What are the important events that happened on April 2? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
April 2: Facts & Myths About This Day
April 2 is the 93rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 273 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 20, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 475,560 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘enneacontatrigon’ day.
Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 302 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,120 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 2 Historical Events
- 1800 –Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere of his First Symphony in Vienna.
- 1851 –Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand.
- 1865 –American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet flee the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.
- 1911 –The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country’s first national census.
- 1917 –World War I: President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
- 1973 –The Liberal Movement breaks away from the Liberal and Country League in South Australia.
- 1975 –Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from the Quang Ngai Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops.
- 1984 –Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma is launched aboard Soyuz T-11, and becomes the first Indian in space.
- 1992 –In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison.
- 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.
Who were born on April 2?
- 742 –Charlemagne (d. 814)
- 1527 –Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (d. 1598)
- 1788 –Wilhelmine Reichard, first German women balloonist (d. 1848)
- 1908 –Buddy Ebsen, American actor and dancer (d. 2003)
- 1912 –Herbert Mills, American singer (The Mills Brothers) (d. 1989)
- 1951 –Ayako Okamoto, Japanese golfer
- 1954 –Donald Petrie, American film director
- 1962 –Mark Shulman, American children’s author
- 1967 –Helen Chamberlain, British television presenter
- 1982 –Leyla Milani, Canadian actress and model
Who died on April 2?
- 1118 –Baldwin I of Jerusalem, King of Jerusalem (b. c. 1058)
- 1272 –Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1209)
- 1720 –Joseph Dudley, colonial Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1647)
- 1742 –James Douglas, Scottish physician and anatomist (b. 1675)
- 1865 –General A. P. Hill, American Confederate general (b. 1825)
- 1914 –Paul von Heyse, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1830)
- 1992 –Tomisaburo Wakayama, Japanese actor (b. 1929)
- 2001 –Charles Daudelin, Canadian artist (b. 1920)
- 2001 –Jennifer Syme, American actress (b. 1972)
- 2007 –Paul Reed, American actor (b. 1909)
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