April 3rd

April 3 is the 94th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 262 days remaining until the end of time.

1860 Pony Express begins between St. Joseph Missouri and Sacramento California. Here is a young man interviewing for the job.

1930 Ras Tafari becomes Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

1975 Bobby Fischer is stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend it and goes a little bit nuts.  Okay, a lot nuts.

1996 Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski (who suspicously resembles Bobby Fisher) is arrested at his cabin in Montana. His quality of living improves by explosive measures.

2008  Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS's YFZ Ranch. Eventually 533 women and children will be removed and taken into state custody, but are released before they can be de-programmed.

2009 Australia formally adopts the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples about 2 centuries late.

1783 Washington Irving, US author 

1924 Doris Day, US actress/singer/animal rights advocate with a lot of gay friends

1924 Marlon Brando, bisexual US actor 

1958 Alec Baldwin, US actor/host 

1959 David Hyde Pierce, gay US actor/Fraser 

1961 Eddie Murphy, indiscreet bisexual US comedian/actor/singer 

1962 Bill Sage, gay US actor 

1964 Mauricio Mattar, Brazilian actor 

1973 Jamie Bamber, English actor/Battlestar Galactica 

1973 Matthew Ferguson, Canadian actor 

1973 Adam Scott, US actor 

1973 Dale Levitsky, gay chef/Top Chef contestant 

1974 Lee Williams, Welsh actor 

1976 Will Mellor, English actor 

1976 Jean-Marie Bisaro, French rugger/Dieux du Stade model 

1978 Matthew Goode, English actor 

1879 Sarah Josepha Hale, activist/poet (Mary Had A Little Lamb), pays the ultimate price for calling Mary Had A Little Lamb a poem.

1943 Conrad Veidt, bisexual German/US actor (Cabinet of Dr. Calgary, Thief of Bagdad), gets to be the good guy in this role

1950 Carter G Woodson, American historian (Negro History Week), sees his week turn into a month and now into an eternity. Despite assertions to the contrary, he is not my namesake.

2010 Eugene Terre'Blanche, South African white separatist leader, is beaten, sodomized and hacked with a machete. . .some might call it justice.

2010 Yasunori Watanabe, Japanese rugby player, is hit by a train. You don’t hear that too often anymore.