From Historynet: Today in History April 2

1792          The United States authorizes the minting of the $10 Eagle, $5 half-Eagle & 2.50 quarter-Eagle gold coins as well as the silver dollar, dollar, quarter, dime & half-dime.

1796          Haitian revolt leader 

Toussaint L'Ouverture  takes command of French forces at Santo Domingo.

1801          The British navy defeats the Danish at the Battle of Copenhagen.

1865          Confederate President Jefferson Davis  flees Richmond, Virginia as Grant  breaks 

Lee's  line at Petersburg.

1910          Karl Harris perfects the process for the artificial synthesis of rubber

1914          The U.S. Federal Reserve Board announces plans to divide the country into 12 districts.

1917          Jeannette Pickering Rankin  is sworn in as the first woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.

1917          President Woodrow Wilson  presents a declaration of war against Germany to Congress.

1931          Virne "Jackie" Mitchell  becomes the first woman to play for an all-male pro baseball team. In an exhibition game against the New York Yankees, she strikes out both Babe Ruth  and 

Lou Gehrig .

1932          Charles Lindbergh  pays over $50,000 ransom for his kidnapped son .

1944          Soviet forces enter Romania, one of Germany's allied countries.

1958          The National Advisory Council on Aeronautics is renamed NASA.

1963          Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King  begins the first non-violent campaign in Birmingham, Alabama.

1982          Argentina invades the British-owned Falkland Islands.