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April 1: April Fools' Day; Iranian Islamic Republic Day Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos 1871 – The Duke of Buckingham (pictured) opened the first section of the Brill Tramway , a short railway line to transport goods between his lands and the national rail network.
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April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) ... Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of fourteen people, including seven UN workers. ...
On April Fools’ Day in 1698, so many saps were tricked into schlepping to the Tower of London to watch the “washing of the lions” (a ceremony that didn’t exist) that the April 2 edition of ...
1635 - First public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts; 1746 - Birth of Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, French physician and anatomist (d. 1794) 1792 - Birth of John Thomas Romney Robinson, Irish astronomer and physicist (d. 1882) 1858 - Birth of Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
Celebrate April Fools' Day with a funny prank and one of these silly jokes inspired by spring, trickery and tomfoolery. Find short one-liners and corny puns. 65 April Fools' jokes that are stupid ...
1 April 1984: News that the singer Marvin Gaye was shot and killed the day before his 45th birthday by his father Marvin Gay Sr. on 1 April 1984. Several people close to Gaye such as fellow singers Smokey Robinson and Jermaine Jackson, brother of Michael Jackson didn't believe the news initially and had to call other people who knew Gaye to ...
August 19 – Hurricane Diane hits the northeastern United States, killing over 200 people and causing over $1 billion in damage. August 20 – Hundreds of people are killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria. August 22 – Eleven schoolchildren are killed when their school bus is hit by a freight train in Spring City, Tennessee.