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On This Day In History for April 2, 2025

This is the 92nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 273 days remaining in 2025.

• It was on this date in 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León came ashore on what is now the U.S. state of Florida, landing somewhere between the modern city of St. Augustine and the mouth of the St. Johns River.


• It was 225 years ago today that Ludwig van Beethoven led the premiere of his First Symphony in Vienna..


• It was also this date in 1902 that “Electric Theatre”, the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opened in Los Angeles.


• It was 114 years ago today that The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducted the country’s first national census.


• It was also this date in 1912 that The ill-fated RMS Titanic began sea trials.


• The Soviet Union launched Zond 1 on this date in 1964.


• April 2, 1973, saw the launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service.


• That same date in 2020, the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases reached one million..

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

• Frankish king, Charlemagne, born on this date in 747.


• Dutch explorer Cornelis de Houtman was born 460 years ago today.


• Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist was born on that same date in 1618.


• German-Dutch botanist and illustrator, Maria Sibylla Merian was born 378 years ago today.


• Italian explorer and author, Giacomo Casanova, born on this date in 1725.


• Hans Christian Andersen, Danish novelist, short story writer, and poet was born on that same date in 1805.


• Born April 2, 1814, American inventor Erastus Brigham Bigelow.


• Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler and was born on that same date in 1875.


• Born April 2, 1908, American actor and dancer Buddy Ebsen.


• Alec Guinness, English actor was born on that same date in 1914.


• American mathematician and theorist, Paul Cohen was born 91 years ago today.


• Marvin Gaye, American singer-songwriter was born on that same date in 1939.


• Also turning 84 today is American radio host Dr. Demento.

Listener Birthdays

• 4 – Brian K


• 4 – Joel McLaughlin (aka Gorkon)


• 4 – Amy Bowen


• 5 – Chad Davis, Jon Issler (hsteckylf)


• 5 – Griffin Sylvester (Ildreancipher)


• 5 – Martine Tysmans – citytrips, travelling, jokes… (in Dutch)


• 5 – Ringmaster Greg from Dancing With Elephants


• 6 – Trevor Litecky (future Geek)


• 6 – Samwise Gamgee


• 7 – P.C. Haring

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for April 2, 2025

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News

• Warp drive may be achievable sooner than expected, study finds


• Antarctic Iceberg Breaks Away to Reveal a Never-Before-Seen Ecosystem : ScienceAlert


• NASA’s Unexpected Discovery of The Largest Organics on Mars Explained : ScienceAlert

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