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April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) ... 2024 – Sami Michael, Iraqi-born Israeli writer and human rights activist (b. 1926) [160] 2024 – Ed ...
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.
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.
One of the more popular theories on why we have April Fools' Day, or All Fools' Day, centers around the West's adoption of the Gregorian calendar during the 1500s, which moved the New Year from ...
The first mention of April Fools’ Day in Britain was in 1686, when biographer John Aubrey described April 1st as a “Fooles holy day.” ...
New Zealand's most common birthday is September 29, and the least common birthday is December 25. The ten most common birthdays all fall within a thirteen-day period, between September 22 and October 4. The ten least common birthdays (other than February 29) are December 24–27, January 1–2, February 6, March 22, April 1, and April 25. This ...
Other examples of genuine news on 1 April mistaken as a hoax include: 1 April 1946: Warnings about the Aleutian Island earthquake's tsunami that killed 165 people in Hawaii and Alaska. [57] 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
1949 - Birth of Horst Ludwig Störmer, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate; 1961 - Death of Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1870) 1963 - Death of Otto Struve, Russian-born astronomer (b. 1897) 1965 - Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in ...