Today In History
Tuesday April 1st, 2003 -- Day Number: 91 - Days left: 274
Those born today...
1976 Clarence Seedorf, soccer player (Ajax)
1975 Magdalena Maleeva, Sofia Bulgaria, tennis star
1973 Ferdy Vierklau, soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1971 Daniel Vacek, Prague Czech, tennis star
1969 Arnaud Boetsch, Meulam France, tennis star (1985 European Junior)
1969 John Forest, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1969 Traci Lin-Tavi, NYC, actress (Ryan's Hope, F/X, Fright Night 2)
1965 John "Jumbo" Elliot, NFL tackle (NY Giants)
1962 Phillip Schofield, TV personality^
1961 Jennifer Runyon, actress (Cindy-A Very Brady Christmas)
1961 Mark White, rock guitarist (ABC-All of My Heart)
1960 Shanna McCullough, [Shauna], XXX actress (Chest Fever, Adultery)
1958 Anton Innauer, Austria, 70m ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1980)
1957 David Gower, English cricket player
1957 Peter Deutsch, (Rep-D-Florida)
1956 Peter O'Toole, Irish pop bassist (Hothouse Flowers-People)
1955 Stan Ridway, rocker (Wall Of Voodoo)
1954 Jeff Porcaro, LA Calif, drummer/percussionist (Toto-Roxanne, Africa)
1953 Barry Sonnenfeld, director
1952 Annette O'Toole, Houston Texas, actress (Cat People, Superman III)
1952 Billy Currie, rock keyboardist/violinist (Ultravox-We Came to Dance)
1952 Rey Robinson, US, 100m sprinter (Olympic-1972)
1950 Ed[uardus] HTM Nijpels, Dutch minister of Environment (VVD)
1950 Leonard van Spirit, Dutch/British fruit/food magnate
1949 Gill Scott-Heron, US, writer/poet/singer (Whities on the Moon)
1948 Simon Cowe, rocker
1948 YY Williams, Welsh rugby player
1947 David Eisenhower, grandson of Pres Dwight, married Julie Nixon
1946 Arthur Conley, US soul singer (Sweet Soul Music)
1946 John Barbata, drummer (Turtles-Happy Together, Eleanor)
1946 Ronnie "Plonk" Lane, London, rock bassist (Small Faces-Hey Girl)
1946 William F Fisher, Dallas Texas, MD/astronaut (STS 51-I)
1945 Heather Young, Bremerton Wash, actress (Betty-Land of Giants)
1944 Carol White, England, actress (Daddy's Gone a Hunting)
1942 Alan Blakley, rocker (Brian Poole & The Tremeloes)
1942 Danny Brooks, rocker (Dovells)
1942 Phil Margo, Bkln, rock vocalist (Tokens-Lion Sleeps Tonight)
1942 Samuel R[ay] Delany Jr, US, sci-fi author (Towers of Toron, Neveryona)
1939 Ali MacGraw, Pound Ridge NY, actress (Love Story, Goodbye Columbus)
1939 Phil Niekro, knuckleball pitcher (NY Yankees, Atlanta Braves)
1939 Rudolph Isley, Cincinnati Ohio, rocker (Isley Brothers-Shout)
1935 Hans H Boswinkel, actor/director (Surprise Attack, Tutorials in Love)
1934 Don Hastings, Bkln NY, actor (Capt Video, Bob-As the World Turns)
1933 Dan Flavin, US speed artist (minimal art)
1932 Debbie Reynolds, El Paso Texas, actress (Singin' in the Rain)
1932 Gordon Jump, Dayton Ohio, actor (Arthur Carlson-WKRP, Growing Pains)
1932 Jiri Smutny, composer
1931 George Baker, Bulgaria, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Curse of the Fly)
1931 Rolf Hochhuth, German playwright (Deputy)
1930 Grace Lee Whitney, Ann Arbor Mich, actress (Yeoman Rand-Star Trek)
1930 Joan Franks-Williams, composer
1929 Milan Kundera, Czech poet/writer (The Joke)
1928 Dimitri Frenkel Frank, Dutch writer/director (Hadimassa)
1928 George Grizzard, NC, actor (Wrong is Right, Bachelor Party, Attica)
1928 Herbert Klein, newscaster/press secretary
1928 Jane Powell, Portland Oregon, singer/actress (7 Brides for 7 Brothers)
1927 Amos Milburn, rocker
1926 Anne [Inez] McCaffrey, US, sci-fi author (Dragonflight, Dragondrums)
1926 Lyndon Brook, actor (Invasion, Reach for the Sky)
1925 Sala Burton, (Rep-D-CA, 1983- )
1924 Gunther Becker, composer
1923 Bobby Jordan, NY, actor (Bowery Champs, Kid Dynamite, Flying Wild)
1922 William Manchester, historian (Death of a President)
1921 Douglas Allenbrook, composer
1921 William L Bergsma, Oakland California, composer (Fortunate Island)
