April 3rd, 1978

Born on April 3rd, 1978

Age in days, weeks and months
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What 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.

April 3rd, 1559

Henry II of France and Philip II of Spain signed the second treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis, ending the Italian War of 1551–1559.

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

Born on April 3rd, 1978

46

Matthew Goode

English actor (born 1978)

*April 3rd, 1978, Exeter

46

Tommy Haas

German tennis player

*April 3rd, 1978, Hamburg

46

Luca Moncada

Italian rower

*April 3rd, 1978, Palermo

46

Michael Gravgaard

Danish footballer

*April 3rd, 1978, Randers

46

Mane Tandilyan

Armenian politician, accountant

*April 3rd, 1978, Alaverdi

43

Roberto Pérez Toledo

Spanish film director and screenwriter

*April 3rd, 1978, Lanzarote †January 31st, 2022, Madrid

46

Raja Toumi

Tunisian woman handball player

*April 3rd, 1978, Kerkennah

46

John Smit

South African rugby union footballer

*April 3rd, 1978, Polokwane

46

Tim Cornelisse

Dutch footballer

*April 3rd, 1978, Alkmaar

46

Marc Baylis

Actor

*April 3rd, 1978, London

46

Malungisa Dlamini

Swazi footballer

*April 3rd, 1978, Eswatini

46

Kazunori Yokota

Japanese judoka

*April 3rd, 1978, Funabashi

46

Jade Gatt

Australian actor

*April 3rd, 1978, Sydney

46

Haryanto Prasetyo

Indonesian footballer

*April 3rd, 1978, Indonesia

46

Dejan Petrovic

Tennis player

*April 3rd, 1978, Adelaide

46

Tomáš Kaplan

Czech soccer player

*April 3rd, 1978, Jihlava

46

Jaquay Walls

American basketball player

*April 3rd, 1978, Brooklyn

46

Sanzhar Mustafin

Kazakhstani producer and entrepreneur (born 1978)

*April 3rd, 1978, Almaty

46

Jillionaire

Trinidadian DJ and music producer

*April 3rd, 1978, Port of Spain

46

Māris Krakops

Chess player

*April 3rd, 1978, Latvia

46

Daniel Corso

Canadian ice hockey player

*April 3rd, 1978, Montreal

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Who's birthday is on April 3rd?

34

Dorothea Wierer

Italian biathlete and military athlete

*April 3rd, 1990, Bruneck

39

Hwang Hye-youn

South Korean badminton player

*April 3rd, 1985, Pocheon

44

Suella Braverman

UK lawyer and politician

*April 3rd, 1980, Harrow

91

Kurt Rudolph

German religious studies scholar

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

39

Leona Lewis

British singer

*April 3rd, 1985, London

66

Alec Baldwin

American actor, comedian and producer (born 1958)

*April 3rd, 1958, Amityville

43

Felicia Notbom

German association football player

*April 3rd, 1981, Kaufbeuren

55

Joanne Muggeridge

British badminton player

*April 3rd, 1969, London

30

Renáta Csiki

Hungarian handball player

*April 3rd, 1994, Budapest

63

Eddie Murphy

American stand-up comedian and actor

*April 3rd, 1961, Brooklyn

70

Eckhardt Rehberg

German politician

*April 3rd, 1954, Ribnitz-Damgarten

38

Amanda Bynes

American actress and fashion designer (born 1986)

*April 3rd, 1986, Thousand Oaks

80

Marlon Brando

American actor (1924–2004)

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

55

Clotilde Courau

French actress

*April 3rd, 1969, Levallois-Perret

42

Cobie Smulders

Canadian actress (born 1982)

*April 3rd, 1982, Vancouver

51

Andreas Carlsson

Swedish composer

*April 3rd, 1973, Stockholm

87

Helmut Kohl

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

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

29

Adrien Rabiot

French association football player (born 1995)

*April 3rd, 1995, Saint-Maurice

26

Paris Jackson

American model, actress, singer and musician

*April 3rd, 1998, Beverly Hills

58

Rémi Garde

French association football player and manager

*April 3rd, 1966, L'Arbresle

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Born in 1978

45

Miroslav Klose

German association football player

*June 9th, 1978, Opole

45

Ani Lorak

Ukrainian singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur

*September 27th, 1978, Kitsman

45

Joachim Fischer Nielsen

Danish badminton player

*November 23rd, 1978, Copenhagen

45

Vibeke Stene

Gothic metal soprano singer, ex female vocals of Tristania

*August 17th, 1978, Sokndal

46

Malin Arvidsson

Swedish actress and dancer

*February 19th, 1978, El Salvador

45

Marit Berger Røsland

Norwegian lawyer and politician

*September 21st, 1978, Lørenskog

45

Ella Diehl

Badminton player

*August 5th, 1978, Samara

46

Didier Drogba

Ivorian and French association football player

*March 11th, 1978, Abidjan

46

Jonas Dahl

Danish politician

*February 26th, 1978, Randers

45

Kim Yong-hyun

South Korean badminton player

*May 13th, 1978, Incheon

46

Chris Blair

Badminton player

*March 4th, 1978, Invercargill

45

Konstrakta

Serbian singer-songwriter

*October 12th, 1978, Belgrade

45

Jessica Pilnäs

Swedish singer

*July 5th, 1978, Åryd

45

Poo Bear

American songwriter and singer

*September 4th, 1978, Connecticut

46

Jamie Carragher

English footballer and sportcaster

*January 28th, 1978, Bootle

46

Aparna Popat

Indian badminton player

*January 18th, 1978, Mumbai

46

Gianluigi Buffon

Former Italian footballer (born 1978)

*January 28th, 1978, Carrara

46

Donna Kellogg

Badminton player

*January 20th, 1978, Derby

45

Rio Ferdinand

English association football player (born 1978)

*November 7th, 1978, Camberwell

46

Danai Gurira

American actress

*February 14th, 1978, Grinnell

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No: With 365 days 1978 is a normal year and no leap year.

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