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.
- 1826 –Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.
- 1854 –Hard Times begins serialisation in Charles Dickens’ magazine, Household Words.
- 1867 –Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
- 1893 –The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is established.
- 1908 –The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.
- 1918 –The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1957 –The BBC broadcasts the spaghetti tree hoax on its current affairs programme Panorama.
- 1976 –Conrail takes over operations from six bankrupt railroads in the Northeastern U.S.
- 1979 –Iran becomes an Islamic Republic by a 98% vote, officially overthrowing the Shah.
- 1992 –Start of the Bosnian war.
- 1999 –Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
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