On this day in History - Apr. 1

• 0527 - Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne.
• 0705 - Greek pope John VII chosen as successor to John VI.
• 1085 - Emperor Shenzong of China dies (b. 1048).
• 1132 - St-Hugues dies (b. 1053). Bishop of Guenette.
• 1204 - Eleanor of Aquitaine dies (b. c. 122). Wife of Henry II of England.
• 1205 - King Amalric II of Jerusalem dies (b. 1145).
• 1220 - Emperor Go-Saga of Japan was born (d. 1272).
• 1293 – Robert Winchelsey leaves England for Rome, to be consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury.
• 1318 - Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by the Scottish from the English.
• 1340 - Niels Ebbesen kills Gerhard III of Holstein in his bedroom, ending the 1332-1340 interregnum in Denmark.
• 1389 - Pacto de no agresión entre la Confederación Suiza y Austria.
• 1431 - Portugal: D. Nuno Álvares Pereira ("O Santo Condestável") dies.
• 1528 - Francisco de Peñalosa dies. Spanish composer.
• 1543 - François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières was born (d. 1626). Constable of France.
• 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.
• 1578 - William Harvey was born (d. 1657). English physician who discovered blood circulation.
• 1580 - Alonso Mudarra dies. Spanish composer.
• 1582 - Gaspar de Crayer was born. Flemish painter.
• 1610 - Charles de Saint-Évremond was born (d. 1703). French soldier.
• 1618 - Jan Philips Righolz Conwemberg van Thielen Mechelen was born (d. 1667). Flemish painter, brother-in-law of Théodore Rombouts.
• 1621 - Massasoit, chief of the Wampanoags, and John Carver, governor of Plymouth Colony, sign the first peace treaty between Native Americans and Pilgrims.
• 1621 - Cristofano Allori dies (b. 17 Oct 1577). Florentine painter.
• 1637 - Niwa Nagashige dies (b. 1571). Japanese warlord.
• 1640 - Georg Mohr was born (d. 1697). Danish mathematician.
• 1647 - John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester was born (d. 1680). English poet.
• 1649 - fray Juan Bautista Maino (or Mayno) dies. Spanish Baroque painter, who studied under Caravaggio and El Greco.
• 1682 - Franz Egon of Fürstenberg dies (b. 1625). Bishop of Strassburg.
• 1684 - Roger Williams was born (d. 1603). English theologian and colonist.
• 1697 - Antoine François Prévost was born (d. 1763). French author and novelist.
• 1753 - Joseph de Maistre was born (d. 1821). French diplomat and writer.
• 1765 - Luigi Schiavonetti was born (d. 1810). Italian engraver.
• 1776 - Sophie Germain was born (d. 1831). French mathematician.
• 1778 - Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, created the "$" symbol.
• 1784 - Johannes Janson dies (b. 17 Apr 1729). Dutch artist.
• 1787 - Floyer Sydenham dies (b. 1710). English classical scholar.
• 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.
• 1791 - Richard Butler dies (b. 1743). American soldier.
• 1793 - In Japan, the volcano Unsen erupted killing about 53,000.
• 1802 - Joseph-Siffrède Duplessis dies (b. 22 Sep 1725). French artist.
• 1815 - Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck was born in Schönhausen, Altmark, Prussia [now Germany] (d. 30 Jul 1878). Prusso-German statesman and chancellor of the German Empire.
• 1815 - Edward Clark was born (d. 1880). Governor of Texas.
• 1823 - Simon Bolivar Buckner Lieutenant General (Confederate Army), was born ( died in 1914).
• 1826 - Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.
• 1831 - Samuel Albert (or Albrecht) Anker was born (d. 16 Jul 1910). Swiss painter and illustrator, specialized in Children.
• 1833 - El general mexicano Antonio López de Santa Anna se erige en presidente de la república.
• 1833 - Se inaugura la Parroquia de Nuestra Señora de Balvanera, en Buenos Aires.
• 1834 - Big Jim Fisk was born (d. 1872). American entrepreneur.
• 1839 - Nicolas-Didier Boguet dies (b. 18 Feb 1755). French painter and draftsman.
