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Events on the 2nd of April in history

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02 Apr 0999 Gerbert of Aurillac elected as 1st French Pope
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02 Apr 1513 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León first sights land in what is now Florida.
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02 Apr 1550 Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy
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02 Apr 1559 Genoa Italy, expels Jews
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02 Apr 1590 States-General appoints Earl Mauritius, Viceroy of Utrecht
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02 Apr 1645 Robert Devereux resigns as parliament Supreme Commander
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02 Apr 1745 Austria and Bavaria sign peace
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02 Apr 1755 Commodore William James captures the Maratha fortress of Suvarnadurg on west coast of India.
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02 Apr 1792 Congress establishes Philadelphia mint
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02 Apr 1792 The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint.
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02 Apr 1800 Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere of his First Symphony in Vienna.
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02 Apr 1801 Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen: The British capture the Danish fleet.
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02 Apr 1819 1st successful agricultural journal ("American Farmer") begins
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02 Apr 1827 Joseph Dixon begins manufacturing lead pencils
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02 Apr 1845 H L Fizeau and J Leon Foucault take 1st photo of Sun
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02 Apr 1851 Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand.
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02 Apr 1860 1st Italian Parliament met at Turin
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02 Apr 1863 Bread revolt in Richmond Virginia
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02 Apr 1863 Richmond Bread Riot: Food shortages incite hundreds of angry women to riot in Richmond, Virginia, and demand that the Confederate government release emergency supplies.
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02 Apr 1864 Skirmish at Spoonville / Antoine, Arkansas
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02 Apr 1865 Battle of Ft Blakely AL and Selma, Alabama
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02 Apr 1865 CSA President Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia
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02 Apr 1865 American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet flee the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.
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02 Apr 1865 American Civil War: At the Third Battle of Petersburg Virginia, the Siege of Petersburg is broken by Union Army troops capturing trenches and breaking Confederate States Army lines, forcing the Confederates under General Robert E. Lee to retreat in the Appomattox Campaign.
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02 Apr 1866 President Johnson ends war in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virgina
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02 Apr 1870 Victoria Woodhull is 1st woman to be nominated for US President
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02 Apr 1872 George B Brayton patents gasoline powered engine
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02 Apr 1876 Philadelphia Athletics and Boston Red Caps play 1st NL game, in Philadelphia
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02 Apr 1877 1st Easter egg roll held on White House lawn
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02 Apr 1883 Battle at Bamako: French assault on Fabous arm forces attack
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02 Apr 1884 London prison for debtors closed
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02 Apr 1885 Cree warriors attack the village of Frog Lake, North-West Territories, Canada, killing nine.
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02 Apr 1900 1st edition of The Volk published (Amsterdam)
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02 Apr 1900 The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
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02 Apr 1902 1st motion picture theater opens (LA)
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02 Apr 1902 "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
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02 Apr 1902 Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, St Petersburg.
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02 Apr 1905 Cairo to Cape Town railway opens
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02 Apr 1906 South Africa complete a 4-1 series drubbing of England
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02 Apr 1908 Mills Committee declares baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday
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02 Apr 1911 The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
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02 Apr 1912 Sun Yet Sen forms Guomindang-Party in China
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02 Apr 1912 Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power
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02 Apr 1912 The ill-fated RMS Titanic begins sea trials.
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02 Apr 1916 German troops overtake Bois de Caillette
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02 Apr 1917 Jeannette Rankin becomes 1st women member of US House of Reps
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02 Apr 1917 President Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany
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02 Apr 1917 World War I: United States President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
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02 Apr 1921 Prof Albert Einstein lectures in NYC on his new theory of relativity
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02 Apr 1921 The Autonomous Government of Khorasan, a military government encompassing the modern state of Iran, is established.
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02 Apr 1926 Riots between Moslems and Hindus in Calcutta
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02 Apr 1930 1st NY-Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda
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02 Apr 1930 After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia.
