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1777 — 1777 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
The 1777 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 2, 1777, in order to elect the governor of Rhode Island. Incumbent Independent governor Nicholas Cooke won re-election as he ran unopposed. The exact number of votes cast in this election are unknown.
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1781 — 1781 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
A gubernatorial election was held in Massachusetts on April 2, 1781. John Hancock, the incumbent governor, defeated James Bowdoin, the former president of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention.
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1783 — 1783 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
The 1783 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 2, 1783, in order to elect the governor of Rhode Island. Incumbent Independent governor William Greene won re-election as he ran unopposed. The exact number of votes cast in this election are unknown.
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1787 — 1787 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
A gubernatorial election was held in Massachusetts on April 2, 1787. John Hancock, who had served as the first governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1780 to 1785, defeated James Bowdoin, the incumbent governor. The election took place in the aftermath of Shays's Rebellion, for which Bowdoin was sharply censured.
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1788 — 1788 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
The 1788 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 2, 1788, in order to elect the governor of Rhode Island. Incumbent Independent governor John Collins won the election as he ran unopposed. The exact number of votes cast in this election are unknown.
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1792 — 1792 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
The 1792 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on April 2, 1792, in order to elect the Governor of Massachusetts. Incumbent Governor John Hancock won re-election as he ran unopposed.
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1794 — 1794 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
The 1794 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 2, 1794, in order to elect the governor of Rhode Island. Incumbent Democratic-Republican governor Arthur Fenner won re-election as he ran unopposed. The exact number of votes cast in this election are unknown.
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1797 — 1797 French legislative election
Legislative elections were held in France between 21 March and 2 April 1797 to elect one-third of the members of the Council of Five Hundred and the Council of Ancients, the lower and upper houses of the legislature, which were under the Directory.
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1800 — 1800 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
The 1800 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 2, 1800, in order to elect the governor of Rhode Island. Incumbent Democratic-Republican governor Arthur Fenner won re-election as he ran unopposed. The exact number of votes cast in this election are unknown.
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1801 — Battle of Copenhagen (1801)
In the Battle of Copenhagen, also known as the First Battle of Copenhagen to distinguish it from the Second Battle of Copenhagen in 1807, a British naval fleet defeated a smaller force of the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy anchored near Copenhagen on 2 April 1801. The battle came about over British fears that the powerful Danish fleet would ally with France, and a breakdown in diplomatic communications on both sides.
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1806 — 1806 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
The 1806 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 2, 1806, in order to elect the governor of Rhode Island. Federalist nominee Richard Jackson Jr. won a plurality of the vote against incumbent Democratic-Republican governor Henry Smith and Democratic-Republican candidate and incumbent chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court Peleg Arnold.
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1810 — 1810 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
The 1810 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on April 2, 1810. Incumbent Federalist Governor Christopher Gore was defeated by Democratic-Republican nominee Elbridge Gerry. Republicans cast Gore as an ostentatious British-loving Tory who wanted to restore the monarchy (his parents were Loyalists during the Revolution), and Gerry as a patriotic American, while Federalists described Gerry as a "French partizan" and Gore as an honest man devoted to ridding the government of foreign influence.
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1819 — Battle of Las Queseras del Medio
The Battle of Las Queseras del Medio was an important battle of the Venezuelan War of Independence. It took place on April 2, 1819. The forces of José Antonio Páez consisted of 153 lancers, who were llaneros. They were pitted against more than 1,000 Spanish cavalry. The battle is noted for a phrase of Páez’s that became famous: ¡Vuelvan Caras! (“About face!”) –although some sources state that he actually said ¡Vuelvan, Carajo! (“Return [to the battle], damn it!”).). It was April 1819 when Bolívar upon reaching the Arauca River, a tributary of the Orinoco south of the Apure plains, met cavalry division of General Páez encamped on the southern bank of the mighty river, some 300 miles south of Caracas.
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1821 — 1821 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
The 1821 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on April 2, 1821. Incumbent Federalist Governor John Brooks won re-election to a sixth term, defeating Democratic-Republican nominee William Eustis.
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1838 — 1838 Connecticut gubernatorial election
The 1838 Connecticut gubernatorial election was held on April 2, 1838. Former congressman and Whig nominee William W. Ellsworth was elected, defeating former speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives and Democratic nominee Seth Preston Beers with 54.14% of the vote.
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1845 — 1845 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
The 1845 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 2, 1845, in order to elect the governor of Rhode Island. The Liberation nominee and former speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives Charles Jackson defeated the Law and Order incumbent governor James Fenner.
