April 2<\/p>\n
742 \u2013 Charlemagne is born, either in Herstal, in modern Belgium, or the nearby town of Aachen in modern Germany.<\/p>\n
1513 \u2013 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Le\u00f3n sights land in what is now the state of Florida.<\/p>\n
1792 \u2013 The Coinage Act<\/em> is passed by Congress, establishing the United States Mint, the U.S. Dollar as the standard unit of money, pegging it to the value of the then current Spanish silver Peso – commonly called ‘Pieces of Eight’ <\/em>from its value of 8 reales – and creating a decimal monetary system.<\/p>\n 1865 \u2013 The defeat of Confederate forces at the 3rd Battle of Petersburg forces the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate government to abandon Richmond, Virginia.<\/p>\n 1900 \u2013 Congress passes the Foraker Act<\/em>, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.<\/p>\n 1902 \u2013 The “Electric Theatre”, the first full time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n 1912 \u2013 The White Star Line Olympic<\/em> class ocean liner RMS Titanic,<\/em> begins sea trials.<\/p>\n 1917 \u2013 President Wilson asks for a special joint session of Congress to\u00a0 declare war on the German Empire.<\/p>\n 1930 \u2013 After the death of Empress Zewditu, Ras Tafari Makonnen is proclaimed Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia.<\/p>\n 1956 \u2013 As the World Turns<\/em> and The Edge of Night<\/em> premiere on CBS. The ‘soap operas’ become the first daytime dramas to debut in the 30 minute format.<\/p>\n 1973 \u2013 Mead Data Central corporation launches the\u00a0 computerized legal research service, LexisNexis.<\/em><\/p>\n 1980 \u2013 President Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act<\/em> into law.<\/p>\n 1982 \u2013 Argentinian forces mount an amphibious invasion on East Falkland Island at Port Stanley with most of the defending British Royal Marine and Navy forces eventually surrendering and evacuated by the end of the day.<\/p>\n 1992 \u2013 In New York Federal Court, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison.<\/p>\n 2006 \u2013 Over 60 tornadoes break out across several central states,\u00a0 Tennessee being the hardest hit with 29 people killed.<\/p>\n 2012 \u2013 A former student opens fire with a handgun at the Korean Christian Oikos University in California, murdering 7 people and wounding 3 more before fleeing and later surrendering to police.<\/p>\n 2014 \u2013 A soldier opens fire at several places on Fort Hood Texas, murdering 3 people and wounding 16 others before committing suicide.<\/p>\n 2021 \u2013 A Capitol Police officer is killed and another injured when an American islamist terrorist rams his car into a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol building, then exits the vehicle and attempts to attack other officers with a knife before being shot down, later dying at a hospital<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April 2 742 \u2013 Charlemagne is born, either in Herstal, in modern Belgium, or the nearby town of Aachen in modern Germany. 1513 \u2013 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Le\u00f3n sights land in what is now the state of Florida. 1792 \u2013 The Coinage Act is passed by Congress, establishing the United States Mint, the … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66431"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91487,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66431\/revisions\/91487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}