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| April 1st, 2007 (April 01 2007) | Death | Herb Carneal, American sports broadcaster (born in 1923) | |
| April 1st, 2006 (April 01 2006) | Event | The Serious Organised Crime Agency, dubbed the British FBI , is created in the United Kingdom. | |
| April 1st, 2006 (April 01 2006) | Death | In Tam, Cambodian politician (born in 1916) | |
| April 1st, 2005 (April 01 2005) | Death | Alexander Brott, Canadian violinist and composer (born in 1915) | |
| April 1st, 2005 (April 01 2005) | Death | Harald Juhnke, German entertainer (born in 1929) | |
| April 1st, 2005 (April 01 2005) | Death | Jack Keller, American songwriter (born in 1936) | |
| April 1st, 2005 (April 01 2005) | Death | Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek footballer and manager (born in 1952) | |
| April 1st, 2005 (April 01 2005) | Death | Robert Coldwell Wood, American educator (born in 1923) | |
| April 1st, 2004 (April 01 2004) | Event | Google introduces its Gmail product to the public. The launch is met with scepticism on account of the launch date. | |
| April 1st, 2004 (April 01 2004) | Death | Carrie Snodgress, American actress (born in 1946) | |
| April 1st, 2004 (April 01 2004) | Death | Nilo Soruco, Bolivian songwriter (born in 1927) | |
| April 1st, 2003 (April 01 2003) | Death | Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer (born in 1956) | |
| April 1st, 2002 (April 01 2002) | Event | The Netherlands legalizes euthanasia, becoming the first nation in the world to do so. | |
| April 1st, 2002 (April 01 2002) | Death | Simo Hayha, Finnish marksman (born in 1905) | |
| April 1st, 2001 (April 01 2001) | Event | 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 detainedied in See Hainan Island incident. | |
| April 1st, 2001 (April 01 2001) | Event | Former president of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on charges of war crimes. | |
| April 1st, 2001 (April 01 2001) | Event | Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, which is the first country to allow it. | |
| April 1st, 2001 (April 01 2001) | Death | Olivia Barclay, British astrologer (born in 1919) | |
| April 1st, 2001 (April 01 2001) | Death | Jo-Jo Moore, American baseball player (born in 1908) | |
| April 1st, 2001 (April 01 2001) | Death | Trinh Cong Son, Vietnamese composer (born in 1939) | |
| April 1st, 2000 (April 01 2000) | Death | Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, Scottish jurist (born in 1924) | |
| April 1st, 1999 (April 01 1999) | Event | Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories. | |
| April 1st, 1999 (April 01 1999) | Death | Jesse Stone, American record producer (born in 1901) | |
| April 1st, 1998 (April 01 1998) | Death | Gene Evans, American actor (born in 1922) | Evans Quotes |
| April 1st, 1998 (April 01 1998) | Death | Rozz Williams, American musician (Christian Death) (born in 1963) | |
| April 1st, 1997 (April 01 1997) | Death | Norman Carr, British conservationist (born in 1912) | |
| April 1st, 1996 (April 01 1996) | Event | The Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia is created. | |
| April 1st, 1996 (April 01 1996) | Death | Florence Buchsbaum, French theater director (born in 1926) | |
| April 1st, 1996 (April 01 1996) | Death | John McSherry, American baseball umpire (born in 1944) | |
| April 1st, 1994 (April 01 1994) | Death | Robert Doisneau, French photographer (born in 1912) | |
| April 1st, 1993 (April 01 1993) | Death | Alan Kulwicki, American race car driver (born in 1954) | |
| April 1st, 1991 (April 01 1991) | Death | Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (born in 1894) | |
| April 1st, 1991 (April 01 1991) | Death | Jaime Guzman, Chilean politician (b.1946) | |
| April 1st, 1989 (April 01 1989) | Event | Margaret Thatcher s new local government tax, the Community Charge (commonly known as the poll tax ), is introduced in Scotland. | Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
