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02 Apr 1453
Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople (stanbul) which falls May 29
02 Apr 1550
Jewish physician Joseph Hacohen expelled from city of Genoa all Jews soon after
02 Apr 1559
England & France sign 1st Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambrsis
02 Apr 1590
States-General appoints earl Mauritius viceroy of Utrecht
02 Apr 1595
Cornelis de Houtmans ships depart to Asia through Cape of Good Hope
02 Apr 1645
Robert Devereux resigns as parliament supreme commander
02 Apr 1755
Commodore William James captures the pirate fortress of Suvarnadurg on west coast of India
02 Apr 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 dollar quarter dime & half-dime
02 Apr 1804
Forty merchantmen are wrecked when a convoy led by HMS Apollo runs aground off Portugal.
02 Apr 1819
1st successful agricultural journal (American Farmer) first publishes
02 Apr 1827
US inventor Joseph Dixon of Salem Massachusetts begins manufacturing lead pencils
02 Apr 1845
H L Fizeau & Leon Foucault take 1st photo of the Sun
02 Apr 1864
Skirmish at Crumps Hill (Piney Woods) Louisiana
02 Apr 1865
Battle of Petersburg ends as the Army of Northern Virginia is forced to retreat under heavy fire from a general Union offensive
02 Apr 1865
Battle of Fort Blakely Alabama last major battle of the US Civil War
02 Apr 1865
Battle of Selma Alabmaa Union forces break Confederates defenses to secure the town
02 Apr 1872
US engineer George Brayton patents an internal combustion engine (Brayton Cycle)
02 Apr 1876
Philadelphia As and Boston Red Caps play 1st NL game in Philadelphia
02 Apr 1883
Battle at Bamako French assault on Fabous arm forces attack
02 Apr 1902
MVV Football Club is established in Maastricht The Netherlands
02 Apr 1902
Dmitry Sipyagin Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire is assassinated by a terrorist in the Marie Palace St Petersburg
02 Apr 1902
Electric Theatre the first full-time movie theater in the United States opens in Los Angeles California
02 Apr 1906
South Africa complete a 4-1 series drubbing of England
02 Apr 1908
Mills Committee declares baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday
02 Apr 1916
57 armed New Zealand police invade the remote Ngi Thoe settlement of Maungaphatu in the Urewera Ranges to arrest the Mori prophet Rua Knana
02 Apr 1930
1st NY-Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda
02 Apr 1935
Mary Hirsch becomes 1st woman licensed as a horse trainer
02 Apr 1939
6th US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Ralph Guldahl wins his only Masters title with a tournament record 279 (9) 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Sam Snead
02 Apr 1941
German occupier disallows Dutch scouting association
02 Apr 1944
Palmiro Togliatti leader of the Italian Communist Party returns to Italy from the Soviet Union
02 Apr 1945
Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Brazil are established
02 Apr 1947
Carlo Terrons Il diamente del profeta premieres in Rome
02 Apr 1950
WTAR (now WTKR) TV channel 3 in Norfolk VA (CBS) begins broadcasting
02 Apr 1954
Plans to build Disneyland 1st announced [see Jan 26]
02 Apr 1955
US female Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
02 Apr 1955
US male Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins
02 Apr 1955
Pancho Gonzales retains tennis title by winning a tournament playing under table tennis rules
02 Apr 1956
Peter Ustinovs Romanoff & Juliet premieres in Manchester
02 Apr 1956
Soap operas As the World Turns & Edge of Night premiere on TV
02 Apr 1958
Wind speed reaches a record 450 kph in tornado Wichita Falls Texas
02 Apr 1960
Mabry Harper catches a world record 25 lb Walleye in Tennessee
02 Apr 1960
KPEC TV channel 56 in Lakewood Center-Tacoma WA (PBS) 1st broadcast
02 Apr 1962
The first official Panda crossing is opened outside Waterloo station London.
