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Day Of The Week: 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 2025. The day of the week is Tuesday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Aries is your zodiac sign. Diamond is your modern birthstone. Opal is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Day In History: April 1
April 1 is most notable in many countries for being April Fools’ Day.
Historical Events: April 1
- 1318 –Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by the Scottish from England.
- 1922 –Six Irish Catholic civilians are shot and beaten-to-death by a gang of policemen in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
- 1924 –Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in jail for his participation in the “Beer Hall Putsch”. However, he spends only nine months in jail, during which he writes Mein Kampf.
- 1924 –The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
- 1944 –Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
- 1948 –Faroe Islands receive autonomy from Denmark.
- 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.
- 1979 –Iran becomes an Islamic Republic by a 98% vote, officially overthrowing the Shah.
- 1992 –Start of the Bosnian war.
Who were born on April 1?
- 1578 –William Harvey, English physician (d. 1657)
- 1856 –Acacio Gabriel Viegas, Indian physician (d. 1933)
- 1865 –Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1929)
- 1885 –Wallace Beery, American actor (d. 1949)
- 1929 –Payut Ngaokrachang, Thai animator (d. 2010)
- 1945 –John Barbata, American drummer
- 1946 –Arrigo Sacchi, Italian football coach
- 1949 –Gérard Mestrallet, French businessman
- 1977 –Jon Gosselin, American TV personality
- 1988 –Courtney McCool, American gymnast
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