About April 1
April 1, 2025 is the 91st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 274 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 322 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
- 1572 –In the Eighty Years’ War, the Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Spaniards, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic.
- 1789 –In New York City, the United States House of Representatives holds its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first House Speaker.
- 1826 –Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.
- 1854 –Hard Times begins serialisation in Charles Dickens’ magazine, Household Words.
- 1867 –Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
- 1887 –Mumbai Fire Brigade is established.
- 1891 –The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
- 1908 –The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.
- 1918 –The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
- 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 –English cricketer Wally Hammond set a record for the highest individual Test innings of 336 not out, during a Test match against New Zealand.
- 1941 –A military coup in Iraq overthrows the regime of 'Abd al-Ilah and installs Rashid Ali as Prime Minister.
- 1949 –The 26 counties of the Irish Free State become the Republic of Ireland.
- 1957 –The BBC broadcasts the spaghetti tree hoax on its current affairs programme Panorama.
- 1969 –The Hawker Siddeley Harrier enters service with the Royal Air Force.
- 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.
- 1973 –Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Corbett National Park, India.
- 2006 –The Serious Organised Crime Agency, dubbed the “British FBI”, is created in the United Kingdom.
- 2009 –Croatia and Albania join NATO.
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