The April 2nd is the 92e Jour of the Année (93e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

8th century

  • 774 : Charlemagne goes to Rome, to meet the pope Adrien I {{er}} (772 - 795), with the request of which it intervenes in Italy, against the king of the Lombards, Didier, which occupies since the previous year of the cities of the pontifical State.

10th century

  • 999: Rome: Otton III made elect protected and friendly pope his Gerbert d' Aurillac, which is devoted this day and takes the name of Sylvestre II.

13th century

  • 1285 : Giacomo Savelli is elected pope and takes the name of Honorius IV.

14th century

  • 1305 : With died of his/her mother Jeanne I {{Re}} of Navarre, queen of Navarre since 1274, Louis '' Hutin '', heir to the crown of France, becomes king de Navarre under the name of Louis I {{er}} of Navarre.

16th century

  • 1512 : The emperor Maximilien I {{er}} and the Suisse join the Sainte League against the France.

  • 1559 : Signature of the Franco-English treated of Cateau-Cambrésis, which allots Calais to the France.

  • 1566 : Brussels: Carriers of a petition for the defense of freedoms of the Netherlands, two hundred gentlemen arrive at the palate of the regent Marguerite of Parma. This one fears this interview, one of its advisers, the count Bertaymont, would have exclaimed: “ What, Madam, fear of these gueux! ”. The regent promised to send a addresses to Philippe II of Spain. As for the word of the count, it became a rallying sign.

  • 1580 : The seventh war of religion bursts in France.

17th century

18th century

  • 1721 : André Mollandin establishes the counter of Mahé.

  • 1792 : Introduction of the dollar like currency of the the United States, starting from funds of Thaler S repurchased with the Austria.

  • 1794 :

    • Paris (13 germinal): Rehandling of the structures of the government. The provisional Executive council and various ministries are removed with the profit of executive commissions.
    • First audience of the lawsuit of Danton and the dantonists in front of the revolutionary Tribunal ( 13 germinal year II ).

19th century

20th century

  • 1902 : The mayor of Saint Germain takes a decree limiting the speed of the cars to 8 km/h.

  • 1910 : Western Siberia: Fifty thousand colonist sending to exploit the resources of the area.

  • 1912 :
    • Beginning of the first tests at sea of the Titanic , in the Belfast Lough and in Irish Sea.
    • First incident on the Titanic ; a Incendie is declared in a coal bunker whereas these first tests in seas are conclusive.

  • 1917 : The president Woodrow Wilson convenes an extraordinary meeting of the American Congrès to state the war with the Germany. The the United States enter in war to the sides of the Allies.

  • 1922 : Moscow: End of XIe congress of the Left Bolshevik: Stalin becomes general secretary of the party (beginning March 27th).

  • 1937 : The South Africa interdict the abroads the exercise of political activities in African South-west.

  • 1939 : The the United States establish diplomatic relations with new the Spanish government.

  • 1947 :

    • the Great Britain relies on the the United Nations for the payment of the Palestinian question.
    • the Safety advice place under supervision of the the United States Pacific Islands previously under Japanese mandate.

  • 1954 : in India, Nehru calls with the stop of the race to the nuclear weapons.

  • 1978 : First diffusion of the series Dallas on television American, on CBS.

  • 1982 :

    • War of the Falklands: The Argentins occupy the Falkland Islands and make captive their 84 British defenders .
    • Opening of the first Festival of police Cognac film under the presidency of Jean Richard.

  • 1985 : The artillery Iran ienne bombards the city Iraq ienne of Al Basra, while the Iraqis tackle Iranian positions in other sectors of the face.

  • 1986 : Four American passengers of a Boeing 727 of TWA connecting Rome to Athens are killed by the explosion of a bomb placed under a seat. Last nine other passengers are wounded.

  • 1987 :

    • Baghdad announces that thousands of soldiers Iran iens were killed and that the Iraq iens occupied of the bases of Kurdish rebels in the mountains of the North-East.
    • the group Nirvana finds its name of scene final.
    • IBM lance PS/2 under OS/2.

  • 1991 : The Argentinian footballer Diego Maradona is suspended for 15 month for use of Cocaïne by the Italian federation of football.

  • 1993 : Philippe Seguin becomes the president of the National Assembly.