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02 Apr 1931 Teenage girl strikes out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game in Chattanooga, Tennessee
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02 Apr 1932 Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for kidnapped son
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02 Apr 1935 Mary Hirsch, becomes 1st woman licensed as a horse trainer
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02 Apr 1935 Sir Watson-Watt patents RADAR
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02 Apr 1939 6th Golf Masters Championship: Ralph Guldahl wins, shooting a 279
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02 Apr 1941 German occupier disallows Dutch Scouting Association
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02 Apr 1941 USS Hornet with Jimmy Doolittles B-25 departs from San Francisco
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02 Apr 1944 CPI-leader Palmiro Togliatti returns to Italy
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02 Apr 1944 Soviet Army marches into pro-German Romania
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02 Apr 1945 1st US units reach east coast of Okinawa
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02 Apr 1945 Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Brazil are established.
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02 Apr 1950 WTAR (now WTKR) TV channel 3 in Norfolk, VA (CBS) begins broadcasting
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02 Apr 1953 Raab forms his 1st government in Austria
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02 Apr 1954 Plans to build Disneyland 1st announced [see Jan 26]
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02 Apr 1955 Pancho Gonzales retains tennis title by winning a tournament playing under table tennis rules
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02 Apr 1955 US female Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
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02 Apr 1955 US male Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins
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02 Apr 1956 Soap operas "As the World Turns" and"Edge of Night" premieres on TV
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02 Apr 1956 As the World Turns and The Edge of Night premiere on CBS-TV. The two soaps become the first daytime dramas to debut in the 30-minute format.
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02 Apr 1958 Antillean Brewery (Amstel beer) opens
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02 Apr 1958 National Advisory Council on Aeronautics renamed NASA
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02 Apr 1958 Wind speed reaches 450 km/h in tornado, Wichita Falls, TX (record)
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02 Apr 1960 Cuba buys oil from USSR
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02 Apr 1960 KPEC TV channel 56 in Lakewood Center-Tacoma, WA (PBS) 1st broadcast
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02 Apr 1962 The first official panda crossing is opened outside London Waterloo station.
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02 Apr 1963 Explorer 17 attains Earth orbit (254 / 914 km)
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02 Apr 1963 USSR launches Luna 4; missed Moon by 8,500 km
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02 Apr 1964 Josef Klaus succeeds Alfons Gorbach as chancellor of Austria
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02 Apr 1964 Military coup in Brazil by General Castello Branco, President Goulart ousted
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02 Apr 1964 USSR launches Zond 1 to Venus; no data returned
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02 Apr 1965 Hochhuths play "Stellvertreter" banned in Italy
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02 Apr 1966 WJET TV channel 24 in Erie, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting
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02 Apr 1967 Actress Lynn Redgrave marries John Clark
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02 Apr 1967 Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Louise Suggs Golf Invitational
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02 Apr 1968 Beatles form Python Music Ltd
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02 Apr 1968 Chad creates Union of Central African States
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02 Apr 1968 Senator E Mccarthy wins Democratic primaries in Wisconsin
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02 Apr 1969 Milwaukee Bucks sign (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor)
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02 Apr 1970 2 men begin ascent of south face of Annapurna I, highest final stage in a wall climb in world
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02 Apr 1970 Qatar gains independence from Britain
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02 Apr 1971 Sci-fi soap opera "Dark Shadows" concludes an almost 5 year run
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02 Apr 1972 44th Academy Awards - "French Connection, " G Hackman and Jane Fonda win
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02 Apr 1972 Prime Minister Begin visits Cairo
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02 Apr 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.
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02 Apr 1973 CBS radio begins on hour news 24 hours a day
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02 Apr 1973 ITT pleads guilty to asking CIA to affect Chilean President election
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02 Apr 1973 The Liberal Movement breaks away from the Liberal and Country League in South Australia.
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02 Apr 1973 Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service.
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02 Apr 1974 46th Academy Awards - "Stng, " Glenda Jackson and Jack Lemmon win
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02 Apr 1974 Arganat Comm publishes report concerning Yom Kippur War
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02 Apr 1974 Tony Greig takes 8-86 vs. WI Port-of-Spain (later 5-70 in 2nd inn)
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02 Apr 1975 Construction of the CN Tower is completed in Toronto, Canada. It reaches 553.33 metres (1,815.4 ft) in height, becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure.
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02 Apr 1975 Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from Quảng Ngãi Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops.
