TODAY in HISTORY
Today is Tuesday, April 3, the 93rd day of 2018. There are 272 days left in the year.
801 King Louis the Pious captures Barcelona from the Moors after a siege of several months. 1043 Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
1077 The first Parliament of Friuli is created. 1834 The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason. 1882 American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James. 1885 Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.
1895 The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
1922 Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 1933 First flight over Mount Everest, a British expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale, and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston. 1936 Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
1948 In Jeju Province, South Korea, a civilwarlike period of violence and human rights abuses begins, known as the Jeju uprising.
1955 The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges. 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech. 1969 Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort. 1973 Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs. 1975 Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.
1981 The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco. 1996 Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his Montana cabin in the United States. 2000 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 Conventional- Train World Speed Record: A French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets a new world speed record.