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| − | {{day | + | <noinclude>== Featured Article ==</noinclude> |
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| − | | | + | ! style="background:#9BCD9B; border:1px solid green"| <div style="float:right"><small><nowiki>[</nowiki>[[April 3|more]]<nowiki>]</nowiki></small></div>What else happened today |
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| + | * [[1855]] — Rollin White files Patent #12,648 for the bored-through [[cylinder]] concept of [[revolver]] design. The existence of this patent (along with an unwillingness to pay royalties to [[Smith & Wesson]], who had bought the license to it), prevented Colt from beginning development of bored-through revolver cylinders for metallic cartridge use for 14 years and a dad - until [[April 4]], [[1869]]. | ||
| + | * [[1882]] — Jesse Woodson James was shot in the back by Robert Ford in St. Joseph, Missouri. Ford would never collect the promised $10,000 bounty placed on James by Missouri Governor Thomas T. Crittenden. | ||
| + | * [[1942]] — [[World War II]]: [[Japanese]] forces begin an assault on the [[American]] and [[Filipino]] troops on the Bataan Peninsula. Exactly four years to the day later, in [[1946]], Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma would be executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March. | ||
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| + | ==Today in pictures== | ||
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| + | ===Picture of the day=== | ||
| + | {{:April 3/Picture of the day}} | ||
| + | [[category:April]]</noinclude> | ||
