Notable Historical Events on April 1st
April 1st Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
374 |
Comet 1P/374 E1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0884 AUs of Earth |
527 |
Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne |
705 |
Greek pope John VII chosen as successor to John VI |
1064 |
Body of bishop Eleutherius of Blandain moved to Doornik |
1318 |
Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by the Scottish from the English. |
1340 |
Niels Ebbesen kills Gerhard III of Holstein in his bedroom, ending the 1332-1340 interregnum in Denmark. |
1504 |
English guilds/corp goes under state control |
1572 |
Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Spaniards, during the Eighty Years' War, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic. |
1581 |
Portugese Cortes subjects himself on Philip II |
1663 |
Gemert fines unwed motherhood (50 guilder penalty) |
1693 |
Cotton Mather's four-day-old son dies, and witchcraft is blamed |
1724 |
Henry Pelham becomes English minister of War |
1724 |
Jonathan Swift publishes Drapier's letters |
1748 |
Ruins of Pompeii found |
1776 |
Friedrich von Klinger's "Sturm und Drang" premieres in Leipzig |
1778 |
New Orleans businessman Oliver Pollock creates "$" symbol |
1789 |
US House of Representatives 1st full meeting, NYC, F Muhlenberg 1st speaker |
1792 |
Gronings feminist Etta Palm demands women's right to divorce |
1793 |
Volcano Unsen on Japan erupts killing about 53,000 |
1803 |
French law rules the use of intention |
1826 |
Samuel Mory patents internal combustion engine |
1826 |
Samuel Morey is issued the first U.S. patent for an internal-combustion engine, which he calls a "Gas or Vapour Engine" |
1836 |
Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Cocos Islands |
1850 |
SF County government established |
1853 |
Cincinnati became 1st US city to pay fire fighters a regular salary |
1854 |
Hard Times begins serialisation in Charles Dickens magazine, Household Words. |
1857 |
Herman Melville publishes The Confidence-Man. |
1862 |
Shenandoah Valley campaign, Jackson's Battle of Woodstock, VA |
1863 |
1st wartime conscription law in US goes into effect |
1865 |
-9] Battle at Blakely Alabama |
1865 |
Battle of 5 Forks Virginia, signalling end of Lee's army |
1866 |
US Congress rejects presidential veto giveing all equal rights in US |
1867 |
Blacks vote in municipal election in Tuscumbia, Alabama |
1867 |
International Exhibition opens in Paris |
1867 |
Singapore, Penang & Malakka become British crown colonies |
1868 |
Hampton Institute opens |
1872 |
1st edition of The Standard |
1873 |
British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die |
1873 |
Mehmed Kemals play "Vatan" premeres in Constantinople |
1876 |
1st official NL baseball game (Boston-6, Phila-5) |
1881 |
Anti-Jewish riots in Jerusalem |
1881 |
Kingdom post office in Netherlands opens |
1888 |
Soccer team Sparta forms in Rotterdam |
1889 |
1st dishwashing machine marketed (Chicago) |
1891 |
London-Paris telephone connection opens |
1891 |
Painter Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti |
1891 |
The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois. |
1899 |
NC Mutual opens doors for business |
1900 |
1st edition of Dutch newspaper "The People" |
1905 |
British East African Protectorate becomes colony of Kenya |
1905 |
SOS first adopted as a morse distress signal ( · · · — — — · · · ) by German government |
1910 |
Dumitru Dan (Romania) completes a 62,137 mile (100,000 m) walk |
1912 |
Greek athlete Konstantinos Tsiklitiras breaks the world record -in standing long jump jumping 3.47 metres. |
1914 |
UVS Soccer team forms in Lead |
1916 |
1st US national women's swiming championships held |
1918 |
Henry Miller's Theater opens at 124 W 43rd St NYC |
1918 |
United Kingdom: the Royal Air Force is created from the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Flying Corps. |
1920 |
The (Anglican) Church in Wales disestablished |
1920 |
Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) beat Seattle (PCHA), 3 games to 2 |
1924 |
Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co |
1924 |
Hitler sentenced to 5 years labor but Gen Ludendorff acquitted |
1924 |
Imperial Airways forms in Britain |
1924 |
The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed. |
1925 |
1st transmission of Danish state radio |
1925 |
Hebrew University, Jerusalem dedicated [see May 9, 1925] |
1926 |
Halsteren Soccer team forms in Halsteren |
1927 |
1st automatic record changer introduced by His Master's Voice |
1928 |
Chiang Kai-shek's army crosses Yang-tse |
1929 |
Austrian government of Ignaz Seipel falls |
1929 |
Doorne's trailer factory in Einsdhoven Netherlands opens |
1929 |
Louie Marx introduces Yo-Yo |
1929 |
