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April 2: This Day in World Military History
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0     Feast of St Francis de Paola, Patron of Naval Officers and Sick Children
999     Gerbert of Aurillac elected Pope as Sylvester II (999-1003)
1118     Count Baldwin of Edessa becomes King Baldwin II of Jerusalem (1118-1131)
1194     Richard Lionheart meets Robin Hood in Sherwood Forest [Trad]
1283     Giacomo Savelli is elected Pope as Honorius IV (1283-1287)
1416     Alfonso V succeeds to the throne of Aragon and Sicily (1416-1458)
1513     Juan Ponce de Leon claims Florida for Spain
1550     Jews are expelled from Genoa
1781     US Frigate 'Alliance 'captures British privateers 'Mars' and 'Minerva'
1794     The French Committee of Public Safety authorizes the activation of the "1ere Compagnie d'AĆ©rostiers", a balloon unit -- the first "air force" in history
1801     Nelson "Copenhagens" the Danish Fleet
1827     Construction of the first U.S. Naval Hospital begins, Portsmouth, Va
1863     Richmond Bread Riot: Jeff Davis threatens to fire on women & children
1865     Battles of Petersburg/Ft Gregg/Sutherland's Station, Va: Robert E. Lee is forced to evacuate Richmond
1865     US Maj Gen James H Wilson's cavalry captures Selma
1912     Sun Yat Sen forms the Kuomintang Party
1915     Battle of the Wasaa: Good Friday riot by ANZAC troops in Cairo's Red Light District
1916     German Zeppelins bomb a distillery in Rosyth, causing a flood of fine whiskey
1917     Pres Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany
1941     Nazi occupiers disband the Dutch Boy Scouts
1942     Burma: the British abandon Prome.
1942     USS 'Hornet' (CV-7) sails from San Francisco, carrying 16 Army B-25Bs
1942     Singapore: Japanese 18th Div sails for Rangoon.
1942     US bombers from India attack Japanese shipping in the Andaman Islands.
1943     Italian blockade runner 'Orseolo' reaches Bordeaux from Kobe
1944     US Fifth Air Force raids Hansa Bay, New Guinea.
1944     Merrill's Marauders heavily engaged at Nhpum Ga, Burma
1964     President Goulart of Brazil replaced by Castello Branco in a coup
1972     Israeli PM Menachem Begin visits Pres Sadat of Egypt
1982     Argentina invades the Falkland Is, initiating a 72-day losing war with Britain
1986     TWA Flight 840 bombed on approach to Athens airport; four passengers (all of them American), including an infant, are killed.
2012     Mass shooting at Oikos University, Oakland, California, 7 die