Today is Saturday, April 2, the 93rd day of 2016. There are 273 days left in the year.
On this date:
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 was not returned, was found dead the following month).
In 1982, several thousand troops from Argentina seized the disputed Falkland Islands, located in the south Atlantic, from Britain (they seized the islands back the following June).
In 1986, four American passengers, including an 8- month-old girl, her mother and grandmother, were killed when a terrorist bomb exploded aboard a TWA jetliner en route from Rome to Athens, Greece.
In 1995, after a work stoppage lasting nearly eight months, baseball owners accepted the players’ union offer to play without a contract.
In 2005, Pope John Paul II died in his Vatican apartment at age 84.
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