1920 Toshiro Mifune, Tsing-tao China, writer/actor (Shogun)
1917 Johnny Andrews, Boston, singer/host (Songs at Twilight)
1917 Leon Janney, Ogden Ut, actor (Hawk)
1915 Art Lund, Salt Lake City Utah, singer (Ken Murray Show)
1915 Willy Dixon, rocker
1914 Carla van Neste, Belgian violinist
1911 Evert H "Bep" Bakhuys, Dutch soccer star/writer
1911 Ferdinand J Kranenburg, Dutch Secretary of Defense (soc dem)
1909 Abner Biberman, Milwaukee Wisc, director/actor (Imhook-Kodiak)
1909 Eddie Duchin, Mass, society pianist/bandleader (Eddie Duchin Orch)
1908 Abraham H Maslow, US psychologist (humanistic psychology)
1907 Walter Kaufmann, composer
1906 Ned Glass, Poland, actor (Sol-Julia, Uncle Moe-Bridget Loves Bernie)
1906 Sigve Lie, Norway, yachtsmans (Olympic-gold-1948, 52)
1905 Clara "Mother" Hale, US social worker (Hale House)
1905 Gaston Eyskens, PM of Belgium (1949, 1958-61, 1968-72)
1905 Winfried PI Zillig, German opera composer/conductor (Fantasia Irica)
1901 Boris Koutzen, composer
19-- Bryan Buffinton, actor (Bill-Guding Light)
19-- Jessica Collins, actress (Dinah Lee-Loving)
1898 Nita Naldi [Anita Donna Dooley], NYC, actress (Blood & Sand)
1898 Pola Gojawiczynska, Polish writer (Stolica)
1898 Roger Bastide, French sociologist
1897 Willem H van de Pol, Dutch theologist (Christian Dilemma)
1895 Alberta Hunter, blues singer/composer (Downhearted Blues)
1893 Cicely Courtneidge, Sydney Australia, actress (Double Exposure)
1887 Leonard Bloomfield, US linguist
1886 Casimir von Paszthory, composer
1886 Wallace Beery, KC MO, actor (Alias a Gentleman, Dinner at 8)
1885 Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill (Hozier), British barones
1884 Laurette Taylor, [Helen LM Cooney], US actress (Broadway)
1883 Aleksander V Aleksandrov, Russian composer/conductor
1883 Lon Chaney, CO, man of 1000 faces, actor (High Noon, Phantom of Opera)
1878 Carl Sternheim, German playwright (Hyperion/Tabula Rasa)
1875 Edgar Wallace, England, novelist/playwright/journalist (Terror)
1873 Sergei Rachmaninoff, Novgorod Russia, composer (Prelude in C# Minor)
1872 Tadeusz Joteyko, composer
1871 F Melius Christiansen, composer
1869 Peter A Egge, Norwegian writer (De Droom)
1868 Edmond Rostand, France, poet/playwright (Cyrano de Bergerac)
1866 Ferruccio B Busoni, Italy, pianist/composer/conductor (Arlecchino)
1866 Johannes C H de Me˜ere, Dutch zoologist
1865 Richard Zsigmondy, Germany, chemist (Nobel-1925)
1864 Marie Jungius, Dutch fairy tale writer
1858 Arnold Aletrino, Dutch physician-criminologist/author (From Life)
1858 Gaetano Mosca, Italian sociologist (Circulation of Elite)
1852 Edward Austin Abbey, US, painter (Quest of the Holy Grail)
1847 Gavriil Musicescu, composer
1847 Jules-Nicolas Crevaux, French explorer (South America)
1843 Ludwig Enneccerus, German jurist
1834 Isidore Edouard Legouix, composer
1823 Simon Bolivar Buckner, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1914
1817 Johannes J van Oosterzee, Dutch theologist
1815 Otto Von Bismarck, Germany, chancellor (1866-90)
1809 Willem Ruys J Dz, Dutch ship owner
1807 Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic
1802 Hubert Reis, composer
1793 Edouard CorbiŠre, French captain/writer (Le negrier)
1785 J H Ferdinand Olivier, German painter
1772 Ignaz Franz von Mosel, composer
1755 Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, French lawyer (Fisiologia del Gusto)
1732 Franz Josef Haydn, Austria, composer (Die Sch”pfung)
1725 Fran‡ois Bainville, composer
1721 Pieter Hellendaal, Dutch violinist/organist/composer (Glees)
1697 Abb‚ Pr‚vost, French novelist/journalist (Manon Lescaut)
1643 Christian Demelius, composer
1582 Gaspar de Crayer, Flemish painter
1582 Thomas Simpson, composer
1578 William Harvey, England, physician (discovered blood circulation)
1283 Ludwig IV of Baveria, Roman Catholic Bavarian emperor (1314-47)
Those who died today...
