Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/April 3


 * 1860 - The first successful Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California is started (completed on April 13).
 * 1865 - American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the break-away Confederate States of America.
 * 1882 - Old West outlaw Jesse James is shot in the back and killed in Saint Joseph, Missouri by Robert Ford for a $5,000 reward.
 * 1942 - World War II: Japanese forces begin an all-out assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula. Bataan fell on April 9 and the Bataan Death March began.
 * Let's save this for April 9th. -- PFHLai 04:02, 2005 Apr 2 (UTC)
 * 1946 - Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed outside Manila in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
 * Let's save this for April 9th. -- PFHLai 04:02, 2005 Apr 2 (UTC)
 * 1948 - President Harry Truman signs the Marshall Plan which authorizes $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
 * 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "mountaintop" speech.
 * 1974 - The Super Outbreak occurred. 148 tornadoes affected 13 states in 26 hours. It was the biggest tornado outbreak in the planet's recorded history.
 * 1986 - IBM unveils the PC Convertible, the first laptop computer.
 * 1996 - Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is arrested at his Montana cabin.

re: tornado image
It is bad practice to place generic images in as representations of historical events. So I have removed the tornado image.

Let's try to use only images that are actually of the person or incident in question. Kingturtle 02:15, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Super Outbreak
The link for La Niña needs to be fixed. The title of its article is actually ENSO, for "El Niño-Southern Oscillation". --Kitch 11:50, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Addition to "On this Day"
Can someone modify the "On this Day" section" on the "Main Page". It should show that this day is observed as Rama Navami. This is a national holiday in India and one of the most auspicious day in Hinduism.Bmayuresh (talk) 04:45, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

2012 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 05:53, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Omitted: Pony Express; Whitechapel murders; Jeju Uprising; Martin Cooper (inventor)
 * Included: Edward the Confessor (2nd appearance, last in 2010; rescued from Ineligible); Oscar Wilde (8th appearance, last in 2010); Kamen Rider Series (2nd appearance, last in 2008; rescued from Ineligible); YFZ Ranch (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Joseph Stalin (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total)

2013 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 06:15, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Omitted: Edward the Confessor; Oscar Wilde; Joseph Stalin; Kamen Rider Series; YFZ Ranch
 * Included: Whitechapel murders (2nd appearance, last in 2011); Richard Hauptmann (2nd appearance, last in 2006; rescued from Ineligible); Jeju Uprising (3rd appearance, last in 2011); Martin Cooper (inventor) (4th appearance, last in 2011; 40th anniversary); Osborne 1 (first appearance)

2014 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 10:19, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Super Outbreak (there was another tornado outbreak article just on, so this is gets left out despite this being its 40th anniversary)
 * Omitted: Whitechapel murders; Richard Hauptmann; Jeju Uprising; Martin Cooper (inventor); Osborne 1
 * Included: Edward the Confessor (3rd appearance, last in 2012); Oscar Wilde (9th appearance, last in 2012); Joseph Stalin (5th appearance, last in 2012); Leadbeater's possum (first appearance); 1996 Croatia USAF CT-43 crash (3rd appearance, last in 2010)

2015 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 10:30, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: Osborne 1 (maintenance)
 * New articles (unused): Binghamton shootings
 * Omitted: Edward the Confessor; Oscar Wilde; Joseph Stalin; Leadbeater's possum; 1996 Croatia USAF CT-43 crash
 * Included: Pony Express (6th appearance, last in 2011); Whitechapel murders (3rd appearance, last in 2013); Marshall Plan (9th appearance, last in 2010; rescued from Ineligible); Kamen Rider Series (3rd appearance, last in 2012); 2013 Argentina floods (first appearance)

2016 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 16:01, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: 1974 Super Outbreak (maintenance)
 * Omitted: Pony Express; Whitechapel murders; Marshall Plan; Kamen Rider Series (ineligible—maintenance); 2013 Argentina floods
 * Included: Edward the Confessor (4th appearance, last in 2014); Oscar Wilde (10th appearance, last in 2014); Joseph Stalin (6th appearance, last in 2014); Masaharu Homma (first appearance; 70th anniversary); 1996 Croatia USAF CT-43 crash (4th appearance, last in 2014' 20th anniversary)

