What do you think---about 1 of April....?...?

Question

Hello,, I need to have more information about this day,,because IT IS IMPORTANT DAY FOR ME-- MY BIRTDAY,,,so what can you tell me about this day (in spite of that saing that it is fool's day,,,!) ,,, Also best answerers areinvited to my party>.>>>>(joke,,,!!!)

Answer 1

fool

Answer 2

LOL!! Guess what!!! Thats my birthday too. Wow 4.1.1990. Im gonna be seventeen and by the looks of your display picture your gonna be seventy. Well.... HAPPY B-DAY!!!!!! ppl just say im stupid because i was born on that day and that im a joke....which is kinda true

Answer 3

It's understandable why RESTREPO would answer only 22 qs ,
but that being said there you go what April fool has been said about. ha ha

Answer 4

Here are some facts about April 1st from Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1

Answer 5

It is Palm Sunday (this year)

Answer 6

1982 Sam Huntington, actor (Jungle 2 Jungle)
1980 Bryan Buffinton, Ridgewood NJ, actor (Bill Lewis Jr-Guiding Light)
1976 Apple Computer
1976 Clarence Seedorf, Surinam/Dutch soccer player (Ajax, Real Madrid)
1975 Kristine Quance, 100m breaststroke/200m medley (Olympics-96)
1975 Magdalena Maleeva, Sofia Bulgaria, tennis star (1995 Chicago Moscow)
1973 Stephen Fleming, cricketer (NZ left-handed Test batsman 1994-)
1973 Ferdy Vierklau, soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1972 Mike McCoy, WLAF quarterback (Amsterdam Admirals)
1972 Kenny Gales, NFL/WLAF cornerback (Chicago Bears, Barcelona Dragons)
1971 Daniel Vacek, Prague Czech, tennis star
1971 Ernest Jones, NFL defensive end (Saints, Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1971 Jessica Collins, [Capogna], actress (Dinah Lee Mayberry-Loving)
1970 Wyatt Jones, Honolulu Hawaii, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1970 Wes Barnett, St Joseph MO, 238lb (108kg) weightlifter (Oly-6th-92, 96)
1970 Mark Wheeler, NFL defensive tackle (Tampa Bay Bucs, NE Patriots)
1969 Andrew Vlahov, Australian basketball forward (Olympics-1988, 92, 96)
1969 Frank Castillo, El Paso TX, pitcher (Chic Cubs)
1969 John Forest, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1969 Kevin Dean, Madison, NHL defenseman (NJ Devils)
1969 Arnaud Boetsch, Meulam France, tennis star (1985 European Junior)
1969 Traci Lin-Tavi, NYC, actress (Ryan's Hope, F/X, Fright Night 2)
1968 Joel Smeenge, NFL defensive end (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1966 Odie Harris, NFL safety/defensive back (Houston Oilers)
1966 Dave Vankoughnett, CFL corner (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1965 John "Jumbo" Elliot, NFL tackle (NY Giants, NY Jets)
1965 Mark Jackson, NBA guard (Indiana Pacers)
1964 Scott Stevens, Kitchener, NHL defenseman (NJ Devils, Team Canada)
1964 Kevin Duckworth, NBA center (Milwaukee Bucks)
1964 John Morris, cricketer (England right-hand batsman v India 1990)
1962 Rich Amaral, Visalia CA, outfielder (Seattle Mariners)
1962 Phillip Schofield, TV personality/designer (Nightfire)
1961 Mark White, rock guitarist (ABC-All of My Heart)
1961 Jennifer Runyon, actress (Cindy-A Very Brady Christmas)
1961 Jim Jeffcoat, NFL defensive end (Buffalo Bills)
1958 Anton Innauer, Austria, 70m ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1980)
1957 Peter Deutsch, (Rep-D-Florida)
1957 Donald William Hammond, Frederick MD, PGA golfer (1986 Bob Hope)
1957 David Gower, cricketer (elegant England left-handed batsman 1978-92)
1956 Peter O'Toole, Irish pop bassist (Hothouse Flowers-People)
1955 Danny Joe Pohl, Mt Pleasant MI, PGA golfer (1986 Colonial)
1955 Stan Ridway, rocker (Wall Of Voodoo)
1954 Jeff Porcaro, LA Calif, drummer/percussionist (Toto-Roxanne, Africa)
1953 Barry Sonnenfeld, director (When Harry Met Sally, Big, Misery)
1953 Aftab Baloch, cricketer (Pakistani in 2 Tests, scored 428 for Sind 74)
1952 Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi, Tripoli Libya, bomber (Pan Am 103)
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 Leonard van Spirit, Dutch/British fruit/food magnate
1950 Ed[uardus] HTM Nijpels, Dutch minister of Environment (VVD)
1949 Gill Scott-Heron, US, writer/poet/singer (Whities on the Moon)
1948 Jimmy Cliff, Reggae singer
1948 Simon Crowe, rock drummer (Boomtown Rats-Maxinguaye)
