The England team celebrating a win earlier in the World Cup

The

Dorking Cockerel

• ... that a 10-foot-tall (3 m) chicken (pictured) stands on a roundabout in Dorking, Surrey?
• ... that on March 2, 2022, 86 percent of workers in New York City's REI store voted in favor of the outdoor recreation retailer's first ever trade union, REI Union SoHo?
• ... that Abhijātābhivaṃsa, 12th recipient of the title of Tipiṭakadhara Dhammabhaṇḍāgārika, could memorize and recite all the pages of the Tipiṭaka?
• ... that raptor persecution is a crime against birds of prey, and in Scotland, ravens are afforded honorary raptor status?
• ... that during the Colleyville synagogue hostage crisis, rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker threw a chair at the perpetrator?
• ... that the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, which found the wreck of Endurance in 2022, also discovered the wreck of SMS Scharnhorst in 2019?
• ... that Victoria Brownworth was the first open lesbian to write a column in a daily newspaper in the United States?
• ... that according to the "boots" theory, poverty is more expensive than being rich?

Men's Boat Race finish

• In rowing, Oxford win the men's event (finish pictured) and Cambridge win the women's event in The Boat Race.
• Jack Dongarra wins the Turing Award for his contributions to high-performance computing.
• Scientists announce the discovery of Earendel, the farthest known individual star at 12.9 billion light-years away from Earth.
• CODA wins Best Picture and Dune wins in six categories at the Academy Awards.

April 3

Oscar Wilde

• 1860 – The Pony Express, a mail service that became the most direct means of long-distance communication across the United States before the first transcontinental telegraph, began operation.
• 1895 – The libel trial instigated by Irish author Oscar Wilde (pictured) began, eventually resulting in his arrest, trial and imprisonment on charges of gross indecency.
• 1922 – Joseph Stalin became the first general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• 1948 – Division of Korea: A communist uprising began on Jeju Island, eventually leading to thousands of deaths and atrocities committed by both sides.
• 2016 – The first news stories on the Panama Papers were published, revealing that shell corporations represented by the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca had been used for illegal purposes.