| April 1st, 1989 (April 01 1989) | Birth | Vietoris Krisztian, German racecar driver | |
| April 1st, 1988 (April 01 1988) | Birth | Courtney McCool, American gymnast | |
| April 1st, 1988 (April 01 1988) | Birth | Brook Lopez, American basketball player | |
| April 1st, 1988 (April 01 1988) | Birth | Robin Lopez, American basketball player | |
| April 1st, 1988 (April 01 1988) | Death | Jim Jordan, American actor (Fibber McGee) (born in 1896) | |
| April 1st, 1987 (April 01 1987) | Birth | Ding Junhui, Chinese snooker player | |
| April 1st, 1987 (April 01 1987) | Birth | Li Ting, Chinese diver | |
| April 1st, 1986 (April 01 1986) | Birth | Ireen Wust, Dutch speed skater | |
| April 1st, 1986 (April 01 1986) | Death | Erik Bruhn, Danish ballet dancer, choreographer (born in 1928) | |
| April 1st, 1985 (April 01 1985) | Birth | Josh Zuckerman, American actor | |
| April 1st, 1985 (April 01 1985) | Death | Douglass Wallop, American novelist and playwright (born in 1920) | |
| April 1st, 1984 (April 01 1984) | Birth | Gilberto Macena, Brazilian footballer | |
| April 1st, 1984 (April 01 1984) | Birth | Olga Rei, Russian television personality | |
| April 1st, 1984 (April 01 1984) | Death | Marvin Gaye, American singer (born in 1939) | Marvin Gaye Quotes |
| April 1st, 1983 (April 01 1983) | Birth | Olafur Ingi Skulason, Icelandic footballer | |
| April 1st, 1983 (April 01 1983) | Birth | Sean Taylor, American football player (died in 2007) | |
| April 1st, 1983 (April 01 1983) | Birth | Matt Lanter, American actor and model | |
| April 1st, 1982 (April 01 1982) | Birth | Sam Huntington, American actor | |
| April 1st, 1982 (April 01 1982) | Birth | Gemma Hunt, British children s television presenter | |
| April 1st, 1982 (April 01 1982) | Birth | Taran Killam, American comedian and actor | |
| April 1st, 1981 (April 01 1981) | Event | Daylight saving time is introduced in the USSR. | |
| April 1st, 1981 (April 01 1981) | Birth | Antonis Fotsis, Greek basketball player | |
| April 1st, 1981 (April 01 1981) | Birth | Hannah Spearritt, British singer | |
| April 1st, 1981 (April 01 1981) | Birth | Pieter Weening, Dutch cyclist | |
| April 1st, 1981 (April 01 1981) | Birth | Aimee Chan, Miss Hong Kong 2006 | |
| April 1st, 1981 (April 01 1981) | Birth | Bjoern Einar Romoeren, Norwegian skijumper | |
| April 1st, 1981 (April 01 1981) | Death | Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai composer and bandleader (born in 1910) | |
| April 1st, 1980 (April 01 1980) | Event | New York City s Transit Worker Union 100 begins a strike lasting 11 days. | |
| April 1st, 1980 (April 01 1980) | Birth | Randy Orton, American professional wrestler | |
| April 1st, 1980 (April 01 1980) | Birth | Bijou Phillips, American actress | |
| April 1st, 1980 (April 01 1980) | Birth | Yuko Takeuchi, Japanese actress | |
| April 1st, 1979 (April 01 1979) | Event | Iran s government becomes an Islamic Republic by a 98% vote, officially overthrowing the Shah. | |
| April 1st, 1979 (April 01 1979) | Birth | Ivano Balic, Croatian handballer | |
| April 1st, 1979 (April 01 1979) | Death | Bruno Coquatrix, French music impresario (born in 1910) | |
| April 1st, 1979 (April 01 1979) | Death | Barbara Luddy, American actress (born in 1908) | |
| April 1st, 1978 (April 01 1978) | Event | Philippine College of Commerce, through a presidential decree, becomes the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. | |
| April 1st, 1978 (April 01 1978) | Birth | Jean-Pierre Dumont, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| April 1st, 1978 (April 01 1978) | Birth | Miroslava Vavrinec, Swiss tennis player | |
| April 1st, 1977 (April 01 1977) | Birth | Haimar Zubeldia, Spanish cyclist | |
| April 1st, 1976 (April 01 1976) | Event | Apple Computer is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. | Steve Wozniak Quotes |