• 1839 - Benjamin Pierce dies (b. 1757). Governor of New Hampshire.
• 1854 - Hard Times begins serialisation in Charles Dickens magazine, Household Words.
• 1854 - Bill Traylor was born (d. 1949). American artist.
• 1856 - Acacio Gabriel Viegas was born (d. 1933). Indian physician.
• 1856 - Falleció en Buenos Aires, el General Eustaquio Díaz Vélez, patriota que fuera defensor de la Independencia Argentina, estadista y hacendado. Nació en Buenos Aires, el día 2 de Noviembre de 1782.
• 1856 - Charles Maurin was born (d. 22 Jul 1914). French painter and printmaker. Among his paintings are the Prelude to Lohengrin and Maternity.
• 1857 - Herman Melville publishes The Confidence-Man.
• 1859 - Álvaro de Castelões was born in Porto (d. 9 Jul 1953). Portuguese poet, noble and engineer.
• 1865 - American Civil War: Battle of Five Forks - In Petersburg, Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee begins his final offensive.
• 1865 - Giuditta Pasta dies (b. 1797). Italian soprano.
• 1865 - Richard Zsigmondy was born. Austrian-born chemist, Nobel Prize 1925.
• 1866 - Ferruccio Busoni was born (d. 1924). Italian pianist and composer.
• 1867 - International Exhibition opens in Paris
• 1867 - Singapore becomes British crown colony.
• 1868 - Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute is established in Hampton, Virginia.
• 1868 - Edmond Rostand was born in Marseille (d. 02 Dec 1918). French poet and dramatist, best-known from his play Cyrano de Bergerac.
• 1872 - Frederick Maurice dies (b. 1805). English theologian.
• 1872 - William Frederick Horry dies executed by William Marwood (b. 1843).
• 1873 - The British steamer SS Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia killing 547.
• 1873 - Sergei Rachmaninoff was born (d. 1943). Composer, pianist, and conductor (Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini).
• 1875 - Edgar Wallace was born (d. 1932). English playwright, novelist.
• 1878 - (Jean François) Eugène Gautier dies on Paris (b. 27 Feb 1822). French composer.
• 1878 - John Corry Wilson Daly dies (b. 1796). Canadian politician.
• 1880 - Agha Petros was born (d. 1932). Assyrian general.
• 1882 - Paul Anspach was born (d. 1991). Belgian Olympic champion fencer.
• 1883 - Lon Chaney, Sr., was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado (d. 26 Aug 1930). American actor. Due to his ability to portray an endless variety of characters throughout his career, he became known as "The Man of a Thousand Faces".
• 1885 - Wallace (Fitzgerald) Beery was born (d. 15 Apr 1949). Academy award- winning actor: (The Champ [1931-1932], Grand Hotel, We’re in the Navy Now, Treasure Island, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Last of the Mohicans, China Seas).
• 1887 – Mumbai Fire Brigade is established.
• 1888 - Alberto Vacarezza was born in Buenos Aires († 06 Aug 1959). Argentine playwriter.
• 1888 - Soccer team Sparta forms in Rotterdam.
• 1889 - Japan : Official foundation of the city Yokohama.
• 1890 - David Wilber dies (b. 1820). American politician.
• 1891 - The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
• 1891 - Painter Paul Gauguin [07 Jun 1848 – 08 May 1903] leaves Marseille for Tahiti.
• 1893 - The United States Navy rank of Chief Petty Officer is created.
• 1893 - Cicely Courtneidge was born (d. 1980). English actress and comedian.
• 1895 - Alberta Hunter was born (d. 1984). American singer.
• 1896 - Theodore Robinson US Impressionist painter born on 03 June 1852. He studied under Claude Monet .
• 1897 - Nita Naldi was born (d. 1961). American actress.
• 1898 - William James Sidis was born (d. 1944). American genius.
• 1899 - Gustavs Celmins was born (d. 1968). Latvian politician.
• 1900 - Robert McDowell was born (d. 1988). Mayor of Maryborough, Queensland.
