April 3

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[edit] Events

• 1043 - Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
• 1865 - American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
• 1882 - American Old West outlaw Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford for a $5,000 reward.
• 1917 - Vladimir Lenin arrives in Russia from exile, marking the beginning of Bolshevik leadership in the Russian Revolution.
• 1922 - Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• 1936 - Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh II, the baby son of world-famous pilot Charles Lindbergh.
• 1960 - George Lincoln Rockwell holds his first American Nazi Party rally on the National Mall in Washington DC.
• 2008 - The Romanian section of Metapedia is launched [1]

[edit] Births

• 1367 - King Henry IV of England (d. 1413)
• 1920 - John Demjanjuk, Ukrainian-born American auto worker, alleged WW II war criminal.

[edit] Deaths

• 1882 - Jesse James, American outlaw (b. 1847)
• 1950 - Carter G. Woodson, African American historian, author, journalist and founder of Black History Month (b. 1875)