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April 1 is the 92nd day of the year (93rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 273 days remaining until the end of the year. April 1 is most notable in the Western world for being April Fools' Day. 527 - Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and...
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April 1 is the 92nd day of the year (93rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 273 days remaining until the end of the year. April 1 is most notable in the Western world for being April Fools' Day.

Events[]

527 - Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne.

1318 - Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by the Scottish from the English.

1340 - Niels Ebbesen kills Gerhard III of Holstein in his bedroom, ending the 1332-1340 interregnum in Denmark.

1572 - in the Eighty Years' War, the Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Spaniards, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic.

1789 - In New York City, the United States House of Representatives holds its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first House Speaker.

1826 - Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.

1854 - Hard Times begins serialisation in Charles Dickens magazine, Household Words.

1857 - Herman Melville publishes The Confidence-Man.

1865 - American Civil War: Battle of Five Forks - In Siege of Petersburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee begins his final offensive.

1867 - Singapore becomes a British crown colony.

1868 - Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute is established in Hampton.

1873 - The British steamer SS Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547.

1891 - The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.

1893 - The United States Navy rank of Chief Petty Officer is created.

1907 - Hurlstone Agricultural High School is founded.

1912 - The Greek athlete Konstantinos Tsiklitiras breaks the world record in standing long jump jumping 3.47 meters.

1918 - The Royal Flying Corps is replaced by the Royal Air Force.

1924 - Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in jail for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch." However, he spends only nine months in jail, during which he writes the book Mein Kampf.

1924 - First revenue flight for Belgium's Sabena Airlines

1924 - The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.

1933 - The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in the series of anti-Semitic acts that will be known as the Holocaust.

1934 - Bonnie and Clyde kill two young highway patrolmen near Grapevine.

1936 - Orissa Formation of the Indian state orissa(1936), formerly known as UTKAL.

1937 - Aden becomes a British crown colony.

1939 - Generalísimo Francisco Franco of the Spanish State announced the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the last of the Republican forces surrendered.

1941 - The Blockade Runner Badge for German navy is instituted.

1944 - Accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen. The bombers were lost.

1945 - World War II: Operation Iceberg - United States troops land on Okinawa in the last campaign of the war.

1946 - Aleutian Island earthquake: A 7.8 magnitude earthquake near the Aleutian Islands creates a tsunami that strikes the Hawaiian Islands killing 159 (mostly in Hilo).

1946 - Formation of the Malayan Union.

1948 - Cold War: Berlin Airlift - Military forces, under direction of the Soviet-controlled government in East Germany, set-up a land blockade of West Berlin.

1948 - Faroe Islands receive autonomy from Denmark.

1949 - Chinese Civil War: Communist Party of China hold unsuccessful peace talks with the Kuomintang in Beijing, after three years of fighting.

1949 - The twenty-six counties of the Irish Free State become the Republic of Ireland.

1954 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.

1955 - The EOKA rebellion starts in Cyprus, aiming at the island's independence from the United Kingdom.

1967 - The United States Department of Transportation begins operation.

1969 - The Hawker Siddeley Harrier enters service with the RAF.

1970 - President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring surgeon general's warnings on tobacco products and banning cigarette advertisements on television and radio in the United States starting on January 1, 1971.

1973 - Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Corbett National Park, India.

1974 - In the United Kingdom, the Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties come into being.

1976 - Apple Computer is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

1976 - Conrail takes over operations from six bankrupt railroads in the northeastern U.S..

1978 - Philippine College of Commerce, through a presidential decree, was converted to Polytechnic University of the Philippines.

1979 - Iran's government becomes an Islamic Republic by a 98% vote, overthrowing the Shah officially.

1979 - Nickelodeon starts

1980 - New York City's Transit Worker Union 100 goes on strike, lasting 11 days.

1981 - Daylight saving time is introduced in the USSR.

1989 - Margaret Thatcher's new local government tax, the Community Charge (commonly known as the 'poll tax'), was introduced in Scotland.

1996 - The Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia was created.

1999 - Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved from the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.

