About April 1
April 1, 2024 is the 92nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 274 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Aries is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 303 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
April 1: More About This Day
April 1 is most notable in many countries for being April Fools’ Day.
What Happened On April 1
- 325 –Crown Prince Jin Chengdi, age 4, succeeds his father Jin Mingdi as emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
- 527 –Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne.
- 1293 –Robert Winchelsey leaves England for Rome, to be consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 1340 –Niels Ebbesen kills Gerhard III of Holstein in his bedroom, ending the 1332-1340 interregnum in Denmark.
- 1865 –American Civil War: Battle of Five Forks – In Siege of Petersburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee begins his final offensive.
- 1891 –The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
- 1919 –The Staatliches Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar.
- 1922 –Six Irish Catholic civilians are shot and beaten-to-death by a gang of policemen in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
- 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.
- 1937 –Aden becomes a British crown colony. Bombing of Jaén, Spain by Nazi forces.
- 1946 –Formation of the Malayan Union.
- 1947 –Paul becomes king of Greece, on the death of his childless elder brother, George II.
- 1948 –Cold War: Berlin Airlift– Military forces, under direction of the Russian-controlled government in East Germany, set-up a land blockade of West Berlin.
- 1948 –Faroe Islands receive autonomy from Denmark.
- 1949 –Chinese Civil War: The Communist Party of China holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Kuomintang in Beijing, after three years of fighting.
- 1949 –The 26 counties of the Irish Free State become the Republic of Ireland.
- 1960 –The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
- 1970 –President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring the Surgeon General’s warnings on tobacco products and banning cigarette advertisements on television and radio in the United States, starting on January 1, 1971.
- 1971 –Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army massacred over 1,000 people in Keraniganj Upazila, Bangladesh.
- 1973 –Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Corbett National Park, India.
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