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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.
Action of 23 April 1945: In one of the rare actions of the Pacific War to involve a German submarine, U-183 was sunk off the southern coast of Borneo by American submarine Besugo. Antiship Bat missiles were used for the first time in combat when Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateers of the U.S. Navy launched two of them at Japanese vessels in ...
[1] NASA astronauts visited St. Louis to conduct an operational evaluation of the Project Gemini translation and docking trainer. They noted minor discrepancies which McDonnell corrected. The company completed engineering evaluation tests on April 6. The trainer was then disassembled for shipment to Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston. [2]
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. [29] [30] Born: Ian F. Akyildiz (born Ilhan Fuat Akyildiz), Turkish American electrical engineer; in Istanbul, Turkey [citation needed]
April 1 – Emmi Mäkelin, Finnish midwife and politician (d. 1962) April 8 – Stanisław Taczak, Polish general, commander-in-chief of the Greater Poland Uprising (d. 1960) April 14 – Matti Lonkainen, Finnish politician (d. 1918) [16] April 15 – Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)
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 ...
The Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Detroit Red Wings 3-1 in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals to complete one of the greatest comebacks in sports history. After losing the first three games of the series, the Maple Leafs won the next four and claimed their fourth Stanley Cup in franchise history.