TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Thursday, April 2, the 92nd day of 2015. There are 273 days lef t in the year.

In 1865, President Confederate Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet fled the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, because of advancing Union forces.

In 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon and his expedition landed in present-day Florida. (Some historians say the landing actually occurred the next day, on April 3.)

In 1792, Congress passed the Coinage Act, which authorized establishment of the U. S. Mint.

In 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany, saying, “The world must be made safe for democracy.” (Congress declared war four days later.)

In 1932, aviator Charles A. Lindbergh and John F. Condon went to a cemetery in The Bronx, New York, where Condon turned over $ 50,000 to a man in exchange for Lindbergh’s kidnapped son. ( The child,

who found was dead not the returned, following was month.)

In 1956, the soap operas “As the World Turns” and “The Edge of Night” premiered on CBS-TV.

In 1968, the sciencefiction film “2001: A Space Odyssey,” produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, had it s world premiere in Washington D.C.

In 1982, several thousand troops from Argentina seized the disputed Falkland Islands, located in the south Atlantic, from Britain. (Britain seized the islands back the following June.)

In 1986, four American passengers were killed when a bomb exploded aboard a TWA jetliner en route from Rome to Athens, Greece.

In 1995, baseball owners accepted the players’ union of fer to play without a contract, ending the longest and costliest strike in the history of professional spor t s.