April 3
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"To these people, apparently the balance of nature was something that was repealed as soon as man came on the scene - you might just as well assume that you could repeal the law of gravity."--Rachel Carson cited in CBS Reports: The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson (1963) |
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Art and culture
- 1768 - Rose Keller is picked up by the Marquis de Sade and taken back to a house in Arcueil
- 1895 - The libel trial instigated by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
- 1955 - The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.
- 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech.
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Births
- 1593 - George Herbert, English poet and orator (d. 1633)
- 1783 - Washington Irving, American author (d. 1859)
- 1863 - Henry van de Velde, Belgian painter, architect and interior designer (d. 1957)
- 1880 - Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher (d. 1903)
- 1883 – Frits Van den Berghe, Belgian painter (d. 1939)
- 1898 - Michel De Ghelderode, Belgian dramatist (Le Grand Macabre) (d. 1962)
- 1912 - Bert Bakker Dutch publisher (d. 1969)
- 1924 - Marlon Brando, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1934 - Jane Goodall, English zoologist
- 1945 - Catherine Spaak, French actress
- 1958 - Francesca Woodman, American photographer (b. 1981)
- 1958 - Alec Baldwin, American actor
- 1961 - Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian
- 1986 - Amanda Bynes, American actress
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Deaths
- 1827 – Ernst Chladni, German physicist and academic (b. 1756)
- 1849 - Juliusz Słowacki, Polish poet (b. 1809)
- 1897 - Johannes Brahms, German composer (b. 1833)
- 1943 - Conrad Veidt, German actor (b. 1893)
- 1950 - Kurt Weill, German composer (b. 1900)
- 1953 - Jean Epstein, French film director (b. 1897)
- 1991 - Graham Greene, English writer (b. 1904)
- 1998 - Wolf Vostell, German artist (b. 1932)
- 2000 - Terence McKenna, American writer and philosopher (b. 1946)
- 2002 - Fad Gadget, English singer and musician (b. 1956)
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