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===1901–present=== *[[1905]] – Association football club [[Club Atlético Boca Juniors|Boca Juniors]] is founded in [[Buenos Aires]], [[Argentina]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Boca turns 120 years old, these are the 10 best in its history according to AI|url=https://derechadiario.com.ar/us/argentina/boca-turns-120-years-old-these-are-the-10-best-in-its-history-according-to-ai|website=La Derecha Diario|access-date=3 April 2025}}</ref> *[[1920]] – Attempts are made to carry out the failed [[Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim#1920 assassination attempt|assassination attempt on General Mannerheim]], led by Aleksander Weckman by order of [[Eino Rahja]], during the [[White Guard (Finland)|White Guard]] parade in [[Tampere]], Finland.<ref>[http://www.mikkoporvali.fi/index.php?page=1038&lang=1 Mikko Porvali : Murhayritys joka jäi tekemättä] (in Finnish)</ref><ref>[https://walkhelsinki.fi/mannerheimin-murhayrityksen-jalkinaytos-kaytiin-vallilassa/ Mannerheimin murhayrityksen jälkinäytös käytiin Vallilassa] (in Finnish)</ref> *[[1922]] – [[Joseph Stalin]] becomes the first [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]. *[[1933]] – First flight over [[Mount Everest]], the British [[Houston-Mount Everest Flight Expedition]], led by the [[Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton|Marquis of Clydesdale]] and funded by [[Lucy, Lady Houston]].<ref>{{cite web |title=WINGS OVER EVEREST: The Story of the Houston - Mt. Everest Flight|url=https://movingimage.nls.uk/film/7075#:~:text=Description%3A%20The%20first%20flight%20over,was%20funded%20by%20Lady%20Houston.|website=movingimage.nls.ukwww.parliament.uk |access-date=March 22, 2024}}</ref> *[[1936]] – [[Bruno Richard Hauptmann]] is executed for the kidnapping and death of [[Lindbergh kidnapping|Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr.]], the infant son of pilot [[Charles Lindbergh]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Lindbergh Kidnapping|url=https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/lindbergh-kidnapping|website=fbi.gov |access-date=March 22, 2024}}</ref> *[[1942]] – [[World War II]]: [[Empire of Japan|Japanese]] forces begin an assault on the United States and [[Commonwealth of the Philippines|Filipino]] troops on the [[Battle of Bataan|Bataan Peninsula]]. *[[1946]] – Japanese [[Lt. General]] [[Masaharu Homma]] is executed in the Philippines for leading the [[Bataan Death March]]. *[[1948]] – [[Cold War]]: U.S. President [[Harry S. Truman]] signs the [[Marshall Plan]], authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.<ref>{{cite web |date=2022-06-29 |title=Marshall Plan (1948)|url=https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/marshall-plan#:~:text=On%20April%203%2C%201948%2C%20President,economic%20infrastructure%20of%20postwar%20Europe. |website=www.archives.gov |access-date=March 23, 2024}}</ref> * 1948 – In [[Jeju Province]], South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and [[human rights abuses]] known as the [[Jeju uprising]] begins. *[[1955]] – The [[American Civil Liberties Union]] announces it will defend [[Allen Ginsberg]]'s book ''[[Howl (poem)|Howl]]'' against [[obscenity]] charges. *[[1956]] – [[Hudsonville–Standale tornado of April 1956|Hudsonville–Standale tornado]]: The western half of the [[Lower Peninsula of Michigan]] is struck by a deadly [[Fujita scale|F5]] tornado. *[[1961]] – [[LAN-Chile Flight 621]] crashes in the [[Andes]] mountains, killing 21 people, including Argentinian football player [[Eliseo Mouriño]].<ref name="Mirror">{{cite web |author=Mackay |first=Don |date=5 February 2015 |title=Football team's plane wreck found in Chile after more than 50 years |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/football-teams-plane-wreck-found-5107420 |accessdate=8 February 2015 |publisher=The Mirror}}</ref> *[[1968]] – [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] delivers his "[[I've Been to the Mountaintop]]" speech; he was assassinated the next day.<ref>{{cite web |title="I've Been to the Mountaintop" |url=https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/ive-been-mountaintop |website=stanford.edu |publisher=The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute |access-date=March 23, 2024}}</ref> *[[1969]] – [[Vietnam War]]: [[United States Secretary of Defense]] [[Melvin Laird]] announces that the United States will start to "[[Vietnamization|Vietnamize]]" the war effort. *[[1973]] – [[Martin Cooper (inventor)|Martin Cooper]] of [[Motorola]] makes the [[History of mobile phones|first handheld mobile phone call]] to [[Joel S. Engel]] of [[Bell Labs]]. *[[1974]] – [[1974 Super Outbreak|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. *[[1975]] – Vietnam War: [[Operation Babylift]], a mass evacuation of children in the closing stages of the war begins.<ref>Martin, Allison, ''The Legacy of Operation Babylift'', Adoption Today journal, Volume 2, Number 4 March 2000. "On April 3rd, a combination of private and military transport planes began to fly more children out of Vietnam as part of the operation. Numbers vary, but it appears that at least 2,000 children were flown to the United States and approximately 1,300 children were flown to Canada, Europe and Australia."