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What Happened on April 1st This Day in History

Year	Name
2016	The 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict begins along the Nagorno-Karabakh Line of Contact.
2011	After protests against the burning of the Quran turn violent, a mob attacks a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of thirteen people, including eight foreign workers.
2006	Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) of the Government of the United Kingdom is enforced, but later merged into National Crime Agency on 7 October 2013.
2004	Google launches its Email service Gmail.
2001	An EP-3E United States Navy surveillance aircraft collides with a Chinese People's Liberation Army Shenyang J-8 fighter jet. The Chinese pilot ejected but is subsequently lost. The Navy crew makes an emergency landing in Hainan, China and is detained.
2001	Former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on war crimes charges.
2001	Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country to allow it.
1999	Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
1997	Comet Hale–Bopp is seen passing at perihelion.
1989	Margaret Thatcher's new local government tax, the Community Charge (commonly known as the "poll tax"), is introduced in Scotland.
1986	Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal) cadres attack a number of police stations in Kathmandu, seeking to incite a popular rebellion.
1984	Singer Marvin Gaye is shot to death by his father in his home in Arlington Heights, Los Angeles, California.
1979	Iran becomes an Islamic republic by a 99% vote, officially overthrowing the Shah.
1976	Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple Computer, Inc.
1974	The Local Government Act 1972 of England and Wales comes into effect.
1973	Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Jim Corbett National Park, India.
1971	Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army massacre over 1,000 people in Keraniganj Upazila, Bangladesh.
1970	President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law.
1969	The Hawker Siddeley Harrier, the first operational fighter aircraft with Vertical/Short Takeoff and Landing capabilities, enters service with the Royal Air Force.
1964	The British Admiralty, War Office and Air Ministry are replaced by a unified Defence Council of the United Kingdom.
1960	The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
1955	The EOKA rebellion against the British Empire begins in Cyprus, with the goal of unifying with Greece.
1954	United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1949	Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Nationalist Party in Beijing, after three years of fighting.
1949	The Government of Canada repeals Japanese-Canadian internment after seven years.
1948	Cold War: Communist forces respond to the introduction of the Deutsche Mark by attempting to force the western powers to withdraw from Berlin.
1948	Faroe Islands gain autonomy from Denmark.
1947	The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
1946	The 8.6 Mw  Aleutian Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). A destructive tsunami reaches the Hawaiian Islands resulting in dozens of deaths, mostly in Hilo, Hawaii.
1946	The Malayan Union is established. Protests from locals led to the establishment of the Federation of Malaya two years later.
1945	World War II: The Tenth United States Army attacks the Thirty-Second Japanese Army on Okinawa.
1944	World War II: Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
1941	Fântâna Albă massacre: Between 200 and 2,000 Romanian civilians are killed by Soviet Border Troops.
1941	A military coup in Iraq overthrows the regime of 'Abd al-Ilah and installs Rashid Ali al-Gaylani as Prime Minister.
1939	Spanish Civil War: Generalísimo Francisco Franco of the Spanish State announces the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the last of the Republican forces surrender.
1937	Aden becomes a British crown colony.
1937	The Royal New Zealand Air Force is formed as an independent service.
1935	India's central banking institution, the Reserve Bank of India, is formed.
1933	The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in a series of anti-Semitic acts.
1924	Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years imprisonment for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch" but spends only nine months in jail.
1924	The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
1918	The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
1908	The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.
1900	Prince George becomes absolute monarch of the Cretan State.
1873	The White Star steamer SS Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547 in one of the worst marine disasters of the 19th century.
1867	Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
1865	American Civil War: Union troops led by Philip Sheridan decisively defeat Confederate troops led by George Pickett, cutting the Army of Northern Virginia's last supply line.
1833	The Convention of 1833, a political gathering of settlers in Mexican Texas to help draft a series of petitions to the Mexican government, begins in San Felipe de Austin.
1789	In New York City, the United States House of Representatives achieves its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first Speaker.
1572	In the Eighty Years' War, the Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Seventeen Provinces, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic.
1081	Alexios I Komnenos overthrows the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros III Botaneiates,[4] and, after his troops spend three days extensively looting Constantinople, is formally crowned on April 4.
527	Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne.
33	According to one historian's account, Jesus Christ's Last Supper is held.[1]

Famous People Born on April 1

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Year	Name
1961	Mark White, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1962	Chris Grayling, English journalist and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
1964	John Morris, English cricketer
1954	Jeff Porcaro, American drummer, songwriter, and producer (d. 1992)
1941	Gideon Gadot, Israeli journalist and politician (d. 2012)
1986	Nikolaos Kourtidis, Greek weightlifter
1952	Bernard Stiegler, French philosopher and academic (d. 2020)
1942	Richard D. Wolff, American economist and academic
1916	Sheila May Edmonds, British mathematician (d. 2002)
1824	Louis-Zéphirin Moreau, Canadian bishop (d. 1901)

Famous People Deaths On April 1

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on April 1. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
1548	Sigismund I, king of Poland (b. 1467)
1621	Cristofano Allori, Italian painter and educator (b. 1577)
2015	Nicolae Rainea, Romanian footballer and referee (b. 1933)
1205	Amalric II, king of Cyprus and Jerusalem
1976	Max Ernst, German painter and sculptor (b. 1891)
2019	Vonda N. McIntyre, American science fiction author (b. 1948)
1968	Lev Landau, Azerbaijani-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
2003	Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1956)
1994	Robert Doisneau, French photographer (b. 1912)
1962	Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish captain and businessman (b. 1910)