Today is Wednesday, April 2, the 92nd day of 2025. There are 273 days a 12 months.
Today in history:
On April 2, 2005, John Paul II, the Polish Pope in Karol Józef Wojtyła, died in his Vatican apartment on the age of 84. The first non-Italian Pope for over 450 years has turn into John Paul II.
Also on this date:
In 1792 the Congress passed the Coinage Act, which approved the founding of the US coin.
In 1865 the confederated President Jefferson Davis and most of his cabinet from the confederated capital Richmond, Virginia, after the Union forces had broken the Confederated lines within the third battle of Petersburg.
In 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to clarify the war against Germany: “The world must be made safe for democracy.” (The congress declared the war 4 days later.)
In 1982 Argentine troops confiscated the controversial Falkland Islands from the United Kingdom and triggered the Falkland War.
In 1992 MOB boss John Gotti in New York was convicted of murder and extortion. He was later sentenced to life imprisonment without probation. (Gotti died in prison in 2002.)
In 2007, the Supreme Court of the USA in Massachusetts against Environmental Protection Agency decided 5-4 in 2007 that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases were air pollutants as a part of the Clean Air ACT.
In 2012, a shooter killed seven people at Oikos University, a Christian school in Oakland, California. (The Sagittarius, a Goh, died in 2019 during a lifelong prison sentence.)
In 2020, the variety of confirmed Coronavirus cases exceeded 1 million worldwide in response to a Tally from Johns Hopkins University.
Today's birthdays:
- Discjockey Dr. Dementia is 84.
- Actor Linda Hunt is 80.
- Musician Emmylou Harris is 78.
- Actor Christopher Meloni is 64.
- The Tennis Hall of Famer Todd Woodbridge is 54.
- Actor Pedro Pascal is 50.
- Actor Adam Rodriguez is 50.
- Actor Michael Fassbender is 48.
- Country musician Chris Janson is 39.
- Actor Jesse Plemons is 37.
- Rapper Quavo is 34.
- Country musician Zach Bryan is 29.
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