April 2

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

Events

Births

  • 1854Benjamin Tonsler is born into slavery near Earlysville. An influential educator throughout his adult life, Tonsler became a prominent leader in Charlottesville's Black community and served as the namesake of Tonsler Park.
  • 1877Yan Huiqing is born in Shanghai. A diplomat and politician who successively worked under the Qing dynasty, the Republic of China, and the People's Republic of China (most-notably serving as the acting president of the ROC in 1926), Huiqing studied political science at the University of Virginia and became the first international student to graduate with a bachelor's degree from the university. Yen House, one of the constituent residential buildings of UVA's International Residential College, was renamed after Huiqing in 2017.

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