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1849 — Battle of Hatvan
The Battle of Hatvan was the first battle in the Spring Campaign of the Hungarian War of Independence from 1848–1849, fought on 2 April 1849 between the Habsburg Empire and the Hungarian Revolutionary Army. This battle was the start of the Hungarian offensive, which had the purpose to liberate the Central and Western parts, and the capital of Hungary, occupied by imperial forces. The Austrian force were led by General Franz Schlik, while the Hungarians were led by Colonel András Gáspár, and lieutenant-colonel Ernő Poeltenberg. In the Hungarian army fought also the Polish Legion under the lead of Colonel Józef Wysocki.
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1849 — 1849 Connecticut gubernatorial election
The 1849 Connecticut gubernatorial election was held on April 2, 1849. Former congressman and Whig nominee Joseph Trumbull defeated former congressman and Democratic nominee Thomas H. Seymour as well as former Senator and Free Soil nominee John M. Niles with 49.35% of the vote. Niles had previously been the Democratic nominee for this same office in 1840. Trumbull won a plurality of the vote, but fell short of a majority.
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1851 — 1851 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
The 1851 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 2, 1851, in order to elect the governor of Rhode Island. Democratic nominee and former member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives Philip Allen defeated Whig nominee Josiah Chapin and Free Soil nominee Edward Harris.
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1855 — 1855 Connecticut gubernatorial election
The 1855 Connecticut gubernatorial election was held on April 2, 1855. Former state legislator and American Party nominee William T. Minor defeated former congressman and Democratic nominee Samuel Ingham and incumbent governor and Whig nominee Henry Dutton with 43.51% of the vote. The results reflected the national transition from the Second Party System to the Third Party System.
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1856 — 1856 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
The 1856 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 2, 1856, to elect the governor of Rhode Island. Incumbent Republican governor William W. Hoppin won re-election over Democratic nominee Americus V. Potter in a rematch from the 1855 Rhode Island gubernatorial election.
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1860 — 1860 Connecticut gubernatorial election
The 1860 Connecticut gubernatorial election was held on April 2, 1860. Incumbent governor and Republican nominee William Alfred Buckingham defeated former governor and Democratic nominee Thomas H. Seymour with 50.30% of the vote.
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1861 — 1861 United States Senate election in California
The 1861 United States Senate election in California was held on April 2, 1861, by the California State Legislature to elect a U.S. senator (Class 3) to represent the State of California in the United States Senate. The legislature had previously attempted to elect a senator from March 9–20, culminating with McDougall's apparent victory on the 22nd ballot; however, it was subsequently found that McDougall had not received the requisite majority, and his election was rescinded.
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1862 — 1862 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
A gubernatorial election was held in Rhode Island on April 2, 1862. The incumbent Constitutional Union governor William Sprague IV was re-elected without opposition. Sprague won the 1860 election leading a coalition of Conservative Republicans, former Whigs, and Democrats that formed to oppose the Radical Republican gubernatorial candidate, Seth Padelford. Following the election, his supporters coalesced in the Constitutional Union Party.
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1863 — 1863 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
A gubernatorial election was held in Rhode Island on April 2, 1863. The Republican former mayor of Providence James Y. Smith defeated the Democratic incumbent governor William C. Cozzens. William Sprague IV won the 1860 Rhode Island gubernatorial election leading a coalition of Conservative Republicans, former Whigs, and Democrats. Following the election, Sprague's supporters coalesced in the Constitutional Union Party.
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1865 — Battle of Selma
The Battle of Selma was a military engagement near the end of the American Civil War. It was fought in Selma, Alabama, on April 2, 1865, a town of about ten thousand inhabitants. Union Army forces under Major General James H. Wilson defeated a Confederate Army force under Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest. On March 22, 1865, Wilson led three divisions of Union cavalry, totaling 13,500 men, on a raid from Gravelly Springs, deep into largely untouched southern Alabama. He was opposed by Confederate General Forrest, whose soldiers numbered 2,000, and many of these were old men and boys.
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1865 — Battle of Sutherland's Station
The Battle of Sutherland's Station was an American Civil War conflict fought on April 2, 1865, in Dinwiddie, Virginia during the Appomattox Campaign. Union columns converged on Petersburg on April 2, pushing through a large section of the Confederate defensive entrenchments. As Robert E. Lee desperately sought to buy time to allow his army to withdraw, Ulysses S. Grant launched several other attacks. Stubborn Confederate resistance at Fort Gregg delayed Grant's progress. Meanwhile, Maj. Gen. Nelson A. Miles's Union division battered Henry Heth's Confederates near Sutherland's Station and drove them off the field. The Confederate defenders were scattered and driven northwestward.
