsle, first Maratha Emperor (b. 1630)
- 1682 – Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish Baroque painter (b. 1618)
- 1827 – Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni, German physicist and musician (b. 1756)
- 1862 – James Clark Ross, British naval officer (b. 1800)
- 1868 – Franz Adolf Berwald, Swedish composer (b. 1796)
- 1882 Jesse James, American outlaw (b. 1847)
- 1897 – Johannes Brahms, German composer (b. 1833)
- 1943 – Conrad Veidt, German film actor (b. 1893)
- 1950 – Kurt Weill, German composer (b. 1900)
- 1954 – Remzi Oğuz Arık, Turkish archaeologist, writer and politician (b. 1899)
- 1956 – Erhard Raus, soldier in Nazi Germany (b. 1889)
- 1960 – Cafer Seydahmet Kirimer, Crimean Tatar and Turkish politician and statesman (b. 1889)
- 1971 – Joe Michael Valachi, American gangster (b. 1904)
- 1975 – Eileen Mary Ure, Scottish actress (b. 1933)
- 1982 – Warren Oates, American actor (b. 1928)
- 1990 – Sarah Vaughan, American jazz singer (b. 1924)
- 1991 – Graham Greene, English writer (b. 1904)
- 2000 – Terence McKenna, American author and philosopher (b. 1946)
- 2013 – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German screenwriter and novelist (b. 1927)
- 2014 – Régine Deforges, French writer and film director (b. 1935)
- 2015 – Robert Louis “Bob” Burns, Jr., first drummer and co-founder of the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd (b. 1950)
- 2015 – Kayahan, Turkish pop singer, composer and lyricist (b. 1949)
- 2015 – Shmuel HaLevi Wosner, Austrian-born Israeli priest and clergyman (b. 1913)
- 2016 – Cesare Maldini, Italian football player (b. 1932)
- 2016 – Zorana “Lola” Novaković was a Serbian singer. (b. 1935)
- 2017 – Renate Schroeter, German actress (b. 1939)
- 2018 – Lill-Babs, Swedish singer (b. 1934)
- 2020 – Henri Ecochard, II. French military officer who served in the Free French Forces during World War II (b.
- 2021 – Gloria Henry (born Gloria McEniry), American actress (b. 1923)
- 2021 – Carla Maria Zampatti, Italian-Australian fashion designer and businesswoman (b. 1942)
Holidays and special occasions
- Withdrawal of Russian and Armenian troops from the Çaldıran district of Van (1918)
- Withdrawal of Russian and Armenian troops from the Saray district of Van (1918)
- Karabuk's Anniversary (3 April 1937)
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