SomeFacts | April 2

On this day - April 2

1513 — Having spotted land on March 27, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce ...

1725 — J. S. Bach's cantata Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend ...

1755 — Commodore William James captures the Maratha fortress of ...

1792 — The Coinage Act is passed by Congress, establishing the United ...

1800 — Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere of his First Symphony ...

1801 — French Revolutionary Wars: In the Battle of Copenhagen a ...

1863 — American Civil War: The largest in a series of Southern bread ...

1865 — American Civil War: Defeat at the Third Battle of Petersburg ...

1885 — Canadian Cree warriors attack the village of Frog Lake, ...

1902 — "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie ...

1902 — Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, ...

1911 — The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the ...

1912 — The ill-fated RMS Titanic begins sea trials.

1917 — American entry into World War I: President Wilson asks the ...

1921 — The Autonomous Government of Khorasan, a military government ...

1930 — After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie ...

1954 — A 19-month-old infant is swept up in the ocean tides at ...

1956 — As the World Turns and The Edge of Night premiere on CBS. The ...

1964 — The Soviet Union launches Zond 1.

1969 — LOT Polish Airlines Flight 165 crashes into the Polica ...

1972 — Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the ...

1973 — Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service.

1975 — Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from Quảng ...

1976 — Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is ...

1979 — A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally ...

1980 — United States President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil ...

1982 — Falklands War: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.

1986 — Alabama governor George Wallace, a former segregationist, best ...

1989 — Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Havana, Cuba, to ...

1991 — Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian ...

1992 — Forty-two civilians are massacred in the town of Bijeljina in ...

1992 — In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and ...

2002 — Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in ...

2004 — Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid ...

2006 — Over 60 tornadoes break out in the United States; Tennessee is ...

2011 — India wins the Cricket World Cup for the second time in ...

2012 — UTair Flight 120 crashes after takeoff from Roshchino ...

2012 — A mass shooting at Oikos University in California leaves seven ...

2014 — A spree shooting occurs at the Fort Hood army base in Texas, ...

2015 — Four men steal items worth up to £200 million from an ...

2015 — Gunmen attack Garissa University College in Kenya, killing at ...

2020 — COVID-19 pandemic: The total number of confirmed cases reach ...

2021 — A Capitol Police officer is killed and another injured when an ...

2021 — At least 49 people are killed in a train derailment in Taiwan ...

2024 — Viertola school shooting: A 12-year-old pupil is killed and ...

2025 — Liberation Day tariffs: U.S. President Donald Trump announces ...