02 Apr 1964
Military coup in Brazil by Gen Castello Branco President Goulart ousted
02 Apr 1964
USSR launches Zond 1 to Venus no data returned
02 Apr 1965
Hochhuths play Stellvertreter banned in Italy
02 Apr 1966
Soviet Unions Luna 10 becomes 1st spacecraft to orbit Moon
02 Apr 1966
WJET TV channel 24 in Erie PA (ABC) begins broadcasting
02 Apr 1970
Meghalaya becomes autonomous state within Indias Assam state
02 Apr 1970
2 men begin ascent of south face of Annapurna I highest final stage in a wall climb in world
02 Apr 1971
Dark Shadows American Gothic soap opera concludes an almost 5 year run
02 Apr 1971
Libya concludes 5 weeks of negotiations with Western oil companies in Tripoli
02 Apr 1973
CBS radio begins on the hour news 24 hours a day
02 Apr 1973
ITT admits to asking CIA to influence Chilean presidential election
02 Apr 1973
Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service.
02 Apr 1974
Arganat Comm publishes report concerning Yom Kippur War
02 Apr 1975
Vietnam War Thousands of civilian refugees flee from the Quang Ngai Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops.
02 Apr 1976
Cambodia Khieu Sampan succeeds Prince Sihanouk as Premier
02 Apr 1977
Fleetwood Macs Rumours album goes 1 & stays 1 for 31 weeks
02 Apr 1977
Montreal Canadiens set NHL record of 34 straight home games without a lose
02 Apr 1977
131st Grand National Tommy Stack wins aboard 91 Red Rum record third GN victory (1973-74) Charlotte Brew first female to ride in the race
02 Apr 1978
Basil Williams scores 100 on Test Cricket debut v Aust Georgetown
02 Apr 1978
TV soap show Dallas starring Larry Hagman and Barbara Bel Geddes premieres on CBS (as a 5 week mini-series)
02 Apr 1979
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in Cairo
02 Apr 1980
Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st teenager to score 50 goals in a season
02 Apr 1981
Heavy battle between Christian militia & Syrian army in East Lebanon
02 Apr 1982
Several thousand Argentine troops seize the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands from Great Britain
02 Apr 1982
In exhibition game As pitcher Steve McCatty comes to bat using a 15 toy bat (under Billy Martins orders) protesting disallowing of DH
02 Apr 1984
46th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Georgetown beats Houston 84-75
02 Apr 1986
4 US passengers killed by bomb at TWA counter Athens Airport Greece
02 Apr 1986
George Corley Wallace (Gov-D-Ala) announces retirement plans
02 Apr 1986
NCAA adopts 3-point basketball rule (19 feet 9 inch distance)
02 Apr 1986
NYC Mayor Ed Koch signs & brings the Gay Rights Bill into effect
02 Apr 1987
Mikado opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 46 performances
02 Apr 1988
Simply Majestic sets horse racings 1-18 mile record at 145
02 Apr 1988
Test Cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose WI v Pakistan Georgetown
02 Apr 1989
Nabisco Dinah Shore Womens Golf Mission Hills CC Juli Inkster leads wire-to-wire to win her second DS event 5 strokes ahead of runners-up JoAnne Carner and Tammie Green
02 Apr 1989
8th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Tennessee beats Auburn 76-60
02 Apr 1989
Yanks beat Mets 4-0 sweeping mayors trophy series in 2 games
02 Apr 1990
52nd NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Nevada-LV beats Duke 103-73
02 Apr 1992
Hamlet opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
02 Apr 1992
Edith Cresson Frances 1st female premier resigns
02 Apr 1993
Venezuelan DC-10 crashes at Margarita killing 10
02 Apr 1994
1st exhibition game played at Jacobs Field Pirates beat Indians 6-4
02 Apr 1995
14th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Connecticut Huskies beat Tennessee 70-64
02 Apr 1995
NY Police Department & NY Transit Police merge into one organization
02 Apr 1995
North & Western Colorado begins using new area code 970
02 Apr 1995
Owners accept baseball players proposal agree to start season 426
02 Apr 1995
Sunday NY Times raises price from 2.00 to 2.50
02 Apr 1996
Tigers slugger Cecil Fielder steals 1st base in 1097th career game
02 Apr 2000
19th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Connecticut beats Tennessee 71-52
02 Apr 2001
63rd NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Duke beats Arizona 82-72
02 Apr 2002
Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem into which armed Palestinians had retreated. A siege ensues.
