{"id":4140,"date":"2023-04-01T00:04:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T18:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=4140"},"modified":"2023-03-31T17:50:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T12:20:48","slug":"history-of-1-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-1-april\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 1 April"},"content":{"rendered":"

History of 1 April<\/h2>\n

1905<\/strong> – The British East African Protectorate became the colony of Kenya.<\/p>\n

1905<\/strong> – Paris and Berlin were linked by telephone.<\/p>\n

1916<\/strong> – The first\u00a0U.S.\u00a0national women’s swimming championships were held.<\/p>\n

1918<\/strong> – England’s Royal Flying Corps was replaced by the Royal Air Force.<\/p>\n

1924<\/strong> – Adolf Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison for high treason in relation to the “Beer Hall Putsch.”<\/p>\n

1924<\/strong> – Imperial Airways was formed in Britain.<\/p>\n

1927<\/strong> – The first automatic record changer was introduced by His Master’s Voice.<\/p>\n

1928<\/strong> – China’s Chiang Kai-shek began attacking communists.<\/p>\n

1929<\/strong> – Louie Marx introduced the Yo-Yo.<\/p>\n

1930<\/strong> – Leo Hartnett of the Chicago Cubs broke the altitude record for a catch by catching a baseball dropped from the Goodyear blimp 800 feet over Los Angeles,\u00a0CA.<\/p>\n

1931<\/strong> – An Earthquake devastated Managua Nicaragua killing 2,000.<\/p>\n

1931<\/strong> – Jackie Mitchell became the first female in professional baseball when she signed with the Chattanooga Baseball Club.<\/p>\n

1933<\/strong> – Nazi Germany began the persecution of Jews by boycotting Jewish businesses.<\/p>\n

1935<\/strong> – The first radio tube to be made of metal was announced.<\/p>\n

1937<\/strong> – Aden became a British colony.<\/p>\n

1938<\/strong> – The first commercially successful fluorescent lamps were introduced.<\/p>\n

1938<\/strong> – The Baseball Hall of Fame opened in Cooperstown,\u00a0NY.<\/p>\n

1939<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0recognized the Franco government in Spain at end of Spanish civil war.<\/p>\n

1941<\/strong> – The first contract for advertising on a commercial FM radio station began on W71NY in New York City.<\/p>\n

1945<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S.\u00a0forces invaded Okinawa during World War II. It was the last campaign of World War II.<\/p>\n

1946<\/strong> – Weight Watchers was formed.<\/p>\n

1946<\/strong> – A tidal wave (tsunami) struck the Hawaiian Islands killing more than 170 people.<\/p>\n

1948<\/strong> – The Berlin Airlift began.<\/p>\n

1949<\/strong> – “Happy Pappy” premiered. It was the first all-black-cast variety show.<\/p>\n

1950<\/strong> – Italian Somalia became a United Nations trust territory under Italian administration.<\/p>\n

1952<\/strong> – The Big Bang theory was proposed in “Physical Review” by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow.<\/p>\n

1953<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Congress created the Department of Health Education and Welfare.<\/p>\n

1954<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Air Force Academy was formed in Colorado.<\/p>\n

1955<\/strong> – “One Man’s Family” was seen on TV for the final time after a six-year run on NBC-TV.<\/p>\n

1960<\/strong> – France exploded 2 atom bombs in the Sahara Desert.<\/p>\n

1960<\/strong> – The U.S. launched\u00a0TIROS-1<\/i>. It was the first weather satellite.<\/p>\n

1963<\/strong> – Workers of the International Typographical Union ended their strike that had closed nine New York City newspapers. The strike ended 114 days after it began on December 8, 1962.<\/p>\n

1963<\/strong> – The Soap operas “General Hospital” and “Doctors” premiered on television.<\/p>\n

1970<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Army charged Captain Ernest Medina in the My Lai massacre.<\/p>\n

1970<\/strong> – U.S. President Nixon signed the bill, the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act, that banned cigarette advertisements to be effective on January 1, 1971.<\/p>\n

1971<\/strong> – The United Kingdom lifted all restrictions on gold ownership.<\/p>\n

1972<\/strong> – North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops renewed their offensive in South Vietnam.<\/p>\n

1973<\/strong> – Japan allowed its citizens to own gold.<\/p>\n

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<\/ins><\/ins><\/ins>1976 – Apple Computer began operations.<\/p>\n

1979<\/strong> – Iran was proclaimed to be the Islamic Republic by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini after the fall of the Shah.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

