Today is Sunday, April 2, the 92nd day of 2017. There are 273 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: Actress Linda Hunt is 72. Singer Emmy lou Harris is 70. Actor Sam Anderson is 70. Social critic and author Camille Paglia is 70. Actress Pamela Reed is 68. Rock musician Dave Robinson (The Cars) is 64. Rock musician Tony Fredianelli (Third Eye Blind) is 48. Actress Roselyn Sanchez is 44. Country singer Jill King is 42. Actor Pedro Pascal is 42. Actor Adam Rodriguez is 42. Actor Jeremy Garrett is 41. Actor Michael Fassbender is 40. Actress Jaime Ray Newman is 39. Rock musician Jesse Carmichael (Maroon 5) is 38. Actor Jesse Plemons is 29. Singer Aaron Kelly (TV: ‘‘American Idol’’) is 24.

In 1792, Congress passed the Coinage Act, which authorized establishment of the US Mint.

In 1800, Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21, in Vienna.

In 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet fled the Confederate capital of Richmond, Va., as Union troops advanced.

In 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany, saying, ‘‘The world must be made safe for democracy.’’ (Congress declared war four days later.)

In 1932, aviator Charles A. Lindbergh and John F. Condon went to a Bronx cemetery 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 1942, Glenn Miller and his Orchestra recorded ‘‘American Patrol’’ at the RCA Victor studios in Hollywood.

In 1968, the science-fiction film ‘‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’’ produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, had its world premiere in Washington, D.C.

In 1974, French President Georges Pompidou, 62, died in Paris.

In 1982, several thousand troops from Argentina seized the disputed Falkland Islands, located in the south Atlantic, from Britain. (Britain 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.

In 1992, mob boss John Gotti was convicted in New York of murder and racketeering; he was later sentenced to life, and died in prison.

In 2005, Pope John Paul II died in his Vatican apartment at age 84.

In 2007, in its first case on climate change, the US Supreme Court, in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, ruled 5-4 that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases were air pollutants under the Clean Air Act.

In 2012, a gunman killed seven people at Oikos University, a Christian school in Oakland.