Today in History for 3rd April 2024

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Historical Events

1312 - 2nd council of Vienna, Knights Templars suppressed
1969 - Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start a policy of "Vietnamization", reducing American involvement
1977 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's 1st meeting with US President Jimmy Carter
2006 - 68th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Florida beats UCLA, 73-57; Gators first title; center Joakim Noah named tournament Most Outstanding Player
2013 - 50 people are killed by flooding across Argentina
2017 - Bomb on St Petersburg metro kills 11, 2nd bomb defused

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Famous Birthdays

1904 - Sally Rand, American burlesque dancer, vedette, and actress known for her ostrich feather fan and balloon bubble dances, born in Elkton, Missouri (d. 1979)
1914 - Katherine Stammers Menzies, English doubles tennis player (Wimb 1935), born in St Albans, England (d. 2005)
1930 - Max Frankel, American journalist (Tables of Id of Organic Compounds), born in Gera, Germany
1934 - Jane Goodall, British primatologist, anthropologist, and writer (Through a Window: My Thirty Years With the Chimpanzees of Gombe), born in Hampstead, London, England
1964 - Nigel Farage, British politician and leader of the UKIP who campaigned for Brexit, born in Downe, Kent
1980 - Trevor Moore, American actor and comedian (The Whitest Kids U' Know), born in Montclair, New Jersey

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Famous Deaths

628 - Khosrow II, Sāsānian King of Persia (579-628), murdered by his son Kavad at about 57
1822 - Friedrich Justin Bertuch, German publisher and patron, dies at 74
1983 - Danny Rapp, American pop singer (Danny and The Juniors - "At The Hop"), takes his own life at 41
2003 - Homer Banks, American singer and songwriter ("Be What You Are"), dies at 61
2003 - Michael Kelly, American journalist (b. 1957)
2010 - Dusan Radic, Serbian composer, dies at 80

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