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1865 — Third Battle of Petersburg
The Third Battle of Petersburg, also known as the Breakthrough at Petersburg or the Fall of Petersburg, was fought on April 2, 1865, south and southwest of Petersburg, Virginia, at the end of the 292-day Richmond–Petersburg Campaign (sometimes called the Siege of Petersburg) and in the beginning stage of the Appomattox Campaign near the conclusion of the American Civil War. The Union Army (Army of the Potomac, Army of the Shenandoah and Army of the James) under the overall command of General-in-chief, Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, launched an assault on General Robert E.
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1866 — 1866 Connecticut gubernatorial election
The 1866 Connecticut gubernatorial election was held on April 2, 1866. Civil War general and Republican nominee Joseph Roswell Hawley defeated Democratic nominee James E. English with 50.30% of the vote. As this was the first election held after the American Civil War, some aspects of the National Union Party were still present.
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1867 — Third Battle of Puebla
The Battle of 2 de Abril was fought on April 2, 1867, in and around the city of Puebla, Puebla. It was one of the major military actions in the Franco-Mexican War between elements of the Mexican Army of the Republic commanded by General Porfirio Díaz and troops at the service of the Mexican Empire composed by Mexican imperialist soldiers. The campaign of Puebla includes the siege of Puebla, the battle of April 2 and the capture of the forts of Loreto and Guadalupe. The battle, also known as the Third Battle of Puebla, was the end of a siege on the city of Puebla, which started on March 9 of the same year.
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1873 — 1873 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
The 1873 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 2, 1873, in order to elect the governor of Rhode Island. Republican nominee Henry Howard defeated Democratic nominee Benjamin G. Chace.
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1879 — 1879 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
The 1879 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 2, 1879. Incumbent Republican Charles C. Van Zandt defeated Democratic nominee Thomas W. Segar with 62.09% of the vote.
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1884 — 1884 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
The 1884 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 2, 1884. Incumbent Republican Augustus O. Bourn defeated Democratic nominee Thomas W. Segar with 62.39% of the vote.
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1889 — 1889 Chicago mayoral election
In the Chicago mayoral election of 1889, Democrat DeWitt Clinton Cregier defeated incumbent Republican John A. Roche, winning a majority of the vote and a margin of victory in excess of ten percent. The election was held on April 2, 1889.
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1890 — 1890 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
The 1890 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 2, 1890. Democratic nominee John W. Davis defeated incumbent Republican Herbert W. Ladd with 48.76% of the vote.
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1898 — Battle of Camalig
The Battle of Camalig in Albay province, Philippines, was fought on April 2, 1898 between the forces of colonial Spanish government in Bicol Region and Bicolanos under Bicolano revolutionaries General Vito Belarmino (the Zone Commander of Katipunero Forces in the Bicol Region), Simeón Ola, and Glicerio Delgado during the Philippine Revolutionary War. The latter were victorious in this battle, and General Vito Belarmino, designated him the rank of a Captain after the battle.
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1901 — 1901 Wisconsin Supreme Court election
The 1901 Wisconsin Supreme Court election was held on Tuesday, April 2, 1901, to elect a justice to the Wisconsin Supreme Court for a ten-year term. Incumbent justice Joshua Eric Dodge was re-elected without opposition.
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1907 — 1907 Wisconsin Supreme Court election
The 1907 Wisconsin Supreme Court election was held on Tuesday, April 2, 1907, to elect a justice to the Wisconsin Supreme Court for a ten-year term. Incumbent justice Roujet D. Marshall was re-elected over challenger Henry Townsend Scudder.
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1916 — 1916 Argentine general election
General elections were held in Argentina on 2 April 1916. Voters elected the President, legislators, and local officials. The first secret-ballot presidential elections in the nation's history, they were mandatory and had a turnout of 63%. The turnout for the Chamber of Deputies election was 65%. The election has been characterized as the first free and fair elections in Argentina.
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1918 — 1918 United States Senate special election in Wisconsin
The 1918 United States Senate special election in Wisconsin was held on April 2, 1918. Incumbent Democrat Senator Paul O. Husting was killed in a hunting accident the previous year. Republican U.S. Representative Irvine Lenroot defeated Democratic Federal Trade Commission Chairman Joseph E. Davies and Socialist former Congressman Victor L. Berger. Primary elections were held on March 19.
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1918 — 1918 Wisconsin Supreme Court special election
The 1918 Wisconsin Supreme Court special election was a special election held on Tuesday, April 2, 1918, to elect a justice to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Incumbent justice Marvin B. Rosenberry (who had been appointed to in 1916 to fill a vacancy) won re-election over Charles H. Crownhart (the former chairman of the Wisconsin Industrial Commission). The election coincided with a special U.S.