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02 Apr 1976 Cambodia Khieu Sampan succeeds Prince Sihanouk as Premier
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02 Apr 1976 Portuguese constitution assumed
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02 Apr 1977 Montreal Canadiens set NHL record of 34 straight home games without a lose
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02 Apr 1978 7th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post
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02 Apr 1978 TV show "Dallas" premieres on CBS (as a 5 week mini-series)
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02 Apr 1978 Velcro was 1st put on the market
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02 Apr 1979 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin visits Cairo Egypt / meets President Sadat
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02 Apr 1980 Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st teenager to score 50 goals in a season
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02 Apr 1980 United States President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act in an effort to help the U.S. economy rebound.
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02 Apr 1981 Heavy battle between Christian militia and Syrian army in East Lebanon
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02 Apr 1982 Argentina seizes Malvinas (Falklands) Islands
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02 Apr 1982 Several thousand Argentine troops seized disputed Falkland Islands
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02 Apr 1982 Falklands War: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.
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02 Apr 1984 46th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: Georgetown beats Houston 84-75
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02 Apr 1986 4 US passengers killed by bomb at TWA counter Athens Airport Greece
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02 Apr 1986 George Corley Wallace (Gov-D-Ala) announces retirement plans
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02 Apr 1986 NCAA adopts 3-point basketball rule (19 feet 9 inch distance)
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02 Apr 1986 Alabama governor George Wallace, a former segregationist most widely known for the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door", announces that he will not seek a fifth four-year term and will retire from public life upon the end of his term in January 1987.
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02 Apr 1987 Doc Gooden undergoes cocaine rehabilitation
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02 Apr 1987 IBM introduces PS / 2 and OS / 2
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02 Apr 1989 18th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Juli Inkster
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02 Apr 1989 Wrestlemania V at Trump Plaza, Hulk Hogan beats "Macho Man" Savage
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02 Apr 1989 Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Havana, Cuba to meet with Fidel Castro in an attempt to mend strained relations.
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02 Apr 1991 Rotterdam Daily Newspaper begins publishing
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02 Apr 1991 Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm (who had resigned) as Premier of British Columbia.
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02 Apr 1992 "Hamlet" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
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02 Apr 1992 John Gotti found guilty in death of Paul Castallanos
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02 Apr 1992 Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) lands
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02 Apr 1992 In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison.
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02 Apr 1993 1st test flight of Fokker 70 (Amsterdam)
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02 Apr 1993 Venezuelan DC-10 crashes at Margarita, killing 10
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02 Apr 1994 1st exhibition game played at Jacobs Field, Pirates beat Indians, 6-4
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02 Apr 1994 The National Convention of New Sudan of the SPLA/M opens in Chukudum.
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02 Apr 1995 7th Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus
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02 Apr 1995 Baseball season opener delayed until April 26
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02 Apr 1995 North and Western Colorado begins using new area code 970
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02 Apr 1995 New York Police Department and New York Transit Police merge into one organization
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02 Apr 1995 Owners accept baseball players proposal, agree to start season 4 / 26
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02 Apr 1995 Sunday New York Times raises price from $2.00 to $2.50
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02 Apr 1995 Wrestlemania XI in Conn-Lawrence Taylor defeats Bam Bam Bigelow
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02 Apr 1996 Sri Lanka 9-349 in 50 overs beat Pakistan 315 all out, Singapore Jayasuriya hits ton in 48 balls, world ODI record at Singapore
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02 Apr 1996 Tigers slugger Cecil Fielder steals 1st base in 1,097th career game
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02 Apr 1998 World Mens Figure Skating Championship in Minnesota
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02 Apr 2002 Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem into which armed Palestinians had retreated; a siege ensues.
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02 Apr 2004 Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks attempt to bomb the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid; the attack is thwarted.
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02 Apr 2006 Over 60 tornadoes break out in the United States; Tennessee is hardest hit with 29 people killed.
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02 Apr 2012 A mass shooting at Oikos University at Oakland, California leaves seven people dead and three injured.
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02 Apr 2014 A spree shooting occurs at the Fort Hood Army Base near the town of Killeen, Texas, with four people dead, including the gunman, and 16 others sustaining injuries.
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02 Apr 2015 A gunmen attacks Garissa University College in Kenya, killing at least 148 people and wounding 79 others.
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