• 1901 - Whittaker Chambers was born (d. 1961). American writer, editor, and defector.
• 1901 - El ingeniero James Gibb inventa el tenis de mesa o ping pong.
• 1902 - Maria Polydouri was born (d. 1930). Greek poet.
• 1902 - Moreira da Silva was born. Brazilian composer and singer.
• 1906 - Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev was born (d. 1989). Russian engineer and airplane designer.
• 1908 – The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.
• 1908 - Se funda el club Los Forzosos de Almagro, que a mediados de 1909 se rebautizó San Lorenzo de Almagro.
• 1908 - Abraham Maslow was born (d. 1970). American psychologist.
• 1909 - Eddy Duchin was born (d. 1951). American popular pianist & bandleader.
• 1910 - Sporting Clube Farense is founded. Portuguese club.
• 1910 - Andreas Achenbach dies (b. 29 Sep 1815). German realist landscape painter.
• 1910 - Mikaïl Alexandrovitch Wrubel (or Wroubel) dies (b. 05 Mar 1856). Russian artist.
• 1910 - Dumitru Dan (Romania) completed a 62,137 mile (100,000 m) walk.
• 1912 - The Greek athlete Konstantinos Tsiklitiras breaks the world record in standing long jump jumping 3,47 meters.
• 1914 - Lor Tok was born (d. 2002). Thai comedian and actor.
• 1914 - Rube Waddell dies. American baseball player.
• 1915 - Otto Wilhelm Fischer was born (d. 2004). Austrian actor.
• 1917 - Melville Shavelson was born (d. 2007). American film director, producer and screenwriter.
• 1917 - Scott Joplin dies in a mental institution in New York City (b. 1868). American musician, composer.
• 1918 - The Royal Air Force is formed with the amalgamation of the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). The RAF took its place beside the British navy and army as a separate military service with its own ministry.
• 1919 - Joseph Murray was born. American surgeon, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
  
• 1920 - Toshiro Mifune was born (d. 1997). Japanese actor.
• 1921 - Ken Reardon was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1922 - William Manchester was born. American writer.
• 1922 - Emperor Karl (Franz Josef) of Austria dies (b. 1887) .
• 1923 - Primeira exibição pública de um filme sonoro, no Rialto Theather de Nova Iorque.
• 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 wrote his famous book, Mein Kampf.
• 1924 – The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
• 1924 - First revenue flight for Belgium's Sabena Airlines.
• 1924 - Brendan Byrne was born. Governor of New Jersey.
• 1924 - Miodrag Petrović was born (d. 2003). Serbian actor.
• 1926 - Charles Bressler was born. American tenor.
• 1926 - Anne McCaffrey was born. American author.
• 1926 - Charles Angrand dies (b. 19 ou 29 Apr 1854). French Normand painter.
• 1927 - Amos Milburn was born (d. 1980). American pianist.
• 1927 - Maria Eugénia was born in Lisbon. Portuguese actress.
• 1928 - George Grizzard was born (d. 2007). American actor.
• 1929 - Payut Ngaokrachang was born. Thai animator
• 1929 - Jane Powell was born. American dancer, actress, and singer
• 1929 - Bo Schembechler was born (d. 2006). American football coach.
• 1929 - Milan Kundera was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia. Writer (Unbearable Lightness of Being, L'art du Roman, Joke) .
• 1929 - Louie Marx introduced the Yo-Yo.
• 1930 - "Blue Angel", starring unknown Marlene Dietrich, premieres in America / Estreia na Alemanha do filme "O anjo azul", dirigido por Joseph von Sternberg. Nele se estreia a actriz Marlene Dietrich.
• 1930 - Grace Lee Whitney was born. American actress.
• 1930 - Empress Zawditu of Ethiopia dies (b. 1876).
• 1930 - Cosima Wagner dies (b. 1837). Daughter of Franz Liszt and wife of Richard Wagner.
• 1931 - Ita Ever was born. Estonian actress.
• 1931 - Rolf Hochhuth was born. German writer.
• 1932 - Gordon Jump was born (d. 2003). American actor, "Maytag Repairman".
• 1932 - Debbie Reynolds was born. American actress.
