April 3rd, 1968

Born on April 3rd, 1968

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What happened on April 3rd, 1968?

April 3rd, 1968

Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech; he was assassinated the next day.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.

What else happened on April 3rd?

April 3rd, 1984

Aboard Soyuz T-11, Rakesh Sharma (pictured) became the first Indian to be launched into space.

April 3rd, 2016

The first news stories on the Panama Papers were published, revealing that shell corporations represented by the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca had been used for illegal purposes.

April 3rd, 2013

The northeastern section of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, experienced several flash floods that killed at least 100 people.

April 3rd, 2010

Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer.

April 3rd, 2000

In United States v. Microsoft Corp., Microsoft was found to have violated antitrust law by bundling the web browser Internet Explorer with its Windows operating system.

April 3rd, 1996

A U.S. Air Force CT-43 crashed into a mountainside while attempting an instrument approach to Dubrovnik Airport in Croatia, killing all 35 people on board, including Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown.

April 3rd, 1981

The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, was unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.

April 3rd, 1948

Division of Korea: A communist uprising began on Jeju Island, eventually leading to thousands of deaths and atrocities committed by both sides.

April 3rd, 1933

Lord Clydesdale and David McIntyre undertook the first successful flight over Mount Everest.

April 3rd, 1922

Joseph Stalin became the first general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

April 3rd, 1895

The libel trial instigated by Irish author Oscar Wilde (pictured) began, eventually resulting in his arrest, trial and imprisonment on charges of gross indecency.

April 3rd, 1888

Emma Elizabeth Smith was killed in the first of eleven unsolved murders of women that took place in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London.

April 3rd, 1860

The Pony Express, a mail service that became the most direct means of long-distance communication across the United States before the first transcontinental telegraph, began operation.

April 3rd, 1721

Robert Walpole (pictured) took office as First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons, becoming the first de facto prime minister of Great Britain.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on April 3rd

Born on April 3rd, 1968

56

Tariq Ahmad, Baron Ahmad of Wimbledon

Businessman and British Conservative member of the House of Lords (born 1968)

*April 3rd, 1968, London

56

Veni Markovski

Bulgarian businessman

*April 3rd, 1968, Skopje

56

Nick Hækkerup

Danish politician

*April 3rd, 1968, Fredensborg

56

Tsidii Le Loka

Actress, vocalist and composer from South Africa and The Kingdom of Lesotho.

*April 3rd, 1968, Lesotho

56

Torsten Warmuth

German artist and photographer

*April 3rd, 1968, Hildburghausen

56

Veli Ağbaba

Turkish politician

*April 3rd, 1968, Yazıhan

56

Jamie Hewlett

English comic book artist, designer, and director

*April 3rd, 1968, Horsham

56

Sebastian Bach

Canadian-American singer

*April 3rd, 1968, Freeport

33

Charlotte Coleman

British actress (1968-2001)

*April 3rd, 1968, Islington †November 14th, 2001, Holloway

56

Bernd Karbacher

German tennis player

*April 3rd, 1968, Munich

56

Tomoaki Kanemoto

Korean-born Japanese baseball player

*April 3rd, 1968, Minami-ku

56

Laird Hunt

American writer

*April 3rd, 1968, Singapore

56

Ihar Rynkevich

Belarusian politician

*April 3rd, 1968, Hrodna

56

Philippe Rombi

French composers

*April 3rd, 1968, Pau

56

Alberto Abadie

Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

*April 3rd, 1968, Basque Autonomous Community

56

Kiyoto Furushima

Japanese association football player

*April 3rd, 1968, Yatsushiro

56

Ričardas Šileika

Writer, photographer

*April 3rd, 1968, Ukmergė District Municipality

56

Mike Lansing

American baseball player

*April 3rd, 1968, Wyoming

56

Kevin Little

American sprinter

*April 3rd, 1968, Des Moines

56

Santiago Aragón

Spanish footballer

*April 3rd, 1968, Málaga

56

Elke Voelker

German organist

*April 3rd, 1968, Lampertheim

Same Day
Who's birthday is on April 3rd?