1948 Y Y 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 Frederick 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 Phil Margo, Bkln, rock vocalist (Tokens-Lion Sleeps Tonight)
1942 Danny Brooks, rocker (Dovells)
1942 Samuel R[ay] Delany Jr, US, sci-fi author (Towers of Toron, Neveryona)
1941 Ajit Wadekar, cricketer (stalwart Indian batsman & capt)
1939 Rudolph Isley, Cincinnati Ohio, rocker (Isley Brothers-Shout)
1939 Phil Niekro, knuckleball pitcher (NY Yankees, Atlanta Braves)
1939 Ali MacGraw, Pound Ridge NY, actress (Love Story, Goodbye Columbus)
1935 Hans H Boswinkel, actor/director (Surprise Attack, Tutorials in Love)
1935 John Murray, cricketer (Eng 1961-67, 1st wk called Murray to play Tests)
1934 Don Hastings, Bkln NY, actor (Capt Video, Bob-As the World Turns)
1933 Dan Flavin, US minimalist sculptor
1932 Jiri Smutny, composer
1932 Gordon Jump, Dayton Ohio, actor (Arthur Carlson-WKRP, Growing Pains)
1932 Debbie Reynolds, El Paso Texas, actress (Singin' in the Rain)
1932 Alexander Colleridge Vanderpuiye Baka Tetteh-Lartey, actor
1931 George Baker, Bulgaria, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Curse of the Fly)
1931 Rolf Hochhuth, German playwright (Deputy)
1930 Joan Franks-Williams, composer
1930 Grace Lee Whitney, Ann Arbor Mich, actress (Yeoman Rand-Star Trek)
1929 Milan Kundera, Czech poet/writer (Joke, Unbearable Lightness of Being)
1928 Jane Powell, Portland Oregon, singer/actress (7 Brides for 7 Brothers)
1928 Herbert Klein, newscaster/press secretary
1928 George Grizzard, NC, actor (Wrong is Right, Bachelor Party, Attica)
1928 Dimitri Frenkel Frank, Dutch writer/director (Hadimassa)
1927 Amos Milburn, rocker
1926 Lyndon Brook, actor (Invasion, Reach for the Sky)
1926 Anne [Inez] McCaffrey, US, sci-fi author (Dragonflight, Dragondrums)
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, Attleboro Mass, historian (Death of a President)
1921 William L Bergsma, Oakland California, composer (Fortunate Island)
1921 Douglas Allenbrook, composer
1920 Toshiro Mifune, Tsing-tao China, writer/actor (Shogun)
1920 Joan Frances Will, actress
1917 Johnny Andrews, Boston, singer/host (Songs at Twilight)
1917 Leon Janney, Ogden Ut, actor (Hawk)
1915 Willy Dixon, blues artist (Mellow Down Easy)
1915 Art Lund, Salt Lake City Utah, singer (Ken Murray Show)
1914 Carla van Neste, Belgian violinist
1911 Gnther Rennert, Essen Germany, opera director/producer
1911 Ferdinand J Kranenburg, Dutch Secretary of Defense (soc dem)
1911 Evert H "Bep" Bakhuys, Dutch soccer star/writer
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 Winfried P I Zillig, German opera composer/conductor (Fantasia Irica)
1905 Gaston Eyskens, PM of Belgium (1949, 1958-61, 1968-72)
1905 Clara "Mother" Hale, US social worker (Hale House)
1904 Juan Gil-Albert, poet
1902 L P Jai, cricketer (one Test India v England 1934, scored 19 & 0)
1901 Boris Koutzen, composer
1898 Roger Bastide, French sociologist
1898 Pola Gojawiczynska, Polish writer (Stolica)
1898 Nita Naldi [Anita Donna Dooley], NYC, actress (Blood & Sand)
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 Wallace Beery, KC MO, actor (Alias a Gentleman, Dinner at 8)
1886 Casimir von Paszthory, composer
1885 Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill (Hozier), British barones
1884 Laurette Taylor, [Helen LM Cooney], US actress (Broadway)
1883 Lon Chaney, CO, man of 1000 faces, actor (High Noon, Phantom of Opera)
1883 Aleksander V Aleksandrov, Russian composer/conductor
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 Sophonisba Breckenridge, scholar/teacher/social activist
1866 Johannes C H de Me˜ere, Dutch zoologist
1866 Ferruccio D M B Busoni, Italy, pianist/composer/conductor (Arlecchino)
1865 Richard Zsigmondy, Germany, chemist (Nobel-1925)
1864 Marie Jungius, Dutch fairy tale writer
1858 Gaetano Mosca, Italian sociologist (Circulation of Elite)
1858 Arnold Aletrino, Dutch physician-criminologist/author (From Life)
1852 Edward Austin Abbey, US, painter (Quest of the Holy Grail)
1847 Jules-Nicolas Crevaux, French explorer (South America)
1847 Gavriil Musicescu, composer
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 Nikolai Gogol, writer
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 Thomas Simpson, composer
1582 Gaspar de Crayer, Flemish painter
1578 William Harvey, England, physician (discovered blood circulation)
1283 Ludwig IV of Baveria, Roman Catholic Bavarian emperor (1314-47)



