April 1,
2002 Event: 64th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Georgia Dome
Atlanta
April 1, 2001
Event: 20th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at St Louis
April 1, 1998
Event: World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Minn
April 1, 1997
Event: 69 year old Gordie Howe begins playing AHL game with Syracuse
Crunch
April 1, 1997
Event: Comet Hale-Bopp Perihelion (0.914 AU)
April 1, 1997
Date of Death: Jolie Gabor, mother of Zsa Zsa & Eva, dies at 97
April 1, 1997
Date of Death: Nancy Woodhull, news editor (USA Today), dies of cancer at
52
April 1,
1996 Event: 58th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats
Syracuse 76-67
April 1, 1996
Event: Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Boston MA on WBCN 104.1 FM
(morn)
April 1, 1996
Date of Death: Alfredo Nobre Coast, PM of Portugal (1978), dies
April 1, 1996
Date of Death: Edwin H "Buddy" Morris, music publisher, dies at 89
April 1, 1996
Date of Death: John Alwyne Kitching, zoologist, dies at 87
April 1, 1996
Date of Death: John McSheery, dies of heart attack while umpiring a game,
at 51
April 1, 1996
Date of Death: Mario Viegas, actor (The Jew, Divine Comedy), dies at 47
April 1,
1995 Event: Carlson Wagonlit Travel Agency begins charging $15 service
fee
April
1, 1995 Event: NY Islanders retire Bobby Nystrom's uniform #23
April 1, 1995
Date of Death: Cheryl Waltz, author/film producer, dies at 50
April 1, 1995
Date of Death: Francisco Moncion, dancer, dies at 73
April 1, 1995
Date of Death: Johnny Nicholss, footballer, dies at 63
April 1, 1995
Date of Death: Lucie Rie, potter, dies at 93
April 1, 1995
Date of Death: Richard Pool, naval Officer, dies at 75
April 1, 1995
Date of Death: Sampson DeBrier, actor (Inauguration of Pleasure Dome),
dies at 86
April 1, 1994
Event: Bob Feller Statue on Indians Plaza, dedicated
April 1, 1994
Date of Death: Leon Degrelle, Belgium general, dies
April 1, 1994
Date of Death: Robert Doisneau, French photographer (The Kiss), dies at 81
April 1,
1994 Date of Death: Rosalind Laura Burke, aviatrix, dies at 86
April 1, 1994
Date of Death: Stuart Sloan, war hero/test pilot, dies at 72
April 1, 1993
Event: Alan Bennett's "Madness of George III," premieres in London
April 1, 1993
Event: Stephane Powers weds Patrick de la Chenais
April 1, 1993
Date of Death: Alan Kulwicki, stock car racer, dies in plane crash at 38
April 1,
1993 Date of Death: Ihsan Mohamed Salem, [Yunis Awad], Palestinian
Al-Fatah leader, killed
April 1, 1993
Date of Death: Juan of Borbon y Battemberg, father of king Juan Carlos I,
dies
April
1, 1993 Date of Death: Wayne Mack, sportscaster/actor (Storyville),
dies of cancer at 68
April 1, 1992
Event: 5th Largest wrestling crowd (64,287-Toronto SkyDome)
April 1, 1992
Event: Battleship USS Missouri (on which, Japan surrendered)
decommissioned
April 1, 1992
Event: Last defendant in St John sex assault case sentenced to 3 yrs prob
April 1,
1992 Event: NFL decides to stay with 17 week sched instead of expanded
18 games
April 1, 1992
Event: NHL players begin 1st strike in 75-year history
April 1, 1992
Event: Rocker Billy Idol fined $2,000 for hitting a woman
April 1, 1992
Event: WA beat NSW by 44 runs to win the Sheffield Shield Final
April 1, 1992
Event: World's 7 wealthiest nations agree on $24B aid for former USSR
April 1,
1992 Date of Death: Juanito, soccer star (Madrid Real 1977-87), dies
at 37 in car crash
April 1, 1991
Event: 53rd NCAA Mens Basketball Champion: Duke Bluedevils beats Kansas
72-65
April
1, 1991 Event: Dwight Goodin signs $5.15 million 3 year contract with
