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  • 1513 Explorer Juan Ponce de León claims Florida for Spain as the first known European to reach it
  • 1792 The Coinage Act is passed, establishing the United States Mint and authorizing the $10 Eagle, $5 Half-Eagle, $2.50 Quarter-Eagle gold coins, and the silver dollar, half dollar, quarter, dime, and half-dime
  • Nelson’s line anchored and in action against the Danish line, which lies between him and Copenhagen

    Battle of Copenhagen

    1801 Battle of Copenhagen: British naval forces led by Horatio Nelson destroy the Danish fleet during the Napoleonic Wars
  • 1917 US President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany
  • 1930 Ras Tafari Makonnen is proclaimed Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
  • 1982 Several thousand Argentine troops invade and seize the Falkland Islands from the United Kingdom
  • 2020 Record 6.6 million Americans file claims for unemployment in the prior week according to the US Department of Labor, 10 million in the prior two weeks
  • 2025 US President Donald Trump announces "Liberation Day", unveiling wide-ranging tariffs on foreign countries importing into the US, including 34% on China and 20% for the European Union [1]
More April 2 Events
  • 1968 "2001 A Space Odyssey" directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood, premieres at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C.
  • 1977 Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album goes to No. 1 and stays atop the charts for 31 weeks
  • 1995 Longest strike in American major league sports history (232 days) ends as MLB owners accept players’ offer to return to work without a contract; MLB is the first major pro sports league to lose an entire postseason due to a labor dispute

Electric Theatre, the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California

April 2, 1902

  • Charlemagne

    742 AD - 814 AD

  • Cornelis de Houtman

    1565 - 1599

  • Giacomo Casanova

    1725 - 1798

  • Hans Christian Andersen

    1805 - 1875

  • Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi

    1834 - 1904

  • Rodney King

    1965 - 2012
More Birthdays on April 2

  • Alec Guinness

    1914 - 2000

  • Linda Hunt

    80 Years Old

  • Christopher Meloni

    64 Years Old

  • Ajay Devgan

    56 Years Old

  • Pedro Pascal

    50 Years Old

  • Bethany Joy Lenz

    44 Years Old

  • Marvin Gaye

    1939 - 1984

  • Emmylou Harris

    78 Years Old

  • Walter Chrysler

    1875 - 1940

  • Don Sutton

    1945 - 2021

First official panda crossing opens outside Waterloo Station in London

April 2, 1962

  • 1836 English novelist and social critic Charles Dickens (24) marries Catherine Thomson Hogarth (20)
  • 1925 German lawyer and future Nazi war criminal Hans Frank (24) weds German secretary Brigitte Herbst (29) in Munich, Germany, until his execution in 1946
  • 1939 Author Jacqueline Susann (20) weds Irving Mansfield at Har Zion Temple in Philadelphia
  • 1919 American world heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey (23) divorces Maxine Gates after 2 years of marriage
  • 1984 Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (64) divorces Margaret Sinclair (35) due to irreconcilable differences, after 13 years of marriage
  • 2010 "Wayne's World" actress Tia Carrere (43) divorces British photojournalist Simon Wakelin due to irreconcilable differences after 7 years of marriage
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  • Comte de Mirabeau

    1749 - 1791

  • Samuel Morse

    1791 - 1872

  • Georges Pompidou

    1911 - 1974

  • Buddy Rich

    1917 - 1987

  • John Paul II

    1920 - 2005

  • Winnie Mandela

    1936 - 2018
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  • Zazel makes her spectacular entrance over an astonished crowd

    Flash! Bang! It's the Human Cannonball!

    An excited crowd looked up in astonishment and wonder when, in 1877, the first human cannonball flew above their heads. April 2, 1877
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  • An early cinema poster for Edgar Wallace's story, originally just called

    Giant Achievements of King Kong Creator

    April 1, 1875
  • Long haul: the Elliott computer arrives at the Town Hall. Photo: Norfolk Record Office

    The Computer That Came By Truck

    April 3, 1957
  • Martin Luther King waves to supporters after delivering his 'I have a dream' speech

    Martin Luther King Shot Dead

    April 4, 1968
  • An idealised chromolithograph depicting Pocahontas ‘saving the life’ of John Smith

    ‘I Do’ Says Pocahontas

    April 5, 1614
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