Events which occurred on your SELECTED date of April 01:
2002 64th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Georgia Dome Atlanta
2001 20th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at St Louis
2001 20th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at St. Louis
1998 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Minn
1997 Comet Hale-Bopp Perihelion (0.914 AU)
1997 69 year old Gordie Howe begins playing AHL game with Syracuse Crunch
1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Boston MA on WBCN 104.1 FM (morn)
1996 58th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Syracuse 76-67
1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Boston MA on WBCN 104.1 FM
1995 NY Islanders retire Bobby Nystrom's uniform #23
1995 Carlson Wagonlit Travel Agency begins charging $15 service fee
1995 New York Islanders retire Bobby Nystrom's uniform #23
1994 Bob Feller Statue on Indians Plaza, dedicated
1993 Alan Bennett's "Madness of George III," premieres in London
1993 Stephane Powers weds Patrick de la Chenais
1992 NFL decides to stay with 17 week sched instead of expanded 18 games
1992 World's 7 wealthiest nations agree on $24B aid for former U.S.S.R.
1992 Last defendant in St. John sex assault case sentenced to 3 years prob
1992 Battleship USS Missouri, on which, Japan surrendered, decommissioned
1992 NHL players begin 1st strike in 75-year history
1992 5th Largest wrestling crowd (64,287-Toronto SkyDome)
1992 World's 7 wealthiest nations agree on $24B aid for former USSR
1992 Last defendant in St John sex assault case sentenced to 3 yrs prob
1992 WA beat NSW by 44 runs to win the Sheffield Shield Final
1992 Rocker Billy Idol fined $2,000 for hitting a woman
1992 Battleship USS Missouri (on which, Japan surrendered) decommissioned
1991 53rd NCAA Mens Basketball Champion: Duke Bluedevils beats Kansas 72-65
1991 Dwight Goodin signs $5.15 million 3 year contract with NY Mets
1991 Iran releases British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years
1991 Supreme Court rules jurors can't be barred from serving due to race
1991 Warsaw Pact officially dissolves
1991 US minimum wage goes from $3.80 to $4.25 per hour
1991 Dwight Goodin signs $5.15 million 3 year contract with New York Mets
1991 U.S. minimum wage goes from $3.80 to $4.25 per hour
1990 Guns and Roses' Duff divorces Mandy Brix, lead singer for Lame Flames
1990 Wrestlemania VI, 67,678 in Toronto, Ultimate Warrior beats Hulk Hogan
1990 Jack Nicklaus wins 1st start on Senior PGA tour
1990 It becomes illegal in Salem Oregon to be within 2' of nude dancers
1990 Guns & Roses' Duff divorces Mandy Brix, lead singer for Lame Flames
1990 CBS fires sportscaster Brent Mussburger
1990 9th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Auburn 88-81
1990 2nd Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus wins
1990 19th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King
1990 "Ha!" comedy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
1989 1st New York Mets - New York Yankee game in New York City since 1983, Yanks win 4-3
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 Delhi beat Haryana by innings & 141 to win Ranji Trophy
1986 US sub Nathaniel Green runs aground in Irish Sea
1986 World oil prices dip below $10 a barrel
1986 Delhi beat Haryana by innings and 141 to win Ranji Trophy
1986 U.S. submarine Nathaniel Green runs aground in Irish Sea
1985 47th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: Villanova beats Georgetown 84-75
1984 8 men record longest distance (13 miles) rowed in 24 hours
1984 3rd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship: Southern Cal beats Tenn 72-61
1984 14th Easter Seal Telethon raises $24,600,000
1984 3rd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship: Southern California beats Tenn 72-61
1983 NY Isle Mike Bossy becomes 1st to score 60 goals in 3 cons seasons
1983 New York Islander Mike Bossy becomes 1st to score 60 goals in 3 cons seasons
1983 Anti-nuke demonstrators link arms in 14-mile human chain in England