NY Mets
April 1, 1991
Event: Iran releases British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years
April 1, 1991
Event: Supreme Court rules jurors can't be barred from serving due to race
April 1,
1991 Event: US minimum wage goes from $3.80 to $4.25 per hour
April 1, 1991
Event: Warsaw Pact officially dissolves
April 1, 1991
Date of Death: Martha Graham, US, choreographer (Appalachian Spring), dies
at 96
April 1, 1991
Date of Death: Paulo Muwanga, chief of Uganda (1980), dies
April 1, 1991
Date of Death: Richard Thorpe, director (MGM), dies at 95
April 1, 1990
Event: "Ha!" comedy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
April 1, 1990
Event: 19th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King
April 1, 1990
Event: 2nd Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus wins
April 1, 1990
Event: 9th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Auburn
88-81
April
1, 1990 Event: CBS fires sportscaster Brent Mussburger
April 1, 1990
Event: Guns & Roses' Duff divorces Mandy Brix, lead singer for Lame
Flames
April 1, 1990
Event: It becomes illegal in Salem Oregon to be within 2' of nude dancers
April 1,
1990 Event: Jack Nicklaus wins 1st start on Senior PGA tour
April 1, 1990
Event: Wrestlemania VI, 67,678 in Toronto, Ultimate Warrior beats Hulk
Hogan
April
1, 1989 Event: 1st NY Met-NY Yankee game in NYC since 1983, Yanks win
4-3
April
1, 1989 Event: A Bartlett Giamatti replaces Ueberroth as 7th
commissioner of baseball
April 1, 1989
Date of Death: Henk Gortzak, Dutch MP (CPN/PSP), dies at 57
April 1, 1988
Date of Death: Jim Jordan, actor (Fibber McGee), dies from a blod clot at
91
April
1, 1988 Date of Death: Marius W Holtrop, economist/president
(Netherlands Bank), dies at 85
April 1, 1986
Event: Delhi beat Haryana by innings & 141 to win Ranji Trophy
April 1, 1986
Event: US sub Nathaniel Green runs aground in Irish Sea
April 1, 1986
Event: World oil prices dip below $10 a barrel
April 1, 1985
Event: 47th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: Villanova beats Georgetown
84-75
April
1, 1984 Event: 14th Easter Seal Telethon raises $24,600,000
April 1, 1984
Event: 3rd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship: Southern Cal beats Tenn
72-61
April
1, 1984 Event: 8 men record longest distance (13 miles) rowed in 24
hours
April 1, 1984
Date of Death: Marvin Gaye, shot to death by his father Marvin Gaye Sr in
LA at 44
April 1, 1983
Event: Anti-nuke demonstrators link arms in 14-mile human chain in England
April 1,
1983 Event: NY Isle Mike Bossy becomes 1st to score 60 goals in 3 cons
seasons
April 1, 1982
Event: Anguilla (dependent territory of UK) adopts constitution
April 1, 1982
Event: US formally transfers Canal Zone to PanamÝ
April 1, 1982
Date of Birth: Sam Huntington, actor (Jungle 2 Jungle)
April 1, 1981
Event: CNN airs a videotape that shows that Tamara Rand predicted that
Reagan is in danger from someone named Jack Humley (a hoax)
April 1, 1981
Date of Death: D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones, sci-fi author (Colossus), dies at
65
April 1,
1980 Event: Baseball Players' Assn votes to cancel 92 remaining
exhibition games
April 1, 1980
Event: Failed assassination attempt on Iraqi vice-premier Tariq Aziz
April 1,
1980 Event: France performs nuclear test
April 1, 1980
Event: Wayne Gretzky breaks Bobby Orr's record with 103rd assist
April 1, 1980
Date of Birth: Bryan Buffinton, Ridgewood NJ, actor (Bill Lewis Jr-Guiding
Light)
April 1, 1979
Event: Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of Shah
