In a significant development for Major League Baseball, the long-standing labor dispute between team owners and players reached a resolution in 1995, following an eight-month work stoppage that cast a shadow over America’s pastime.

On April 2, 1982, Argentina invades the Falklands Islands, a British colony since 1892 and British possession since 1833.

The world’s first anthrax outbreak begins in Sverdlovsk, Russia (now Ekaterinburg), on April 2, 1979.

Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey has its world theatrical premiere on April 2, 1968.

On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to send U.

Jeannette Pickering Rankin, the first woman ever elected to Congress, takes her seat in the U.

On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson delivered a momentous address to a joint session of Congress, urging for a declaration of war against Germany, marking a pivotal moment in American history.

On April 2, 1912, the RMS Titanic embarked on its maiden sea trials from Belfast, heralding the dawn of a new era in maritime engineering and luxury travel.

An excited crowd looked up in astonishment and wonder when, in 1877, the first human cannonball flew above their heads.

Hans Christian Andersen, one of the world’s greatest storytellers, is born in Odense, near Copenhagen.