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
- 1792 –The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint.
- 1865 –American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet flee the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.
- 1900 –The Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1982 –Falklands War: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.
- 1989 –Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Havana, Cuba to meet with Fidel Castro in an attempt to mend strained relations.
- 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?
- 1614 –Jahanara Begum Sahib, daughter of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal (d. 1681)
- 1861 –Iván Persa, Hungarian Slovene writer and catholic priest (d. 1935)
- 1884 –Sir John Squire, British poet, writer, and historian (d. 1958)
- 1945 –Don Sutton, American baseball player
- 1947 –Emmylou Harris, American singer
- 1948 –Dimitris Mitropanos, Greek singer
- 1949 –Ron Palillo, American actor
- 1971 –ZEEBRA, Japanese hip hop artist
- 1979 –Jesse Carmichael, American musician (Maroon 5)
- 1982 –Leyla Milani, Canadian actress and model
Who died on April 2?
- 1720 –Joseph Dudley, colonial Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1647)
- 1742 –James Douglas, Scottish physician and anatomist (b. 1675)
- 1747 –Johann Jacob Dillenius, German botanist (b. 1684)
- 1754 –Thomas Carte, English historian (b. 1686)
- 1891 –Albert Pike, American Confederate Brigadier General, envoy, author, attorney, and Freemason (b. 1809)
- 1930 –Empress Zauditu of Ethiopia (b. 1876)
- 1936 –Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (b. 1860)
- 1958 –Tudor Davies, Welsh operatic tenor (b. 1892)
- 1966 –C. S. Forester, English author (b. 1899)
- 2006 –Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, German widow of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (b. 1913)
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