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• ...that the Tyska kyrkan (pictured) in Stockholm, is situated in the oldest German ecclesiastical parish outside Germany?
• ...that Joseph Monier was one of the principal inventors of reinforced concrete?
• ...that Koreans in Vietnam form that country's second-largest group of expatriates after the Taiwanese?
• ...that South African mining magnate Sir Lionel Phillips survived being shot five times in an assassination attempt?
• ...that when Archie Goodall scored the lone goal for Ireland in a 9–1 loss to Scotland in 1899, he became the oldest footballer to score in international football in the 19th century?
• ...that Kosambi, a city in ancient India which was a frequent site of sermons by the Buddha, was one of the places considered suitable for his Parinibbāna?

• Students protest outside the British embassy in Tehran, Iran (flag pictured) in response to the ongoing dispute over captured Royal Navy personnel.
• Michael Phelps breaks five world records in swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships; seven other records are broken as well.
• Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks receives the first sentence from the Guantanamo military commission, and the first conviction in a U.S. war crimes trial since World War II.
• Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi is declared the winner of the presidential election in Mauritania.
• The Liberal Party under Premier Jean Charest loses 28 seats in the National Assembly and forms the first minority government in Quebec in 129 years.

April 3:

• 1882 - Jesse James (pictured), an outlaw in the American Old West, was shot in the back and killed for a bounty of 5,000 United States dollars.
• 1936 - Bruno Hauptmann was executed in the electric chair for the kidnapping and murder of the "Lindbergh baby".
• 1948 - The Marshall Plan, an economic recovery program established by U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall to assist the post-World War II re-building of Europe, was signed into law.
• 1974 - The Super Outbreak of 148 tornadoes began, killing at least 315 people and injuring 5,484 in 13 U.S. states at the end of a very strong La Niña event.

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