02 Apr 2004
Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March Madrid attacks attempt to bomb the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid. Their attack is thwarted.
02 Apr 2005
James Stewart Jr. becomes first African American to win a major motor sports event.
02 Apr 2006
Over 60 tornadoes break out hardest hit is Tennessee with 29 people killed.
02 Apr 2006
Kraft Nabisco Championship Womens Golf Mission Hills CC Australian Karrie Webb beats Lorena Ochoa of Mexico with a birdie on the 1st playoff hole earlier eagles same hole to force the playoff
02 Apr 2007
69th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Florida beats Ohio State 84-75
02 Apr 2012
Oikos University Oakland shooting kills seven people and injures 3
02 Apr 2012
74th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Kentucky defeats Kansas 67-59
02 Apr 2013
9 mutilated bodies are found in an SUV in Tamaulipas Mexico
02 Apr 2013
7 people are killed in an attack on a power plant in Peshawar Pakistan
02 Apr 2013
13 children are killed in a fire in a mosque in Yangon Burma
02 Apr 2013
13 people are killed in a quarry accident in Arusha Tanzania
02 Apr 2013
4 more critical cases of bird flu (H7N9) are reported in China
02 Apr 2013
The UN General Assembly approves the first Arms Trade Treaty
02 Apr 2013
Uruguay passes legislation to legalize same-sex marriage
02 Apr 2015
140 people are killed after gunmen attack Garissa University College Kenya
02 Apr 2017
Attack on visitors to Muslim shrine by a custodian and others in Sargodha Pakistan leaves 20 dead
02 Apr 2017
ANA Inspiration Womens Golf Mission Hills CC Ryu So-yeon of South Korea wins 2nd major in a playoff with Lexi Thompson who had earlier been penalised 4 strokes
02 Apr 2018
ANA Inspiration Womens Golf Mission Hills CC Pernilla Lindberg of Sweden gains her first pro win in a sudden-death playoff againstInbee Park and Jennifer Song that extends to 8 holes
02 Apr 2018
NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Tournament championship game Villanova defeat Michigan 7962 in San Antonio Texas
02 Apr 1902
Dutch football club Maatschappelijke Voetbal Vereniging (MVV) is established in Maastricht Netherlands
02 Apr 1906
Dave Nourse takes 4 wickets and Reggie Schwarz 3 as South Africa wins the 5th cricket Test in Cape Town to complete a 4-1 series drubbing of England
02 Apr 1908
Mills Committee declares baseball was invented by in 1839 by future American Civil War general Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown New York known as the Doubleday myth
02 Apr 1942
LPGA Titleholders Championship Womens Golf Augusta CC Dorothy Kirby retains title by 5 strokes ahead of Eileen Stulb
02 Apr 1960
Mabry Harper catches a world record 25lb Walleye at Cedar Bluff on the Cumberland River in Tennessee
02 Apr 1969
Toronto center Forbes Kennedy sets a Stanley Cup playoff record for most penalties in one game with 8 as the Maple Leafs crash 10-0 to the Bruins at Boston Bostons first NHL playoff victory in 10 years
02 Apr 1977
Montreal Canadiens rout the Washington Capitals 11-0 at the Montreal Forum to set an NHL record of 34 straight home games without a loss
02 Apr 1978
Jamaican batsman Basil Williams scores 100 on debut for the West Indies in Australias 3 wicket 3rd Test victory in Georgetown Guyana
02 Apr 1985
Edmonton center Wayne Gretzky sets an NHL record with his 34th career hat trick as the Oilers beat the Kings 6-4 in Los Angeles
02 Apr 1985
Quebecs Czech center Peter Stastny scores his 100th NHL point of the season for the 5th straight year with an assist for the Nordiques in a 6-4 win over the Boston Bruins in Quebec City
02 Apr 1985
The NCAA Rules Committee adopts a 45-second shot clock for mens basketball to begin in the 1986 season in an effort to eliminate stalling
02 Apr 1986
NCAA Basketball Rules Committee votes to adopt the 3-point shot beginning the -87 season sets college distance at 19 feet 9 inches compared to 21 feet in the NBA
02 Apr 1988
West Indies cricket fast bowling great Curtly Ambrose makes his debut in 9 wicket 1st Test defeat to Pakistan in Georgetown Guyana low key debut with 2-108