  • 1995 : Palestinian Islamic terrorists die in the explosion of their clean their bomb with Gaza.

  • 1997 : Agreement of union between the Russia and the Bielorussia, in the fields cultural, military and socio-economic.

  • 1998 :

    • France. Jean-Marie Le Pen condemned to two years of ineligibility (tiny rooms to one year by the Court of appeal) and three months of suspended sentence by the Magistrates' court of Versailles for “violences in meeting” and “public insults” after having attacked the socialist candidate of Mantes-the-Pretty at the time of the legislative elections of 1997.
    • Maurice Papon is recognized guilty of Crimes against humanity and is condemned to 10 years of imprisonment and ten years of deprivation of civic rights. Thanks to its Appeal, in spite of the importance of what is reproached to him, it remains in freedom.

  • 2000 :

    • the Serb ones of the Kosovo are committed taking part, in observers, at the provisional government of the the United Nations in the province.
    • in Bosnia, arrest of Momčilo Krajišnik submitted with TPIY of $the Hague.
    • Mercantour, close to Aix-en-Provence. The shepherds defend their sheep against packs of wolves.

21e century

  • 2001 : The Supreme court of the Filipino refuses to grant immunity to the president Joseph Estrada accused of corruption and recognizes the legitimacy of Gloria Macapagal-Stream, which succeeded to him of office to the report heading the last January 20th.

  • 2002 :
    • 14.000 people whose Jacques Chirac and Lionel Jospin attends the homage paid by the communist deputy-mayor of Nanterre, Jacqueline Fraysse, with the eight elected officials assassinated by Richard Durn.
    • Some 120 armed Palestinians take refuge in the church of the Nativity to Bethlehem, encircled by the Israeli armed , the shortly after violent one engagements against Israeli soldiers.
    • military Blackjacks and a member of the Groupes of Self-defense (GLD, armed civilians) is killed at the time of an ambush set-up by an Islamic group armed in the area with Saïda (450 km in the south-west of Algiers).
    • Paris: First world summit of the wind energy.
    • Wilfred Gayle , bus driver with Kingston, Jamaica, shift and keep silent a motorcyclist from the wheel of his bus. It is cut down at once by another motorcylcist, friend of the first. (see also the August 19th 2002)
    • an security guard, too dedicated, Aéroport Kennedy of New York obliges Elizabeth McGarry to taste the three feeding-bottles of its own mother's milk which it intended for its baby to prove that the liquid did not constitute any threat for the other passengers. A lawyer will be ironical by declaring " the number of white women of Middle Age and nursing who passed by the drive of Al-Qaïda is probably close to zero ".

  • 2003 :

    • the European commission lance a disciplinary action against the France, whose budget deficit of 2003 and 2004 will exceed the limits fixed by the Stability pact.
    • the American forces take the strategic city of Al-Kout , in the south-east of Baghdad, and destroy the division Baghdad of the Iraqi Republican guard .
    • the the United States and the Turkey strengthen their military cooperation, with in particular the installation of a device " of advanced alarm " to prevent the tensions between Turks and Kurdish Iraqi.
    • a cameraman of BBC, Kaveh Golestan, which had obtained a Prix Pulitzer as photographer, is killed in the explosion of a mine in the north of the Iraq.
    • Whereas the China announces the death of twelve new patients, the the World Health Organization (WHO) disadvises with all the travellers going to HongKong and in the province of Canton where it will send four experts for the first time since the appearance of the epidemic of atypical Pneumonie (SARS).

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Births

Death

Celebrations

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Abounds of Like, bishop.

  • Apien de Césarée of Palestine or Amphien (towards 306), martyr.
  • Bronach
  • Holy Constantin (king d' Écosse)
  • Girder and Agneflète
  • Marie the Egyptian woman († 522), ascetic (Western date)
  • MUSE of Rome (6th century), child.
  • Nizier of Lyon or Nicet († 573), bishop.
  • Polycarpe of Alexandria († 303), martyr.
  • Ruf de Glendalogh
  • Théodosie de Tyr Western date, in the East on May 29th.
  • Urbain de Langres († towards 390), bishop.
  • Victor de Capoue, bishop.

Catholic saints of the day

Orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Georges de Matskvéra ().

See too

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