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April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) ... 1947 – The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins. [26] 1948 – Cold War: ...
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.
The origin of April Fools’ Day is debated, but its history covers centuries of April Fools’ pranks, from family high jinks (like pranks to play on your parents or your kids) to office pranks ...
1858 - The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up; 1888 - Death of Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist (b. 1845) 1899 - Birth of Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist (d. 1988) 1919 - Birth of Tom Willmore, English geometer (d. 2005) 1958 - Death of Rosalind Franklin, British chemist (b. 1920)
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. [56] 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
1 June 1831 – James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole. 1 June 1869 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his electric voting machine. 1 June 1910 – Robert Falcon Scott expedition leaves England for South Pole. 1 June 1978 – First Patent Cooperation Treaty international filings. 1 June 1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) begins ...
April 11, 1954, is considered by search engine Evi as the least eventful day in the 20th century. Very few significant newsworthy events, births, or deaths are known to have happened on this day. Very few significant newsworthy events, births, or deaths are known to have happened on this day.