04-02-2005, 06:45 AM
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April 2nd
1725 ~ Birthday of Giacomo Casanova, adventurer and writer.
1755 ~ Commodore William James captured the pirate fortress of Severndroog on the west coast of India.
1805 ~ Birthday of Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer.
1875 ~ Birthday of Walter Chrysler, automobile pioneer.
1917 ~ The first woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress, Jeannette Rankin, took her seat as a representative from Montana.
1930 ~ Haile Selassie was proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia.
1966 ~ Death of C.S. Forester, Author.
1982 ~ Falklands War: Argentina invades the British-owned Falkland Islands starting the war.
1986 ~ A grandmother, her daughter and her granddaughter were sucked out of a TWA jet to their death when it was bombed by a group calling itself the Ezzedine Kassam Unit of the Arab Revolutionary Cells.
2004 ~ Islamist terrorists involved in the March 11, 2004 Madrid attacks attempted a bombing of the Spanish high-speed train near Madrid.
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