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1918 — First Battle of the Jordan
The First Transjordan attack on Amman (known to the British as the First Attack on Amman) and to their enemy as the First Battle of the Jordan took place between 21 March and 2 April 1918, as a consequence of the successful Battle of Tell 'Asur which occurred after the Capture of Jericho in February and the Occupation of the Jordan Valley began, during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of World War I.
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1922 — 1922 Argentine general election
General elections were held in Argentina on 2 April 1922. Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear of the Radical Civic Union (UCR) was elected president, while Elpidio González, also of the UCR, was elected vice-president. The UCR also maintained its majority in the Chamber of Deputies, winning 49 of the 85 seats available, leaving it holding 95 of the 158 seats in the Chamber.
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1924 — Finnish parliamentary election, 1924
Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 1 and 2 April 1924. Although the Social Democratic Party remained the largest in Parliament with 60 of the 200 seats, Lauri Ingman of the National Coalition Party formed a centre-right majority government in May 1924. It remained intact until the Agrarians left in November 1924. Voter turnout was 57.4%.
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1946 — 1946 Wisconsin Supreme Court election
The 1946 Wisconsin Supreme Court election was held on Tuesday, April 2, 1946, to elect a justice to the Wisconsin Supreme Court for a ten-year term. Incumbent justice Edward T. Fairchild narrowly defeated challenger Henry P. Hughes.
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1949 — April 1949 Singapore Municipal Commission election
The April 1949 Singapore Municipal Commission election took place on 2 April 1949 to elect 18 of the 27 seats in the Singapore Municipal Commission.
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1955 — Singaporean general election, 1955
General elections were held in Singapore on 2 April 1955 to elect the 25 elected seats in the Legislative Assembly. Nomination day was on 28 February 1955.
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1957 — 1957 United States Senate special election in Texas
The 1957 United States Senate special election in Texas was held on April 2, 1957, to complete the unexpired term of Senator Price Daniel, who resigned to become Governor of Texas. Interim Senator William Blakley did not run in the special election. Ralph Yarborough won the race with a plurality of the vote; no majority was required.
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1963 — 1963 Dallas mayoral election
The 1963 Dallas mayoral election was held on Tuesday April 2, 1963, with incumbent Earle Cabell being re-elected with 66.6 percent of the vote. During this term of Cabell's mayoralty, President John F. Kennedy would be assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Cabell resigned as mayor on February 3, 1964, in order to run for Congress. He would go on to win the election and unseat Republican incumbent Bruce Alger.
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1963 — 1963 Chicago mayoral election
The Chicago mayoral election of 1963 was held on April 2, 1963. The election saw Richard J. Daley elected to a third term as mayor, defeating Republican Ben Adamowski by a double-digit margin. The party was preceded by primary elections held on February 26, 1963 to determine the nominees of both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.
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1963 — 1963 Wisconsin Supreme Court election
The 1963 Wisconsin Supreme Court election was held on Tuesday, April 2, 1963 to elect a justice to a full ten-year seat the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Bruce F. Beilfuss won an open race to succeed retiring justice Timothy Brown.
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1966 — Kooyong by-election, 1966
A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Kooyong on 2 April 1966, following the resignation of Liberal Party MP and former Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies on 16 February 1966. The by-election was won by Liberal candidate Andrew Peacock, although with a reduced majority.
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1968 — 1968 Wisconsin Supreme Court election
The 1968 Wisconsin Supreme Court election was held on Tuesday, April 2, 1968 to elect a justice to a full ten-year seat the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Incumbent justice Leo B. Hanley (appointed to fill a vacancy) was relected to a ten-year term, unopposed.
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1969 — LOT Polish Airlines Flight 165 (1969)
LOT Polish Airlines Flight 165 was an Antonov An-24 aircraft, registration SP-LTF, operating a scheduled passenger flight from Warsaw to Krakow Balice airport. It crashed into a mountain on 2 April 1969 at 16:08 local time (UTC+1) during a snowstorm. All 53 people on board were killed.
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1977 — March 1977 Fijian general election
General elections were held in Fiji between 19 March and 2 April 1977. As a result of a split in the ethnic Fijian vote, the ruling Alliance Party of Prime Minister Kamisese Mara suffered a narrow defeat. Although the Alliance Party received the most votes, it won only 24 seats, two fewer than the Indo-Fijian-dominated National Federation Party (NFP).
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1982 — Falklands War
The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas), also known as the Falklands Conflict, Falklands Crisis, and the Guerra del Atlántico Sur (Spanish for "South Atlantic War"), was a ten-week war between Argentina and the United Kingdom over two British overseas territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It began on Friday, 2 April 1982, when Argentina invaded and occupied the Falkland Islands (and, the following day, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands) in an attempt to establish the sovereignty it had claimed over them.
