On this day, April 3

1865 Union forces occupied the Confederate capital of Richmond, Va.

1882 Outlaw Jesse James was shot to death in St. Joseph, Mo., by Robert Ford, a member of James’ gang.

1942 During World War II, Japanese forces began their final assault on Bataan against American and Filipino troops who surrendered six days later; the capitulation was followed by the notorious Bataan Death March.

1944 The U.S. Supreme Court, in Smith v. Allwright, struck down a Democratic Party of Texas rule that allowed only white voters to participate in Democratic primaries.

1948 President Harry S. Truman signed the Marshall Plan, designed to help European allies rebuild after World War II and resist communism.

1968 Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered what turned out to be his final speech, telling a rally of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tenn., that “I’ve been to the mountaintop” and “seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land!” (About 20 hours later, King was felled by an assassin’s bullet at the Lorraine Motel.)

1996 Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski was arrested at his remote Montana cabin.

2012 Mitt Romney tightened his grip on the Republican presidential nomination, sweeping primaries in Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington, D.C.

2013 Oscar-winning screenwriter and award-winning novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 85, died in New York.

2017 A divided Senate Judiciary Committee panel voted 11-9 along party lines to favorably recommend Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch to the full Senate.

2022 Ukrainian authorities found bodies

with bound hands, close-range gunshot wounds and signs of torture scattered in a city on the outskirts of Kyiv after the withdrawal of Russian troops. Today’s birthdays: Conservationist Jane Goodall, 90. Actor William Gaunt, 87. Songwriter Jeff Barry, 86. Actor Eric Braeden, 83. Actor Marsha Mason, 82.

Singer Wayne Newton, 82. Singer Tony Orlando, 80. Comedy writer Pat Proft, 77. Folk-rock singer Richard Thompson, 75. Country musician Curtis Stone (Highway

101), 74. Blues singer-guitarist John Mooney, 69. Rock musician Mick Mars (Motley Crue), 68. Actor Alec Baldwin, 66. Actor

David Hyde Pierce, 65. Rock singer John Thomas Griffith (Cowboy Mouth), 64. Comedian-actor Eddie Murphy, 63. Rock singer-musician Mike Ness (Social Distortion), 62. Rock singer Sebastian Bach, 56.

Rock musician James MacDonough (Megadeth), 54.