EVENTS:
- 1545 – Potosí is founded after the discovery of major silver deposits in the area.
- 1854 – Charles Dickens‘ novel Hard Times begins serialisation in his magazine Household Words.
- 1891 – The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
- 1918 – The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
- 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 writes Mein Kampf.
- 1933 – The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in a series of anti-Semitic acts.
- 1935 – India’s central banking institution, The Reserve Bank of India is formed.
- 1936 – Odisha formerly known as Kalinga or Utkal becomes a state in India.
- 1957 – The BBC broadcasts the spaghetti-tree hoax on its current affairs programme Panorama.
- 1960 – The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
- 1973 – Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Jim Corbett National Park, India.
- 1976 – Apple Inc. is formed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in Cupertino, California, USA.
- 1976 – The Jovian–Plutonian gravitational effect, soon revealed as an April Fools’ Day hoax, is first reported by British astronomer Patrick Moore.
- 1997 – Comet Hale–Bopp is seen passing at perihelion.
- 2011 – After protests against the burning of the Quran turn violent, a mob attacks a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of thirteen people, including eight foreign workers.
- 2016 – Nagorno-Karabakh clashes: The Four Day War or April War, began along the Nagorno-Karabakh line of contact on April 1.
BIRTHS:
- 1856 – Acacio Gabriel Viegas, Indian physician (d. 1933)
- 1865 – Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1929)
- 1889 – K. B. Hedgewar, Indian physician and activist (d. 1940)
- 1911 – Fauja Singh, Indian-English runner
- 1919 – Joseph Murray, American surgeon and soldier, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
- 1936 – Tarun Gogoi, Indian politician, 14th Chief Minister of Assam
- 1936 – Abdul Qadeer Khan, Indian-Pakistani physicist, chemist, and engineer
- 1941 – Ajit Wadekar, Indian cricketer, coach, and manager
- 1955 – Humayun Akhtar Khan, Pakistani politician, 5th Commerce Minister of Pakistan
- 1964 – John Morris, English cricketer
- 1999 – Gabe Davis, American football player
- 2000 – Rhian Brewster, English footballer
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