Luis Buñuel releases "Un Chien Andalou" 24-minute film |
1929 |
Morehouse College, Spellman College & Atlanta University affiliate |
1930 |
"Blue Angel" starring unknown Marlene Dietrich premieres in America |
1931 |
Earthquake devastate Managua Nicaragua, kills 2,000 |
1931 |
Jackie Mitchell became 1st female in professional baseball |
1933 |
Hammond scores 336* v NZ at Auckland, 47 fours 10 sixes |
1933 |
Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany |
1933 |
Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews by boycotting Jewish businesses |
1934 |
Bonnie & Clyde kill 2 police officers |
1934 |
Clyde Barrow kills two young highway patrolmen, H. D. Murphy and Edward Bryant Wheeler, at the intersection of Route 114 and Dove Road near Grapevine, Texas. Bonnie Parker's role in the murders was greatly exaggerated, but helped turn public perception against the gang for good |
1935 |
1st radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, NY |
1936 |
Orissa constituted a province of British India |
1936 |
Charles "Lucky" Luciano" is arrested in Arkansas on a criminal warrant from New York |
1937 |
Aden becomes a British crown colony |
1938 |
Joe Louis KOs Harry Thomas in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
1939 |
US recognizes Franco government in Spain at end of Spanish civil war. Pope Pius XII congratulates Generalissimo Franco's victory in Spain |
1940 |
Filippino President Quezon officially authorizes the printing and publication of the grammar and dictionary prepared by the Institute of the National Language. |
1941 |
Lillian Hellman's "Watch on the Rhine" premieres in NYC |
1941 |
Navy takes over Treasure Island (SF Bay) |
1941 |
Nazis forbid Jews access to cafés |
1941 |
Pro-German Rashid Ali al-Ghailani grabs power in Iraq |
1941 |
The Blockade Runner Badge for German Kriegsmarine is instituted. |
1942 |
Allied air raid on harbor city Kupang Timor |
1942 |
Mexico changes from 3 time zones to 2 |
1944 |
Japanese troops conquer Jessami, Eastern India |
1945 |
1st edition of Indonesia Merdeka publishes |
1945 |
Canadian troops free Doetinchem, Enschede, Borculo & Eibergen |
1945 |
Ruhrgebied sealed off by US 1st & 9th army |
1945 |
Sons of Elburger Soccer team forms in Elburg |
1945 |
US forces invade Okinawa during WW II |
1946 |
400,000 US mine workers strike |
1946 |
Tsunamis generated by a quake in Aleutian Trench strike Hilo, Hawaii |
1946 |
Van Acker forms Belgian government (without CVP) |
1946 |
Weight Watchers forms |
1946 |
Formation of the Malayan Union. |
1947 |
1st Jewish immigrants to Israel disembark at Port of Eilat |
1948 |
H H H Johnson debut as a bowler for West Indies to win v England 10-96 |
1948 |
Faroe Islands receive autonomy from Denmark. |
1952 |
Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow |
1952 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1953 |
J van Bale appointed governor of New Guinea |
1953 |
KXMC TV channel 13 in Minot, ND (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
Walcott Worrell & Weekes all make centuries in innings v India |
1954 |
1st Dutch motorway, Amsterdam-Utrecht, opens |
1954 |
1st US Army helicopter battalion forms, Fort Bragg, NC |
1954 |
Earthquake/tsunami ravage Aleutians, 200 killed |
1954 |
US Air Force Academy forms |
1954 |
WQED TV channel 13 in Pittsburgh, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
Armed military action taken against bureaucratic strike in Amsterdam |
1955 |
EOKA-bomb attacks against British government buildings in Cyprus |
1955 |
WTVT TV channel 13 in Tampa-St Petersburg, FL (CBS) 1st broadcast |
1956 |
10th Tony Awards: Diary of Anne Frank & Damn Yankees win |
1956 |
KPIC TV channel 4 in Roseburg, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
Violent clashes in Algeria, kills at least 380 |
1957 |
Trial begins in Budapest against participants october uprising |
1957 |
WYES TV channel 12 in New Orleans, LA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1957 |
World's biggest glass oven used |
1958 |
KVIQ TV channel 6 in Eureka, CA (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
1958 |
Marshal Nikolai Bulganin becomes director of Soviet State Bank |
1960 |
Census determines the resident population of the United States to be 179,245,000 |
1960 |
2nd French atom bomb explodes (Sahara) |
1960 |
France performs nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds, Algeria |
1960 |
Mabry Harper catches a 25 lb Walleye in Tennessee |
1960 |
U Nu elected premier of Burma |
1960 |
1st weather satellite launched (TIROS 1) |
1963 |
NY Mets purchase Duke Snider from the Dodgers for $40,000 |
1963 |
NYC's newspapers resume publishing after a 114 day strike |
1963 |
Soap operas "General Hospital" & "Doctors" premier on TV |
1964 |
10°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in April |
