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Events

• 1801 (225 years ago) French Revolutionary Wars: In the Battle of Copenhagen a British Royal Navy squadron defeats a hastily assembled, smaller, mostly-volunteer Dano-Norwegian Navy at high cost, forcing Denmark out of the Second League of Armed Neutrality.
• 1921 (105 years ago) The Autonomous Government of Khorasan, a military government encompassing the modern state of Iran, is established.
• 1930 (96 years ago) After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia.
• 1976 (50 years ago) Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
• 1992 (34 years ago) Forty-two civilians are massacred in the town of Bijeljina in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• 2002 (24 years ago) Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, into which armed Palestinians had retreated.
• 2015 (11 years ago) Gunmen attack Garissa University College in Kenya, killing at least 148 people and wounding 79 others.
• 2025 (a year ago) Liberation Day tariffs: U.S. President Donald Trump announces sweeping worldwide tariffs.

Births

• 747 (1279 years ago) Charlemagne, Frankish king (died 814)
• 1647 (379 years ago) Maria Sibylla Merian, German-Dutch botanist and illustrator (died 1717)
• 1725 (301 years ago) Giacomo Casanova, Italian explorer and author (died 1798)
• 1805 (221 years ago) Hans Christian Andersen, Danish novelist, short story writer, and poet (died 1875)
• 1840 (186 years ago) Émile Zola, French novelist, playwright, journalist (died 1902)
• 1914 (112 years ago) Alec Guinness, English actor (died 2000)
• 1939 (87 years ago) Marvin Gaye, American singer-songwriter (died 1984)
• 1977 (49 years ago) Michael Fassbender, German-Irish actor and producer

Deaths

• 670 (1356 years ago) Hasan ibn Ali the second Shia Imam,
• 1657 (369 years ago) Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1608)
• 1791 (235 years ago) Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, French journalist and politician (born 1749)
• 1872 (154 years ago) Samuel Morse, American painter and academic, invented the Morse code (born 1791)
• 1914 (112 years ago) Paul Heyse, German author, poet, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1830)
• 1974 (52 years ago) Georges Pompidou, French banker and politician, 19th President of France (born 1911)
• 1995 (31 years ago) Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1908)
• 2005 (21 years ago) Pope John Paul II,

All 360 events, births and deaths of April 2