02 Apr 1989
8th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Tennessee beats Auburn 76-60 Lady Vols forward Bridgette Gordon MOP
02 Apr 1989
Calgary Flames right wing Joe Mullen sets new NHL record for most points in a season by a American-born player with a goal and 2 assists in a 4-2 win over Edmonton Oilers gives him 110 points
02 Apr 1990
52nd NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Nevada-LV beats Duke 103-73 record largest margin of victory in a championship game Runnin Rebels first title
02 Apr 1993
Cleveland Cavaliers guard Mark Price has his consecutive free throw streak end at 77 during a 114-113 loss at Charlotte falls 1 short of Calvin Murphys NBA record of 78 straight free throws
02 Apr 1995
14th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Connecticut beats Tennessee 70-64 Huskies first NCAA title completing first undefeated season since 1986 Texas
02 Apr 1995
Longest strike in American major league sports history (232 days) ends as MLB owners accept players offer to return to work without a contract MLB is first major pro sports league to lose an entire postseason due to labor struggles
02 Apr 1996
Detroit Tigers slugger Cecil Fielder steals 1st base in 1097th career game a 10-6 win at Minnesota Twins longest duration in MLB history without a stolen base
02 Apr 1996
Vancouver Grizzlies beat Minnesota Timberwolves 105-103 at General Motors Place Arena to end their NBA single-season record 23-game consecutive loss streak
02 Apr 2000
19th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Connecticut beats Tennessee 71-52 Huskies point guard Shea Ralph is named the Most Outstanding Player
02 Apr 2000
Atlanta center Ray Ferraro scores a goal and added 2 assists as the Thrashers end an NHL record 17-game home winless streak (0-15-2) with a 5-4 win against the visiting New York Islanders
02 Apr 2000
Adam Gilchrist takes his 10th catch in the 3rd cricket Test against New Zealand in Hamilton to create an Australian record for dismissals by a wicketkeeper Australia wins by 6 wickets for 3-0 series sweep
02 Apr 2001
63rd NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Duke beats Arizona 82-72 Blue Devils 3rd title forward Shane Battier MOP
02 Apr 2001
Seattle outfielder Ichiro Suzuki has 2 hits and becomes first Japanese position player to play in a regular season MLB game as Mariners beat Oakland As 5-4 at Safeco Field
02 Apr 2003
At 27 years 249 days Texas Rangers infielder Alex Rodriguez becomes the youngest MLB player to hit 300 home runs homers off Ramon Ortiz in 5th inning of an 11-5 loss to the Angels in Anaheim
02 Apr 2005
Bubba Stewart becomes first African-American to win a major motor sports event when he takes out the Monster Energy AMA Supercross Cship event in Irving Texas
02 Apr 2005
Newcastle United team mates Kieron Dyer and Lee Bowyer are sent off for fighting each other in a 3-0 home defeat to EPL rivals Aston Villa at St. James Park
02 Apr 2007
69th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Florida beats Ohio State 84-75 Gators back-to-back titles forward Corey Brewer named Most Outstanding Player
02 Apr 2011
Cricket World Cup Wankhede Stadium Mumbai India beats Sri Lanka by 6 wickets first country to win on home soil Yuvraj Singh Player of Series
02 Apr 2012
74th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Kentucky defeats Kansas 67-59 Wildcats guard Doron Lamb 22 points
02 Apr 2017
36th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship South Carolina defeats Mississippi State 67-55 Gamecocks power forward Aja Wilson 23 points
02 Apr 2017
WrestleMania XXXIII Camping World Stadium Orlando FL Roman Reigns defeats The Undertaker Brock Lesnar beats Goldberg first wrestler to win both WWE and Universal Championships
02 Apr 2018
80th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Villanova defeats Michigan 7962 Wildcats guard Donte DiVincenzo 31 points
02 Apr 2019
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (82) resigns after 20 years in office after widespread protests over running for another term
