About April 1

April 1, 2025 is the 91st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 274 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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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 322 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

  • 1293
    Robert Winchelsey leaves England for Rome, to be consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury.
  • 1318
    Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by the Scottish from England.
  • 1826
    Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.
  • 1867
    Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
  • 1891
    The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
  • 1893
    The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is established.
  • 1918
    The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
  • 1922
    Six Irish Catholic civilians are shot and beaten-to-death by a gang of policemen in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  • 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.
  • 1939
    Generalísimo Francisco Franco of the Spanish State announces the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the last of the Republican forces surrender.
  • 1941
    The Blockade Runner Badge for the German navy is instituted.
  • 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 Russian-controlled government in East Germany, set-up a land blockade of West Berlin.
  • 1954
    President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.
  • 1976
    Conrail takes over operations from six bankrupt railroads in the Northeastern U.S.
  • 1976
    The Jovian–Plutonian gravitational effect hoax is first reported by British astronomer Patrick Moore.
  • 1992
    Start of the Bosnian war.
  • 2001
    Former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on war crimes charges.
  • 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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