Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 1
This is a list of selected April 1 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Assembled Apple Computer "do-it-yourself" kit -
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George Pickett -
The Curragh plain, County Kildare, Ireland -
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| April Fools' Day; | refimprove section |
| Assyrian New Year; | many unreliable sources |
| 1572 – Dutch Revolt: The Geuzen captured the undefended town of Brielle from Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, providing the first foothold on land for the rebels. | refimprove section (CN tags) |
| 1789 – Frederick Muhlenberg became the first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. | refimprove section |
| 1854 – Hard Times, the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, was released. | unreferenced sections |
| 1924 – William Wrigley Jr. founded the Wrigley Company, the world's largest manufacturer and marketer of chewing gum. | unreferenced section |
| 1935 – The Reserve Bank of India, the nation's central bank, was founded during the British Raj. | refimprove section |
| 1947 – The main mutiny in a series of mutinies of the Royal New Zealand Navy began. | single source |
| 1996 – The government of Nova Scotia amalgamated the City of Halifax and the over 200 communities around the area to create the Halifax Regional Municipality. | refimprove section |
| 1999 – Canada's newest territory Nunavut came into being. | refimprove section |
| 2001 – The Netherlands became the first country to legalise same-sex marriage. | lead too short, refimprove section, citations needed |
| 2004 – Google launched Gmail, now the most widely used web mail system. | expansion |
| 2006 – Several British policing agencies joined together to become the Serious Organised Crime Agency. | refimprove |
| William Harvey (b. 1578) | refimprove |
Eligible
- 1293 – Robert Winchelsey left England for Rome to be consecrated archbishop of Canterbury, but a papal vacancy delayed the ceremony.
- 1340 – Niels Ebbesen led a band of warriors to kill Count Gerhard III, bringing an end to Holstein rule in Denmark.
- 1833 – Mexican Texans met at San Felipe de Austin to begin the Convention of 1833.
- 1865 – American Civil War: The Union Army inflicted over 2,900 casualties on the Confederates in the Battle of Five Forks.
- 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.
- 1969 – The Hawker Siddeley Harrier, the first operational fighter aircraft with V/STOL capabilities, entered service with the Royal Air Force.
- 1970 – The American Motors Corporation introduced its Gremlin, marketed as America's first subcompact car.
- 1976 – Apple Computer was originally founded to sell the Apple I, an early personal computer that was sold as kits.
- 1978 – By presidential decree, the Philippine College of Commerce was converted to a chartered state university and renamed the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
- 2001 – An American Lockheed EP-3 and a Chinese Shenyang J-8 collided in mid-air off the island of Hainan, resulting in an international dispute between the two countries.
- Born/died this day: Aimery of Cyprus (d. 1205) · Joseph de Maistre (b. 1753) · Giuditta Pasta (d. 1865) · Ferruccio Busoni (b. 1866) · Frederick Denison Maurice (d. 1872) · Scott Joplin (d. 1917) · Henri Cochet (d. 1987) · Cynthia Lennon (d. 2015)
Notes
- Federation of Stoke-on-Trent appears on March 31, so Halifax should not appear in the same year
April 1: Iranian Islamic Republic Day (1979); Edible Book Day
- 1234 – Richard Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, was defeated by knights loyal to King Henry III of England at the Battle of the Curragh in County Kildare, Ireland.
- 1871 – The Duke of Buckingham formally opened the Brill Tramway (locomotive pictured), a short railway line to transport goods between his lands and the national rail network.
- 1918 – The United Kingdom's Royal Air Force was founded, towards the end of the First World War.
- 1970 – U.S. president Richard Nixon signed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring that a prominent warning by the surgeon general be placed on cigarette packages.
Sophie Germain (b. 1776) · Shivakumara Swami (b. 1907) · Marvin Gaye (d. 1984)