2001 - An EP-3E United States Navy plane collides with a Chinese People's Liberation Army fighter jet. The Navy crew makes an emergency landing in Hainan, People's Republic of China and is detained. See Hainan Island incident.

2001 - Former president of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on charges of war crimes.

2001 - Same-sex marriage comes into force in the Netherlands, which is the first country to allow it.(Timeline of same-sex marriage)

2002 - The Netherlands legalizes euthanasia, becoming the first nation in the world to do so.

2004 - Bank of St. Helena opens, to provide banking services to Saint Helena and its dependencies

2006 - The Serious Organised Crime Agency, dubbed the 'British FBI', is created in the United Kingdom.

Births[]

1220 - Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (d. 1272)

1543 - François de Bonne, Constable of France (d. 1626)

1578 - William Harvey, English physician (d. 1657)

1610 - Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier (d. 1703)

1640 - Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (d. 1697)

1647 - John Wilmot, English poet (d. 1680)

1697 - Antoine François Prévost, French author and novelist (d. 1763)

1753 - Joseph de Maistre, French diplomat and writer (d. 1821)

1765 - Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (d. 1810)

1776 - Sophie Germain, French mathematician (d. 1831)

1815 - Otto von Bismarck, 1st Chancellor of Germany (d. 1898)

1815 - Edward Clark, Governor of Texas (d. 1880)

1834 - Big Jim Fisk, American entrepreneur (d. 1872)

1854 - Bill Traylor, American artist (d. 1949)

1856 - Acacio Gabriel Viegas, Indian physician (d. 1933)

1865 - Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1929)

1866 - Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist and composer (d. 1924)

1868 - Edmond Rostand, French dramatist (d. 1918)

1873 (N.S.) - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer, pianist, and conductor (d. 1943)

1875 - Edgar Wallace, English writer (d. 1932)

1880 - Agha Petros, Assyrian general (d. 1932)

1882 - Paul Anspach, Belgian Olympic champion fencer (d. 1991)

1883 - Lon Chaney, American actor (d. 1930)

1885 - Wallace Beery, American actor (d. 1949)

1895 - Alberta Hunter, American singer (d. 1984)

1898 - William James Sidis, American genius (d. 1944)

1899 - Gustavs Celmins, Latvian politician (d. 1968)

1900 - Robert McDowell, Mayor of Maryborough, Queensland (d. 1988)

1901 - Whittaker Chambers, American writer, editor, and defector (d. 1961)

1902 - Maria Polydouri, Greek poet (d. 1930)

1906 - Aleksandr Yakovlev, Russian engineer and airplane designer (d. 1989)

1908 - Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (d. 1970)

1909 - Eddy Duchin, American popular pianist & bandleader (d. 1951)

1914 - Lor Tok, Thai comedian and actor (d. 2002)

1915 - Otto Wilhelm Fischer, Austrian actor (d. 2004)

1919 - Joseph Murray, American surgeon, Nobel laureate

1920 - Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor (d. 1997)

1921 - Ken Reardon, Canadian ice hockey player

1922 - William Manchester, American historian (d. 2004)

1924 - Brendan Byrne, Governor of New Jersey

1926 - Charles Bressler, American tenor

1926 - Anne McCaffrey, American author

1928 - George Grizzard, American actor

1929 - Milan Kundera, Czech-born writer

1929 - Payut Ngaokrachang, Thai animator

1929 - Jane Powell, American dancer, actress, and singer

1929 - Bo Schembechler, American football coach (d. 2006)

1930 - Grace Lee Whitney, American actress

1931 - Rolf Hochhuth, German writer

1932 - Gordon Jump, American actor (d. 2003)

1932 - Debbie Reynolds, American actress

1933 - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist, Nobel laureate

1933 - Dan Flavin, American artist (d. 1996)

1934 - Don Hastings, American actor

1934 - Rod Kanehl, American baseball player (d. 2004)

1934 - Vladimir Posner, Russian journalist

1935 - Larry McDonald, American politician (d. 1983)

1936 - Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, Swiss politician, president of the Confederation in 1989 and 1996 (d. 1998)

