Quick glance of 3 April in the pages of History

April 3: Here are the major events that occurred on 3 April….

• 3 April, 1043: Edward the Confessor crowned King of England.
• 3 April, 1325: Hazrat Shaikh Khwaja Syed Muhammad Nizamuddin Auliya passed away on this day. He was also known as Hazrat Nizamuddin, was a famous Sufi saint of the Chishti Order in the Indian Subcontinent, an order that believed in drawing close to God through renunciation of the world and service to humanity
• 3 April, 1680: Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj died on this day. He was a Maratha sovereign who founded the Maratha Empire, which, at its peak, covered much of the Indian subcontinent, encompassing a territory of over 2.8 million km². Shivaji as an aristocrat of the Bhosle clan led a resistance to free the Maratha people from the Sultanate of Bijapur.
• 3 April, 1776: First American President George Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College.
• 3 April, 1914: Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw was born on this day. He was a Field Marshal of the Indian Army. His distinguished military career spanned four decades and five wars. Manekshaw rose to be the 8th chief of staff of the Indian Army in 1969 and under his command, Indian forces concluded a victorious campaign.
• 3 April, 1922:  Joseph Stalin is appointed General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party by an ailing Vladimir Lenin.
• 3 April, 1941: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill warns Soviet leader Joseph Stalin that a German invasion is imminent.
• 3 April, 1973: 1st mobile phone call is made in downtown Manhattan, NYC by Motorola employee Martin Cooper to the Bell Labs headquarters in New Jersey.
• 3 April, 1991: UN Security Council adopts Gulf War truce resolution.
• 3 April, 2016: Panama Papers published – 11.5 million confidential documents from offshore law firm Mossack Fonseca expose widespread illegal activities including fraud, kleptocracy, tax evasion and the violation of international sanctions by the world’s elite in the world’s largest ever data leak.