3rd April anniversaries

• Birth
• event
  • 1721
  • Great Britain
  • Robert Walpole Becomes 1st British Prime Minister more
  • 1948
  • United States
  • "US President Harry S. Truman signed the ‘Marshall Plan’, the European recovery programme designed to repel communism and restore the."
  • 1973
  • United States
  • First call made (in New York) on a portable cellular phone
  • 1984
  • India
  • Rakesh Sharma became the first Indian in space
  • 1993
  • Great Britain
  • Britain’s ‘Grand National’ steeplechase was declared void after several riders completed the full course before realising there had been a false.
• Death
  • 1807
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Jane Digby, Countess of Ellenborough, who scandalised society by the number of her marriages and even greater number of lovers." more
  • 1998
  • Germany
  • "Death of Rob Pilatus, infamous German-American model, dancer and singer (‘Milli Vanilli’)."
  • 1999
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Lionel Bart, Songwriter" more