1982 US formally transfers Canal Zone to Panam
1982 Anguilla (dependent territory of UK) adopts constitution
1982 Anguilla, dependent territory of U.K., adopts constitution
1982 U.S. formally transfers Canal Zone to Panama
1981 CNN airs a videotape that shows that Tamara Rand predicted that Reagan is in danger from someone named Jack Humley (a hoax)
1980 Wayne Gretzky breaks Bobby Orr's record with 103rd assist
1980 Baseball Players' Assn votes to cancel 92 remaining exhibition games
1980 Failed assassination attempt on Iraqi vice-premier Tariq Aziz
1980 Baseball Players Association votes to cancel 92 remaining exhibition games
1980 France performs nuclear test
1979 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
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 Stephen Wozniak and Steven Jobs founded Apple Computer
1976 Stephen Wozniak & Steven Jobs founded Apple Computer
1975 Cambodia President Lon Nol flees for Red Khmer
1974 Yourdon, Inc forms
1974 Pioneer Hall opens
1974 Ayatollah Khomeini calls for an Islamic Republic in Iran
1973 John and Yoko form a new country with no laws or boundaries, called Nutopia, its national anthem is silence
1973 John & Yoko form a new country with no laws or boundaries, called Nutopia, its national anthem is silence
1973 Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Alamo Ladies Golf Classic
1973 Japan allows its citizens to own gold
1972 Major league baseball players stages 1st collective strike
1972 30,000 attend Mar Y Sol rock concert, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico
1971 U.S. and Canada ISIS 2 launched to study ionosphere
1971 United Kingdom lifts all restrictions on gold ownership
1971 US/Canada ISIS 2 launched to study ionosphere
1970 Bud Selig becomes CEO of Milwaukee Brewers
1970 John & Yoko release hoax they are having dual sex change operations
1970 Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, headed by Bud Selig, purchases the Seattle Pilots for $10,800,000 Although negotiations were conducted over a period of months, it was not until March 13 when a federal bankruptcy referee declared the Pilots bank
1970 Pres Nixon signs bill limiting cigarette advertisements on 1/1/71
1970 President Nixon signs bill limiting cigarette advertisements on 1/1/71
1970 John and Yoko release hoax they are having dual sex change operations
1969 Royal Canadian Mint formally forms as a Crown Corp
1969 Seattle Pilots trade minor league outfielder Lou Piniella to Royals
1968 KEMO (now KOFY) TV channel 20 in San Francisco, CA (IND) 1st broadcast
1968 KEMO (now KOFY) TV channel 20 in San Francisco, California (IND) 1st broadcast
1967 1st British ombudsman sir Edward Compton begins work
1966 China premier Tsjoe en-Lai starts "Cultural revolution"
1966 1st world festival of black art (Dakar Senegal)
1965 Syncom 3, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, passes from civilian to military control
1965 South Africa worker's union leader Henry Fazzie sentenced to 10 years
1964 10 degrees F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in April
1964 Robert Lowell's "Benito Cereno," premieres in New York City
1964 Robert Lowell's "Benito Cereno," premieres in NYC
1964 John Lennon is reunited with his father Freddie after 17 years
1964 10øF lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in April
1963 NY Mets purchase Duke Snider from the Dodgers for $40,000
1963 NYC's newspapers resume publishing after a 114 day strike
1963 New York Mets purchase Duke Snider from the Dodgers for $40,000
1963 Soap operas "General Hospital" & "Doctors" premier on TV
1963 Soap operas "General Hospital" and "Doctors" premier on TV
1963 New York City's newspapers resume publishing after a 114 day strike
1961 Jim Bakker marries Tammy Faye
1960 U Nu elected premier of Burma
1960 RCA TIROS (TV & Infra-Red Observation 'weather' Satellite) I launched
1960 Mabry Harper catches a 25 lb Walleye in Tennessee
1960 2nd French atom bomb explodes (Sahara)
1960 2nd French atom bomb explodes in the Reggane Proving Grounds, Algeria
