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April 2

Thursday, April 2, 2026

Day 91 of 2026 | Week 14 | 268 days until Christmas πŸŽ…

HISTORIC EVENTS

1
2025

Liberation Day tariffs: U.S. President Donald Trump announces sweeping worldwide tariffs.

2
2024

Viertola school shooting: A 12-year-old pupil is killed and two others injured by a shooter of the same age in Vantaa, Finland.

3
2021

At least 49 people are killed in a train derailment in Taiwan after a truck accidentally rolls onto the track.

4
2021

A Capitol Police officer is killed and another injured when an attacker rams his car into a barricade outside the United States Capitol.

5
2020

COVID-19 pandemic: The total number of confirmed cases reach one million.

6
2015

Gunmen attack Garissa University College in Kenya, killing at least 148 people and wounding 79 others.

7
2015

Four men steal items worth up to Β£200Β million from an underground safe deposit facility in London's Hatton Garden area in what has been called the "largest burglary in English legal history."

8
2014

A spree shooting occurs at the Fort Hood army base in Texas, with four dead, including the gunman, and 16 others injured.

9
2012

A mass shooting at Oikos University in California leaves seven people dead and three injured.

10
2012

UTair Flight 120 crashes after takeoff from Roshchino International Airport in Tyumen, Russia, killing 33 and injuring 10.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1966 Bill Romanowski

American NFL linebacker (Super Bowl 1988

1964 Nobel laureate

born in Usman

1963 Dermot Reeve

English cricket all-rounder (3 Tests

1963 Karl Beattie

English television director and producer (Most Haunted)

1963 Mike Gascoyne

British motor racing engineer

1962 Billy Dean

American country singer ("Young Man"; "Fire in the Dark")

1962 Clark Gregg

American actor and director (Agent Phil Coulson)

1962 Mark Shulman

American children's author (Scrawl)

1962 Pierre Carles

French director and writer (Pas vu pas pris [β€œnot seen

1961 Keren Jane Woodward

English rock vocalist (Bananarama - "Venus")

1960 Linford Christie

British athlete (Olympic gold men's 100m 1992)

1959 Brian Goodell

American swimmer who won Olympic gold 400m WR 3:51.93

1959 Dean Townson

American country music bassist (Pirates of Mississippi - "Feed Jake")

1959 Ezzaki Badou

Moroccan soccer goalkeeper (76 caps; Mallorca) and manager (Morocco)

1959 Gelindo Bordin

Italian athlete (Olympic gold marathon 1988)

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