55

Joanne Muggeridge

British badminton player

*April 3rd, 1969, London

55

Clotilde Courau

French actress

*April 3rd, 1969, Levallois-Perret

34

Dorothea Wierer

Italian biathlete and military athlete

*April 3rd, 1990, Bruneck

66

Alec Baldwin

American actor, comedian and producer (born 1958)

*April 3rd, 1958, Amityville

63

Eddie Murphy

American stand-up comedian and actor

*April 3rd, 1961, Brooklyn

58

Rémi Garde

French association football player and manager

*April 3rd, 1966, L'Arbresle

91

Kurt Rudolph

German religious studies scholar

*April 3rd, 1929, Dresden †May 13th, 2020

70

Eckhardt Rehberg

German politician

*April 3rd, 1954, Ribnitz-Damgarten

54

James MacDonough

American bassist

*April 3rd, 1970, Jacksonville

80

Marlon Brando

American actor (1924–2004)

*April 3rd, 1924, Omaha †July 1st, 2004, Los Angeles

39

Hwang Hye-youn

South Korean badminton player

*April 3rd, 1985, Pocheon

30

Renáta Csiki

Hungarian handball player

*April 3rd, 1994, Budapest

55

Ben Mendelsohn

Australian actor

*April 3rd, 1969, Melbourne

87

Helmut Kohl

Chancellor of West Germany and reunified Germany (1930–2017)

*April 3rd, 1930, Friesenheim †June 16th, 2017, Oggersheim

60

Bjarne Riis

Danish cyclist, born 1964

*April 3rd, 1964, Herning

39

Leona Lewis

British singer

*April 3rd, 1985, London

65

David Hyde Pierce

American actor and director

*April 3rd, 1959, Saratoga Springs

67

Jutta Winkelmann

German film director and author

*April 3rd, 1949, Kassel †February 23rd, 2017, Munich

61

Stevo Pendarovski

President of North Macedonia

*April 3rd, 1963, Skopje

84

William Bast

Author, screenwriter (1931-2015)

*April 3rd, 1931, Milwaukee †May 4th, 2015, Los Angeles

Same year
Born in 1968

55

Casper Van Dien

American actor

*December 18th, 1968, Milton

55

Sidse Babett Knudsen

Danish actress

*November 22nd, 1968, Copenhagen

55

Peter Runggaldier

Italian alpine skier

*December 29th, 1968, Brixen

55

Chris Hunt

English badminton player

*December 1st, 1968, Bolton

55

Massi Furlan

Italian-American actor and film producer

*September 29th, 1968, Treviso

56

Minarti Timur

Indonesian badminton player, coach

*March 24th, 1968, Surabaya

56

Alan Budikusuma

Badminton player

*March 29th, 1968, Surabaya

56

Céline Dion

Canadian singer (born 1968)

*March 30th, 1968, Charlemagne

56

Rexy Mainaky

Badminton player

*March 9th, 1968, Ternate Island

55

Hugh Jackman

Australian actor (born 1968)

*October 12th, 1968, Sydney

56

Petra Schubert

Badminton player

*January 31st, 1968, Finsterwalde

55

Darren Le Tissier

Badminton player

*May 13th, 1968, Bailiwick of Guernsey

56

Árni Þór Hallgrímsson

Badminton player

*March 10th, 1968, Akranes

55

Marine Le Pen

French politician (born 1968)

*August 5th, 1968, Neuilly-sur-Seine

56

Monica Mæland

Norwegian lawyer and politician

*February 6th, 1968, Bergen

55

Gillian Anderson

American-British actress (born 1968)

*August 9th, 1968, Chicago

55

Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović

Croatian politician and diplomat

*April 29th, 1968, Rijeka

55

Larry Sanger

American former professor, co-founder of Wikipedia, founder of Citizendium and other projects

*July 16th, 1968, Bellevue

55

Ralph Brinkhaus

German politician

*June 15th, 1968, Wiedenbrück

55

Kylie Minogue

Australian singer and actress (born 1968)

*May 28th, 1968, Melbourne

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Leap year

Yes: 1968 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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