1960 RCA TIROS (TV and Infra-Red Observation 'weather' Satellite) I launched
1960 France performs nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria
1958 KVIQ TV channel 6 in Eureka, CA (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 Marshal Boelganin becomes director of Russian Staatsbank
1958 KVIQ TV channel 6 in Eureka, California (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1957 World's biggest glass oven used
1957 Trial begins in Budapest against participants october uprising
1957 WYES TV channel 12 in New Orleans, Louisiana (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 WYES TV channel 12 in New Orleans, LA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 10th Tony Awards: Diary of Anne Frank and Damn Yankees win
1956 10th Tony Awards: Diary of Anne Frank & Damn Yankees win
1956 Violent clashes in Algeria, kills at least 380
1956 KPIC TV channel 4 in Roseburg, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 WTVT TV channel 13 in Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida (CBS) 1st broadcast
1955 EOKA-bomb attacks against British government buildings in Cyprus
1955 Armed military action taken against bureaucratic strike in Amsterdam
1955 EOKA-bomb attacks against British govt buildings in Cyprus
1955 WTVT TV channel 13 in Tampa-St Petersburg, FL (CBS) 1st broadcast
1954 U.S. Air Force Academy forms
1954 Earthquake and tsunami ravage Aleutians, 200 killed
1954 WQED TV channel 13 in Pittsburgh, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1954 WQED TV channel 13 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (PBS) begins broadcasting
1954 1st Dutch motorway, Amsterdam-Utrecht, opens
1954 Earthquake/tsunami ravage Aleutians, 200 killed
1954 US Air Force Academy forms
1954 1st army helicopter battalion forms, Fort Bragg, NC
1953 Walcott Worrell and Weekes all make centuries in innings vs. India
1953 Walcott Worrell & Weekes all make centuries in innings v India
1953 J van Bale appointed governor of New Guinea
1953 KXMC TV channel 13 in Minot, ND (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1952 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1952 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1952 Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow
1948 H H H Johnson bowls WI to win vs. England 10-96 match on debut
1948 H H H Johnson bowls WI to win v England 10-96 match on debut
1947 1st Jewish immigrants to Israel disembark at Port of Eilat
1946 Weight Watchers forms
1946 Tsunamis generated by a quake in Aleutian Trench strike Hilo, Hawaii
1946 400,000 US mine workers strike
1946 Van Acker forms Belgian government (without CVP)
1946 Tsunamis generated by a quake in Aleutian Trench strike Hilo Hawaii
1946 Van Acker forms Belgian govt (without CVP)
1946 400,000 U.S. mine workers strike
1945 Canadian troop free Doetinchem, Enschede, Borculo and Eibergen
1945 US forces invade Okinawa during WW II
1945 Ruhrgebied sealed off by US 1st & 9th army
1945 Canadian troop free Doetinchem, Enschede, Borculo & Eibergen
1945 1st edition of Indonesia Merdeka publishes
1945 Sons of Elburger Soccer team forms in Elburg
1945 U.S. forces invade Okinawa during WW II
1945 Ruhrgebied sealed off by U.S. 1st and 9th army
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
1942 Mexico changes from 3 time zones to 2
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
1941 Nazi's forbid Jews access to cafes
1941 Lillian Hellman's "Watch on the Rhine," premieres in NYC
1941 Navy takes over Treasure Island, in San Francisco Bay
1941 Lillian Hellman's "Watch on the Rhine," premieres in New York City
1939 US recognizes Franco government in Spain at end of Spanish civil war Pope Pius XII congratulates Generalissimo Franco's victory in Spain
1939 U.S. 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, New York
1938 Joe Louis KOs Harry Thomas in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1938 Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, NY
1937 Aden becomes British crown colony