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1985 — 1985 Wisconsin Supreme Court election
The 1985 Wisconsin Supreme Court election was held on April 2, 1985, to elect a justice to the Wisconsin Supreme Court for a ten-year term. Incumbent justice Nathan Heffernan (who had held the seat since 1964) was re-elected.
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1989 — WrestleMania V
WrestleMania V was a 1989 professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It was the fifth annual WrestleMania and took place on April 2, 1989, at the Atlantic City Convention Hall (promoted as Trump Plaza) in Atlantic City, New Jersey for a second consecutive year. WrestleMania V went head-to-head against Clash of the Champions VI, a television special by rival company World Championship Wrestling.
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1995 — WrestleMania XI
WrestleMania XI was the eleventh annual WrestleMania pay-per-view event held by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) at the Hartford Civic Center in Hartford, Connecticut on April 2, 1995. The main event was a match between NFL linebacker Lawrence Taylor, who faced Bam Bam Bigelow as the result of an argument that took place between the two at the 1995 Royal Rumble. Taylor won the match, which led to Bigelow being kicked out of Ted DiBiase's Million Dollar Corporation. Shawn Michaels faced WWF World Heavyweight Champion Diesel in a title match but was unable to win the championship.
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1995 — Weekly Pro Wrestling Tokyo Dome Show
The Weekly Pro Wrestling Tokyo Dome Show, often referred to as Bridge of Dreams (Japanese: 夢の架け橋～憧夢春爛漫～, Hepburn: Yume no Kakehashi: Dōmu Haruranman), was a multi-promotional professional wrestling and mixed martial arts television special event hosted by Japanese wrestling magazine, Weekly Pro Wrestling. The event took place on April 2, 1995 at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan.
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1995 — 1995 Football League Cup final
The 1995 Football League Cup final was a football match played between Bolton Wanderers and Liverpool on 2 April 1995 at Wembley Stadium, London. It was the final match of the 1994–95 Football League Cup, the 35th staging of the Football League Cup, a football competition for the 92 teams in the Premier League and The Football League. This was Bolton's first-ever final appearance.
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1996 — 1996 Dublin West by-election
A Dáil by-election was held in the constituency of Dublin West in Ireland on Tuesday, 2 April 1996, to fill a vacancy in the 27th Dáil. It followed the death of Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD) Brian Lenihan Snr on 1 November 1995. The writ of election to fill the vacancy was agreed by the Dáil on 12 March 1996.
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1996 — 1996 Donegal North-East by-election
A Dáil by-election was held in the constituency of Donegal North-East in Ireland on Tuesday, 2 April 1996, to fill a vacancy in the 27th Dáil. It followed the death of Independent Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD) Neil Blaney on 8 November 1995. The writ of election to fill the vacancy was agreed by the Dáil on 12 March 1996.
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1998 — Hong Kong Election Committee Subsector elections, 1998
The 1998 Election Committee Subsector Elections were held on 2 April 1998 to form the Election Committee responsible for electing the Chief Executive of Hong Kong as well as 10 seats of the Election Committee constituency in the first Legislative Council election in May 1998. The 800-member Election Committee was formed, consisting of 77 ex-officio members; 40 members nominated by the Religious Subsector; 95 returned uncontested from four subsectors; and 588 returned from 31 subsectors after the subsector elections.
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1999 — Torneo Gran Alternativa (April 1999)
The Torneo Gran Alternativa (April 1999) (Spanish for "Great Alternative Tournament") was a professional wrestling tournament held by the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL; Spanish for "World Wrestling Council"). The tournament was held on April 2, 1999, in Mexico City, Mexico at CMLL's main venue, Arena México. The Gran Alternativa tournament features tag teams composed of a rookie, or novato, and a veteran wrestler for an elimination tournament.
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2000 — WrestleMania 2000
WrestleMania 2000 (sequentially known as WrestleMania 16) was the sixteenth annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It took place on April 2, 2000, at the Arrowhead Pond of Amaheim in Anaheim, California. The main event was a four-way elimination match for the WWF Championship involving reigning champion Triple H, The Rock, Mick Foley, and The Big Show, which Triple H won after last eliminating The Rock. Main matches on the undercard included a triangle ladder match for the WWF Tag Team Championship involving Edge and Christian, The Hardy Boyz, and The Dudley Boyz, and a two-fall triple threat match for the WWF Intercontinental and European Championships involving Kurt Angle, Chris Jericho, and Chris Benoit.
