Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 2
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File:Seal of the United States Mint.svg|U.S. Mint seal
File:Kubrick on the set of Barry Lyndon (1975 publicity photo) crop.jpg|Stanley Kubrick
File:HoratioNelson1.jpg|Horatio Nelson
File:Juan Ponce de León.jpg|Juan Ponce de León
File:Francis Holman, Commodore James in the Protector, with the Revenge and the grab Bombay in the bay off the Suvarnadrug fort at Gheriah, India, April 1755 (18th century).jpg|William James' ships capture Suvarnadurg
File:88-90 Hatton Garden, front door TQ3181 U23.jpg|Hatton Garden safe-deposit facility
File:John Gotti 2.jpg|John Gotti
File:Corteo_Reale_all%27_Apertura_del_Parlamento_del_Regno_d%27_Italia.jpg|Italian Parliament
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| Holy Week begins (Western Christianity);
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| Palm Sunday
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| 1755 – A naval fleet led by Commodore William James of the East India Company captured the fortress Suvarnadurg from the Marathas.
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| 1792 – By the Coinage Act, the United States Mint was founded and U.S. currency was decimalized.
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| 1800 – Russia and the Ottoman Empire signed the Treaty of Constantinople, establishing the Septinsular Republic, the first autonomous Greek state in more than 300 years.
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| 1801 – War of the Second Coalition: British forces led by Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson defeated the Dano-Norwegian fleet at the Battle of Copenhagen.
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| 1863 – About 5,000 people in Richmond, Virginia, mostly poor women, rioted in protest of the high price of bread (depicted).
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| 1885 – North-West Rebellion: Led by Wandering Spirit, young Cree warriors attacked the village of Frog Lake, North-West Territories (now in Alberta), where they killed nine settlers.
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| 1945 – Brazil established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, but maintained a neutral relationship during the Cold War that was limited to commercial trade and cooperation agreements of minimal importance.
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| 1956 – As the World Turns premiered on American television as the first half-hour soap opera.
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| 1962 – The first official panda crossing opened outside London Waterloo station.
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| 1973 – The LEXIS computer-assisted legal research service launched as a continuation of an experiment organized by the Ohio State Bar in 1967.
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| 1976 – Norodom Sihanouk (pictured) resigned as leader of Cambodia and was arrested by the Khmer Rouge.
| resignation was only retroactively declared on this day |
| 2006 – More than 60 tornadoes touched down in the central United States, killing 27 people and causing about $1.1 billion in damage.
| resignation was only retroactively declared on this day |
| Giacomo Casanova |d|1798
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| Paškal Buconjić |b|1834|
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| Max Ernst |b|1891
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| Ranjitsinhji |d|1933|
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- 1513 – Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León sighted land in North America, naming the area La Florida.
- 1860 – The first modern Italian Parliament is opened in Turin, following the annexation of Central Italy into the Kingdom of Sardinia.
- 1865 – American Civil War: On the third attempt, Union forces captured Petersburg, Virginia, although Confederate officials and most of their remaining troops were able to escape.
- 1911 – The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducted the first national census of the country.
- 1992 – John Gotti (pictured), the head of the Gambino crime family of New York City, was convicted of racketeering, murder, conspiracy to commit murder, loansharking, obstruction of justice, illegal gambling, and tax evasion.
- 2002 – Second Intifada: Palestinian militants sought refuge from advancing Israeli forces in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, beginning a month-long siege.
- 2012 – A gunman shot at people inside Oikos University, a Korean Christian college in Oakland, California, leaving seven people dead and three injured.
- 2015 – Gunmen attacked Garissa University College in Kenya, killing 148 people and wounding 79 others.
- Born/died: | Charlemagne |b|747|Maria Sibylla Merian |b|1647| Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin |b|1755| Clément Ader |b|1841| Albert Pike |d|1891| Sue Townsend |b|1946| Juanito |d|1992| Arthur Kopit |d|2021
Notes
- 1920 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak appears on March 28 and Super Outbreak (1974) appears on April 3 and 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak appears on April 5, so 2006 outbreak should not appear in the same year
- Florida Territory appears on March 30, so Ponce de León should not appear in the same year
- Battle of Five Forks appears on April 1, so Third Battle of Petersburg should not appear in the same year
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April 2: World Autism Awareness Day; feast day of Saint Francis of Paola (Catholicism); Malvinas Day in Argentina (1982)
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- 1968 – 2001: A Space Odyssey, the epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, premiered at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C.
- 1979 – Spores of anthrax were accidentally released from a military research facility near the city of Sverdlovsk, causing at least 68 deaths.
- 1982 – Argentine special forces invaded the Falkland Islands, sparking the Falklands War against the United Kingdom.
- 1992 – Bosnian War: At least 48 civilians were massacred in the town of Bijeljina in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 2015 – Six elderly men burgled a safe-deposit facility (pictured) in Hatton Garden, London, and stole items worth up to an estimated £14 million.
{{Born and died list|Prince George of Denmark |b|1653|Wilhelmine Reichard |b|1788|Sir James Montgomery, 1st Baronet |d|1803|Elizabeth Catlett |d|2012|}}
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