1936 Orissa constituted a province of British India
1935 1st radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, New York
1935 1st radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, NY
1934 Bonnie & Clyde kill 2 police officers
1934 Bonnie and Clyde kill 2 police officers
1933 Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany
1933 Hammond scores 336* v NZ at Auckland, 47 fours 10 sixes
1933 Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews boycotting Jewish businesses
1933 Hammond scores 336* vs. NZ at Auckland, 47 fours 10 sixes
1931 Earthquake devastate Managua Nicaragua, kills 2,000
1931 Jackie Mitchell became 1st female in professional baseball
1930 "Blue Angel," starring unknown Marlene Dietrich, premieres in America
1929 Morehouse College, Spellman College and Atlanta University affiliate
1929 Luis Bunuel releases "Un Chien Andalou," 24-minute film
1929 Austrian government of Ignaz Seipel falls
1929 Austrian govt of Ignaz Seipel falls
1929 Morehouse College, Spellman College & Atlanta University affiliate
1929 Luis Bu¤uel releases "Un Chien Andalou," 24-minute film
1929 Louie Marx introduces Yo-Yo
1929 Doorne's trailer factory in Einsdhoven Netherlands opens
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 Hebrew University, Jerusalem dedicated [see May 9, 1925]
1925 Hebrew University, Jerusalem dedicated
1925 1st transmission of Danish state radio
1924 Imperial Airways forms in Britain
1924 Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co
1924 Hitler sentenced to 5 years labor but Gen Ludendorff acquitted
1920 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) beat Seattle (PCHA), 3 games to 2
1920 Church disforms in Wales
1918 Henry Miller's Theater opens at 124 W 43rd St NYC
1918 England's Royal Flying Corps replaced by Royal Air Force
1918 Henry Miller's Theater opens at 124 W 43rd St. New York City
1916 1st U.S. national women's swiming championships held
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
1899 North Carolina Mutual opens doors for business
1891 Painter Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti
1891 London-Paris telephone connection opens
1889 1st dishwashing machine marketed (Chicago)
1889 1st dishwashing machine marketed in Chicago
1888 Soccer team Sparta forms in Rotterdam
1881 Kingdom post office in Netherlands opens
1881 Anti-Jewish riots in Jerusalem
1876 1st official NL baseball game (Boston-6, Phila-5)
1873 Mehmed Kemals play "Vatan" premeres in Constantinople
1873 British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die
1872 1st edition of The Standard
1868 Hampton Institute opens
1867 Singapore, Penang and Malakka become British crown colonies
1867 Blacks vote in municipal election in Tuscumbia, Alabama
1867 Singapore, Penang & Malakka become British crown colonies
1867 International Exhibition opens in Paris
1866 U.S. Congress rejects presidential veto gives all equal rights in US
1866 US Congress rejects presidential veto gives all equal rights in US
1865 Battle of 5 Forks Virginia, signalling end of Lee's army
1865 -9] Battle at Blakely Alabama
1863 1st wartime conscription law in U.S. goes into effect
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
1853 Cincinnati became 1st U.S. city to pay fire fighters a regular salary
1850 San Francisco County Government established
1850 SF County Govt established
1836 Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Cocos Islands
1826 Samuel Mory patents internal combustion engine
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 Representatives 1st full meeting, New York City, F Muhlenberg 1st speaker
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 Jonathan Swift publishes Drapier's letters
1724 Henry Pelham becomes English minister of War
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
705 Greek pope John VII chosen as successor to John VI
527 Justinianus becomes compassionate emperor of Byzantium
374 Comet 1P/374 E1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0884 AUs of Earth



