April 2: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1513 - Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León first sights land in what is now Florida.
2. 1792 - The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint.
3. 1800 - Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere of his First Symphony in Vienna.
4. 1902 - "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.
5. 1911 - The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
6. 1917 - World War I: President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
7. 1973 - Launch of the Lexis Nexis computerized legal research service.
8. 1975 - Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from the Quang Ngai Provincein front of advancing North Vietnamese troops.
9. 1980 - President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act in an effort to help the U.S. economy rebound.
10. 2004 - Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks attempt to bomb the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid. Their attack is thwarted.
11. Famous Birthdays: Charlemagne (Frankish king), Francesco Maria Grimaldi (Italian mathematician and physicist), Erastus Brigham Bigelow (American inventor), Nicholas Murray Butler (American philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate), Max Ernst (German painter, sculptor, and poet)

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