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2000 — 2000 Puerto Rico Democratic presidential caucuses
The 2000 Puerto Rico Democratic presidential caucuses were held on April 2, 2000, as part of the Democratic Party primaries for the 2000 presidential election. 58 delegates to the Democratic National Convention were allocated to presidential candidates. Although Puerto Rico would not participate in the 2000 presidential general election because it is a U.S. territory and not a state, it equally participated in the U.S. presidential caucuses and primaries.
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2004 — Sri Lankan parliamentary election, 2004
Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 2 April 2004. The ruling United National Party of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was defeated, winning only eighty two seats in the 225-member Sri Lankan parliament. The opposition United People's Freedom Alliance won 105 seats. While this was eight seats short of an absolute majority, the Alliance was able to form a government.
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2005 — Battle of Abu Ghraib
The Battle of Abu Ghraib was an April 2, 2005 attack on United States forces at Abu Ghraib prison, which consisted of heavy mortar and rocket fire, under which armed insurgents attacked with grenades, small arms, and two vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices (VBIED). The U.S. Military's munitions ran so low that orders to fix bayonets were given in preparation for hand-to-hand fighting.
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2006 — Tornado outbreak of April 2, 2006
During the late afternoon and evening of April 2, 2006, a series of tornadoes broke out in the central United States. It was the second major outbreak of 2006, in the same area that suffered considerable destruction in a previous outbreak on March 11 and 12, as well as an outbreak on November 15, 2005.
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2006 — WrestleMania 22
WrestleMania 22 was a 2006 professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was the 22nd annual WrestleMania and took place on April 2, 2006, at the Allstate Arena in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, Illinois, held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown! brand divisions. There were two main events, which were the main matches for each brand.
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2008 — UFC Fight Night: Florian vs. Lauzon
UFC Fight Night: Florian vs. Lauzon (also known as UFC Fight Night 13) was a mixed martial arts (MMA) event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) on April 2, 2008 at the Broomfield Event Center in Broomfield, Colorado.
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2010 — Good Friday Battle
The Good Friday Engagement took place on April 2, 2010 as part of the Bundeswehr's operation in Afghanistan between a paratrooper unit and members of the Taliban. These were supported by the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. Three paratroopers were killed in the engagement. In the engagement, German soldiers were involved in prolonged combat operations with their own losses for the first time since the Second World War.
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2012 — 2012 Oikos University shooting
On April 2, 2012, 43-year-old One L. Goh killed seven people and injured three others at Oikos University, a Korean Christian college in Oakland, California, United States. It is the deadliest mass killing in the city's history.
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2013 — 2013 Kansas City, Kansas, mayoral election
The 2013 Kansas City, Kansas mayoral election took place on April 2, 2013, to elect the Mayor/CEO of the United Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas. The election is officially nonpartisan. Incumbent Joe Reardon did not run for a third term. Mark Holland and Ann Murguia were on the ballot in the general election. Holland defeated Murguia by over 1,500 votes.
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2013 — 2013 Wisconsin elections
The 2013 Wisconsin Spring Election was held in the U.S. state of Wisconsin on April 2, 2013. There were contested elections for justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court and Superintendent of Public Instruction, as well as several other nonpartisan local and judicial elections. In addition, the ballot contained a special election to fill a vacancy in the 98th Assembly district.
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2014 — 2014 Fort Hood shootings
On April 2, 2014, a spree shooting occurred at several locations on the Fort Hood military base near Killeen, Texas. Four people, including the gunman, were killed while 14 additional people were injured; 12 by gunshot wounds. The shooter, 34-year-old Army Specialist Ivan Lopez-Lopez, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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2015 — Garissa University College attack
On 2 April 2015, gunmen stormed the Garissa University College in Garissa, Kenya, killing 148 people, and injuring 79 or more. The militant group and Al-Qaeda offshoot, Al-Shabaab, which the gunmen claimed to be from, took responsibility for the attack. The gunmen took over 700 students hostage, freeing Muslims and killing those who identified as Christians. The siege ended the same day, when all four of the attackers were killed. Five men were later arrested in connection with the attack, and a bounty was placed for the arrest of a suspected organizer.
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2016 — World Series of Fighting 30: Branch vs. Starks
World Series of Fighting 30: Branch vs. Starks was a mixed martial arts event held on April 2, 2016 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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2016 — 2016 Czech Pirate Party leadership election
The Czech Pirate Party leadership election of 2016 was held on 2 April 2016. Ivan Bartoš was elected the new leader. Members of the party were allowed to vote through internet.
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2017 — 2017 National Liberation Party presidential primary
Costa Rica's National Liberation Party presidential primary (or Convención Nacional “National Convention”) was a primary election programmed for April 2, 2017 in order to choose the party's presidential nominee for the 2018 Costa Rican general election. PLN was then the main opposition party to Luis Guillermo Solís' government.
