What happened on 2 April?

9 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1982 Falklands War Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands defeated by a British task force.
2. 1939 Born: Marvin Gaye Motown singer-songwriter.
3. 1840 Born: Émile Zola Naturalist novelist and chief defender of Dreyfus; author of Germinal and the Rougon-Macquart cycle.
4. 2005 Death of Pope John Paul II The end of a 26-year pontificate that helped topple communism; one of the most-attended funerals in history follows.
5. 2022 Bucha massacre Mass killings of civilians by Russian forces near Kyiv come to light after their retreat, drawing global condemnation.
6. 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick's epoch-making science-fiction film.
7. 1453 The chain across the Golden Horn As the Ottoman army arrives, the defenders stretch a great iron boom across the mouth of the Golden Horn, sealing the city's harbour to the sultan's fleet. It holds for weeks and d
8. 1801 Battle of Copenhagen (1801) Nelson puts his telescope to his blind eye, ignores the signal to withdraw, and batters the Danish fleet at anchor — neutrality is no protection in Napoleon's Europe.
9. 1783 The Duke of Portland's first premiership A nominal head for the Fox-North coalition, dismissed by George III over the India Bill.