| April 1st, 1976 (April 01 1976) | Event | Conrail takes over operations from six bankrupt railroads in the northeastern U.S.. | |
| April 1st, 1976 (April 01 1976) | Event | Jovian-Plutonian gravitational effect is first reported by the astronomer Patrick Moore. | |
| April 1st, 1976 (April 01 1976) | Birth | David Oyelowo, English-Nigerian actor | David Low Quotes |
| April 1st, 1976 (April 01 1976) | Death | Max Ernst, German artist (born in 1891) | |
| April 1st, 1975 (April 01 1975) | Birth | George Bastl, Swiss tennis player | |
| April 1st, 1975 (April 01 1975) | Birth | John Butler, Australian singer and musician | |
| April 1st, 1974 (April 01 1974) | Event | In the United Kingdom, the Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties come into being. | |
| April 1st, 1974 (April 01 1974) | Birth | Richard Christy, American drummer | |
| April 1st, 1974 (April 01 1974) | Birth | Hugo Benjamin Ibarra, Argentine footballer | Hugo Ball Quotes |
| April 1st, 1974 (April 01 1974) | Birth | Sandra Volker, German swimmer | |
| April 1st, 1973 (April 01 1973) | Event | Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Corbett National Park, India. | |
| April 1st, 1973 (April 01 1973) | Birth | Christian Finnegan, American comedian | |
| April 1st, 1973 (April 01 1973) | Birth | Stephen Fleming, New Zealand cricketer | |
| April 1st, 1973 (April 01 1973) | Birth | Rachel Maddow, American radio personality and political analyst | |
| April 1st, 1973 (April 01 1973) | Birth | Joe Francis, American adult video producer | |
| April 1st, 1972 (April 01 1972) | Birth | Allen and Albert Hughes, American film directors | |
| April 1st, 1972 (April 01 1972) | Birth | Darren McCarty, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| April 1st, 1972 (April 01 1972) | Birth | Jesse Tobias, American musician | |
| April 1st, 1971 (April 01 1971) | Birth | Method Man, American rapper | |
| April 1st, 1971 (April 01 1971) | Birth | Jessica Collins, American actress | |
| April 1st, 1971 (April 01 1971) | Birth | Lachy Hulme, Australian actor and screenwriter | |
| April 1st, 1971 (April 01 1971) | Birth | Shinji Nakano, Japanese race car driver | |
| April 1st, 1970 (April 01 1970) | Event | 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. | |
| April 1st, 1970 (April 01 1970) | Birth | Sung Hi Lee, Korean-born model | |
| April 1st, 1969 (April 01 1969) | Event | The Hawker Siddeley Harrier enters service with the RAF. | |
| April 1st, 1969 (April 01 1969) | Birth | Fadl Shaker, Lebanese singer | |
| April 1st, 1968 (April 01 1968) | Birth | Andreas Schnaas, German horror film director | |
| April 1st, 1968 (April 01 1968) | Birth | Julia Boutros, Lebanese singer | |
| April 1st, 1968 (April 01 1968) | Death | Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1908) | |
| April 1st, 1967 (April 01 1967) | Event | The United States Department of Transportation begins operation. | |
| April 1st, 1967 (April 01 1967) | Birth | Phil Demmel, American musician | |
| April 1st, 1966 (April 01 1966) | Birth | Chris Evans, English disc jockey | Evans Quotes |
| April 1st, 1966 (April 01 1966) | Death | Flann O Brien, Irish humorist (born in 1911) | |
| April 1st, 1965 (April 01 1965) | Birth | Mark Jackson, American basketball player | |
| April 1st, 1965 (April 01 1965) | Birth | Robert Steadman, English composer | |
| April 1st, 1965 (April 01 1965) | Death | Helena Rubinstein, Polish-born American cosmetics manufacturer (born in 1870) | |
| April 1st, 1964 (April 01 1964) | Birth | Erik Breukink, Dutch cyclist and manager | |
| April 1st, 1964 (April 01 1964) | Birth | Scott Stevens, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| April 1st, 1962 (April 01 1962) | Birth | Dave Ulliott, English poker player | |
| April 1st, 1962 (April 01 1962) | Birth | Samboy Lim, Filipino basketball player | |
| April 1st, 1960 (April 01 1960) | Birth | Michael Praed, British actor | |