1980<\/strong> – A failed assassination attempt against Iraqi vice-premier Tariq Aziz occurred.<\/p>\n

1982<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0transferred the Canal Zone to Panama.<\/p>\n

1983<\/strong> – New York Islander Mike Bossy became the first\u00a0National Hockey League (NHL)\u00a0player to score 60 goals in 3 consecutive seasons.<\/p>\n

1985<\/strong> – World oil prices dropped below $10 a barrel.<\/p>\n

1986<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0submarine Nathaniel Green ran aground in the Irish Sea.<\/p>\n

1987<\/strong> – Steve Newman became the first man to walk around the world. The walk was 22,000 miles and took 4 years.<\/p>\n

1987<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Reagan\u00a0told doctors in Philadelphia, “We’ve declared AIDS public health enemy No. 1.”<\/p>\n

1991<\/strong> – Iran released British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years.<\/p>\n

1991<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Supreme Court ruled that jurors could not be barred from serving due to their race.<\/p>\n

1991<\/strong> – The Warsaw Pact was officially dissolved.<\/p>\n

1992<\/strong> – Players began the first strike in the 75-year history of the\u00a0National Hockey League (NHL).<\/p>\n

1996<\/strong> – U.S. President Bill Clinton threw out the first ball preceding a game between the Kansas City Royals and the Baltimore Orioles.<\/p>\n

1997<\/strong> – David Carradine received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/p>\n

1998<\/strong> – A federal judge dismissed the Paula Jones’ sexual harassment lawsuit against U.S. President Clinton saying that the claims fell “far short” of being worthy of a trial.<\/p>\n

1999<\/strong> – In Zhytomyr, Ukraine, Anatoliy Onoprienko was sentenced to death for the deaths of 52 men, women and children. 43 of the killings occurred in a 6-month period.<\/p>\n

1999<\/strong> – The Canadian territory of Nunavut was created. It was carved from the eastern part of the Northwest Territories and covered about 772,000 square miles.<\/p>\n

2001<\/strong> – China began holding 24 crewmembers of a\u00a0U.S.\u00a0surveillance plane. The EP-3E\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Navy crew had made an emergency landing after an in-flight collision with a Chinese fighter jet. The Chinese pilot was missing and presumed dead. The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0crew was released on April 11, 2001.<\/p>\n

2001<\/strong> – Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was arrested on corruption charges after a 26-hour standoff with the police at his Belgrade villa.<\/p>\n

2003<\/strong> – North Korea test-fired an anti-ship missile off its west coast.<\/p>\n

2003<\/strong> – Jason Mewes was ordered to complete drug rehabilitation or face five years in jail stemming from a drug conviction in 1999.<\/p>\n

2004<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S.\u00a0President George W. Bush signed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act. The bill made it a crime to harm a fetus during an assault on a pregnant woman.<\/p>\n

2004<\/strong> – Gateway Inc. announced that it would be closing all of its 188 stores on April 9.<\/p>\n

2009<\/strong> – Albania and Croatia joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).<\/p>\n

2010<\/strong> – The U.S. Congress cut Medicare reimbursements to physicians by 21%.<\/p>\n

2016<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Nagorno-Karabakh clashes: The Four Day War or April War, began along the\u00a0Nagorno-Karabakh\u00a0line of contact on April 1.<\/p>\n

Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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  • 1981<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Antonis Fotsis, Greek basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Bj\u00f8rn Einar Rom\u00f8ren, Norwegian ski jumper<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Taran Killam, American actor, voice artist, comedian, and writer<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Andreas Thorkildsen, Norwegian javelin thrower<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u00d3lafur Ingi Sk\u00falason, Icelandic footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Sean Taylor, American football player (d. 2007)<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Gilberto Macena, Brazilian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Daniel Murphy, American baseball player<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Beth Tweddle, English gymnast<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Hillary Scott, American country singer-songwriter<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Gianluca Musacci, Italian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Oliver Turvey, English racing driver<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Brook Lopez, American basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Robin Lopez, American basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jan Blokhuijsen, Dutch speed skater<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0David N’Gog, French footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Christian Vietoris, German racing driver<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Julia Fischer, German discus thrower<\/li>\n
  • 1992<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Deng Linlin, Chinese gymnast<\/li>\n
  • 1995<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Logan Paul, American Youtuber, and actor<\/li>\n
  • 1997<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0\u00c1lex Palou, Spanish racing driver<\/li>\n
  • 1997<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Asa Butterfield, English actor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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