2017 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 02:40, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: Richard Hauptmann (maintenance); Marshall Plan (maintenance); Martin Cooper (inventor) (maintenance)
 * Omitted: Edward the Confessor; Oscar Wilde; Joseph Stalin; Masaharu Homma; 1996 Croatia USAF CT-43 crash
 * Included: Whitechapel murders (4th appearance, last in 2015); Jeju uprising (4th appearance, last in 2013); Leadbeater's possum (2nd appearance, last in 2014); Osborne 1 (2nd appearance, last in 2013; rescued from Ineligible); Mary Carpenter (first appearance); Tony Benn (first appearance); Graham Greene (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Pony Express (3rd consecutive appearance, 8 total)

2018 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 07:24, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Omitted: Pony Express; Whitechapel murders; Leadbeater's possum; Osborne 1; Mary Carpenter; Tony Benn; Graham Greene
 * Included: Edward the Confessor (5th appearance, last in 2016; 10th anniversary); Italian War of 1551–1559 (first appearance); Joseph Stalin (7th appearance, last in 2016); YFZ Ranch (2nd appearance, last in 2012; 975th anniversary); Ernst Chladni (first appearance); Thomas C. Kinkaid (first appearance); Pál Teleki (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Jeju uprising (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total; 70th anniversary)

2019 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 15:56, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Moved to Ineligible: Leadbeater's possum (maintenance)
 * Omitted: Edward the Confessor; Joseph Stalin; Jeju uprising; YFZ Ranch (ineligible—maintenance); Ernst Chladni; Thomas C. Kinkaid; Pál Teleki
 * Included: Pony Express (9th appearance, last in 2017); Oscar Wilde (11th appearance, last in 2016); Masaharu Homma (2nd appearance, last in 2016); Binghamton shootings (first appearance; 10th anniversary); Al-Adil ibn al-Sallar (first appearance); Gus Grissom (first appearance); Mary Cartwright (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Italian War of 1551–1559 (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

2020 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 17:54, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
 * New articles (unused): Panama Papers
 * Omitted: Italian War of 1551–1559; Oscar Wilde; Masaharu Homma; Binghamton shootings; Al-Adil ibn al-Sallar; Gus Grissom; Mary Cartwright
 * Included: Whitechapel murders (5th appearance, last in 2017); Joseph Stalin (8th appearance, last in 2018); Jeju uprising (6th appearance, last in 2018); United States v. Microsoft Corp. (first appearance; 20th anniversary); Richard of Chichester (first appearance); Cyrus K. Holliday (first appearance); Roza Shanina (first appearance)
 * Repeats: Pony Express (2nd consecutive appearance, 10 total)

2021 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 06:14, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
 * New articles (unused): SethBling
 * Omitted: Pony Express; Whitechapel murders; Joseph Stalin; Jeju uprising; United States v. Microsoft Corp.; Richard of Chichester; Cyrus K. Holliday; Roza Shanina
 * Included: Edward the Confessor (6th appearance, last in 2018); Italian War of 1551–1559 (3rd appearance, last in 2019); Masaharu Homma (3rd appearance, last in 2019; 75th anniversary); Osborne 1 (3rd appearance, last in 2017; 40th anniversary); 1996 Croatia USAF CT-43 crash (5th appearance, last in 2017; 25th anniversary); Thomas C. Kinkaid (2nd appearance, last in 2018); Pál Teleki (2nd appearance, last in 2018; 80th anniversary); Graham Greene (2nd appearance, last in 2017; 30th anniversary)

2022 notes
— howcheng  {chat} 03:47, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
 * New articles (unused): Houston–Mount Everest flight expedition
 * Omitted: Edward the Confessor; Italian War of 1551–1559; Masaharu Homma; Osborne 1; 1996 Croatia USAF CT-43 crash; Pál Teleki; Graham Greene
 * Included: Pony Express (11th appearance, last in 2020); Oscar Wilde (12th appearance, last in 2020); Joseph Stalin (9th appearance, last in 2020; 100th anniversary); Jeju uprising (11th appearance, last in 2020); Panama Papers (first appearance); George Herbert (first appearance); Ernst Chladni (2nd appearance, last in 2018); SethBling (first appearance)