This day in History - April 2

348 Historic Events for April 2
1878 Event 1st issue of Rotterdam's Newspaper
1883 Event Battle at Bamako: French assault on Fabous arm forces attack
1884 Event London prison for debtors closed
1890 Death Marinus FAG Campbell, bibliographer, dies at 70
1891 Birth Max Ernst, Germany, painter/sculptor (founded surrealism)
1892 Death Willem J d'Ablaing van Giessenburg, Dut baron/genealogist, dies at 79
1894 Birth Walter Mittelholzer, Swiss aviation pioneer (Swiss Air)
1894 Birth Rudolph P Cleveringa, Dutch anti-nazi lawyer
1900 Birth Heinrich Besseler, German musicologist
1900 Event 1st edition of The Volk published (Amsterdam)
1901 Birth Anis Fuleihan, composer
1902 Event Country singer Wynonna Judd's 1st appearance as a single act
1902 Event Soccer team MVV '02 forms in Maastricht
1902 Event 1st motion picture theater opens (LA)
1902 Birth Danilo Svara, composer
1905 Event Cairo-Capetown railway opens
1905 Birth Edmond Jouhaud, general
1905 Birth Kurt Adler, therapist/writer
1905 Birth Serge Lifar, Kiev, dancer, choreographer (Paris Op‚ra Ballet)
1906 Event South Africa complete a 4-1 series drubbing of England
1908 Birth Buddy Ebsen, Belleville Il, actor (Beverly Hillbillies, Barnaby Jones)
1908 Event Mills Committee declares baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday
1909 Birth Jean Kurt Forest, composer
1910 Death Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, German theologist, dies at 79
1910 Death Boyd Alexander, English explorer (Niger to the Nile), murdered at 37