2 Aprile

The **2nt o Aprile** is the 92nt day o the year (93rd in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 273 days tae come.

## Events

* 999 - Pape Sylvester II is electit.
* 1285 - Pape Martin IV is electit.
* 1513 - Florida is sichtit bi a European for the first time.
* 1744 - The first offeecial gowf tournament is held in Leith, near Edinburgh.
* 1783 - William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke o Portland becomes Prime meenister o Great Breetain.
* 1800 - Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere o his first symphony in Vienna.
* 1917 - Warld War I: US Preses Woodrow Wilson asks Congress for War wi Germany.
* 1930 - Proclamation o Haile Selassie as Emperor o Ethiopie.
* 1943 - Breetish ship "Melbourne Star" is torpedoed bi a German U-boat aff Bermuda.
* 1945 - Brazil an the Soviet Union staiblish diplomatic relations. 
* 1974 - French Preses Georges Pompidou dies in affice.
* 1982 - Argentine forces land on the Falkland Islands, stairtin the Falklands War.
* 1991 - Munt Pinatubo in the Philippines stairts eruptin.
* 2005 - Pape John Paul II dees agit 84, endin the seicont-langest Papacy in histerie.
* 2007 - A major yirdquauk hits the Solomon Islands.
* 2011 - Indie wins the Cricket Warld Cup for a seicont time, defeatin Sri Lanka in the final.
* 2015 - A terrorist attack bi Al-Shabaab militants kills 147 fowk at Garissa Varsity in Kenyae.
* 2019 - Abdelaziz Bouteflika demits as Preses o Algerie wi immediate effect efter weeks o protests.

## Births

* 742 - Charlemagne, Haly Roman Emperor (d. 814)
* 1725 - Giacomo Casanova, Italian writer (d. 1798)
* 1805 - Hans Christian Andersen, Dens author (d. 1875)
* 1809 - Allen Thomson, Scots medicinar (d. 1884)
* 1840 - Emile Zola, French novelist, playwricht an jurnalist (d. 1902)
* 1862 - Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher, diplomat an educator (d. 1947)
* 1862 - James McGhee, Scots fitbawer (d. 1941)
* 1863 - William Adamson, Scots tred unionist an politeecian (d. 1936)
* 1891 - Max Ernst, German penter (d. 1976)
* 1895 - Jack Smith, Scots fitbawer (d. 1946)
* 1914 - Alec Guinness, Inglis actor (d. 2000)
* 1923 - G. Spencer-Brown, Inglis polymath (d. 2016)
* 1926 - Jack Brabham, Australian racin driver (d. 2014)
* 1928 - Serge Gainsbourg, French sangster an actor (d. 1991)
* 1939 - Marvin Gaye, American sangster (d. 1984)
* 1940 - Penelope Keith, Inglis actress
* 1946 - Sue Townsend, Inglis writer (d. 2014)
* 1960 - Linford Christie, Inglis athlete
* 1962 - Clark Gregg, American actor, screenwriter an director
* 1966 - Teddy Sheringham, Inglis fitbawer
* 1977 - Michael Fassbender, German-Irish actor
* 1982 - David Ferrer, Spainyie tennis player
* 1985 - Gordon Aikman, Scots ALS campaigner (d. 2017) 
* 1985 - Thom Evans, Scots rugby union player
* 1986 - Ibrahim Afellay, Dutch fitbawer
* 1986 - R3hab (Fadil El Ghoul), Dutch DJ an electronic muisic producer
* 1991 - Quavo (Quavious Marshall), American sangwriter, rapper an hip hop producer, memmer o Migos

## Daiths
* 1502 - Arthur Tudor, son o Henry VII o Ingland (b. 1486)
* 1657 - Ferdinand III, Haly Roman Emperor (b. 1608)
* 1742 - James Douglas, Scots medicinar an anatomist (b. 1675)
* 1793 - Colin Macfarquhar, Scots prenter (b. 1745?)
* 1821 - James Gregory, Scots physeecian an clessicist (b. 1753)
* 1872 - Samuel Morse, American inventor (b. 1791)
* 1910 - William McTaggart, Scots penter (b. 1835)
* 1914 - Paul Heyse, German writer (b. 1830)
* 1928 - Theodore William Richards, American pheesical chemist (b. 1868)
* 1930 - George Watt, Scots botanist (b. 1851)
* 1974 - Georges Pompidou, Preses o Fraunce (b. 1911)
* 1995 - Hannes Alfvén, Swadish pheesicist (b. 1908)
* 2005 - Pape John Paul II (b. 1920)
* 2015 - Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese film director (b. 1908)
* 2015 - Robert H. Schuller, American religious leader (b. 1926)

## Halidays
*Preen-tail Day
*Internaitional Childer's Beuk Day
*Warld Autism Awareness Day
*Malvinas Day (Argentinae)