Template:On this day/April 3

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

April 3:

• 1769 – Thomas Jefferson accedes to House of Burgesses as representative of Albemarle County, like his father before him.
• 1958 – Gov. James Lindsay Almond Jr. proclaimed April 13, the 215^th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson’s birth, as a legal holiday in Virginia. Jefferson’s birthday was one of four state holidays eliminated during the administration of former Gov. Thomas B. Stanley.