Today in History for 2nd April 2025
Historical Events
1845 – H L Fizeau and Leon Foucault take 1st photo of the Sun
1930 – 1st NY-Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda
1958 – Wind speed reaches a record 450 kph in tornado, Wichita Falls, Texas
1968 – “2001 A Space Odyssey” directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood, premieres at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C.
1995 – North and Western Colorado begins using new area code 970
1995 – Longest strike in American major league sports history (232 days) ends as MLB owners accept players’ offer to return to work without a contract; MLB is first major pro sports league to lose an entire postseason due to labor struggles
Famous Birthdays
1878 – Émilie Charmy, French avant-garde artist, born in Saint-Etienne, France (d. 1974)
1930 – Girolamo Arriego, Italian composer, born in Palermo, Italy
1947 – Paquita la del Barrio [Francisca Viveros Barradas], Mexican traditional ranchera, bolero, and contemporary singer, born in Alto Lucero, Veracruz, Mexico (d. 2025)
1970 – Tammi Reiss, American actress and former WNBA guard (Utah Starzz), born in New York
1971 – ZEEBRA [Hideyuki Yokoi], Japanese hip hop artist, born in Tokyo, Japan
1975 – Deedee Magno Hall, Filipino-American rocker (Party-Rodeo, That’s Why), born in Portsmouth, Virginia
Famous Deaths
1932 – Bill Pickett, American rodeo performer (invented bulldogging), dies after being kicked in the head by a bronco at 61
1937 – Nathan Birnbaum, Austrian writer (Gottes Volk;; Der Ruf), and philosopher (early Zionist, later anti-Zionist), dies at 72
1953 – Jean Epstein, French director (Vive la Vie), dies at 56
1973 – Jascha Horenstein, Russian-born American conductor, dies at 74
1994 – Richard Davies, actor (Pvt Buckaroo), dies of a heart attack at 79
2018 – Susan Anspach, American actress (Grace-Yellow Rose, Hair, Five Easy Pieces, Play It Again Sam), dies at 75
