April 2

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Significant events that happened (or will happen) on April 2.

Events

• 1917 – President Woodrow Wilson asks a special joint session of the United States Congress for a declaration of war against the German Empire.

• 1942 – An order of the Secretary of War establishes the institution "to be known as the School of Military Government" at the University of Virginia.

• 2013 – Jason Vandever is elected Charlottesville's Treasurer in a special election.

Births

• 1743 – Thomas Jefferson is born at Shadwell plantation. His birth date was April 2 under the Julian (“Old Style”) calendar; following the 1752 adoption of the Gregorian calendar, it shifted to April 13, now the commonly observed date.

• 1854 – Benjamin Tonsler is born into slavery near Earlysville. He later became a prominent educator and community leader in Charlottesville; Tonsler Park is named in his honor.

• 1877 – Yan Huiqing is born in Shanghai. A diplomat who served under successive Chinese governments, he studied political science at the University of Virginia and became its first international student to earn a bachelor’s degree. Yen House, part of the university’s International Residential College, was named in his honor in 2017.