1996 John McSheery, dies of heart attack while umpiring a game, at 51
1994 Robert Doisneau, French photographer (The Kiss), dies at 81
1993 Alan Kulwicki, stock car driver, dies at 38
1993 Ihsan Mohamed Salem, [Yunis Awad], Palestinian Al-Fatah leader, killed
1993 Wayne Mack, sportscaster/actor dies of cancer at 68
1992 Juanito, soccer star (Madrid Real 1977-87), dies at 37 in car crash
1991 Martha Graham, US, choreographer (Appalachian Spring), dies at 96
1991 Richard Thorpe, director (MGM), dies at 95
1989 Henk Gortzak, Dutch 2nd chamber member (CPN/PSP), dies
1988 Jim Jordan, actor (Fibber McGee), dies from a blod clot at 91
1988 Marius W Holtrop, economist/president (Netherlands Bank), dies at 85
1984 Marvin Gaye, shot to death by his father Marvin Gaye Sr in LA at 44
1981 D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones, sci-fi author (Colossus), dies at 65
1979 Marinus Peijnenburg, politician, dies at 51
1976 Freddie Lennon, father of John Lennon (Beatles), dies at 63
1976 Max Earnest, German/French surrealist painter/sculptor, dies at 85
1976 Miroslav Ponc, composer, dies at 73
1976 S Constantine Timoshenko, Russian marshal, dies at 75
1975 Eugeen Yoors, Flemish cartoonist, dies at 95
1974 Alfred Ernest Whitehead, composer, dies at 86
1969 Helena Rubinstein, US cosmetic manufacturer, dies at about 89
1968 Lev D Landau, Russian physicist (Nobel 1962), dies
1966 Karl B Adam, German theologist (Jesus Christ), dies at 89
1965 Henry DG Crerar, Canadian general (WW I/Normandy/Neth), dies at 76
1965 Henry DG Crerar, Canada general (WW I, Normandy), dies
1964 Bozidar Kunc, composer, dies at 60
1960 Piet[er O] Bakker, Dutch journalist (Telegraph, Free People), dies
1957 Gheorge Tatarescu, premier Romania (1933-37, 39-40), dies
1955 Silvio d'Amico, Italian theater critic (Il Teatro Italian), dies at 68
1952 Ferenc Moln…r, Hungarian playwright (Farkas, Tester)
1951 Clement D'Hooghe, composer, dies at 51
1950 Charles R Drew, surgeon/developer of blood bank concept, dies at 45
1947 George II, king of Greece, dies at 56
1946 Noah Beery, actor (Beau Geste, Cimarron Kid, Mammy), dies at 64
1941 Hippolyte Delehaye, Flemish historian, dies
1936 Mikhail Vladimirovich Ivanov-Boretsky, composer, dies at 62
1933 Frederick Lord Chelmsford, viceroy of British-Indies (1916-21), dies
1930 Cosima Liszt, wife of Austrian composer Richard Wagner, dies
1930 Zawditu, 1st reigning female monarch of Ethiopia, dies
1925 Francis William Davenport, composer, dies at 77
1922 Charles I, emperor (Austria)/King of Hungary (Charles IV), dies
1918 Karl Fritjof Valentin, composer, dies at 64
1917 Scott Joplin, ragtime composer (Sting), dies at 48
1916 Gabrielle Petit, executed
1916 Sjoerd van de Schaaf, Fries journalist/writer (Abbingawƒld)
1915 Johann Joseph Abert, composer, dies at 82
1910 Andreas Aschenbach, German painter/engraver, dies at 94
1901 Fran‡ois M Raoult, French physicist/chemist (Law of Raoult), dies
1878 Eugene Gautier, composer, dies at 56
1870 Patrick Gass, sgt of Lewis & Clark Expedition, dies at 98
1869 Anthony G O Ridder van Rappard, Minister of Reformed Worship, dies
1866 Aime Ambroise Simon Leborne, composer, dies at 98
1866 Johannes C H de Me˜ere, Dutch zoologist
1832 Robert the Hermit, US ex-slave/hermit in Massachusetts, dies
1830 Carl Borromaus Neuner, composer, dies at 51
1814 Jozef de Ferraris, French/Austrian general/cartographer, dies at 87
1807 Louis Fran‡ois Chambray, composer, dies at 69
1807 Mikl¢s R‚vai, Hungarian linguistic/poet, dies at 57
1807 Vaclav Josef Bartolomej Praupner, composer, dies at 61
1799 Narciso Casanovas, composer, dies at 52
1734 Louis Lully, composer, dies at 69
1611 Gillis van Valkenborch, Flemish painter, buried at about 72
1548 Sigismund I, the Elder, King of Poland, dies at 81
1205 Amalrik II, King of Cyprus/Jerusalem, dies
1204 Eleanor of Aquitaine, Louis VII & wife of Henry II, dies at about 81
Things that happened today...
