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April 2: World Autism Awareness Day; feast day of Saint Francis of Paola (Catholicism); Malvinas Day in Argentina (1982)

Southern bread riots

1863 – About 5,000 people in Richmond, Virginia, mostly poor women, rioted in protest of the high price of bread (depicted).
1979 – Spores of anthrax were accidentally released from a military research facility near the city of Sverdlovsk, causing at least 68 deaths.
1982 – Argentine special forces invaded the Falkland Islands, sparking the Falklands War against the United Kingdom.
1992 – Bosnian War: At least 48 civilians were massacred in the town of Bijeljina in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2012 – A gunman shot at people inside Oikos University, a Korean Christian college in Oakland, California, leaving seven people dead and three injured.

Prince George of Denmark (b. 1653)
Wilhelmine Reichard (b. 1788)
Sir James Montgomery, 1st Baronet (d. 1803)
Elizabeth Catlett (d. 2012)

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