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 92nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 273 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 20, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 484,320 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 ‘enneacontadigon’ day.
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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 321 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 4,485 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.
- 1801 –Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen – The British destroy the Danish fleet.
- 1902 –“Electric Theatre”, the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.
- 1917 –World War I: President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
- 1962 –The first official Panda crossing is opened outside Waterloo station, London.
- 1973 –Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service.
- 1975 –Construction of the CN Tower is completed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It reaches 553.33 m in height, becoming the world’s tallest free-standing structure.
- 1980 –President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act in an effort to help the U.S. economy rebound.
- 1984 –Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma is launched aboard Soyuz T-11, and becomes the first Indian in space.
- 2002 –Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem into which armed Palestinians had retreated. A siege ensues.
Who were born on April 2?
- 1618 –Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1663)
- 1838 –Léon Gambetta, French statesman (d. 1882)
- 1900 –Roberto Arlt, Argentine writer (d. 1942)
- 1902 –Jan Tschichold, German typographer (d. 1974)
- 1907 –Luke Appling, American baseball player (d. 1991)
- 1910 –Francisco Cândido Xavier, Most popular Brazilian medium (d. 2002)
- 1926 –Sir Jack Brabham, Australian race car driver
- 1940 –Penelope Keith, English actress
- 1947 –Camille Paglia, American feminist writer
- 1975 –Adam Rodriguez, American actor
Who died on April 2?
- 1412 –Ruy Gonzáles de Clavijo, Spanish traveler and writer
- 1640 –Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Polish author and prominent Latin poet (b. 1595)
- 1845 –Philip Charles Durham, Royal Navy Admiral (b. 1763)
- 1936 –Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (b. 1860)
- 1972 –Franz Halder, German general (b. 1884)
- 1977 –Walter Wolf, German politician (b. 1907)
- 1992 –Tomisaburo Wakayama, Japanese actor (b. 1929)
- 2000 –Tommaso Buscetta, Sicilian mafioso and pentito (b. 1928)
- 2004 –John Argyris, Greek aeronautical engineer (b. 1913)
- 2010 –Mike Cuellar, Cuban baseball player (b. 1937)
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