Ephemeris, 02 April

It happened one 02 April

1917 : US in World War I On 2 April 1917, during the First World War, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to send troops into battle against Germany.
1979 : Outbreak of Anthrax in Russia In early April 1979, an Anthrax epidemic began in the city of Ekaterinburg in Russia. 62 people were killed. The pathogen had escaped from the biological weapons plant in the city.
1982 : Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands On 2 April 1982 Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands which led to a crisis between Argentina and the United Kingdom. The term war is not used but the British troops came to regain control of the islands.
1998 : Maurice Papon On April 2nd, 1998, former minister Maurice Papon was sentenced to 10 years for crimes against humanity.

Woodrow Wilson
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer and writer (1725)
Francisco Balagtas, Filipino poet (1788)
Léon Gambetta, French politician (1838)
Émile Zola, French writer (1840)
Clément Ader, French aviation pioneer (1841)
Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher and diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize (1862)
Walter Chrysler, American automobile pioneer (1875)
Max Ernst, German painter (1891)
Alec Guinness, English actor (1914)
Lou Monte, American singer (1917)
Jack Webb, American actor and director (1920)
Serge Gainsbourg, French singer and musician (1928)
Marvin Gaye, American singer and musician (1939)
Thierry Le Luron, French comedian (1952)
Linford Christie, English athlete (1960)
Christopher Meloni, American actor (1961)
Marie-Ange Nardi, French TV host (1961)
Ajay Devgn, Indian actor and director (1969)
Adam Rodríguez, American actor (1975)
Michael Fassbender, German and Irish actor (1977)
Jesse Carmichael, American musician (Maroon 5) (1979)
Carlos Salcido, Mexican footballer (1980)
Marco Amelia, Italian footballer (1982)
Stéphane Lambiel, Swiss figure skater (1985)
Ibrahim Afellay, Dutch footballer (1986)

Samuel Morse, American inventor and painter, inventor of telegraph and Morse code (1872)
Paul Heyse, German writer, Nobel Prize in Literature (1914)
Theodore William Richards, American chemist, Nobel Prize (1928)
Georges Pompidou, President of the French Republic (1974)
Hannes Alfvén, Swedish astrophysicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (1995)