Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 1
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Frederick Muhlenberg
Richard Nixon
Assembled Apple Computer "do-it-yourself" kit
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba
George Pickett
The Curragh plain, County Kildare, Ireland
Hawker Siddeley Harrier taking off
First locomotive used on the Brill Tramway
The hurley used by Meelick captain, Pat Madden, in the first ever all-Ireland hurling final
Two men marrying in Amsterdam, 1 April 2001
Philip Sheridan
Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
Badge of the Royal Air Force
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Assyrian New Year; | many unreliable sources |
| Edible Book Day | actual date not specified in article ("on or around 1 April") |
| 1572 – Dutch Revolt: The Geuzen captured the undefended town of Brielle from Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, providing the first foothold on land for the rebels. | refimprove section (CN tags) |
| 1789 – Frederick Muhlenberg became the first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. | refimprove section |
| 1854 – Hard Times, the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, was released. | unreferenced sections |
| 1888 - The first ever all-Ireland hurling final was played in Birr, County Offaly. | Too much uncited |
| 1924 – William Wrigley Jr. founded the Wrigley Company, the world's largest manufacturer and marketer of chewing gum. | unreferenced section |
| 1935 – The Reserve Bank of India, the nation's central bank, was founded during the British Raj. | refimprove section |
| 1944 – The town of Schaffhausen in Switzerland was accidentally bombed by United States aircraft. | Too much uncited |
| 1947 – The main mutiny in a series of mutinies of the Royal New Zealand Navy began. | single source |
| 1976 – Apple Computer was originally founded to sell the Apple I, an early personal computer sold as kits. | missing information |
| 1978 – The Philippine College of Commerce became a chartered state university and renamed the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. | refimprove section; primary sources |
| 1996 – The government of Nova Scotia amalgamated the City of Halifax and the over 200 communities around the area to create the Halifax Regional Municipality. | refimprove section |
| 1999 – Canada's newest territory Nunavut came into being. | refimprove section |
| 2004 – Google launched Gmail, now the most widely used web mail system. | expansion |
| 2006 – Several British policing agencies joined together to become the Serious Organised Crime Agency. | refimprove |
| William Harvey |b|1578 | refimprove |
| Anne McCaffrey |b|1926| | Too much uncited |
| Alan Kulwicki |d|1993 | Too much uncited |
| Shirley Ardener |b|1926| | uncited birthday |
Eligible
- 1234 – Richard Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, was defeated by knights loyal to King Henry III of England at the Battle of the Curragh in County Kildare, Ireland.
- 1293 – Robert Winchelsey left England for Rome to be consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury, but a papal vacancy delayed the ceremony.
- 1340 – A band of warriors led by Niels Ebbesen killed Count Gerhard III, ending Holstein rule in Denmark.
- 1833 – Mexican Texans met at San Felipe de Austin to begin the Convention of 1833.
- 1865 – American Civil War: The Union Army under Major General Philip Sheridan (pictured) inflicted more than 2,900 casualties on the Confederates at the Battle of Five Forks.
- 1871 – The Duke of Buckingham opened the first section of the Brill Tramway, a short railway line to transport goods between his lands and the national rail network.
- 1879 – The Inland Customs Line, established by the British for the collection of the salt tax in India, was abandoned.
- 1918 – The United Kingdom established the Royal Air Force, near the end of the First World War.
- 1933 – English cricketer Wally Hammond set a record for the highest individual score in Test cricket of 336 not out during a match against New Zealand.
- 1941 – Soviet border guards opened fire on civilians attempting to cross the border from the Soviet Union to Romania near Fântâna Albă, killing between 44 and 3,000 people.
- 1952 – Israel enacted a citizenship law, prior to which the country technically had no citizens.
- 1955 – The British Army's Mobile Defence Corps, intended to assist with civil defence after a nuclear attack, was established by royal warrant.
- 1963 – On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the tenth novel of Ian Fleming's James Bond series, was released in the United Kingdom.
- 1969 – The Hawker Siddeley Harrier, the first operational fighter aircraft with V/STOL capabilities, entered service with the Royal Air Force.
- 1970 – U.S. president Richard Nixon signed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring that a prominent warning by the surgeon general be placed on cigarette packages.
- 1970 – The American Motors Corporation introduced its Gremlin, promoted as America's first subcompact car.
- 1974 – A man ignited tires in the crater of Mount Edgecumbe, prompting a false eruption scare later revealed as an April Fools' hoax.
- 1990 – The longest prison riot in British penal history began at Strangeways Prison in Manchester, lasting 25 days.
- 2001 – Same-sex marriage in the Netherlands was legalized, making it the first country to do so.
- Born/died this day: | Aimery of Cyprus |d|1205| Franz Egon von Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg |d|1682| Joseph de Maistre |b|1753| Sophie Germain |b|1776| Giuditta Pasta |d|1865| F. D. Maurice |d|1872| Shivakumara Swami |b|1907| Scott Joplin |d|1917| Claude Cohen-Tannoudji |b|1933| Cyril Karabus |b|1935| Titina Silá|b|1943| Alexander Stubb |b|1968| Vikram Solanki |b|1976| Mairzy Doates |b|1976| Marvin Gaye |d|1984| Henri Cochet |d|1987| Alex Gilbert |b|1992| Jofra Archer |b|1995| Logan Paul |b|1995| Álex Palou |b|1997| King Combs |b|1998|
Notes
- Federation of Stoke-on-Trent appears on March 31, so Halifax should not appear in the same year
April 1: April Fools' Day; Iranian Islamic Republic Day (1979)
The first Apple, Inc. logo
- 1346 – Hundred Years' War: John, Duke of Normandy, laid siege to the town of Aiguillon.
- 1922 – Under the South Seas Mandate, Japan set up a government in Koror, precipitating large-scale Japanese settlement in Palau.
- 1976 – Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple Computer, Inc. (first logo pictured).
- 2001 – An American Lockheed EP-3 and a Chinese Shenyang J-8 collided in mid-air off Hainan, resulting in an international dispute between the two countries.
- Ferruccio Busoni (b. 1866)
- James Burrill Angell (d. 1916)
- Cosima Wagner (d. 1930)
- Cynthia Lennon (d. 2015)