| April 1st, 1958 (April 01 1958) | Birth | D. Boon, American musician died in (1985) | |
| April 1st, 1957 (April 01 1957) | Birth | David Gower, English cricketer | |
| April 1st, 1955 (April 01 1955) | Event | The EOKA rebellion against The Brtish Empire starts in Cyprus, with the goal of obtaining the desired unification ("enosis") with Greece. | |
| April 1st, 1955 (April 01 1955) | Birth | Gregg Jarrett, American television anchor | |
| April 1st, 1955 (April 01 1955) | Birth | Humayun Akhtar Khan, Pakistani statesman | |
| April 1st, 1954 (April 01 1954) | Event | President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado. | Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes |
| April 1st, 1954 (April 01 1954) | Birth | Jeff Porcaro, American drummer (died in 1992) | |
| April 1st, 1953 (April 01 1953) | Birth | Barry Sonnenfeld, producer and director | |
| April 1st, 1952 (April 01 1952) | Birth | Annette O Toole, American actress | |
| April 1st, 1952 (April 01 1952) | Birth | Bernard Stiegler, French philosopher | Philo Quotes |
| April 1st, 1951 (April 01 1951) | Birth | John Philip Abizaid, U.S. Army General, former CENTCOM commander | |
| April 1st, 1950 (April 01 1950) | Birth | Samuel Alito, U.S. Supreme Court Justice | |
| April 1st, 1950 (April 01 1950) | Death | Charles R. Drew, American physician (born in 1904) | |
| April 1st, 1949 (April 01 1949) | Event | Chinese Civil War: Communist Party of China holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Kuomintang in Beijing, after three years of fighting. | |
| April 1st, 1949 (April 01 1949) | Event | The twenty-six counties of the Irish Free State become the Republic of Ireland. | |
| April 1st, 1949 (April 01 1949) | Birth | Gerard Mestrallet, French businessman | |
| April 1st, 1949 (April 01 1949) | Birth | Sammy Nelson, Northern Irish footballer | |
| April 1st, 1949 (April 01 1949) | Birth | Gil Scott-Heron, American musician and composer | |
| April 1st, 1948 (April 01 1948) | Event | Cold War: Berlin AirliftMilitary forces, under direction of the Soviet-controlled government in East Germany, set-up a land blockade of West Berlin. | |
| April 1st, 1948 (April 01 1948) | Event | Faroe Islands receive autonomy from Denmark. | |
| April 1st, 1948 (April 01 1948) | Birth | Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican musician | |
| April 1st, 1947 (April 01 1947) | Birth | Alain Connes, French mathematician | |
| April 1st, 1947 (April 01 1947) | Birth | M, English singer | |
| April 1st, 1947 (April 01 1947) | Birth | Norm Van Lier, American basketball player | |
| April 1st, 1947 (April 01 1947) | Death | King George II of Greece (born in 1890) | |
| April 1st, 1946 (April 01 1946) | Event | 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). | |
| April 1st, 1946 (April 01 1946) | Event | Formation of the Malayan Union. | |
| April 1st, 1946 (April 01 1946) | Birth | Ronnie Lane, English musician (died in 1997) | |
| April 1st, 1946 (April 01 1946) | Birth | Arrigo Sacchi, Italian football coach | |
| April 1st, 1946 (April 01 1946) | Death | Noah Beery, American actor (born in 1882) | |
| April 1st, 1945 (April 01 1945) | Event | World War II: Operation IcebergUnited States troops land on Okinawa in the last campaign of the war. | |
| April 1st, 1945 (April 01 1945) | Birth | John Barbata, American drummer | |
| April 1st, 1944 (April 01 1944) | Event | Accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen. The bombers were lost. | |
| April 1st, 1944 (April 01 1944) | Birth | Rusty Staub, American baseball player | |
| April 1st, 1942 (April 01 1942) | Birth | Samuel R. Delany, American author | |
| April 1st, 1942 (April 01 1942) | Birth | Annie Nightingale, British disc jockey | |
| April 1st, 1941 (April 01 1941) | Event | The Blockade Runner Badge for German navy is instituted. | |
| April 1st, 1940 (April 01 1940) | Birth | Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize | Wangari Maathai Quotes |