• 1933 - The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in the series of anti-Semitic acts that will be known as the Holocaust.
• 1933 - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji was born. French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1933 - Dan Flavin was born (d. 1996). American artist.
• 1934 - Bonnie and Clyde kill two young highway patrolmen near Grapevine, Texas.
• 1934 - El sacerdote Juan Bosco - beatificado cinco años antes - es proclamado Santo de la Iglesia Católica.
• 1934 - Don Hastings was born. American television actor.
• 1934 - Rod Kanehl was born (d. 2004). American baseball player.
• 1934 - Vladimir Posner was born. Russian journalist.
• 1935 - Larry McDonald was born (d. 1983). American politician.
• 1936 - Orissa Formation of the Indian state Orissa, formerly known as Kalinga or Uykal.
• 1936 - Jean-Pascal Delamuraz was born (d. 1998). Swiss politician, president of the Confederation in 1989 and 1996.
• 1936 - Se realiza en Mendoza la primera Fiesta de la Vendimia.
• 1937 - Aden becomes a British crown colony.
• 1937 – The power granted to the National Socialist government of Germany by the Enabling Act of 1933 officially expires, and is subsequently renewed by the Reichstag.
• 1938 - Ali MacGraw was born in Pound Ridge, New York. American actress: (Goodbye Columbus, Love Story, The Getaway, The Winds of War).
• 1938 - John Quade was born. American actor.
• 1939 - Generalísimo Francisco Franco of the Spanish State announced the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the last of the Republican forces surrendered.
• 1939 - Phil Niekro was born. American baseball player.
• 1939 - Rudolph Isley was born. American singer (The Isley Brothers).
• 1940 - Wangari Maathai was born. Kenyan environmentalist, activist Nobel Prize for Peace em 2004.
• 1941 - The Blockade Runner Badge for German navy is instituted.
• 1942 - Samuel R. Delany was born. American author.
• 1942 - Annie Nightingale was born. British disc jockey.
• 1944 - Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
• 1944 - Rusty Staub was born. American baseball player.
• 1945 - World War II: Operation Iceberg - United States troops land on Okinawa in the last campaign of the war.
• 1945 - John Barbata was born. American drummer
• 1946 - Aleutian Island earthquake: A 7.8 magnitude earthquake near the Aleutian Islands creates a tsunami that strikes the Hawaiian Islands killing 159 (mostly in Hilo, Hawaii).
• 1946 - Formation of the Malayan Union.
• 1946 - Arrigo Sacchi was born. Italian football coach.
• 1946 - Ronnie Lane was born (d. 1997). British musician (The Small Faces and The Faces).
• 1946 - Noah Beery dies (b. 1882). American actor.
• 1947 - Alain Connes was born. French mathematician.
• 1947 - M was born. English singer.
• 1947 - Norm Van Lier was born. American basketball player.
• 1947 - Robin Scott was born. British singer.
• 1947 - King George II of Greece dies (b. 1890).
• 1948 - Cold War: Berlin Airlift - Military forces, under direction of the Soviet-controlled government in East Germany, set-up a land blockade of West Berlin.
• 1948 - Faroe Islands receive autonomy from Denmark.
• 1948 - Jimmy Cliff was born. Jamaican musician.
• 1949 - Chinese Civil War: Communist Party of China hold unsuccessful peace talks with the Kuomintang in Beijing, after three years of fighting.
• 1949 - The twenty-six counties of the Irish Free State become the Republic of Ireland.
• 1949 - The Canadian government repeals Japanese Canadian internment after seven years.
• 1949 - Zsa Zsa Gabor and George Sanders got married.
• 1949 - Gérard Mestrallet was born. French businessman.
• 1949 - Gil Scott-Heron was born. American musician and composer.
• 1949 - Sammy Nelson was born. Irish footballer.
• 1950 - Samuel Alito was born. U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
• 1950 - Charles R. Drew dies (b. 1904). American physician.
• 1951 - John Philip Abizaid, U.S. Army General, former CENTCOM commander.
• 1952 - Annette O'Toole was born. American actress.
