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• ...that Jack Iverson developed his unique "bent finger" bowling action (pictured) while experimenting during recreational cricket while serving in Papua New Guinea during World War II?
• ...that Conservatory Water in Central Park, New York City, shelters a seasonal population of the unusual freshwater medusa Craspedacusta sowerbyi?
• ...that Monisha, a South Indian cinema actress, was only 15 years old when she won the National Film Award for Best Actress for her debut performance in Nakhashathangal?
• ...that the U.S. Navy tank landing ship USS Orange County was decommissioned in August 1945, less than five months after entering service, but recommissioned four years later for the Korean War?
• ...that Immediate Past President of the American Bar Association Michael S. Greco taught English at Phillips Exeter Academy before attending law school?

• A tsunami triggered by an earthquake strikes the Solomon Islands (flag pictured), killing at least 15 and leaving thousands homeless.
• Iranians protest outside the British embassy in Tehran in response to the ongoing dispute over the capture of Royal Navy personnel off the Iraq-Iran coast.
• Michael Phelps breaks five world records in swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships in Melbourne, Australia, becoming the first swimmer to win seven gold medals at a single championship; seven other world records are also broken.
• 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.
• In Mauritania, Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi is declared the winner of the presidential election, the final stage of the transition to civilian rule since the military coup of 2005.

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.
• 1895 - The libel trial instigated by Oscar Wilde began, eventually resulting in Wilde's arrest, trial and imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
• 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.
• 1971 - Japanese tokusatsu television series Kamen Rider premiered, marking the beginning of the long-running Kamen Rider franchise.
• 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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