1995 Carlson Wagonlit Travel Agency begins charging $15 service fee
1995 NY Islanders retire Bobby Nystrom's uniform #23
1994 Asteroid #511 Davida (í 337 km) eclipses star GSC 62662121
1994 Bob Feller Statue on Indians Plaza, dedicated
1993 Alan Bennett's "Madness of George III," premieres in London
1992 5th Largest wrestling crowd (64,287-Toronto SkyDome)
1992 Battleship USS Missouri (on which, Japan surrendered) decommissioned
1992 NFL decides to stay with 17 week sched instead of expanded 18 games
1992 Rocker Billy Idol fined $2,000 for hitting a woman
1991 Duke Bluedevils beats Kansas 72-65 for NCAA championship
1991 Dwight Goodin signs $5.15 million 3 year contract with NY Mets
1991 Iran releases british hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years
1991 US minimum wage goes from $3.80 to $4.25 per hour
1991 Warsaw Pact officially dissolves
1990 "Ha!" commedy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
1990 CBS fires sportscaster Brent Mussburger
1990 Guns & Roses' Duff divorces Mandy Brix, lead singer for Lame Flames
1990 It becomes illegal in Salem Oregon to be within 2' of nude dancers
1990 Jack Nicklaus wins 1st start on Senior PGA tour
1990 Wrestlemania VI-Ultimate Warrior beats Hulk Hogan for championship
1989 1st NY Met-NY Yankee game in NYC since 1983, Yanks win 4-3
1989 A Bartlett Giamatti replaces Ueberroth as 7th commissioner of baseball
1986 US sub Nathaniel Green runs aground in Irish Sea
1986 World oil prices dip below $10 a barrel
1985 Villanova beats Georgetown for NCAA basketball title
1984 8 men record longest distance rowed in 24 hours at 13 miles
1983 NY Isle Mike Bossy becomes 1st to score 60 goals in 3 cons seasons
1982 Anguilla (dependent territory of UK) adopts constitution
1982 US formally transfers Canal Zone to Panam
1981 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3480 Abante
CNN airs a videotape that shows that Tamara Rand predicted that
Reagan is in danger from someone named Jack Humley (a hoax)
1980 Failed assassination attempt on Iraqi vice-premier Tariq Aziz
1980 France performs nuclear test
1980 Wayne Gretzky breaks Bobby Orr's record with 103rd assist
1979 Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of Shah
1977 Attempt for Moslem state in Chad fails
1977 NFL decides to experiment with a 7th official in some preseason games
1976 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2206 Gabrova, #2312 Duboshin,
#2361 Gogol, #2606 Odessa, #2722 Abalakin, #2734 Hasek,
#2769 Mendeleev, #2849 Shklovskij, #2922 Dikan'ka, #3246 & #3723
1975 Cambodia President Lon Nol flees to Red Khmer
1974 Ayatollah Khomeini calls for an Islamic Republic in Iran
1974 Pioneer Hall opens
1974 Yourdon, Inc forms
1973 Japan allows its citizens to own gold
1973 John & Yoko form a new country with no laws or boundaries, called
Nutopia, its national anthem is silence
1972 30,000 attend Mar Y Sol rock concert, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico
1972 Major league baseball players stages 1st collective strike
1971 US/Canada ISIS 2 launched to study ionosphere
1971 United Kingdom lifts all restrictions on gold ownership
1970 Bud Selig becomes CEO of Milwaukee Brewers
1970 John & Yoko release hoax they are having dual sex change operations
1970 L Chernykh discovers asteroid 1805 Dirikis, 1957 Angara & 1976 Kaverin
1970 Pres Nixon signs bill limiting cigarette advertisements on 1/1/71
1969 Royal Canadian Mint formally forms as a Crown Corp
1968 KEMO (now KOFY) TV channel 20 in San Francisco, CA (IND) 1st broadcast
1966 1st world festival of black art (Dakar Senegal)
1966 China premier Tsjoe en-lai start "Cultural revolution"
1965 South Africa worker's union leader Henry Fazzie sentenced to 10 years
1965 Syncom 3, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, passes from
civilian to military control
1964 10øF lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in April
1964 John Lennon is reunited with his father Freddie after 17 years
1964 Robert Lowell's "Benito Cereno," premieres in NYC
