About April 1
April 1, 2020 is the 92nd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 274 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 317 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
- 1340 –Niels Ebbesen kills Gerhard III of Holstein in his bedroom, ending the 1332-1340 interregnum in Denmark.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 –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.
- 1945 –World War II: Operation Iceberg – United States troops land on Okinawa in the last campaign of the war.
- 1957 –The BBC broadcasts the spaghetti tree hoax on its current affairs programme Panorama.
- 1959 –Iakovos is enthroned as Greek Orthodox Archbishop of America.
- 1969 –The Hawker Siddeley Harrier enters service with the Royal Air Force.
- 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.
- 1974 –In the United Kingdom, the Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties come into being.
- 1976 –Apple Inc. is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
- 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 –Former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on war crimes charges.
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