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2017 — 2017 Serbian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Serbia on 2 April 2017. Incumbent president Tomislav Nikolić was eligible to run for a second five-year term, but opted not to do so. Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić was elected president in the first round. The election was marred by accusations of voter intimidation and a near total domination of the Serbian media by Vučić and his party.
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2017 — 2017 EFL Trophy final
The 2017 EFL Trophy final was an association football match that was played on 2 April 2017 at Wembley Stadium, London. It was played between League One teams Coventry City and Oxford United. The match decided the winners of the 2016–17 EFL Trophy, a 64-team knockout tournament comprising clubs from League One and League Two of the English Football League (EFL), as well as 16 Category One academy sides representing Premier League and Championship clubs.
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2017 — WrestleMania 33
WrestleMania 33 was a 2017 professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE, held for wrestlers from the promotion's main roster brands, Raw and SmackDown. It was the 33rd annual WrestleMania and took place on April 2, 2017, at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida. Then-active WWE wrestlers The New Day (Big E, Kofi Kingston, and Xavier Woods) served as the hosts of the event.
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2019 — 2019 Wisconsin Supreme Court election
The 2019 Wisconsin Supreme Court election was held on Tuesday, April 2, 2019, to elect a justice to the Wisconsin Supreme Court for a ten-year term. The incumbent justice, Shirley Abrahamson, retired after 43 years on the court, the longest in the history of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Although the Wisconsin Supreme Court justices are considered nonpartisan, Abrahamson identified as a liberal and voted with the liberal 3–4 minority on the court.
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2019 — 2019 Chicago aldermanic election
The 2019 Chicago aldermanic election took place in two rounds on February 26 and April 2, 2019, to elect 50 aldermen to the Chicago City Council. Each alderman represents one of Chicago's 50 wards. The elections are non-partisan and use a two-round system where the top two finishers compete in a second-round run-off if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote in the first round.
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2019 — 2019 Wisconsin elections
The 2019 Wisconsin spring election was held in the U.S. state of Wisconsin on April 2, 2019. There was one seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court on the ballot, as well as several other nonpartisan local and judicial elections. There were also a number of local referendums for school funding. The 2019 Wisconsin spring primary was held on February 19, 2019.
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2019 — 2019 Maltese presidential election
The 2019 Maltese presidential election took place on 2 April 2019. Members of the Parliament of Malta voted in an indirect election to approve the appointment of former cabinet minister George Vella, the only nominee, as President of Malta. Vella's nomination was supported by both the governing Labour Party and opposition Nationalist Party.
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2019 — 2019 Las Vegas mayoral election
The 2019 Las Vegas mayoral election took place on April 2, 2019, to elect the Mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada. The election was held concurrently with various other local elections, and was officially nonpartisan. Goodman's main opponent was Republican Phil Collins. Incumbent Mayor Carolyn Goodman, an Independent in office since 2011, was reelected to a third term in office.
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2019 — 2019 Brown County, Wisconsin Executive election
The 2019 Brown County, Wisconsin Executive election took place on April 2, 2019. Incumbent County Executive Troy Streckenbach ran for re-election to a third term. Though outgoing Green Bay Mayor Jim Schmitt took out papers to challenge Streckenbach, he ultimately declined to run. Instead, Streckenbach faced former County Supervisor Mark Berndt, a financial advisor. He defeated Berndt in a landslide, winning 75 percent of the vote.
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2021 — 2021 Hualien train derailment
On 2 April 2021, at 09:28 NST (01:28 UTC), a Taroko Express train operated by the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) derailed at the north entrance of Qingshui Tunnel in Heren Section, Xiulin Township, Hualien County, Taiwan, killing 49 people and injuring at least two others, making it the deadliest railway accident in Taiwan in terms of confirmed deaths.
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2021 — Awdheegle and Bariire attacks
On 2 April 2021, Al-Shabaab militants simultaneously attacked Somali National Army bases in Awdheegle and Bariire, Lower Shabelle, killing forty-eight soldiers and dozens of al-Shabaab fighters. Somali forces were able to repulse both attacks.
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2021 — 2021 United States Capitol car attack
On April 2, 2021, Noah Green, a 25-year-old black nationalist, killed Capitol Police officer William Evans and wounded a second officer after he deliberately rammed his car into a barricade outside the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. As a result of the attack, the Capitol complex was locked down. Green was shot and later died at a hospital from the gunshot wounds.
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2021 — Bellator 255
Bellator 255: Pitbull vs. Sanchez 2 was a mixed martial arts event produced by Bellator MMA that took place on April 2, 2021 at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. The event was Bellator's first of the year following a four-month break after Bellator 254.