1938 - Ali MacGraw, American actress

1938 - John Quade, American actor

1939 - Phil Niekro, American baseball player

1939 - Rudolph Isley, American singer (The Isley Brothers)

1940 - Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

1942 - Samuel R. Delany, American author

1942 - Annie Nightingale, British disc jockey

1944 - Rusty Staub, American baseball player

1945 - John Barbata, American drummer

1946 - Ronnie Lane, English musician (The Small Faces and The Faces) (d. 1997)

1947 - Alain Connes, French mathematician

1947 - M, English singer

1947 - Norm Van Lier, American basketball player

1948 - Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican musician

1949 - Gérard Mestrallet, French businessman

1949 - Sammy Nelson, Northern Irish footballer

1949 - Gil Scott-Heron, American musician and composer

1950 - Samuel Alito, U.S. Supreme Court Justice

1952 - Annette O'Toole, American actress

1952 - Bernard Stiegler, French philosopher

1953 - Barry Sonnenfeld, producer and director

1954 - Jeff Porcaro, American drummer (Toto) (d. 1992)

1955 - Humayun Akhtar Khan, the Minister for Commerce of Pakistan(2002-Present).

1958 - D. Boon, American musician (Minutemen) (d. 1985)

1960 - Michael Praed, British actor

1962 - Dave Ulliott, English poker player

1964 - Erik Breukink, Dutch cyclist and manager

1964 - Scott Stevens, Canadian ice hockey player

1965 - Mark Jackson, American basketball player

1965 - Robert Steadman, English composer

1966 - Chris Evans, English disc jockey

1967 - Phil Demmel, American musician (Vio-lence and Machine Head)

1970 - Sung Hi Lee, Korean-born model

1971 - Method Man, American rapper

1971 - Shinji Nakano, Japanese race car driver

1972 - Allen and Albert Hughes, American film directors

1972 - Jesse Tobias, American musician

1972 - Darren McCarty, Canadian ice hockey player

1973 - Christian Finnegan, American comedian

1973 - Joe Francis, American adult video producer (founder of Girls Gone Wild)

1973 - Stephen Fleming, New Zealand cricketer

1974 - Richard Christy, American drummer

1974 - Sandra Völker, German swimmer

1975 - George Bastl, Swiss tennis player

1975 - Jazzy B, Punjabi singer

1975 - John Butler, Australian singer and musician

1977 - Haimar Zubeldia, Spanish cyclist

1978 - Miroslava Vavrinec, Swiss tennis player

1978 - Jean-Pierre Dumont, Canadian ice hockey player

1979 - Ivano Balić, Croatian handballer

1980 - Bijou Phillips, American actress

1980 - Randy Orton, American professional wrestler

1980 - Yūko Takeuchi, Japanese actress

1981 - Hannah Spearritt, British singer (S Club 7)

1981 - Antonis Fotsis, Greek basketball player

1981 - Pieter Weening, Dutch cyclist

1982 - Sam Huntington, American actor

1982 - Gemma Hunt, British children's television presenter (CBBC-Xchange)

1982 - Taran Killam, American comedian and actor

1983 - Ólafur Ingi Skúlason, Icelandic footballer

1983 - Sean Taylor, American football player

1984 - Olga Rei, Russian television personality

1986 - Ireen Wüst, Dutch speed skater

1987 - Ding Junhui, Chinese snooker player

1987 - Li Ting, Chinese diver

1988 - Courtney McCool, American gymnast

Deaths[]

1085 - Emperor Shenzong of China (b. 1048)

1132 - St-Hugues, Bishop of Grenoble (b. 1053)

1204 - Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of Henry II of England

1205 - King Amalric II of Jerusalem (b. 1145)

1528 - Francisco de Peñalosa, Spanish composer

1580 - Alonso Mudarra, Spanish composer

1621 - Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (b. 1577)

1637 - Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (b. 1571)

1682 - Franz Egon of Fürstenberg, Bishop of Strassburg (b. 1625)

1787 - Floyer Sydenham, English classical scholar (b. 1710)