Deaths which occurred on your SELECTED date of April 01:
1997 Nancy Woodhull, news editor (USA Today), dies of cancer at 52
1997 Jolie Gabor, mother of Zsa Zsa & Eva, dies at 97
1996 Edwin H "Buddy" Morris, music publisher, dies at 89
1996 Alfredo Nobre Coast, PM of Portugal (1978), dies
1996 John Alwyne Kitching, zoologist, dies at 87
1996 John McSheery, dies of heart attack while umpiring a game, at 51
1996 Mario Viegas, actor (The Jew, Divine Comedy), dies at 47
1995 Johnny Nicholss, footballer, dies at 63
1995 Cheryl Waltz, author/film producer, dies at 50
1995 Francisco Moncion, dancer, dies at 73
1995 Sampson DeBrier, actor (Inauguration of Pleasure Dome), dies at 86
1995 Lucie Rie, potter, dies at 93
1995 Richard Pool, naval Officer, dies at 75
1994 Leon Degrelle, Belgium general, dies
1994 Robert Doisneau, French photographer (The Kiss), dies at 81
1994 Rosalind Laura Burke, aviatrix, dies at 86
1994 Stuart Sloan, war hero/test pilot, dies at 72
1993 Wayne Mack, sportscaster/actor (Storyville), dies of cancer at 68
1993 Juan of Borbon y Battemberg, father of king Juan Carlos I, dies
1993 Ihsan Mohamed Salem, [Yunis Awad], Palestinian Al-Fatah leader, killed
1993 Alan Kulwicki, stock car racer, dies in plane crash at 38
1992 Juanito, soccer star (Madrid Real 1977-87), dies at 37 in car crash
1991 Richard Thorpe, director (MGM), dies at 95
1991 Paulo Muwanga, chief of Uganda (1980), dies
1991 Martha Graham, US, choreographer (Appalachian Spring), dies at 96
1989 Henk Gortzak, Dutch MP (CPN/PSP), dies at 57
1988 Marius W Holtrop, economist/president (Netherlands Bank), dies at 85
1988 Jim Jordan, actor (Fibber McGee), dies from a blod clot at 91
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, Dutch politician, dies at 51
1976 S Constantine Timoshenko, Russian marshal, dies at 75
1976 Miroslav Ponc, composer, dies at 73
1976 Max Ernst, German/French surrealist painter/sculptor, dies at 85
1976 Freddie Lennon, father of John Lennon (Beatles), dies at 63
1975 Eugeen Yoors, Flemish draftsman/glass painter, dies at 95
1974 Alfred Ernest Whitehead, composer, dies at 86
1973 Arthur Wood, cricket wicket-keeper (England 1938-39), dies
1969 Helena Rubinstein, US cosmetic manufacturer, dies at about 89
1968 Lev D Landau, Russian physicist (Nobel 1962), dies at 59
1966 Karl B Adam, German theologist (Jesus Christ), dies at 89
1965 Henry D G Crerar, Canadian general (WW I, Normandy), dies at 76
1964 Bozidar Kunc, composer, dies at 60
1960 Piet[er O] Bakker, Dutch journalist/writer (Ciske), dies at 62
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), dies at 76
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 62
1941 Hippolyte Delehaye, Flemish historian, dies at 81
1936 Mikhail Vladimirovich Ivanov-Boretsky, composer, dies at 61
1933 Frederick Lord Chelmsford, viceroy of Brit-Ind (1916-21), dies at 64
1930 Cosima Liszt, wife of Austrian composer Richard Wagner, dies at 92
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, Belgian resistance fighter, executed
1916 Sjoerd van der Schaaf, Frisian journalist/writer (Abbingawƒld), dies
1915 Johann Joseph Abert, composer, dies at 82
1914 Rube Waddell, baseballer, dies at 37 of TB
1910 Andreas Aschenbach, German painter/engraver, dies at 94
1901 Fran‡ois M Raoult, Fren physicist/chemist (Law of Raoult), dies at 70
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, Min of Reformed Worship, dies at 69
1866 Johannes C H de Meijere, Dutch zoologist, dies
1866 Aime Ambroise Simon Leborne, composer, dies at 98
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 Vaclav Josef Bartolomej Praupner, composer, dies at 61
1807 Mikl¢s R‚vai, Hungarian linguistic/poet, dies at 57
1807 Louis Fran‡ois Chambray, composer, dies at 69
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, wife of Louis VII & Henry II, dies at 81