Notable Historical Events on April 2nd
April 2nd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
999 |
Gerbert of Aurillac elected as 1st French Pope |
1416 |
Alfonso V succeeds his father as king of Aragon |
1453 |
Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople (İstanbul), which would fall on May 29. |
1513 |
Florida discovered, claimed for Spain by Ponce de Leon |
1550 |
Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy |
1559 |
England & France sign 1st Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambrésis |
1559 |
Genoa, Italy, expels Jews |
1590 |
States-General appoints earl Mauritius, viceroy of Utrecht |
1595 |
Cornelis de Houtman's ships depart to Asia through Cape of Good Hope |
1645 |
Robert Devereux resigns as parliament supreme commander |
1745 |
Austria & Bavaria sign peace |
1755 |
Commodore William James captures the pirate fortress of Suvarnadurg on west coast of India. |
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 & silver dollar, ½ dollar, quarter, dime & half-dime |
1800 |
1st performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's 1st Symphony in C |
1801 |
Napoleonic Wars: naval Battle of Copenhagen - The British led by Horatio Nelson destroy the Danish fleet. |
1804 |
Forty merchantmen are wrecked when a convoy led by HMS Apollo runs aground off Portugal. |
1819 |
1st successful agricultural journal ("American Farmer") begins |
1827 |
Joseph Dixon begins manufacturing lead pencils |
1845 |
H L Fizeau & J Leon Foucault take 1st photo of Sun |
1860 |
1st Italian Parliament met at Turin |
1863 |
Bread revolt in Richmond, Virginia |
1864 |
Skirmish at Crump's Hill (Piney Woods), Louisiana |
1864 |
Skirmish at Spoonville/Antoine, Arkansas |
1865 |
Battle of Petersburg, VA (Ft Gregg, Sutherland's Station) |
1865 |
CSA President Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond, VA |
1865 |
Battle of Ft Blakely AL & Selma AL |
1866 |
US President Johnson ends civil war in Ala, Ark, Fla, Ga, Miss, La, NC, SC, Tn & Va |
1872 |
George B Brayton patents gasoline powered engine |
1876 |
Philadelphia A's & Boston Red Caps play 1st NL game, in Phila |
1877 |
1st Easter egg roll held on White House lawn |
1878 |
1st issue of Rotterdam's Newspaper |
1883 |
Battle at Bamako: French assault on Fabous arm forces attack |
1884 |
London prison for debtors closed |
1900 |
1st edition of The Volk published (Amsterdam) |
1902 |
1st motion picture theater opens (LA) |
1902 |
Soccer team MVV '02 forms in Maastricht |
1902 |
Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated by a terrorist in the Marie Palace, St Petersburg. |
1902 |
"Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California. |
1905 |
Cairo-Capetown railway opens |
1906 |
South Africa complete a 4-1 series drubbing of England |
1908 |
Mills Committee declares baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday |
1912 |
Sun Yet Sen forms Guomindang Party in China |
1912 |
Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power |
1916 |
German troops overtake Bois de Caillette |
1916 |
57 armed New Zealand police invade the remote Ngāi Tūhoe settlement of Maungapōhatu in the Urewera Ranges to arrest the Māori prophet Rua Kēnana |
1917 |
Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Mont) begins her term as 1st woman member of US House of Reps |
1917 |
US President Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany |
1921 |
Prof Albert Einstein lectures in New York City on his new Theory of Relativity |
1926 |
Riots between Moslems & Hindus in Calcutta |
1930 |
1st NY-Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda |
1931 |
Teenage girl strikes out Babe Ruth & Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game in Chattanooga, Tennessee |
1932 |
Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for kidnapped son |
1935 |
Mary Hirsch, becomes 1st woman licensed as a horse trainer |
1935 |
Sir Robert Watson-Watt patents RADAR |
1939 |
6th Golf Masters Championship: Ralph Guldahl wins, shooting a 279 |
1941 |
German occupier disallows Dutch scouting association |
1942 |
USS Hornet with Jimmy Doolittles B-25 departs from San Francisco |
1944 |
CPI-leader Palmiro Togliatti returns to Italy |
1944 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 8th Symphony premieres in NY |
1944 |
Soviet Army marches into pro-German Romania |
1945 |
1st US units reach east coast of Okinawa |
1945 |
Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Brazil are established. |
