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Today is Tuesday, April 2, 2024. Let's take a look at the birth and death of prominent people on this day in history and some other important things-
1800 – Beethoven officially publishes his first symphony in Vienna.
1827 – Joseph Dixon invented the first lead pencil in the United States. He established a pencil manufacturing factory in Salem, Massachusetts.
1845 – The first photograph of the Sun was taken.
1851 – Rama (VII) becomes king of Thailand.
1912 – The ill-fated RMS Titanic begins sea trials.
1917 – Then US President Woodrow Wilson called on the US Congress to declare war on Germany.
1941 – Germany's famous Lt. Gen. Edwin Rommel, known as the Desert Fox, begins the campaign to retake Libya.
1963 – Mohammedan Literary Society founded.
1982 – Argentina seizes the Falkland Islands.
1989 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev travels to Havana and meets with Fidel Castro.
Birth:
1805 – Danish writer and poet Hans Christian Andersen is born.
1840 – French novelist Emile Zola was born.
1862 – Nobel Prize-winning American philosopher and academic Nicholas Morey Butler was born.
1898 – Poet, playwright and actor Harindranath Chattopadhyay was born.
1903 – Ustad Mohammad Hossain Khosru, the eminent musician, was born.
1927 – Hungarian football player Puskas was born.
1941 – English footballer Bobby Moore is born.
1953 – American actress Debra Scott was born.
1963 – English director and producer Carl Beattie was born.
1973 – Russian football player Dmitry Lipertov is born.
1975 – American actor and director Adam Rodriguez was born.
1980 – Canadian director and screenwriter Gavin Haffernan was born.
1983 – Paul Capdeville, Chilean tennis player.
1986 – Ibrahim Afela, he is Dutch football.
Death:
1817 – German writer Johann Heinrich Jung dies.
1914 – Nobel Prize-winning German author Paul Heisa dies.
1928 – Nobel Prize-winning American chemist Theodore William Richards dies.
1953 – Poet, journalist, politician and jurist Asaf Ali passed away.
1958 – Japanese teacher and social activist Josei Toda dies.
1965 – Bengali writer Atul Chandra Dutt died.
1986 – Lawyer and Justice Syed Mohammad Hossain passed away.
1994 – American actress Betty Furness dies.
1995 – Nobel Prize-winning Swedish physicist and engineer Hannes Wolf Gosta Alfven dies.
2005 – English actress Betty Bolton dies.
2012 – Australian explorer, author and engineer Warren Vladathan dies.
2014 – English actress and singer Lindsey Holland dies.
Day:
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Bangladesh /TR