</ref> * 1975 – [[Bobby Fischer]] [[World Chess Championship 1975|refuses to play]] in a [[chess]] match against [[Anatoly Karpov]], giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default. *[[1980]] – [[Us congress|US Congress]] restores a federal trust relationship with the 501 members of the [[Shivwits Band of Paiutes|Shivwits]], Kanosh, Koosharem, and the Indian Peaks and Cedar City bands of the [[Paiute]] people of Utah.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=The Native North American Almanac|last=Champagne|first=Duane|publisher=Gale Group|year=2001|isbn=0787616559|location=Farmington Hills, MI}}</ref> *[[1981]] – The [[Osborne 1]], the first successful [[portable computer]], is unveiled at the [[West Coast Computer Faire]] in [[San Francisco]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Osborne launches the first portable computer, the Osborne 1|url=https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/5941/The-first-portable-computer-is-launched/|website=www.computinghistory.org.uk |access-date=March 23, 2024}}</ref> *[[1989]] – The [[US supreme court|US Supreme Court]] upholds the jurisdictional rights of [[tribal court]]s under the [[Indian Child Welfare Act|Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978]] in [[Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians v. Holyfield|Mississippi Choctaw Band v. Holyfield]].<ref name=":0" /> *[[1993]] – The outcome of the [[Grand National]] horse race is declared void for the first (and only) time.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.grandnational.org.uk/news/the-grand-national-that-never-was/|title=The Grand National That Never Was|date=27 January 2020 |website=Grand National |first1=John |last1=Hill |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326033310/https://www.grandnational.org.uk/news/the-grand-national-that-never-was/ |archive-date= Mar 26, 2023 }}</ref> *[[1996]] – Suspected "Unabomber" [[Theodore Kaczynski]] is captured at his [[Montana]] cabin in the United States. * 1996 – A [[United States Air Force]] [[Boeing T-43]] [[1996 Croatia USAF CT-43 crash|crashes]] near [[Dubrovnik Airport]] in [[Croatia]], killing 35, including [[United States Secretary of Commerce|Secretary of Commerce]] [[Ron Brown]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Boeing T-43A (737-200) 73-1149 Dubrovnik Airport (DBV) |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19960403-0 |website=aviation-safety.net |publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]|access-date=2 April 2022}}</ref> *[[1997]] – The [[Thalit massacre]] begins in [[Algeria]]; all but one of the 53 inhabitants of [[Thalit]] are killed by guerrillas. *[[2000]] – ''[[United States v. Microsoft Corp. (2001)|United States v. Microsoft Corp.]]'': [[Microsoft]] is ruled to have violated [[United States antitrust law]] by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors. *[[2004]] – [[Islamic terrorists]] involved in the [[2004 Madrid train bombings]] are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves. *[[2007]] – [[TGV world speed record#Record of 2007|Conventional-Train World Speed Record]]: A French [[TGV]] train on the [[LGV Est]] high speed line sets an official new world speed record of 574.8 km/h (159.6 m/s, 357.2 mph). *[[2008]] – [[ATA Airlines]], once one of the ten largest U.S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in five years and ceases all operations. * 2008 – [[Texas]] law enforcement cordons off the [[Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints|FLDS]]'s [[YFZ Ranch]]. Eventually 533 women and children will be taken into state custody. *[[2009]] – Jiverly Antares Wong [[2009 Binghamton shooting|opens fire]] at the [[American Civic Association (Binghamton)|American Civic Association]] immigration center in [[Binghamton, New York]], killing thirteen and wounding four before committing suicide. *[[2010]] – [[Apple Inc.]] released the [[IPad (1st generation)|first generation iPad]], a [[tablet computer]]. *[[2013]] – More than 50 people die in [[2013 Argentina floods|floods]] resulting from record-breaking rainfall in [[La Plata]] and [[Buenos Aires]], Argentina. *[[2016]] – The [[Panama Papers]], a [[news leak|leak]] of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 [[Offshore financial centre|offshore companies]]. *[[2017]] – A [[2017 Saint Petersburg Metro bombing|bomb explodes]] in the [[St Petersburg]] metro system, killing 14 and injuring several more people. *[[2018]] – [[YouTube headquarters shooting]]: A 38-year-old gunwoman opens fire at YouTube Headquarters in [[San Bruno, California]], injuring three people before committing suicide.<ref>{{Cite web |title=YouTube headquarters shooting: How the attack unfolded |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/shooting-youtubes-calif-headquarters-unfolded/story?id=54227873 |access-date=2022-04-03 |website=ABC News |language=en}}</ref>
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