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
- 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.
- 1293 –Robert Winchelsey leaves England for Rome, to be consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 1340 –Niels Ebbesen kills Gerhard III of Holstein in his bedroom, ending the 1332-1340 interregnum in Denmark.
- 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.
- 1867 –Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
- 1887 –Mumbai Fire Brigade is established.
- 1893 –The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is established.
- 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.
- 1941 –The Blockade Runner Badge for the German navy is instituted.
- 1944 –Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
- 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.
- 1955 –The EOKA rebellion against The British Empire begins in Cyprus, with the goal of obtaining the desired unification (“enosis”) with Greece.
- 1960 –The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
- 1971 –Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army massacred over 1,000 people in Keraniganj Upazila, Bangladesh.
- 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.
- 1997 –Comet Hale-Bopp is seen passing over perihelion.
- 1999 –Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
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