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Events on April 2

• 1800 Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 in C major, op. 21, is premiered with great success at the Vienna Hofburg Theatre.
• 1848 During the German Revolution, the German Bundestag repeals the Carlsbad Decrees of 1819 targeting liberal movements.
• 1905 A train carrying dignitaries makes its first passage through the Simplon Tunnel between Switzerland and Italy, which, at 19.8 km, was the world's longest railway tunnel at the time.
• 1920 The German Reichswehr marches into the Ruhr region to put down the uprising of the communist Red Army of the Ruhr.
• 1935 The Scottish physicist Robert Watson-Watt is granted a patent for radar that can detect aircraft and thus decisively strengthens Britain's air defence during the Second World War.
• 1946 The German daily newspaper Die Welt, founded by the victorious powers of the Second World War in the British occupation zone, publishes its first issue in Hamburg at a price of 20 pfennigs.
• 1963 ZDF broadcasts animated films featuring the Mainzelmännchen for the first time between television commercials.
• 1968 Radicalised members of the APO, the later RAF co-founders Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin, as well as Horst Söhnlein and Thorwald Proll, plant firebombs in two Frankfurt department stores. The total property damage, caused primarily by the sprinkler systems, amounts to approximately 675,000 DM.
• 1974 The new Westfalen Stadium in Dortmund, built for the 1974 FIFA World Cup, is opened with a benefit match between Borussia Dortmund and FC Schalke 04. The visitors win 0:3.
• 1978 In the United States, television broadcaster CBS broadcasts the first episode of the series Dallas. The soap opera develops into a “sensation” and the most successful television series of the 80s, which will be broadcast until 1991.
• 1982 The Falklands War begins with the occupation of the Falkland Islands, then in British possession, by Argentine troops, as ordered by President Leopoldo Galtieri, and will last until 20 June.
• 2010 In one of the bloodiest engagements in the history of the Bundeswehr—the Good Friday battle as part of the Bundeswehr's deployment in Afghanistan against radical-Islamic Taliban—three German soldiers are killed.

Born on April 2

• 1891 Max Ernst, German painter of Dadaism and Surrealism
• 1902 Jan Tschichold, German graphic designer, calligrapher, typographer, author and teacher
• 1910 Walter Prager, Swiss ski racer
• 1921 Theodor Herrmann, German football player
• 1930 Trudi Roth, Swiss actress and cabaret artist
• 1940 Karl-Heinz Thielen, German football player
• 1960 Linford Christie, British track and field athlete
• 1961 Christopher Meloni, American actor
• 1990 Georgina Fleur, German reality television participant
• 1990 Miralem Pjanić, Bosnian and Herzegovinian football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „2. April“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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