April 2

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April 2 is the 92nd day of the year (93rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 273 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

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Up to 1900

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999 - Pope Sylvester II is elected.
1285 - Pope Martin IV is elected.
1453 - The Ottoman Empire's Sultan Mehmed II begins the Siege of Constantinople.
1513 - Florida is sighted by a European for the first time.
1744 - The first official golf tournament is held in Leith, near Edinburgh, Scotland.
1783 - The Duke of Portland replaces the Earl of Shelburne as Prime Minister of Great Britain.
1800 - Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere of his First Symphony.
1801 - British forces under Horatio Nelson defeat Denmark in the naval Battle of Copenhagen.
1814 - The French senate declares Napoleon Bonaparte removed from power.
1845 - Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau and Jean Bernard Leon Foucault take the first photograph of the Sun.
1851 - Mongkut (Rama IV) is crowned King of Siam.
1865 - American Civil War: Jefferson Davis and his cabinet flee Richmond, Virginia.
1865 - American Civil War: The Siege of Petersburg is broken, as Union troops capture the trenches around Petersburg, Virginia.
1885 - Cree warriors attack the village of Frog Lake in Canada's Northwest Territories, killing 9 people.
1900 - The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.

1901 - 2000

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1902 - The Electric Theater, the first full-time movie theater in the US, opens in Los Angeles, California.
1911 - Australia's first census is held.
1912 - The ill-fated RMS Titanic begins sea trials.
1917 - Woodrow Wilson asks US Congress for war with Germany.
1921 - The Autonomous Government of Khorasan, a military government covering present-day Iran, is created.
1930 - Haile Selassie becomes Emperor of Ethiopia.
1932 - Charles Lindbergh paid a $50,000 ransom for the return of his kidnapped son.
1943 - Off Bermuda, the British ship Melbourne Star is torpedoed by the German U-boat U 129. It explodes and sinks within two minutes, killing 114 people.
1945 - The Soviet Union and Brazil establish diplomatic relations.
1962 - In road use, the first official Panda crossing is opened outside Waterloo station in London.
1972 - Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled as a Communist during the Red Scare of the 1950s.
1974 - The Westfalenstadion stadium in Dortmund is opened. It is currently the home of the Borussia Dortmund football team, and hosts international matches.
1975 - Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from the Quang Ngai Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese forces.
1975 - The CN Tower in Toronto is completed.
1978 - The television show Dallas is shown for the first time.
1982 - The Falklands War begins, as Argentine forces invade.
1984 - Rakesh Sharma becomes the first Indian in space on board the Soyuz T-11.
1989 - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Havana, Cuba, for talks with Fidel Castro in an attempt to mend strained relations.
1991 - The eruption of the Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines begins.
1991 - Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province, in British Columbia.
1992 - Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering.
1998 - Former French minister Maurice Papon is found guilty of war crimes over the deportation of more than 1,700 Jews during World War II.

From 2001

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2004 - Spanish police prevent an attempt by Islamist terrorists to blow up a high speed train near Madrid.
2005 - Pope John Paul II dies at the age of 84 years, after more than 26 years as Pope.
2006 - 60 tornadoes break out in the United States. Tennessee is the worst affected with 29 people killed.
2007 - A magnitude 8.1 earthquake hits the Solomon Islands, with resulting tsunamis destroying villages, killing 52 people, and making 5,000 homeless.
2011 - India wins the Cricket World Cup for the second time.
2012 - President of Hungary Pal Schmitt resigns after losing his doctorate in a Plagiarism scandal.
2013 - Major flooding affects Buenos Aires and La Plata in Argentina, killing 62 people.
2015 - A trawler sinks in the Sea of Okhotsk, west of Russia's far-eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, killing at least 50 sailors on board.
2015 - Al-Shabaab militants attack a university in Garissa, Kenya, killing 147 people.
2019 - Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigns as President of Algeria with immediate effect, ending his almost-20-year Presidency, after several weeks of protests.
2019 - Lori Lightfoot is elected Mayor of Chicago, making her the first African American Lesbian woman chosen to govern a major city in the United States.