About April 1
April 1, 2023 is the 91st day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 274 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 315 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
- 325 –Crown Prince Jin Chengdi, age 4, succeeds his father Jin Mingdi as emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
- 1340 –Niels Ebbesen kills Gerhard III of Holstein in his bedroom, ending the 1332-1340 interregnum in Denmark.
- 1887 –Mumbai Fire Brigade is established.
- 1891 –The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
- 1893 –The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is established.
- 1919 –The Staatliches Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar.
- 1933 –English cricketer Wally Hammond set a record for the highest individual Test innings of 336 not out, during a Test match against New Zealand.
- 1933 –The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in a series of anti-Semitic acts.
- 1941 –A military coup in Iraq overthrows the regime of 'Abd al-Ilah and installs Rashid Ali as Prime Minister.
- 1941 –The Blockade Runner Badge for the German navy is instituted.
- 1945 –World War II: Operation Iceberg – United States troops land on Okinawa in the last campaign of the war.
- 1949 –Chinese Civil War: The Communist Party of China holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Kuomintang in Beijing, after three years of fighting.
- 1949 –The 26 counties of the Irish Free State become the Republic of Ireland.
- 1960 –The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
- 1967 –The United States Department of Transportation begins operation.
- 1970 –President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring the Surgeon General’s warnings on tobacco products and banning cigarette advertisements on television and radio in the United States, starting on January 1, 1971.
- 1971 –Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army massacred over 1,000 people in Keraniganj Upazila, Bangladesh.
- 1973 –Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Corbett National Park, India.
- 1989 –Margaret Thatcher’s new local government tax, the Community Charge (commonly known as the “poll tax”), is introduced in Scotland.
- 2009 –Croatia and Albania join NATO.
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