About April 1
April 1, 2021 is the 91st day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 274 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Aries is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 306 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
April 1: More About This Day
April 1 is most notable in many countries for being April Fools’ Day.
What Happened On April 1
- 286 –Emperor Diocletian elevates his general Maximian to co-emperor with the rank of Augustus and gives him control over the Western regions of the Roman Empire.
- 1340 –Niels Ebbesen kills Gerhard III of Holstein in his bedroom, ending the 1332-1340 interregnum in Denmark.
- 1854 –Hard Times begins serialisation in Charles Dickens’ magazine, Household Words.
- 1867 –Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
- 1871 –The first stage of the Brill Tramway opened.
- 1873 –The British steamer RMS Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547.
- 1893 –The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is established.
- 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 Mein Kampf.
- 1924 –The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
- 1937 –Aden becomes a British crown colony. Bombing of Jaén, Spain by Nazi forces.
- 1939 –Generalísimo Francisco Franco of the Spanish State announces the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the last of the Republican forces surrender.
- 1944 –Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
- 1945 –World War II: Operation Iceberg – United States troops land on Okinawa in the last campaign of the war.
- 1949 –The 26 counties of the Irish Free State become the Republic of Ireland.
- 1949 –The Canadian government repeals Japanese Canadian internment after seven years.
- 1978 –The Philippine College of Commerce, through a presidential decree, becomes the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
- 1999 –Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
- 2001 –An EP-3E United States Navy surveillance aircraft collides with a Chinese People’s Liberation Army Shenyang J-8 fighter jet. The Navy crew makes an emergency landing in Hainan, People’s Republic of China and is detained.
- 2001 –Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first country to allow it.
- 2009 –Croatia and Albania join NATO.
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