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2022 — NXT Stand & Deliver (2022)
The 2022 NXT Stand & Deliver was a professional wrestling livestreaming event produced by WWE. It was the second annual Stand & Deliver held for the promotion's developmental brand NXT. The event took place on April 2, 2022, at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas. The event was held as a part of WrestleMania Weekend, being held the same day as WrestleMania 38 Night 1 with a special start time of 1 p.m.
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2023 — 2023 Finnish parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 2 April 2023 to elect members of the Parliament of Finland. Following the 2019 election, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) formed a governing coalition with the Centre Party, Greens, Left Alliance, and the Swedish People's Party, with Antti Rinne serving as the prime minister of Finland.
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2023 — WrestleMania 39
WrestleMania 39, also promoted as WrestleMania Goes Hollywood, was a 2023 two-part professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE, held for wrestlers from the promotion's main roster brands, Raw and SmackDown. It was the 39th annual WrestleMania and took place as a two-night event on Saturday, April 1 and Sunday, April 2, 2023, at SoFi Stadium in the Greater Los Angeles city of Inglewood, California.
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2024 — 2024 Connecticut Republican presidential primary
The 2024 Connecticut Republican presidential primary was held on April 2, 2024, as part of the Republican Party primaries for the 2024 presidential election. 28 delegates to the 2024 Republican National Convention were allocated on a winner-take-most basis. The contest was held alongside primaries in New York, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin.
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2024 — 2024 Wisconsin Republican presidential primary
The 2024 Wisconsin Republican presidential primary was held on April 2, 2024, as part of the Republican Party primaries for the 2024 presidential election. 41 delegates to the 2024 Republican National Convention were allocated on a winner-take-all basis.
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2024 — 2024 Rhode Island Democratic presidential primary
The 2024 Rhode Island Democratic presidential primary was held on April 2, 2024, as part of the Democratic Party primaries for the 2024 presidential election, alongside three other contests on the day. 26 delegates to the Democratic National Convention were allocated, with 9 additional unpledged delegates.
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2024 — 2024 Rhode Island Republican presidential primary
The 2024 Rhode Island Republican presidential primary was held on April 2, 2024, as part of the Republican Party primaries for the 2024 presidential election. 19 delegates to the 2024 Republican National Convention were allocated on a winner-take-most basis. The contest was held alongside primaries in Delaware, New York, and Wisconsin. Even though Trump cruised to victory, he showed a poorer result as compared to his performance in 2020 (albeit as a non-incumbent), getting almost 3% fewer votes.
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2024 — 2024 Pakistani Senate election
Elections for the Senate of Pakistan were held on 2 April 2024. Senate elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were postponed by the ECP to 21 July 2025. 52 out of 100 incumbent Senators including 4 FATA senators retired after completing their 6-year terms. After the merger of FATA with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the remaining 4 out of 8 seats were also abolished. 48 seats from four Provinces and the Federal Capital were up for election, including the seats for which the election was postponed.
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2024 — 2024 Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary
The 2024 Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary was held on April 2, 2024, as part of the Democratic Party primaries for the 2024 presidential election, alongside three other contests on the day. 82 delegates to the Democratic National Convention were allocated, with 13 additional unpledged delegates. President Joe Biden won almost 90% of the vote and was virtually unopposed, with Dean Phillips and the campaign for uninstructed delegates being his only challengers.
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2024 — 2024 Milwaukee County Executive election
The 2024 Milwaukee County Executive election took place on April 2, 2024. Incumbent County Executive David Crowley ran for re-election to a second term. His only opponent was activist and perennial candidate Ieshuh Griffin. Because only two candidates filed for the election, no primary election was held. Crowley defeated Griffin in a landslide, winning re-election with 85 percent of the vote.
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2024 — 2024 Connecticut Democratic presidential primary
The 2024 Connecticut Democratic presidential primary was held on April 2, 2024, as part of the Democratic Party primaries for the 2024 presidential election, alongside three other contests on the day. 60 delegates to the Democratic National Convention were allocated, with 14 additional unpledged delegates. President Joe Biden won every county and all delegates. The option for uncommitted delegates, fueled by protest votes due to the Gaza war, received more than 11% of the vote.
Connecticut, United States · Politics & society · Checked 2026-09-23
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2024 — 2024 Viertola school shooting
On 2 April 2024, a shooting occurred at the Viertola school, Jokiranta site in Vantaa, Finland. The gunman, a 12-year-old fired a revolver at three students, all aged 12. One victim was killed while two were seriously injured.
Finland · War & conflict · Checked 2026-09-23
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