1947 |
Carlo Terron's "Il diamente del profeta" premieres in Rome |
1950 |
WTAR (now WTKR) TV channel 3 in Norfolk, VA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
Raab forms his 1st government in Austria |
1954 |
Plans to build Disneyland 1st announced [see Jan 26] |
1955 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright |
1955 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins |
1955 |
Pancho Gonzales retains tennis title by winning a tournament playing under table tennis rules |
1956 |
Peter Ustinovs' "Romanoff & Juliet" premieres in Manchester |
1956 |
Soap operas "As the World Turns" & "Edge of Night" premiere on TV |
1958 |
Antillean Brewery (Amstel beer) opens |
1958 |
Wind speed reaches 450 kph in tornado, Wichita Falls, TX (record) |
1960 |
Cuba buys oil from USSR |
1960 |
KPEC TV channel 56 in Lakewood Center-Tacoma, WA (PBS) 1st broadcast |
1962 |
The first official Panda crossing is opened outside Waterloo station, London. |
1963 |
Explorer 17 attains Earth orbit (254/914 km) |
1963 |
USSR launches Luna 4; missed Moon by 8,500 km |
1964 |
Josef Klaus succeeds Alfons Gorbach as chancellor of Austria |
1964 |
Military coup in Brazil by Gen Castello Branco, Pres Goulart ousted |
1964 |
USSR launches Zond 1 to Venus; no data returned |
1965 |
Hochhuths play "Stellvertreter" banned in Italy |
1966 |
Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes 1st spacecraft to orbit Moon |
1966 |
WJET TV channel 24 in Erie, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1967 |
Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Louise Suggs Golf Invitational |
1968 |
Beatles form Python Music Ltd |
1968 |
Chad creates Union of Central African States |
1968 |
Senator E Mccarthy wins Democratic primaries in Wisconsin |
1968 |
Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Spacey Odyssey" is released |
1969 |
Milwaukee Bucks sign (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) |
1970 |
Meghalaya becomes autonomous state within India's Assam state |
1970 |
Qatar gains independence from Britain |
1970 |
2 men begin ascent of south face of Annapurna I, highest final stage in a wall climb in world |
1971 |
Sci-fi soap opera "Dark Shadows" concludes an almost 5 year run |
1971 |
Libya concludes 5 weeks of negotiations with Western oil companies in Tripoli |
1972 |
44th Academy Awards - "French Connection", Gene Hackman & Jane Fonda win |
1972 |
Prime Minister Begin visits Cairo |
1972 |
Tennessee Williams' "Small Craft Warnings" premieres in NYC |
1973 |
CBS radio begins on hour news 24 hours a day |
1973 |
ITT admits to asking CIA to influence Chilean presidential election |
1973 |
Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service. |
1974 |
46th Academy Awards - "The Sting", Glenda Jackson & Jack Lemmon win |
1974 |
Arganat Comm publishes report concerning Yom Kippur War |
1974 |
Tony Greig takes 8-86 v WI Port-of-Spain (later 5-70 in 2nd inn) |
1975 |
Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from the Quang Ngai Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops. |
1976 |
Cambodia Khieu Sampan succeeds Prince Sihanouk as Premier |
1976 |
Portuguese constitution assumed |
1976 |
A's trade prospective free agents Reggie Jackson & Ken Holtzman, to Orioles for Don Baylor, Mike Torrez & Paul Mitchell |
1977 |
Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks |
1977 |
Mont Canadiens set NHL record of 34 straight home games without a lose |
1978 |
7th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post |
1978 |
Basil Williams scores 100 on Test Cricket debut, v Aust Georgetown |
1978 |
TV show "Dallas" premieres on CBS (as a 5 week mini-series) |
1978 |
Velcro was 1st put on the market |
1979 |
Israeli PM Menachem Begin visits Cairo Egypt/meets pres Sadat |
1980 |
Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st teenager to score 50 goals in a season |
1981 |
Belgium's 4th government of Martens resigns |
1981 |
Heavy battle between Christian militia & Syrian army in East Lebanon |
1982 |
Several thousand Argentine troops seize the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands from Great Britain |
1982 |
In exhibition game A's pitcher Steve McCatty comes to bat using a 15" toy bat (under Billy Martins orders), protesting disallowing of DH |
1984 |
46th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: Georgetown beats Houston 84-75 |