• 1952 - Bernard Stiegler was born. French philosopher.
• 1953 - Barry Sonnenfeld was born. Producer, director.
• 1954 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.
• 1954 - Jeff Porcaro was born (d. 1992). American drummer (Toto).
• 1955 - The EOKA rebellion starts in Cyprus, aiming at the island's independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1955 - Gregg Jarrett was born. American television anchor.
• 1955 - Humayun Akhtar Khan was born. Pakistani statesman.
• 1957 – BBC Spaghetti tree hoax broadcast on current affairs programme Panorama.
• 1957 - La India adopta el sistema métrico decimal.
• 1957 - David Gower was born. English cricketer.
• 1958 - D. Boon was born (d. 1985). American musician.
• 1959 - A Mauritânia adopta a sua bandeira.
• 1960 - The United States launches the first weather satellite, TIROS-1.
• 1960 - Lançamento do primeiro satélite meteorológico pelos Estados Unidos da América.
• 1960 - Michael Praed was born. British actor.
• 1962 - Manuel Monteiro was born. Portuguese politician well known for his role as CDS/PP member.
• 1962 - Dave Ulliott was born. English poker player.
• 1963 - The Soap Opera General Hospital debuted.
• 1964 - Erik Breukink was born. Dutch cyclist and manager.
• 1964 - Scott Stevens was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1964 - Alberto Bordalo dies (b. 1924). Brazilian writer.
• 1964 - José Rodrigues dos Santos was born. Portuguese journalist and writer.
• 1965 - Mark Jackson was born. American basketball player.
• 1965 - Robert Steadman was born. English composer.
• 1965 - Helena Rubinstein dies (b. 1870). Cosmetic manufacturer.
• 1966 - Chris Evans was born. English disc jockey.
• 1966 - Flann O'Brien dies (b. 1911). Irish humorist.
• 1967 - The UnitedStates Department of Transportation begins operation.
• 1967 - Phil Demmel was born. American musician.
• 1968 - Lev Davidovich Landau dies (b. 1908). Russian physicist.
• 1969 - The Hawker Siddeley Harrier enters service with the RAF.
• 1970 - President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law banning cigarette advertisements in the United States starting on January 1, 1971.
• 1970 - American Motors introduces the Gremlin.
• 1970 - Sung Hi Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea. Atress.
• 1971 - Method Man was born. American musician.
• 1971 - Shinji Nakano was born. Japanese race car driver.
• 1972 - The first major league baseball players strike in the U.S. begins.
• 1972 - Allen and Albert Hughes was born. American film directors.
• 1972 - Jesse Tobias was born. American musician.
• 1972 - Darren McCarty was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1973 - Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Corbett National Park, India.
• 1973 - In Britain, Value Added Tax (VAT) replaced Purchase Tax and Selective Employment Tax.
• 1973 - Christian Finnegan was born. American comedian.
• 1973 - Stephen Fleming was born. New Zealand cricketer.
• 1973 - Joe Francis was born. American adult video producer.
• 1974 - In the United Kingdom, the Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties come into being.
• 1974 - Hugo Benjamín Ibarra was born. Argentine footballer.
• 1974 - Richard Christy was born. American drummer.
• 1974 - Sandra Völker was born. German swimmer.
• 1975 - Magdalena Maleeva was born in Sofia. Bulgarian tennis star.
• 1975 - Cambodia President Lon Nol flees for Red Khmer.
• 1975 - George Bastl was born. Swiss tennis player.
• 1975 - John Butler was born. Australian singer and musician.
• 1976 - Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
• 1976 - Conrail takes over operations from six bankrupt railroads in the northeastern U.S..
• 1976 - Jovian-Plutonian gravitational effect first reported by the astronomer Patrick Moore.
  
• 1976 - Clarence Seedorf was born. Surinamese-born Dutch footballer (Ajax, Real Madrid...)
• 1976 - Max Ernst dies (b. 02 Apr 1891). German /French Surrealist painter and sculptor.
• 1977 - Haimar Zubeldia was born. Spanish cyclist.