| April 1st, 1939 (April 01 1939) | Event | Generalisimo Francisco Franco of the Spanish State announces the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the last of the Republican forces surrender. | |
| April 1st, 1939 (April 01 1939) | Birth | Phil Niekro, American baseball player | |
| April 1st, 1939 (April 01 1939) | Birth | Rudolph Isley, American singer | |
| April 1st, 1938 (April 01 1938) | Birth | Ali MacGraw, American actress | |
| April 1st, 1938 (April 01 1938) | Birth | John Quade, American actor | |
| April 1st, 1937 (April 01 1937) | Event | Aden becomes a British crown colony. | |
| April 1st, 1936 (April 01 1936) | Event | Orissa Formerly known as Kalinga or Utkal became a state in India. | |
| April 1st, 1936 (April 01 1936) | Birth | Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, Swiss politician, president of the Confederation in 1989 and 1996 (died in 1998) | |
| April 1st, 1935 (April 01 1935) | Birth | Larry McDonald, American politician (died in 1983) | |
| April 1st, 1934 (April 01 1934) | Birth | Don Hastings, American actor | |
| April 1st, 1934 (April 01 1934) | Birth | Rod Kanehl, American baseball player (died in 2004) | |
| April 1st, 1934 (April 01 1934) | Birth | Vladimir Posner, Russian journalist | |
| April 1st, 1933 (April 01 1933) | Event | 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 gradually, yet ultimately lead to the Holocaust. | Julius Streicher Quotes |
| April 1st, 1933 (April 01 1933) | Birth | Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist, Nobel laureate | |
| April 1st, 1933 (April 01 1933) | Birth | Dan Flavin, American artist (died in 1996) | |
| April 1st, 1932 (April 01 1932) | Birth | Gordon Jump, American actor (died in 2003) | |
| April 1st, 1932 (April 01 1932) | Birth | Debbie Reynolds, American actress | |
| April 1st, 1931 (April 01 1931) | Birth | Rolf Hochhuth, German writer | |
| April 1st, 1931 (April 01 1931) | Birth | Ita Ever, Estonian actress | |
| April 1st, 1930 (April 01 1930) | Birth | Grace Lee Whitney, American actress | |
| April 1st, 1930 (April 01 1930) | Death | Cosima Wagner, daughter of Franz Liszt and wife of Richard Wagner (born in 1837) | Richard Wagner Quotes |
| April 1st, 1929 (April 01 1929) | Birth | Milan Kundera, Czech-born writer | Milan Kundera Quotes |
| April 1st, 1929 (April 01 1929) | Birth | Payut Ngaokrachang, Thai animator | |
| April 1st, 1929 (April 01 1929) | Birth | Jane Powell, American dancer, actress, and singer | |
| April 1st, 1929 (April 01 1929) | Birth | Bo Schembechler, American football coach (died in 2006) | |
| April 1st, 1928 (April 01 1928) | Birth | George Grizzard, American actor (died in 2007) | |
| April 1st, 1927 (April 01 1927) | Birth | Amos Milburn, American pianist (died in 1980) | |
| April 1st, 1926 (April 01 1926) | Birth | Charles Bressler, American tenor | |
| April 1st, 1926 (April 01 1926) | Birth | Anne McCaffrey, American author | |
| April 1st, 1924 (April 01 1924) | Event | 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 the book Mein Kampf. | Adolf Hitler Quotes |
| April 1st, 1924 (April 01 1924) | Event | First revenue flight for Belgium s Sabena Airlines | |
| April 1st, 1924 (April 01 1924) | Event | The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed. | |
| April 1st, 1924 (April 01 1924) | Birth | Brendan Byrne, Governor of New Jersey | |
| April 1st, 1924 (April 01 1924) | Birth | Miodrag Petrovic, Serbian actor (died in 2003) | |
| April 1st, 1922 (April 01 1922) | Birth | William Manchester, American historian (died in 2004) | William Manchester Quotes |
| April 1st, 1922 (April 01 1922) | Death | Emperor Karl I of Austria (born in 1887) | |
| April 1st, 1921 (April 01 1921) | Birth | Ken Reardon, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| April 1st, 1920 (April 01 1920) | Birth | Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor (died in 1997) | |