1964 |
John Lennon is reunited with his father Freddie after 17 years |
1964 |
Robert Lowell's "Benito Cereno" premieres in NYC |
1965 |
South Africa worker's union leader Henry Fazzie sentenced to 10 years |
1965 |
Syncom 3, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, passes from civilian to military control |
1966 |
1st world festival of black art (Dakar Senegal) |
1966 |
Loyalist led by Ian Paisley, a Protestant fundamentalist preacher, founded the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee to challenge the civil rights movement; it set up a paramilitary-style wing called the Ulster Protestant Volunteers |
1967 |
1st British ombudsman sir Edward Compton begins work |
1967 |
The United States Department of Transportation begins operation. |
1968 |
KEMO (now KOFY) TV channel 20 in San Francisco, CA (IND) 1st broadcast |
1969 |
Royal Canadian Mint formally forms as a Crown Corporation |
1969 |
Seattle Pilots trade minor league outfielder Lou Piniella to Royals |
1969 |
The Hawker Siddeley Harrier (vertical take-off fighter) enters service with the RAF. |
1970 |
Bud Selig becomes CEO of Milwaukee Brewers |
1970 |
John & Yoko release hoax they are having dual sex change operations |
1970 |
Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, headed by Bud Selig, purchases the Seattle Pilots for $10,800,000 Although negotiations were conducted over a period of months, it was not until March 13 when a federal bankruptcy referee declared the Pilots bankrupt |
1970 |
Pres Nixon signs bill limiting cigarette advertisements on 1/1/71 |
1970 |
Serious riots continue in the Ballymurphy estate in Belfast between Catholic residents and the British Army |
1971 |
US/Canada ISIS 2 launched to study ionosphere |
1971 |
United Kingdom lifts all restrictions on gold ownership |
1972 |
30,000 attend Mar Y Sol rock concert, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico |
1972 |
Major league baseball players stages 1st collective strike |
1973 |
Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Alamo Ladies Golf Classic |
1973 |
Japan allows its citizens to own gold |
1973 |
John & Yoko form a new country with no laws or boundaries, called Nutopia, its national anthem is silence |
1973 |
OPEC increases price of petroleum by 5.7 percent |
1974 |
Ayatollah Khomeini calls for an Islamic Republic in Iran |
1974 |
Pioneer Hall opens |
1974 |
Yourdon, Inc forms |
1974 |
In the England the Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties come into being. |
1975 |
Cambodia President Lon Nol flees for Red Khmer |
1976 |
Stephen Wozniak & steven jobs found Apple Computer |
1976 |
Conrail takes over operations from six bankrupt railroads in the northeastern U.S.. |
1976 |
Jovian-Plutonian gravitational effect is first reported by the astronomer Patrick Moore. |
1977 |
Attempt for Moslem state in Chad fails |
1977 |
NFL decides to experiment with a 7th official in some preseason games |
1978 |
Philippine College of Commerce becomes the Polytechnic University of the Philippines by presidential decree |
1979 |
Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of Shah |
1979 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
1980 |
Baseball Players' Association votes to cancel 92 remaining exhibition games |
1980 |
Failed assassination attempt on Iraqi vice-premier Tariq Aziz |
1980 |
France performs nuclear test |
1980 |
Wayne Gretzky breaks Bobby Orr's record with 103rd assist |
1980 |
New York City's Transit Worker Union 100 begins a strike lasting 11 days. |
1981 |
CNN airs a videotape that shows that Tamara Rand predicted that Reagan is in danger from someone named Jack Humley (a hoax) |
1981 |
Daylight saving time is introduced in the USSR. |
1982 |
Anguilla (dependent territory of UK) adopts constitution |
1982 |
US formally transfers Canal Zone to Panama |
1983 |
Anti-nuclear demonstrators link arms in 14-mile human chain in England |
1983 |
NY Isle Mike Bossy becomes 1st to score 60 goals in 3 cons seasons |
1983 |
Iraq increases missile attacks on Iran |
1984 |
14th Easter Seal Telethon raises $24,600,000 |
1984 |
3rd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship: Southern Cal beats Tenn 72-61 |
1984 |
8 men record longest distance (13 miles) rowed in 24 hours |
1985 |
47th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Villanova beats Georgetown 84-75 |
1986 |
Delhi beat Haryana by innings & 141 to win Ranji Trophy |
1986 |
US submarine Nathaniel Green runs aground in Irish Sea |
1986 |
World oil prices dip below $10 a barrel |
1989 |
1st NY Met-NY Yankee game in NYC since 1983, Yanks win 4-3 |
1989 |
A Bartlett Giamatti replaces Ueberroth as 7th commissioner of baseball |
1990 |
"Ha!" comedy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting |
1990 |
19th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King |
1990 |
2nd Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus wins |
1990 |
9th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Auburn 88-81 |
1990 |
CBS fires sportscaster Brent Mussburger |
1990 |
It becomes illegal in Salem Oregon to be within 2 feet of nude dancers |
1990 |
Jack Nicklaus wins 1st start on Senior PGA tour |
1990 |
Wrestlemania VI, 67,678 in Toronto, Ultimate Warrior beats Hulk Hogan |
1991 |
53rd NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: Duke Bluedevils beats Kansas 72-65 |
1991 |
Dwight Gooden signs $5.15 million 3 year contract with NY Mets |
1991 |
Iran releases British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years |
1991 |
US Supreme Court rules jurors cannot be barred from serving due to race |
1991 |
US minimum wage goes from $3.80 to $4.25 per hour |
1991 |
Warsaw Pact officially dissolves |
1992 |
5th Largest wrestling crowd (64,287-Toronto SkyDome) |
1992 |
Battleship USS Missouri, on which the Japanese surrender took place, decommissioned |
1992 |
Last defendant in St John sex assault case sentenced to 3 yrs probation |
1992 |
NFL decides to stay with 17 week schedule instead of expanded 18 games |
1992 |
NHL players begin 1st strike in 75-year history |
1992 |
Rocker Billy Idol fined $2,000 for hitting a woman |
1992 |
WA beat NSW by 44 runs to win the Sheffield Shield Final |
1992 |
World's 7 wealthiest nations agree on $24B aid for former USSR |
1993 |
Alan Bennett's "Madness of George III" premieres in London |
1994 |
Bob Feller Statue on Indians Plaza dedicated |
1995 |
Carlson Wagonlit Travel Agency begins charging $15 service fee |
1995 |
NY Islanders retire Bobby Nystrom's uniform #23 |
1996 |
58th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Syracuse 76-67 |
1996 |
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Boston MA on WBCN 104.1 FM (morn) |
1996 |
The Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia is created. |
1997 |
69 year old Gordie Howe begins playing AHL game with Syracuse Crunch |
1997 |
Comet Hale-Bopp Perihelion (0.914 AU) |
1997 |
Shell Oil confirms it will declare force majeure at its Nigerian Bonny terminal due to local protests which disrupted 210 million barrels per day of the company's oil production |
1998 |
World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Minn |
1999 |
Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories. |
2001 |
20th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at St Louis |
2001 |
Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands - first country in the world. |
2001 |
Former president of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on charges of war crimes. |
2002 |
64th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Georgia Dome Atlanta |
2002 |
The Netherlands legalizes euthanasia, becoming the first nation in the world to do so. |
2004 |
Google introduces Gmail: the launch is met with scepticism on account of the launch date. |
2006 |
The Serious Organised Crime Agency, dubbed the 'British FBI', is created in the United Kingdom. |
2009 |
Croatia and Albania joined NATO |
2011 |
After protests against the burning of the Quran turned violent, a mob attacked a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan and killed thirteen people, including eight foreign workers. |
2011 |
Alan Rickman's last performance in "Seminar" on Broadway |
2012 |
Plane crash in Western Siberia kills at least 31 people (UTair Aviation ATR-72) |
2012 |
32nd Golden Raspberry Awards: Jack and Jill wins |
2013 |
9 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Tikrit, Iraq |
2013 |
The world's first smelling TV screen is unveiled in Japan |
2014 |
NATO suspends all practical civilian and military cooperation with Russia |
2016 |
North Korea Jamming GPS Signals Across Border, South Korea Says |
2016 |
Tesla unveils $35000-Model 3 with range of 215 miles |
2016 |
Indian police file homicide case after overpass collapse kills 23 |
2016 |
China's Xi urges implementation of UN resolutions on North Korea |
2016 |
Xi says China will defend its South China Sea sovereignty |
2016 |
Trump says he'd allow 'rich Muslims' to enter US |
2017 |
3 Arrested in Fire That Caused Atlanta Highway Collapse |
2017 |
12-year-old North Carolina girl picks perfect NCAA Final Four bracket |
2017 |
Rikers Island Could Be Closed And Replaced With Smaller Jails Around New York City |
2017 |
Twitter Drops Its Egg, The Unintended Avatar Of Harassment |
2017 |
Japan's Annual Antarctic Expedition Returns With 333 Whale Carcasses |
2017 |
Judge Approves $25 Million Settlement Of Trump University Lawsuit |
2018 |
Building collapse kills 10 in India; 10 pulled alive |
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