Almanac for April 2nd

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for April 2nd: https://ko-fi.com/post/April-2-Courtly-English-Tea-Y8Y71D6UEY

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Today's Observance: Passover

Beatles Trivia
April 2, 1974: Barbra Streisand wins an Oscar for her song “The Way We Were,” beating out Paul McCartney’s James Bond theme “Live and Let Die.”

Bummer April 2nd 

April 2, 1932: 61-year-old retired rodeo performer Bill Pickett dies, never having recovered from a coma he entered after being kicked in the head by a bronco.

April 2, 1979: Military researchers in Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union (now Yekaterinburg, Russia) accidently release spores of Bacillus anthracis, the bacteria that cause anthrax, from the laboratory thanks to a defect in the ventilation system. At least 66 Russians die as a result.

April 2, 2021: Washington D.C. Capitol Police Officer William Evans is killed and his fellow officer is wounded when a man deliberately rams his car into a barrier outside the U.S. Capitol building. The 25-year-old assailant was known by his family to have had a number of mental health challenges. 

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