| April 1st, 1919 (April 01 1919) | Birth | Joseph Murray, American surgeon, Nobel laureate | |
| April 1st, 1918 (April 01 1918) | Event | The Royal Air Force is created by merging the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service. | |
| April 1st, 1917 (April 01 1917) | Birth | Melville Shavelson, American film director, producer and screenwriter (died in 2007) | |
| April 1st, 1917 (April 01 1917) | Death | Scott Joplin, American musician and composer (born in 1868) | |
| April 1st, 1915 (April 01 1915) | Birth | Otto Wilhelm Fischer, Austrian actor (died in 2004) | |
| April 1st, 1914 (April 01 1914) | Birth | Lor Tok, Thai comedian and actor (died in 2002) | |
| April 1st, 1914 (April 01 1914) | Death | Rube Waddell, American baseball player (born in 1876) | |
| April 1st, 1912 (April 01 1912) | Event | The Greek athlete Konstantinos Tsiklitiras breaks the world record -in standing long jump jumping 3.47 meters. | |
| April 1st, 1909 (April 01 1909) | Birth | Eddy Duchin, American popular pianist & bandleader (died in 1951) | |
| April 1st, 1908 (April 01 1908) | Birth | Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (died in 1970) | Abraham Maslow Quotes |
| April 1st, 1906 (April 01 1906) | Birth | Aleksandr Yakovlev, Russian engineer and aeroplane designer (died in 1989) | |
| April 1st, 1902 (April 01 1902) | Birth | Maria Polydouri, Greek poet (died in 1930) | |
| April 1st, 1901 (April 01 1901) | Birth | Whittaker Chambers, American writer, editor, and defector (died in 1961) | |
| April 1st, 1900 (April 01 1900) | Birth | Robert McDowell, Mayor of Maryborough, Queensland (died in 1988) | |
| April 1st, 1899 (April 01 1899) | Birth | Gustavs Celmins, Latvian politician (died in 1968) | |
| April 1st, 1898 (April 01 1898) | Birth | William James Sidis, American genius (died in 1944) | William James Quotes |
| April 1st, 1897 (April 01 1897) | Birth | Nita Naldi, American actress (died in 1961) | |
| April 1st, 1895 (April 01 1895) | Birth | Alberta Hunter, American singer (died in 1984) | |
| April 1st, 1893 (April 01 1893) | Birth | Cicely Courtneidge, English actress and comedian (died in 1980) | |
| April 1st, 1891 (April 01 1891) | Event | The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois. | |
| April 1st, 1890 (April 01 1890) | Death | David Wilber, American politician (born in 1820) | |
| April 1st, 1885 (April 01 1885) | Birth | Wallace Beery, American actor (died in 1949) | |
| April 1st, 1883 (April 01 1883) | Birth | Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor (died in 1930) | |
| April 1st, 1882 (April 01 1882) | Birth | Paul Anspach, Belgian Olympic champion fencer (died in 1991) | |
| April 1st, 1880 (April 01 1880) | Birth | Agha Petros, Assyrian general (died in 1932) | |
| April 1st, 1878 (April 01 1878) | Death | John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician (born in 1796) | |
| April 1st, 1875 (April 01 1875) | Birth | Edgar Wallace, English writer (died in 1932) | Edgar Wallace Quotes |
| April 1st, 1873 (April 01 1873) | Event | The British steamer SS Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547. | |
| April 1st, 1872 (April 01 1872) | Death | Frederick Maurice, English theologian (born in 1805) | |
| April 1st, 1872 (April 01 1872) | Death | William Frederick Horry, English convicted murderer (born in 1843) | |
| April 1st, 1868 (April 01 1868) | Birth | Edmond Rostand, French dramatist (died in 1918) | |
| April 1st, 1867 (April 01 1867) | Event | Singapore becomes a British crown colony. | |
| April 1st, 1866 (April 01 1866) | Birth | Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist and composer (died in 1924) | |
| April 1st, 1865 (April 01 1865) | Event | American Civil War: Battle of Five ForksIn Siege of Petersburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee begins his final offensive. | |
| April 1st, 1865 (April 01 1865) | Birth | Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1929) | |