1791 - Richard Butler American soldier (b. 1743)

1839 - Benjamin Pierce, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1757)

1865 - Giuditta Pasta, Italian soprano (b. 1797)

1872 - Frederick Maurice, English theologian (b. 1805)

1872 - William Frederick Horry, executed by William Marwood (b. 1843)

1878 - John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician (b. 1796)

1890 - David Wilber, American politician (b. 1820)

1914 - Rube Waddell, American baseball player (b. 1876)

1917 - Scott Joplin, American musician and composer (b. 1868)

1922 - Emperor Karl I of Austria (b. 1887)

1930 - Cosima Wagner, daughter of Franz Liszt and wife of Richard Wagner (b. 1837)

1946 - Noah Beery, American actor (b. 1882)

1947 - King George II of Greece (b. 1890)

1950 - Charles R. Drew, American physician (b. 1904)

1965 - Helena Rubinstein, cosmetic manufacturer (b. 1870)

1966 - Flann O'Brien, Irish humorist (b. 1911)

1968 - Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)

1976 - Max Ernst, German artist (b. 1891)

1979 - Bruno Coquatrix, French music impresario (b. 1910)

1979 - Barbara Luddy, American actress (b. 1908)

1981 - Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai composer and bandleader (b. 1910)

1984 - Marvin Gaye, American singer (b. 1939)

1986 - Erik Bruhn, Danish ballet dancer, choreographer (b. 1928)

1988 - Jim Jordan, American actor (Fibber McGee) (b. 1896)

1991 - Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1894)

1993 - Alan Kulwicki, American race car driver (b. 1954)

1994 - Robert Doisneau, French photographer (b. 1912)

1996 - Florence Buchsbaum, theater director and musician (b. 1926)

1996 - John McSherry, American baseball umpire (b. 1944)

1998 - Gene Evans, American actor (b. 1922)

1998 - Rozz Williams, American musician (Christian Death) (b. 1963)

1999 - Jesse Stone, American record producer (b. 1901)

2000 - Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, president of the European Court of Justice (b. 1924)

2001 - Olivia Barclay, British astrologer (b. 1919)

2001 - Jo-Jo Moore, American baseball player (b. 1908)

2001 - Trinh Cong Son, Vietnamese composer (b. 1939)

2002 - Simo Hayha, Finnish marksman (b. 1905)

2003 - Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer (b. 1956)

2004 - Carrie Snodgress, American actress (b. 1946)

2005 - Alexander Brott, Canadian violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1915)

2005 - Harald Juhnke, German entertainer (b. 1929)

2005 - Jack Keller, American songwriter (b. 1936)

2005 - Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek footballer and manager (b. 1952)

2005 - Robert Coldwell Wood, American university president and political appointee (b. 1923)

2006 - In Tam, Cambodian politician (b. 1916)

2007 - Herb Carneal, Major League Baseball radio broadcaster (b. 1923)

Holidays and observances[]

April 1 is known as April Fool's Day or All Fools' Day in many countries.

Last day of the Assyrian New Year Celebration.

Roman Empire - Veneralia celebrated to honor Venus.

Japan - The official start of school years in most universities and schools. Also, the official first day of work at companies and offices for new university graduates hires, marked by welcoming ceremonies and speeches.

Canada - Beginning of government's fiscal year.

India - Start of financial year.

Orissa - a state in eastern India celebrates "Utkal Divas", its statehood day.

Brielle celebrates victory of 1572 over Spaniards.

In San Marino, two Captains Regent, elected by Parliament, take office for six months.

Former New Year celebration day.

In England and Wales, local government reorganisations traditionally happen on April 1.

Some universities in Russia (e.g. Omsk State University) celebrate mathematician day on April 1.

Užupis - Residents celebrate their independance on Užupis Day.

Liturgical Feast days[]

In the Roman Catholic Church calendar:

Saint Hugh of Grenoble

Saint Waleric

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BBC: On This Day

The New York Times: On This Day

On This Day in Canada

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149 Familypedia people were born on April 1

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180 Familypedia people were first married on April 1