02 Apr 2019
Canada is warming at twice the speed of the rest of the world according to a federal report increasing 2.3% in northern Canada
02 Apr 2019
70 villages evacuated in Khuzesta province Iran after at least 45 killed in flooding after unprecedented rainfall
02 Apr 2019
NASA states it wants to send astronauts to Mars by 2033 and land on the Moon again in 2024
02 Apr 2019
OKC guard Russell Westbrook becomes 2nd player in NBA history to have 20 points rebounds and assists in a game records 20-20-21 in 119-103 win over LA Lakers
02 Apr 1865
Battle of Selma Alabama Union forces break Confederates defenses to secure the town
02 Apr 2005
Newcastle United teammates Kieron Dyer and Lee Bowyer are sent off for fighting each other in a 3-0 home defeat to EPL rivals Aston Villa at St. James Park
02 Apr 2020
Record 6.6 million Americans filed claims for unemployment in last week according to the US Department of Labor 10 million over 2 weeks
02 Apr 1971
Dark Shadows American Gothic supernatural soap opera concludes an almost 5 year run on ABC
02 Apr 1977
Fleetwood Macs Rumours album goes to No. 1 & stays atop charts for 31 weeks
02 Apr 1978
Georges de Mestrals patent for velvet type fabric expires puts Velcro in the open market
02 Apr 2020
Spains death toll passes 10000 (10003) as it posts a record single-day rise of 950 deaths
02 Apr 1767
King Charles III of Spain gives orders to expel the Jesuits from the Spanish Empire
02 Apr 1954
Ed Woods cult classic film Glen or Glenda initially screened as I Changed My Sex premieres in San Francisco California
02 Apr 1992
Edith Cresson Frances 1st female prime minister resigns
02 Apr 2011
ICC Mens Cricket ODI World Cup Wankhede Stadium Mumbai India India beats Sri Lanka by 6 wickets for their second title Player of the Match MS Dhoni (IND) 91 no (79)
02 Apr 2018
ANA Inspiration Womens Golf Mission Hills CC Pernilla Lindberg of Sweden gains her first pro win in a sudden-death playoff against Inbee Park and Jennifer Song that extends to 8 holes
02 Apr 2020
New study shows western Antarctica once swampy with temperate forests 93-83 million years ago during Cretaceous period according to Alfred Wegener Institute
02 Apr 2021
New study suggests the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago created South Americas tropical rainforests [1]
02 Apr 2022
Ukraine liberates the entire Kyiv region from retreating Russian forces
02 Apr 2023
Finnish parliamentary elections give center right National Coalition Party lead by Petteri Orpo a slender advantage defeating PM Sanna Marins center left Social Democrats without a clear majority [1]
02 Apr 2023
Footage of deepest living fish ever recorded the snailfish released caught on camera at depth of 27349 feet (8336 meters) in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench south of Japan [1]
02 Apr 2023
Lake Tulare once the largest body of water west of the Mississippi re-emerges after a series of storms in Californias Central Valley to cover 160 square miles [1]
02 Apr 1962
Eye of the Needle a revolving restaurant opens atop the Space Needle at the Century 21 Exposition (Worlds Fair) in Seattle Washington designed by architect John Graham Jr [1]
02 Apr 1982
Several thousand Argentine troops invade and seize the Falkland Islands from the United Kingdom
02 Apr 2024
Bassirou Diomaye Faye takes office as President of Senegal and Africas youngest elected President at 44 [1]
02 Apr 2024
Portuguese center-right minority government sworn in led by Prime Minister Luis Montenegro [1]
02 Apr 1550
Jewish physician Joseph Hacohen is expelled from the city of Genoa followed by the expulsion of all Jews soon afterward
02 Apr 1559
England and France sign the first Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambrsis
02 Apr 1590
The States-General appoints Earl Maurice as the Viceroy of Utrecht
02 Apr 1645
Robert Devereux 3rd Earl of Essex resigns as Parliaments supreme commander during the English Civil War
02 Apr 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 and the silver dollar half dollar quarter dime and half-dime