1963 NYC's newspapers resume publishing after a 114 day strike
1963 Soap operas "General Hospital" & "Doctors" premier on TV
1961 Jim Bakker marries Tammy Faye
1960 2nd French atom bomb explodes (Sahara)
1960 France performs nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria
1960 Mabry Harper catches a 25 lb Walleye in Tennessee
1960 RCA TIROS (TV & Infra-Red Observation 'weather' Satellite) I launched
1960 U Nu elected premier of Burma
1958 KVIQ TV channel 6 in Eureka, CA (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 Marshal Boelganin becomes director of Russian Staatsbank
1957 Trial begins in Budapest against participants october uprising
1957 WYES TV channel 12 in New Orleans, LA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 World's biggest glass oven used
1956 KPIC TV channel 4 in Roseburg, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 Violent clashes in Algeria, kills at least 380
1955 Armed military action taken against bureaucratic strike in Amsterdam
1955 EOKA-bomb attacks against British govt buildings in Cyprus
1955 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1852 Carpenter
1955 WTVT TV channel 13 in Tampa-St Petersburg, FL (CBS) 1st broadcast
1954 1st Dutch motorway, Amsterdam-Utrecht, opens
1954 1st army helicopter battalion forms, Fort Bragg, NC
1954 Earthquake/tsunami ravage Aleutians, 200 killed
1954 US Air Force Academy forms
1954 WQED TV channel 13 in Pittsburgh, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1953 J van Bale appointed governor of New Guinea
1953 KXMC TV channel 13 in Minot, ND (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1952 Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow
1952 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1947 1st Jewish immigrants to Israel disembark at Port of Eilat
1946 400,000 US mine workers strike
1946 Tsunamis generated by a quake in Aleutian Trench strike Hilo Hawaii
1946 Van Acker forms Belgian govt (without CVP)
1946 Weight Watchers forms
1945 1st edition of Indonesia Merdeka publishes
1945 Canadian troop free Doetinchem, Enschede, Borculo & Eibergen
1945 Ruhrgebied sealed off by US 1st & 9th army
1945 Sons of Elburger Soccer team forms in Elburg
1945 US forces invade Okinawa during WW II
1944 German Abwehr ends England spiel, after 132 killed
1944 Japanese troops conquer Jessami, East-India
1942 Allied air raid on harbor city Kupang Timor
1942 M‚xico changes from 3 time zones to 2
1941 Lillian Hellman's "Watch on the Rhine," premieres in NYC
1941 Navy takes over Treasure Island (SF Bay)
1941 Nazi's forbid Jews access to caf‚s
1941 Pro-German Rashid Ali al-Ghailani grabs power in Iraq
1939 US recognizes Franco government in Spain at end of Spanish civil war
Pope Pius XII congratulates Generalissimo Franco's victory in Spain
1938 Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, NY
1938 Heavyweight Joe Louis KOs Harry Thomas in NYC
1937 Aden becomes British crown colony
1937 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1417 Walinskia & #3417 Tamblyn
1937 M Laugier discovers asteroid #1426 Riviera
1936 Orissa constituted a province of British India
1935 1st radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, NY
1935 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1344 Caubeta
1934 Bonnie & Clyde kill 2 police officers
1933 Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany
1933 Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews boycotting Jewish businesses
1931 Earthquake devastate Managua Nicaragua, kills 2,000
1931 Jackie Mitchell became 1st female in professional baseball
1929 Austrian govt of Ignaz Seipel falls
1929 Doorne's trailer factory in Einsdhoven Netherlands opens
1929 Morehouse College, Spellman College & Atlanta University affiliate
1928 Chiang Kai-shek's army crosses Yang-tse
1927 1st automatic record changer introduced by His Master's Voice
1926 Halsteren Soccer team forms in Halsteren
1925 1st transmission of Danish state radio
1925 Hebrew University, Jerusalem dedicated [see May 9, 1925]
