About April 1
April 1, 2024 is the 92nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 274 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 303 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
- 527 –Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne.
- 1826 –Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.
- 1833 –The Convention of 1833, a political gathering of settlers in Mexican Texas to help draft a series of petitions to the Mexican government, begins in San Felipe de Austin
- 1865 –American Civil War: Battle of Five Forks – In Siege of Petersburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee begins his final offensive.
- 1873 –The British steamer RMS Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547.
- 1891 –The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
- 1924 –The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
- 1936 –Orissa formerly known as Kalinga or Utkal becomes a state in India.
- 1937 –Aden becomes a British crown colony. Bombing of Jaén, Spain by Nazi forces.
- 1941 –A military coup in Iraq overthrows the regime of 'Abd al-Ilah and installs Rashid Ali as Prime Minister.
- 1944 –Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
- 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.
- 1948 –Faroe Islands receive autonomy from Denmark.
- 1949 –Chinese Civil War: The Communist Party of China holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Kuomintang in Beijing, after three years of fighting.
- 1959 –Iakovos is enthroned as Greek Orthodox Archbishop of America.
- 1960 –The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
- 1979 –Iran becomes an Islamic Republic by a 98% vote, officially overthrowing the Shah.
- 1999 –Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
- 2006 –The Serious Organised Crime Agency, dubbed the “British FBI”, is created in the United Kingdom.
- 2011 –After protests against the burning of the Quran turned violent, a mob attacked a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan and killed thirteen people, including eight foreign workers.
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