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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.
527 – Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne. [1]1081 – Alexios I Komnenos overthrows the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros III Botaneiates, [2] and, after his troops spend three days extensively looting Constantinople, is formally crowned on April 4.
Dean Torrence, from the 1960s pop group Jan and Dean, who co-wrote "Surf City" (#1 in 1963), said that Huntington Beach embodies the song's spirit of freedom and California fun. [35] Christian Jacobs, MC Bat Commander of The Aquabats [36] Matt Costa, folk pop singer, was born in Huntington Beach. [37]
This is a list of notable people that were born in, or who have lived in, Berkeley, California.Located in the San Francisco Bay area and near Oakland, it includes people who attended Berkeley High School, but not people that attended University of California, Berkeley unless they achieved notoriety while in attendance, and were also residents of the city at the time.
J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), Caltech professor and later overseer of the Manhattan Project [1] Murray Gell-Mann (1929-2019), Nobel Prize physicist, Caltech; George Ellery Hale (1868-1938), astrophysicist, Caltech professor, founder Mount Wilson Observatory; Edwin Hubble, astronomer, namesake for the Hubble Space Telescope, Caltech professor
Mark Tollefsen (born 1992) – basketball player, 2018–19 top scorer in the Israel Basketball Premier League; Shaun Tomson (born 1955) – South African world champion surfer; Too Short – rapper; Pat Toomay – former football player; Dara Torres (born 1967) – competitive swimmer, first American swimmer to become a five-time Olympian [27]
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 ...
The original Famous Birthdays website was created by Edward Morykwas, a Michigan schoolteacher, in 1996. It offered e-cards. [4] [5] [6] The site was updated to its current format in November 7, 2012, by Evan Britton, [7] who has since described the website as "Wikipedia for Generation Z".