| April 1st, 1865 (April 01 1865) | Death | Giuditta Pasta, Italian soprano (born in 1797) | |
| April 1st, 1857 (April 01 1857) | Event | Herman Melville publishes The Confidence-Man. | Herman Melville Quotes |
| April 1st, 1856 (April 01 1856) | Birth | Acacio Gabriel Viegas, Indian physician (died in 1933) | |
| April 1st, 1854 (April 01 1854) | Event | Hard Times begins serialisation in Charles Dickens magazine, Household Words. | Charles Dickens Quotes |
| April 1st, 1854 (April 01 1854) | Birth | Bill Traylor, American artist (died in 1949) | |
| April 1st, 1839 (April 01 1839) | Death | Benjamin Pierce, American politician (born in 1757) | |
| April 1st, 1834 (April 01 1834) | Birth | Big Jim Fisk, American entrepreneur (died in 1872) | |
| April 1st, 1826 (April 01 1826) | Event | Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine. | |
| April 1st, 1815 (April 01 1815) | Birth | Otto von Bismarck, 1st Chancellor of Germany (died in 1898) | |
| April 1st, 1815 (April 01 1815) | Birth | Edward Clark, Governor of Texas (died in 1880) | |
| April 1st, 1791 (April 01 1791) | Death | Richard Butler American soldier (born in 1743) | |
| April 1st, 1789 (April 01 1789) | Event | 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. | |
| April 1st, 1787 (April 01 1787) | Death | Floyer Sydenham, English classical scholar (born in 1710) | |
| April 1st, 1776 (April 01 1776) | Birth | Sophie Germain, French mathematician (died in 1831) | |
| April 1st, 1765 (April 01 1765) | Birth | Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (died in 1810) | |
| April 1st, 1753 (April 01 1753) | Birth | Joseph de Maistre, French diplomat and writer (died in 1821) | |
| April 1st, 1697 (April 01 1697) | Birth | Antoine Francois Prevost, French author and novelist (died in 1763) | |
| April 1st, 1682 (April 01 1682) | Death | Franz Egon of Furstenberg, Bavarian Catholic archbishop (born in 1625) | |
| April 1st, 1647 (April 01 1647) | Birth | John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet (died in 1680) | |
| April 1st, 1640 (April 01 1640) | Birth | Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (died in 1697) | |
| April 1st, 1637 (April 01 1637) | Death | Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (born in 1571) | |
| April 1st, 1621 (April 01 1621) | Death | Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (born in 1577) | |
| April 1st, 1610 (April 01 1610) | Birth | Charles de Saint-Evremond, French soldier (died in 1703) | |
| April 1st, 1580 (April 01 1580) | Death | Alonso Mudarra, Spanish composer | |
| April 1st, 1578 (April 01 1578) | Birth | William Harvey, English physician (died in 1657) | William Harvey Quotes |
| April 1st, 1572 (April 01 1572) | Event | 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. | |
| April 1st, 1543 (April 01 1543) | Birth | Francois de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguieres, Constable of France (died in 1626) | |
| April 1st, 1528 (April 01 1528) | Death | Francisco de Penalosa, Spanish composer | |
| April 1st, 1340 (April 01 1340) | Event | Niels Ebbesen kills Gerhard III of Holstein in his bedroom, ending the 1332-1340 interregnum in Denmark. | |
| April 1st, 1318 (April 01 1318) | Event | Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by the Scottish from the English. | |
| April 1st, 1220 (April 01 1220) | Birth | Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (died in 1272) | |
| April 1st, 1205 (April 01 1205) | Death | King Amalric II of Jerusalem (born in 1145) | |
| April 1st, 1204 (April 01 1204) | Death | Eleanor of Aquitaine, mother of Richard I of England and John of England | |
| April 1st, 1132 (April 01 1132) | Death | St-Hugues, Bishop of Grenoble (born in 1053) | |
| April 1st, 1085 (April 01 1085) | Death | Emperor Shenzong of China (born in 1048) | |
| April 1st, 0527 (April 01 0527) | Event | Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne. | |