• 1978 - Philippine College of Commerce, through a presidential decree, was converted to Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
• 1978 - Miroslava Vavrinec was born. Swiss tennis player.
• 1978 - Jean-Pierre Dumont was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1979 - Iran's government becomes Islamic Republic by a 98% vote, overthrowing the Shah officially.
• 1979 - Ivano Balić was born. Croatian handballer.
• 1979 - Barbara Luddy dies (b. 1908). American actress.
• 1979 - Bruno Coquatrix dies (b. 1910). French music impresario.
• 1980 - New York City's Transit Worker Union 100 goes on strike, lasting 11 days.
• 1980 - Randy Orton was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1980 - Bijou Phillips was born. American actress.
• 1980 - Yūko Takeuchi was born. Japanese actress.
• 1981 - Daylight saving time is introduced in the USSR.
• 1981 - Pieter Weening was born. Dutch cyclist.
• 1981 - Aimee Chan was born. Miss Hong Kong 2006.
• 1981 - Theresa Sokyrka was born. Canadian Idol runner-up.
• 1981 - Hannah Spearritt was born. British singer (S Club 7).
• 1981 - Antonis Fotsis was born. Greek basketball player.
• 1981 - Eua Sunthornsanan dies (b. 1910). Thai composer and bandleader.
• 1982 - Sam Huntington was born. American actor.
• 1982 - Gemma Hunt was born. British children's television presenter (CBBC-Xchange).
• 1982 - Taran Killam was born. American comedian and actor.
• 1982 - Miguel Espinosa Gironés dies (b. 1926). Spanish writer.
• 1983 - Ólafur Ingi Skúlason was born. Icelandic footballer.
• 1983 - Sean Taylor was born. American football player.
• 1983 - Franck Ribery was born. French footballer.
• 1984 - Marvin Gaye dies shot to death by his father (b. 1939). American singer.
• 1984 - Uruguay: cacerolada contra la dictadura militar.
• 1984 - Gilberto Macena was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1984 - Olga Rei was born. Russian television personality.
• 1985 - David Lee Roth announces his departure from Van Halen.
• 1985 - The album "We Are the World" was released. Eight rock stars donated previously unreleased material for the LP.
• 1985 - Josh Zuckerman was born. American actor.
• 1985 - Shay Doron was born. Israeli basketball player.
• 1986 - Ireen Wüst was born. Dutch speed skater.
• 1986 - Erik Bruhn dies (b. 1928). Danish ballet dancer, choreographer.
• 1987 - Ding Junhui was born. Chinese snooker player.
• 1987 - Li Ting was born. Chinese diver.
• 1988 - Courtney McCool was born. American gymnast.
• 1988 - Joe Besser dies. Actor, comedian; member of the Three Stooges.
• 1988 - Jim Jordan dies (b. 1896). American actor (Fibber McGee).
• 1989 - Margaret Thatcher's new local government tax, the Poll tax, was introduced in Scotland.
• 1989 - Vietoris Krisztián was born. German racecar driver.
• 1991 - Iran releases British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years.
• 1991 - Martha Graham dies (b. 1894). American dancer, choreographer.
• 1992 - Juanito dies at 37 in car crash. Spanish footballer (Real Madrid 1977-1987).
• 1993 - Alan Kulwicki dies (b. 1954). NASCAR driver, 1992 Winston Cup Champion.
• 1993 - Solly Zuckerman dies. South-African born British zoologist.
• 1994 - Robert Doisneau dies (b. 1912). French photographer.
• 1996 - University of Kentucky team wins NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship.
• 1996 - The Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia was created.
• 1996 - Alfredo Nobre Costa dies. Portuguese Prime-Minister (1978).
• 1996 - Mário Viegas dies (b. 1948). Portuguese stage and film actor (The Jew, Divine Comedy) / Mário Viegas morre em Lisboa, Portugal (nasceu em Santarém em 10 Novembro de 1948). Encenador. Actor. Declamador. Filmografia como actor, escritor compreende, designadamente Judeu, O (1996) ... aka The Jew (USA); Afirma Pereira (1996)... aka According to Pereira (USA) ; Fado Lusitano (1994) (voice) Narrator; A Divina Comédia (1991) .... aka The Divine Comedy ; Cornos de Cronos, Os (1991) ; A Mulher do Próximo (1988) ; Repórter X (1987) ; Sem Sombra de Pecado (1983) ; Kilas, o Mau da Fita (1981) ... aka The Killers (International: English title) ; Rei das Berlengas, O (1978); Funeral do Patrão, O (1975) ] .