1985 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1986 |
4 US passengers killed by bomb at TWA counter Athens Airport Greece |
1986 |
George Corley Wallace (Gov-D-Ala) announces retirement plans |
1986 |
NCAA adopts 3-point basketball rule (19 feet 9 inch distance) |
1987 |
"Mikado" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 46 performances |
1987 |
Doc Gooden undergoes cocaine rehabilitation |
1987 |
IBM introduces PS/2 & OS/2 |
1988 |
Simply Majestic sets horse racing's 1-1/8 mile record at 1:45 |
1988 |
Test Cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, WI v Pakistan, Georgetown |
1989 |
18th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Juli Inkster |
1989 |
8th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Auburn 76-60 |
1989 |
Wrestlemania V at Trump Plaza, Hulk Hogan beats "Macho Man" Savage |
1989 |
Yanks beat Mets 4-0, sweeping 1989 mayor's trophy series in 2 games |
1990 |
52nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Nevada-LV beats Duke 103-73 |
1991 |
Rotterdam Daily Newspaper begins publishing |
1992 |
"Hamlet" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances |
1992 |
Edith Cresson, France's 1st female premier, resigns |
1992 |
John Gotti found guilty of five murders (Paul Castellano, Thomas Bilotti, Robert DiBernardo, Liborio Milito and Louis Dibono), conspiracy to murder Gaetano "Corky" Vastola, loansharking, illegal gambling, obstruction of justice, bribery and tax evasion. |
1992 |
Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) lands |
1993 |
1st test flight of Fokker 70 (Amsterdam) |
1993 |
Venezuelan DC-10 crashes at Margarita, killing 10 |
1994 |
1st exhibition game played at Jacobs Field, Pirates beat Indians, 6-4 |
1995 |
14th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: U of Ct Huskies beats TN 70-64 |
1995 |
7th Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus |
1995 |
Baseball season opener delayed until April 26 |
1995 |
NY Police Dept & NY Transit Police merge into one organization |
1995 |
North & Western Colorado begins using new area code 970 |
1995 |
Owners accept baseball players proposal, agree to start season 4/26 |
1995 |
Sunday NY Times raises price from $2.00 to $2.50 |
1995 |
Wrestlemania XI in Conn-Lawrence Taylor defeats Bam Bam Bigelow |
1996 |
Tigers slugger Cecil Fielder steals 1st base in 1,097th career game |
1996 |
Sri Lanka 9-349 in 50 overs beat Pakistan 315 all out, Singapore Jayasuriya hits ton in 48 balls, world ODI record at Singapore |
1997 |
"Doll's House" opens at Belasco Theater NYC |
1998 |
World Mens Figure Skating Championship in Minn |
2000 |
19th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at Corel State Spectrum |
2001 |
63rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Metrodome Minneapolis |
2002 |
Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem into which armed Palestinians had retreated. A siege ensues. |
2004 |
Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks attempt to bomb the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid. Their attack is thwarted. |
2005 |
James Stewart Jr. becomes first African American to win a major motor sports event. |
2006 |
Over 60 tornadoes break out, hardest hit is Tennessee with 29 people killed. |
2010 |
Kobe Bryant signs a three-year contract extension with the Los Angeles Lakers worth $87 million |
2012 |
Oikos University, Oakland shooting kills seven people and injures 3 |
2013 |
9 mutilated bodies are found in an SUV in Tamaulipas, Mexico |
2013 |
7 people are killed in an attack on a power plant in Peshawar, Pakistan |
2013 |
Eurozone unemployment reaches a high of 12% |
2013 |
13 children are killed in a fire in a mosque in Yangon, Burma |
2013 |
13 people are killed in a quarry accident, in Arusha, Tanzania |
2013 |
4 more critical cases of bird flu (H7N9) are reported in China |
2013 |
The UN General Assembly approves the first Arms Trade Treaty |
2013 |
Uruguay passes legislation to legalize same-sex marriage |
2016 |
FBI assures it will help authorities unlock devices when allowed by law |
2016 |
Greece passes law allowing migrants' return to Turkey |
2017 |
Colombia mudslide, flooding kill 254 in midnight deluge |
2017 |
US-led Coalition strikes against ISIS have killed 229 civilians: Pentagon report |
2017 |
Mississippi State Ends UConn's 111-Game Winning Streak |
2018 |
China space lab mostly burns up on re-entry in south Pacific |
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