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2 April

🇮🇳 In India

1881 V V S Aiyar, revolutionary from Tamil Nadu who fought against British colonial rule in India, was born. His contemporaries include Subramanya Bharathi and V O Chidambaram Pillai, who subscribed to militant forms of resistance against the British colonial government.

1935 A V Rama Rao, inventor and chemist, known for his pioneering researches in the field of drug technology, was born.

1941 Subhash Chandra Bose arrived in Berlin, Germany, after escaping from detention.

2004 Two Indian Air Force fighter jets went missing and were believed to have crashed during routine flights over Kashmir.

2017 PM Narendra Modi inaugurated an 11km (7mi) tunnel through the Himalayan terrain to help ease travel on a highway linking the troubled Kashmir Valley with the rest of India.

🌎 Elsewhere

1800 Ludwig van Beethoven's First Symphony is premiered. The German composer conducted the orchestra himself.

1805 Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author, was born. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales.

1872 Samuel F B Morse, developer of the electric telegraph, died in New York at age 80.

1884 The London prison for debtors closed. In 18th and 19th centuries, falling behind on your debts could see you end up incarcerated in Britain, as happened to Charles Dickens, Daniel Defoe and others.

1921 Albert Einstein lectures in New York City on his new "Theory of Relativity".

1972 Charlie Chaplin returned to the US to receive the Special Academy Award. He was forced to leave US in 1952, when he was accused of communist sympathies, and had to settle in Switzerland.

⭐ Significance

World Autism Awareness Day is an internationally recognized day on which Member States of the United Nations take measures to raise awareness about people with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

International Children's Book Day is an yearly event sponsored by the International Board on Books for Young People. Founded in 1967, the day is observed on Hans Christian Andersen's birthday. Activities include writing competitions, announcements of book awards and events with authors of children's literature.

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