02 Apr 1804
Forty merchantmen are wrecked when a convoy led by HMS Apollo runs aground off the coast of Portugal
02 Apr 1845
H. L. Fizeau and Lon Foucault take the first photo of the Sun
02 Apr 1864
Skirmish at Crumps Hill Piney Woods Louisiana
02 Apr 1877
First Easter egg roll held on White House lawn
02 Apr 1878
First issue of Rotterdams Newspaper is published
02 Apr 1883
First Battle of Woyowoyank between French forces and the Wassulu Empire of Samori Ture
02 Apr 1900
First edition of Het Volk (The People) is published in Amsterdam
02 Apr 1916
German troops overtake Bois Caillette in Caillette Wood
02 Apr 1930
First New York to Bermuda flight lands in Hamilton Harbor
02 Apr 1937
Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget (SAAB) is founded in Trollhttan Sweden
02 Apr 1944
Soviet Army attempts to invade pro-German Romania
02 Apr 1950
WTAR (now WTKR) TV channel 3 in Norfolk Virginia (CBS) begins broadcasting
02 Apr 1953
Julius Raab is appointed Federal Chancellor of Austria
02 Apr 1954
Plans to build the first Disneyland are publicly announced
02 Apr 1958
Amstel Brewery Curaao is founded by J.A.J. Sprock
02 Apr 1960
KPEC TV channel 56 in Lakewood Center-Tacoma Washington (PBS) begins broadcasting
02 Apr 1962
First official panda crossing opens outside Waterloo Station in London
02 Apr 1963
USSR launches Luna 4 but it misses the Moon by 8500 km
02 Apr 1964
USSR launches Zond 1 to Venus fails to send back data
02 Apr 1965
Rolf Hochhuths play Der Stellvertreter is banned in Italy
02 Apr 1966
WJET TV channel 24 in Erie Pennsylvania (ABC) begins broadcasting
02 Apr 1968
Beatles establish the music publishing company Python Music Ltd
02 Apr 1968
Chad signs an accord with the Central African Republic
02 Apr 1970
Meghalaya becomes an autonomous state within Indias Assam state
02 Apr 1970
Two men begin their ascent of the south face of Annapurna I the highest final stage of a wall climb in the world
02 Apr 1971
Dark Shadows American Gothic supernatural soap opera concludes an almost five-year run on ABC
02 Apr 1976
The Constitution of the Portuguese Republic is approved to take effect at the end of the month
02 Apr 1981
Heavy battle between Christian militia and Syrian army in East Lebanon
02 Apr 1985
US conducts an underground nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
02 Apr 1986
Alabama Governor George Corley Wallace announces his retirement plans
02 Apr 1986
Bomb explodes on TWA flight 840 from Rome to Athens killing nine people including four Americans
02 Apr 1987
IBM announces the PS2 and OS2 personal computers
02 Apr 1991
Rotterdam Daily Newspaper (Rotterdams Dagblad) begins publishing
02 Apr 1992
Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) lands at the Kennedy Space Center
02 Apr 1993
First test flight of Fokker 70 in southern Netherlands
02 Apr 1993
Venezuelan DC-10 crashes off Margarita Island killing 11
02 Apr 1995
970 area code is established in North and Western Colorado
02 Apr 1995
Longest strike in American major league sports history (232 days) ends as MLB owners accept players offer to return to work without a contract MLB is the first major pro sports league to lose an entire postseason due to a labor dispute
02 Apr 1995
Sunday New York Times raises price from 2.00 to 2.50
02 Apr 2002
Israeli Defense Forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem targeting suspected Palestinian militants
02 Apr 2004
Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March Madrid attacks attempt to bomb the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid their attack is thwarted
02 Apr 2006
Over 60 tornadoes break out across the central US hitting Tennessee the hardest killing 29 people and injuring 348
02 Apr 2020
Record 6.6 million Americans file claims for unemployment in the prior week according to the US Department of Labor 10 million in the prior two weeks
02 Apr 2025
Powerful spring storms begin crossing the US Midwest and mid-South killing at least 23 people in Kentucky Arkansas Tennessee and Missouri [1]