On This Day for April 2 - Death of Pope John Paul II, Charlemagne is featured, and more

Created: 2020-04-02 10:02 Updated: 2020-04-02 10:02 Notebook: On this Day in History

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April 02

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Charlemagne

FEATURED EVENT

2005

Death of Pope John Paul II

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2015: Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira, who was known for richly meditative and often self-reflexive films that were frequently inspired by literary and theatrical works, died at age 106.

1982: Argentine troops seized the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), precipitating the Falkland Islands War with Britain.

1968: Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey had its world premiere in Washington, D.C.; it became a classic, setting the benchmark for sci-fi films.

Sir Alec Guinness in the title role of Macbeth (1966).

1914: British actor Sir Alec Guinness was born.

Max Ernst, photograph by Yousuf Karsh, 1965.

1891: German sculptor and painter Max Ernst , who was a leading advocate of irrationality in art, was born.

Women in mourning among the ruins in a burned section of Richmond, Virginia, April 1865.

1865: In the face of advancing Union forces, Confederate troops evacuated Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War .

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1914

Alec Guinness
British actor

747

Charlemagne
Holy Roman emperor [747?–814]

1939

Marvin Gaye
American singer and composer

1805

Hans Christian Andersen
Danish author

1965

Rodney Glen King
American construction worker