Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 2
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April 2: Malvinas Day in Argentina
- 1513 – Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León reached Florida, becoming the first European known to do so, purportedly while searching for the Fountain of Youth in the New World.
- 1801 – War of the Second Coalition: British forces led by Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson (pictured) defeated the Dano-Norwegian fleet at the Battle of Copenhagen off the coast of Copenhagen.
- 1911 – The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducted the country's first national census.
- 1973 – The Liberal Movement broke away from the Liberal and Country League in South Australia.
- 2002 – Operation Defensive Shield: Approximately 200 Palestinian militants fled the advancing Israel Defense Forces into the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, starting a month-long standoff.