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 takes his seat in the House of Burgesses as representative for Albemarle County, following his father, Peter Jefferson, in public service.
• 1958 – Gov. James Lindsay Almond Jr. proclaims April 13—the 215^th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson’s birth—as a legal holiday in Virginia.