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What Happened on April 2nd This Day in History

Year	Name
2021	At least 49 people are killed in a train derailment in Taiwan after a truck accidentally rolls onto the track.
2021	A Capitol Police officer is killed and another injured when an attacker rams his car into a barricade outside the United States Capitol.
2020	COVID-19 pandemic: The total number of confirmed cases reach one million.
2015	Gunmen attack Garissa University College in Kenya, killing at least 148 people and wounding 79 others.
2015	Four men steal items worth up to £200 million from an underground safe deposit facility in London's Hatton Garden area in what has been called the "largest burglary in English legal history."
2014	A spree shooting occurs at the Fort Hood army base in Texas, with four dead, including the gunman, and 16 others injured.
2012	A mass shooting at Oikos University in California leaves seven people dead and three injured.
2006	Over 60 tornadoes break out in the United States; Tennessee is hardest hit with 29 people killed.
2004	Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks attempt to bomb the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid; the attack is thwarted.
2002	Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, into which armed Palestinians had retreated.
1992	In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison.
1992	Forty-two civilians are massacred in the town of Bijeljina in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1991	Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm (who had resigned) as Premier of British Columbia.
1989	Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Havana, Cuba, to meet with Fidel Castro in an attempt to mend strained relations.
1986	Alabama governor George Wallace, a former segregationist, best known for the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door", announces that he will not seek a fifth four-year term and will retire from public life upon the end of his term in January 1987.
1982	Falklands War: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.
1980	United States President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act.
1979	A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of livestock.
1976	Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
1975	Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from Quảng Ngãi Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops.
1973	Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service.
1972	Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.
1964	The Soviet Union launches Zond 1.
1956	As the World Turns and The Edge of Night premiere on CBS. The two soaps become the first daytime dramas to debut in the 30-minute format.
1954	A 19-month-old infant is swept up in the ocean tides at Hermosa Beach, California. Local photographer John L. Gaunt photographs the incident; 1955 Pulitzer winner "Tragedy by the Sea".
1930	After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia.
1921	The Autonomous Government of Khorasan, a military government encompassing the modern state of Iran, is established.
1917	American entry into World War I: President Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
1912	The ill-fated RMS Titanic begins sea trials.
1911	The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
1902	Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Mariinsky Palace, Saint Petersburg.
1902	"Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
1885	Canadian Cree warriors attack the village of Frog Lake, killing nine.
1865	American Civil War: Defeat at the Third Battle of Petersburg forces the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate government to abandon Richmond, Virginia.
1863	American Civil War: The largest in a series of Southern bread riots occurs in Richmond, Virginia.
1801	French Revolutionary Wars: In the Battle of Copenhagen a British Royal Navy squadron defeats a hastily assembled, smaller, mostly-volunteer Dano-Norwegian Navy at high cost, forcing Denmark out of the Second League of Armed Neutrality.
1800	Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere of his First Symphony in Vienna.
1792	The Coinage Act is passed by Congress, establishing the United States Mint.
1755	Commodore William James captures the Maratha fortress of Suvarnadurg on the west coast of India.
1513	Having spotted land on March 27, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León comes ashore on what is now the U.S. state of Florida, landing somewhere between the modern city of St. Augustine and the mouth of the St. Johns River.

Famous People Born on April 2

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Year	Name
1973	Dmitry Lipartov, Russian footballer
1959	Yves Lavandier, French director and producer
1951	Ayako Okamoto, Japanese golfer
1907	Luke Appling, American baseball player and manager (d. 1991)
1943	Michael Boyce, Baron Boyce, South African-English admiral and politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (d. 2022)
1938	Al Weis, American baseball player
1938	John Larsson, Swedish 17th General of The Salvation Army
1973	Roselyn Sánchez, Puerto Rican-American actress
1896	Johnny Golden, American golfer (d. 1936)
1981	Michael Clarke, Australian cricketer

Famous People Deaths On April 2

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on April 2. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
2013	Fred, French author and illustrator (b. 1931)
1977	Walter Wolf, German academic and politician (b. 1907)
1507	Francis of Paola, Italian friar and saint, founded the Order of the Minims (b. 1416)
1272	Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, English husband of Sanchia of Provence (b. 1209)
1998	Rob Pilatus, American-German singer-songwriter (b. 1965)
1803	Sir James Montgomery, 1st Baronet, Scottish judge and politician (b. 1721)
1118	Baldwin I, king of Jerusalem
1894	Achille Vianelli, Italian painter and academic (b. 1803)
2004	John Argyris, Greek computer scientist, engineer, and academic (b. 1913)
1966	C. S. Forester, English novelist (b. 1899)