1924 Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co
1924 Hitler sentenced to 5 years labor but Gen Ludendorff acquitted
1924 Imperial Airways forms in Britain
1921 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #950 Ahrensa
1920 Church disforms in Wales
1920 Ottawa Senators beat Seat Metropolitans 3 games to 2 for Stanley Cup
1918 England's Royal Flying Corps replaced by Royal Air Force
1916 1st US national women's swiming championships held
1914 UVS Soccer team forms in Lead
1910 Dumitru Dan (Romania) completes a 62,137 mile (100,000 m) walk
1905 British East African Protectorate becomes colony of Kenya
1900 1st edition of Dutch newspaper "The People"
1899 NC Mutual opens doors for business
1892 A Charlois discovers asteroid #331 Etheridgea
1891 London-Paris telephone connection opens
1891 Painter Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti
1889 1st dishwashing machine marketed (Chicago)
1888 Soccer team Sparta forms in Rotterdam
1881 Anti-Jewish riots in Jerusalem
1881 Kingdom post office in Netherlands opens
1876 1st official NL baseball game (Boston-6, Phila-5)
1873 British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die
1873 Mehmed Kemals play "Vatan" premeres in Constantinople
1872 1st edition of The Standard
1868 Hampton Institute opens
1867 Blacks vote in municipal election in Tuscumbia, Alabama
1867 International Exhibition opens in Paris
1867 Singapore, Penang & Malakka become British crown colonies
1866 US Congress rejects presidential veto gives all equal rights in US
1865 -9] Battle at Blakely Alabama
1865 Battle of 5 Forks Virginia, signalling end of Lee's army
1863 1st wartime conscription law in US goes into effect
1862 Shenandoah Valley campaign, Jackson's Battle of Woodstock, VA
1853 Cincinnati became 1st US city to pay fire fighters a regular salary
1850 SF County Govt established
1836 Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Cocos Islands
1803 French law rules the use of intention
1793 Volcano Unsen on Japan erupts killing about 53,000
1792 Gronings feminist Etta Palm demands women's right to divorce
1789 House of Reps 1st full meeting, NYC, F Muhlenberg 1st speaker
1778 Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, creates "$" symbol
1776 Friedrich von Klinger's "Sturm und Drang," premieres in Leipzig
1748 Ruins of Pompeii found
1724 Henry Pelham becomes English minister of War
1724 Jonathan Swift publishes Drapier's letters
1663 Gemert fines unwed motherhood (50 guilder penalty)
1581 Portugese Cortes subjects himself on Philip II
1578 William Harvey of England discovers blood circulation
1572 Bloys van Treslong conquers Brielle
1504 English guilds/corp goes under state control
1064 Body of bishop Eleutherius of Blandain moved to Doornik
---- Dr Charles Richard Drew, scientist, discovers blood plasma
705 Greek pope John VII chosen as successor to John VI
527 Justinianus becomes compassionate emperor of Byzantium
Other Occasions...
Astrological sign: Aires
April Fool's Day/Intolerance Day
[Ancient Rome] Kalend‘ Aprilis
[SF] St Stupid's Day (tradition since 1980)
[US] Taxes in 2 weeks!
[Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda,] Fiscal Year begins
[Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Burma, Canada,] Fiscal Year begins
[Cayman Islands, Cook Islands, Equatorial Guinea,] Fiscal Year begins
[Falkland Islands, Faroe Islands, Gaza Strip,] Fiscal Year begins
[Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Isle of Man, Israel,] Fiscal Year begins
[Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Lesotho, Malawi, Malta,] Fiscal Year begins
[Montserrat, Namibia, Niue, Pitcairn Islands,] Fiscal Year begins
[Qatar, Singapore, South Africa, St Helena,] Fiscal Year begins
[St Lucia, Swaziland, Tokelau, United Kingdom,] Fiscal Year begins
[West Bank of Israel] Fiscal Year begins
Celebrations...
0402 [Sri Lanka] Sinhal/Tamil New Year
[Burma] Bank Holiday
[Iran] Islamic Republic Day (1979)
[San Marino] National Day
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