SomeFacts | April 1

On this day - April 1

527 — Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as ...

1081 — Alexios I Komnenos overthrows the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros ...

1572 — In the Eighty Years' War, the Watergeuzen capture Brielle ...

1725 — J. S. Bach's later Easter Oratorio in its first version ...

1789 — In New York City, the United States House of Representatives ...

1833 — The Convention of 1833, a political gathering of settlers in ...

1865 — American Civil War: Union troops led by Philip Sheridan ...

1867 — Singapore becomes a British crown colony.

1873 — The White Star steamer SS Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, ...

1900 — Prince George becomes absolute monarch of the Cretan State.

1908 — The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army in 1920) is ...

1918 — The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal ...

1922 — In newly formed Northern Ireland, six Catholics are murdered ...

1924 — The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.

1924 — Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years fortress confinement ...

1933 — The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a ...

1935 — India's central banking institution, the Reserve Bank of ...

1937 — The Royal New Zealand Air Force is formed as an independent ...

1937 — Aden becomes a British crown colony.

1939 — Spanish Civil War: Generalísimo Francisco Franco of the ...

1941 — A military coup in Iraq overthrows the regime of 'Abd ...

1941 — Fântâna Albă massacre: Between two hundred and two thousand ...

1944 — World War II: Navigation errors lead to an accidental American ...

1945 — World War II: The Tenth United States Army attacks the ...

1946 — The Malayan Union is established. Protests from locals led to ...

1946 — The 8.6 Mw Aleutian Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian ...

1947 — The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy ...

1948 — Faroe Islands gain autonomy from Denmark.

1948 — Cold War: Communist forces respond to the introduction of the ...

1949 — The Government of Canada repeals Japanese-Canadian internment ...

1949 — Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party holds ...

1954 — United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the ...

1955 — The EOKA rebellion against the British Empire begins in ...

1960 — The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture ...

1964 — The British Admiralty, War Office and Air Ministry are ...

1969 — The Hawker Siddeley Harrier, the first operational fighter ...

1970 — A Royal Air Maroc Sud Aviation Caravelle crashes near ...

1970 — President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette ...

1971 — Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army massacre more ...

1973 — Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in ...

1974 — The Local Government Act 1972 of England and Wales comes into ...

1976 — Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple Computer, Inc.

1979 — Iran becomes an Islamic republic by a 99% vote, officially ...

1984 — Singer Marvin Gaye is shot to death by his father in his home ...

1986 — Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal) cadres attack a number of ...

1989 — Margaret Thatcher's new local government tax, the ...

1993 — NASCAR champion Alan Kulwicki is killed in a plane crash near ...

1997 — Comet Hale–Bopp is seen passing at perihelion.

1999 — Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of ...

2001 — Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first ...

2001 — Former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan ...

2001 — An EP-3E United States Navy surveillance aircraft collides ...

2004 — Google launches its Email service Gmail.

2006 — Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) of the Government of the ...

2011 — After protests against the burning of the Quran turn violent, ...

2016 — The 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict begins along the ...