1900<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0United States Congress\u00a0passes the\u00a0Foraker Act, giving\u00a0Puerto Rico\u00a0limited\u00a0self-rule.<\/p>\n 1902<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Dmitry Sipyagin,\u00a0Minister of Interior\u00a0of the\u00a0Russian Empire, is assassinated in the\u00a0Marie Palace,\u00a0Saint Petersburg.<\/p>\n 1902<\/strong> \u2013 “Electric Theatre”, the first full-time\u00a0movie theater\u00a0in the United States, opens in\u00a0Los Angeles.<\/p>\n 1911<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0Australian Bureau of Statistics\u00a0conducts the country’s first\u00a0national census.<\/p>\n 1912<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The ill-fated\u00a0RMS\u00a0Titanic<\/i>\u00a0begins\u00a0sea trials.<\/p>\n 1917<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0World War I: United States President\u00a0Woodrow Wilson\u00a0asks the\u00a0U.S. Congress\u00a0for a\u00a0declaration of war\u00a0on\u00a0Germany.<\/p>\n 1921<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0Autonomous Government of Khorasan, a military government encompassing the modern state of\u00a0Iran, is established.<\/p>\n 1930<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 After the mysterious death of Empress\u00a0Zewditu,\u00a0Haile Selassie\u00a0is proclaimed emperor of\u00a0Ethiopia.<\/p>\n 1956<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0As the World Turns<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0The Edge of Night<\/i>\u00a0premiere on\u00a0CBS. The two soaps become the first daytime dramas to debut in the 30-minute format.<\/p>\n 1972<\/strong> – Burt Reynolds appeared nude in “Cosmopolitan” magazine.<\/p>\n 1978<\/strong> – The first episode of “Dallas” aired on CBS.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – In Lebanon, thirty-seven people were reported killed during fighting in the cities of Beirut and Zahle. It was the worst violence since 1976 cease-fire.<\/p>\n 1982<\/strong> – Argentina invaded the British-owned Falkland Islands. The following June Britain took the islands back.<\/p>\n 1983<\/strong> – The New Jersey Transit strike that began on March 1 came to an end.<\/p>\n 1984<\/strong> – John Thompson became the first black coach to lead his team to the NCAA college basketball championship.<\/p>\n 1984<\/strong> – In Jerusalem, three Arab gunmen wounded 48 people when they opened fire into a crowd of shoppers.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – The NCAA Rules Committee adopted the 45-second shot clock for men\u2019s basketball to begin in the 1986 season.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – On a TWA airliner flying from Rome to Athens, a bomb exploded under a seat killing four Americans.<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong> – The speed limit on\u00a0U.S.\u00a0interstate highways was increased to 65 miles per hour in limited areas.<\/p>\n 1988<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Special Prosecutor James McKay declined to indict Attorney General Edwin Meese for criminal wrongdoing.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – An editorial in the “New York Times” declared that the Cold War was over.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – General Prosper Avril, Haiti’s military leader, survived a coup attempt. The attempt was apparently provoked by Avril’s\u00a0U.S.-backed efforts to fight drug trafficking.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – Iraqi President Saddam Hussein threatened to incinerate half of Israel with chemical weapons if Israel joined a conspiracy against Iraq.<\/p>\n 1992<\/strong> – Mob boss John Gotti was convicted in New York of murder and racketeering. He was later sentenced to life in prison.<\/p>\n 1995<\/strong> – The costliest strike in professional sports history ended when baseball owners agreed to let players play without a contract.<\/p>\n 1996<\/strong> – Russia and Belarus signed a treaty that created a political and economic alliance in an effort to reunite the two former Soviet republics.<\/p>\n 1996<\/strong> – Lech Walesa resumed his old job as an electrician at the Gdansk shipyard. He was the former Solidarity union leader who became Poland’s first post-war democratic president.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – Israeli troops surrounded the Church of the Nativity. More than 200 Palestinians had taken refuge at the church when Israel invaded Bethlehem.<\/p>\n 2013<\/strong> – The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Arms Trade Treaty to regulate the international trade of conventional weapons.<\/p>\n 2014<\/strong> – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that limits on the total amount of money individuals can give political candidates and political action committees were unconstitutional.<\/p>\n 2015<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Gunmen\u00a0attack\u00a0Garissa University College\u00a0in\u00a0Kenya, killing at least 148 people and wounding 79 others.<\/p>\n 2015<\/strong> \u2013 Four men stole items worth up to \u00a3200 million from an underground safe deposit facility in London’s Hatton Garden area in what has been called the “largest burglary in English legal history.<\/p>\n History of 2 April 1900\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0United States Congress\u00a0passes the\u00a0Foraker Act, giving\u00a0Puerto Rico\u00a0limited\u00a0self-rule. 1902\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Dmitry Sipyagin,\u00a0Minister of Interior\u00a0of the\u00a0Russian Empire, is assassinated in the\u00a0Marie Palace,\u00a0Saint Petersburg. 1902 \u2013 “Electric Theatre”, the first full-time\u00a0movie theater\u00a0in the United States, opens in\u00a0Los Angeles. 1911\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0Australian Bureau of Statistics\u00a0conducts the country’s first\u00a0national census. 1912\u00a0\u2013 The ill-fated\u00a0RMS\u00a0Titanic\u00a0begins\u00a0sea trials. 1917\u00a0\u2013\u00a0World War I: United […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[688,83,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-4149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-2-april","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/history-img.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-14V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6637,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149\/revisions\/6637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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