What happend on 2nd April

01.04
03.04
1973

Launch of LexisNexis computerized legal research service.

1972

Vietnam War: Easter Offensive begins

1972

Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist in the early 1950s during the Red Scare.

1971

The final broadcast of Dark Shadows aired on ABC-TV.

1964

The Saab board started Project Gudmund to develop a new and larger car, later released as Saab 99.

1956

General Motors board member Alfred P. Sloan steps down after 19 years as chairman with Albert Bradley as his successor.

1956

As the World Turns and The Edge of Night first aired on the CBS network in the United States, as the first half-hour serial dramas.

1941

The radio program Life of Riley aired for the first time.

1930

Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia.

1917

The first woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress, Jeannette Rankin, takes her seat as a representative from Montana.