• 1996 - Florence Buchsbaum dies (b. 1926). Theater director and musician.
• 1996 - John McSherry dies (b. 1944). American baseball umpire.
• 1996 - Comet Hale-Bopp is seen passing over perihelion.
• 1997 - Norman Carr dies (b. 1912). British conservationist.
• 1998 - Gene Evans dies (b. 1922). American actor.
• 1998 - Rozz Williams dies (b. 1963). American musician, member of Christian Death.
• 1999 - Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved from the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
• 1999 - Jesse Stone dies (b. 1901). American record producer.
• 2000 - Bob and George, a webcomic, appears on the Internet.
• 2000 - Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart dies (b. 1924). President of the European Court of Justice.
• 2001 - An EP-3E United States Navy plane collides with a Chinese People's Liberation Army fighter jet. The Navy crew makes an emergency landing in Hainan, People's Republic of China and is detained.
• 2001 - Former president of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on charges of war crimes.
• 2001 - Same-sex marriage comes into force in the Netherlands, which is the first country to allow it.
• 2001 - Olivia Barclay dies (b. 1919). British astrologer.
• 2001 - Jo-Jo Moore dies (b. 1908). American baseball player.
• 2001 - Trinh Cong Son dies (b. 1939). Vietnamese composer.
• 2002 - The Netherlands legalizes euthanasia, becoming the only nation in the world to do so.
• 2002 - Simo Hayha dies (b. 1905). Finnish marksman.
• 2003 - In Sturgis, Michigan, seven men place signs around town reading "All your base are belong to us," based on the popular mistranslation from the Japanese video game Zero Wing.
• 2003 - Leslie Cheung dies (b. 1956). Hong-Kong actor and singer.
• 2003 - Hyosuke Kujiraoka dies. Former vice speaker of the House of Representatives .
• 2003 - Jessica Lynch was rescued by U.S. commandos in a raid on an Iraqi hospital.
• 2004 - George W. Bush signs the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which makes an attack that leads to the death of a mother and her unborn child two criminal charges.
• 2004 - The first legal same-sex marriage in the Canadian province of Quebec: Michael Hendricks and René Leboeuf wed in Montreal.
• 2004 - Google introduces its Gmail product to the public. The launch is met with scepticism on account of the launch date.
• 2004 - Carrie Snodgress dies (b. 1946). American actress.
• 2005 - Harald Juhnke dies (b. 1929). German entertainer.
• 2005 - Jack Keller dies (b. 1936). American songwriter.
• 2005 - Ioannis Kyrastas dies (b. 1952). Greek footballer and manager.
• 2005 - Robert Coldwell Wood dies (b. 1923). American university president and political appointee.
• 2005 - Alexander Brott dies (b. 1915). Canadian violinist, conductor and composer.
• 2006 - The Serious Organised Crime Agency, dubbed the 'British FBI', is created in the United Kingdom.
• 2006 - In Tam dies (b. 1916). Cambodian politician.
• 2007 - Herb Carneal dies (b. 1923). Major League Baseball radio broadcaster.
• 2009 – Croatia and Albania joined NATO.
  
• April 1 is known as April Fool's Day or All Fools' Day in many countries.
• Japan - The official start of school years in most universities and schools. Also, the official first day of work at companies and offices for new university graduates hires, marked by welcoming ceremonies and speeches.
• Last day of the Assyrian New Year Celebration.
• Roman Empire - Veneralia celebrated to honor Venus.
• Canada - Beginning of government's fiscal year.
• India - Start of financial year.
• Edible Book Day.
• Fossil Fools Day.
• Kha b-Nisan (Assyrians).
• Maundy Thursday (2010).
• Odisha Day (Orissa, India)