Today is Saturday, April 2, the 94th day of 2016. There are 272 days left in the year.
1550 — Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy
1590 — States-General appoints earl Mauritius, viceroy of Utrecht
1645 — Robert Devereux resigns as parliament supreme commander
1745 — Austria & Bavaria sign peace
1800 — First performance of Ludwig von Beethoven’s first symphony
1902 — First motion picture theater opens in Los Angeles
1912 — Sun Yet Sen forms Guomindang-Party in China
1916 — German troops overtake Bois de Caillette
1917 — President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany