France High Speed Train TGV Breaks World Record by Reaching Km Line — French High Speed Train TGV Sets a World Record by Reaching 574,8 Km Speed

April 3 is the 93st day of the year (94nd in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 272 days remaining until the end of the year.

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.
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.

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 died 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.
2010 - Apple launches the first series of tablet computers called iPads.

Births

1245 – III. Philippe, King of France (d. 1285)
1395 – Georgios Trapezuntios, Greek philosopher, scholar, and humanist (d. 1486)
1639 – Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (d. 1682)
1643 – Charles V, fifth Duke of Lorraine (d. 1690)
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)
1883 – Ikki Kita, Japanese author, intellectual, and political philosopher (d. 1937)
1885 – Jack Philby, English traveler, author, intelligence officer, orientalist, explorer, and politician (d. 1960)
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)
1942 – Marsha Mason, American actress and director
1942 – Wayne Newton, American singer, musician, performer, and actor
1944 - Peter Colman is head of the structural biology division at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Australia
1946 – Hanna Suchocka, a Polish political figure, lawyer
1948 - Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Mexican economist
1948 – Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Dutch politician
1948 - Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck, German former football player
1949 – Richard Thompson, English composer, musician
1956 – Miguel Bosé, Spanish-Italian singer and actor
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)
1964 – Nigel Farage, British politician
1967 – Pervis Ellison is an American professional NBA basketball player.
1968 - Sebastian Bach is a Canadian singer and songwriter.
1969 Lance Storm, Canadian professional wrestler
1970 – Shinji Fujiyoshi, Japanese former football player
1971 – Vitālijs Astafjevs, Latvian national football player and manager
1972 – Jennie Garth, American actress
1972 – Sandrine Testud, French tennis player
1973 - Adam Scott, American actor
1975 – Michael Olowokandi, former Nigerian NBA basketball player
1978 – Ceynur, Turkish singer
1978 – Matthew Goode, English actor
1978 – Tommy Haas, German tennis player
1982 – Sofia Boutella, French dancer and actress
1982 – Fler, German singer
1982 - Cobie Smulders, Canadian actor
1983 – Ben Foster, English football player
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), 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, American model and actress

Deaths

1287 – Pope IV. Honorius, (b. 1210)
1325 – Nizameddin Evliya, one of the Sufis of India (b. 1238)
1582 – Takeda Katsiyori, daimyō in the late Sengoku period (b. 1546)
1596 – Koca Sinan Pasha, Ottoman sultans III. Murad and III. 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)
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)
2008 – Hrvoje Ćustic, Croatian football player (b. 1983)
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, Serbian singer (b. 1935)
2017 – Michel Arrivé, French novelist, short story writer, linguist, and academic (b. 1936)
2017 – Sergio González Rodríguez, Mexican journalist and author (b. 1950)
2017 – Renate Schroeter, German actress (b. 1939)
2018 – Lill-Babs, Swedish singer (b. 1934)
2019 – Aleksey Buldakov, Soviet-Russian actor (b. 1951)
2019 – Maurice Pon, French songwriter and poet (b. 1921)
2019 – Carmelita Pope, American actress (b. 1924)
2020 – Robert Armstrong, Baron Armstrong Ilminster, English noble and former politician (b. 1927)
2020 – Helin Bölek, Turkish musician (b. 1991)
2020 – Arnold Demain, American microbiologist (b. 1927)
2020 – Henri Ecochard, II. French military officer who served in the Free French Forces during World War II (b.
2020 – Bob Glanzer, American politician (b. 1945)
2020 – Francisco Hernando Contreras, Spanish businessman (b. 1945)
2020 – Marguerite Lescop, Canadian writer, editor and speaker (b. 1915)
2020 – Hans Prade, Surinamese diplomat and politician (b. 1938)
2020 – Omar Quintana, Ecuadorian politician, sports executive, businessman (b. 1944)
2020 – Marcelle Ranson-Hervé, French actress (b. 1929)
2020 – Tim Robinson, English author and cartographer (b. 1935)
2020 – Joel Shatzky, American writer (b. 1943)
2020 – Yusuf Kenan Sönmez, Turkish politician (b. 1948)
2020 – Arlene Stringer-Cuevas, American politician (b. 1933)
2020 – Eric Verdonk, New Zealand rower (b. 1959)
2020 – Frida Wattenberg, female activist and artist, member of the French Resistance (b. 1924)
2021 – Gloria Henry (born Gloria McEniry), American actress (b. 1923)
2021 – Naila Isayeva, Azerbaijani song composer (b. 1947)
2021 – John Paragon, American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and director (b. 1954)
2021 – Yevgeny Zagorulko, Russian high jump trainer (b. 1942)
2021 – Carla Maria Zampatti, Italian-Australian fashion designer and businessperson (b. 1942)
2022 – Yamina Bachir, Algerian film director, screenwriter, and writer (b. 1954)
2022 – June Brown, English actress (b. 1927)
2022 – Archie Eversole, American hip-hop musician and songwriter (b. 1984)
2022 – Lygia Fagundes Telles, Brazilian novelist and short story writer (b. 1923)
2022 – Snežana Nikšić, Serbian film and television actress (b. 1943)

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)