April 1, 1979
Event: Joanne Carner wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
April 1, 1979
Date of Death: Marinus Peijnenburg, Dutch politician, dies at 51
April 1, 1977
Event: Attempt for Moslem state in Chad fails
April 1, 1977
Event: NFL decides to experiment with a 7th official in some preseason
games
April
1, 1976 Event: Stephen Wozniak & Steven Jobs founded Apple
Computer
April 1, 1976
Date of Birth: Clarence Seedorf, Surinam/Dutch soccer player (Ajax, Real
Madrid)
April 1, 1976
Date of Death: Freddie Lennon, father of John Lennon (Beatles), dies at 63
April 1,
1976 Date of Death: Max Ernst, German/French surrealist
painter/sculptor, dies at 85
April 1, 1976
Date of Death: Miroslav Ponc, composer, dies at 73
April 1, 1976
Date of Death: S Constantine Timoshenko, Russian marshal, dies at 75
April 1,
1975 Event: Cambodia President Lon Nol flees for Red Khmer
April 1, 1975
Date of Birth: Kristine Quance, 100m breaststroke/200m medley
(Olympics-96)
April 1, 1975
Date of Birth: Magdalena Maleeva, Sofia Bulgaria, tennis star (1995
Chicago Moscow)
April 1, 1975
Date of Death: Eugeen Yoors, Flemish draftsman/glass painter, dies at 95
April 1,
1974 Event: Ayatollah Khomeini calls for an Islamic Republic in Iran
April 1,
1974 Event: Pioneer Hall opens
April 1, 1974
Event: Yourdon, Inc forms
April 1, 1974
Date of Death: Alfred Ernest Whitehead, composer, dies at 86
April 1, 1973
Event: Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Alamo Ladies Golf Classic
April 1, 1973
Event: Japan allows its citizens to own gold
April 1, 1973
Event: John & Yoko form a new country with no laws or boundaries,
called Nutopia, its national anthem is silence
April 1, 1973
Date of Birth: Ferdy Vierklau, soccer player (FC Utrecht)
April 1, 1973
Date of Birth: Stephen Fleming, cricketer (NZ left-handed Test batsman
1994-)
April 1, 1973
Date of Death: Arthur Wood, cricket wicket-keeper (England 1938-39), dies
April 1,
1972 Event: 30,000 attend Mar Y Sol rock concert, Vega Baja, Puerto
Rico
April
1, 1972 Event: Major league baseball players stages 1st collective
strike
April 1, 1972
Date of Birth: Kenny Gales, NFL/WLAF cornerback (Chicago Bears, Barcelona
Dragons)
April 1, 1972
Date of Birth: Mike McCoy, WLAF quarterback (Amsterdam Admirals)
April 1, 1971
Event: US/Canada ISIS 2 launched to study ionosphere
April 1, 1971
Event: United Kingdom lifts all restrictions on gold ownership
April 1, 1971
Date of Birth: Daniel Vacek, Prague Czech, tennis star
April 1, 1971
Date of Birth: Ernest Jones, NFL defensive end (Saints, Denver
Broncos-Superbowl 32)
April 1, 1971
Date of Birth: Jessica Collins, [Capogna], actress (Dinah Lee
Mayberry-Loving)
April 1, 1970
Event: Bud Selig becomes CEO of Milwaukee Brewers
April 1, 1970
Event: John & Yoko release hoax they are having dual sex change
operations
April 1, 1970
Event: 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
April 1, 1970
Event: Pres Nixon signs bill limiting cigarette advertisements on 1/1/71
April 1,
1970 Date of Birth: Mark Wheeler, NFL defensive tackle (Tampa Bay
Bucs, NE Patriots)
April 1, 1970
Date of Birth: Wes Barnett, St Joseph MO, 238lb (108kg) weightlifter
(Oly-6th-92, 96)
April 1, 1970
Date of Birth: Wyatt Jones, Honolulu Hawaii, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
April 1,
1969 Event: Royal Canadian Mint formally forms as a Crown Corp
April 1, 1969
Event: Seattle Pilots trade minor league outfielder Lou Piniella to Royals
April 1,
1969 Date of Birth: Andrew Vlahov, Australian basketball forward
(Olympics-1988, 92, 96)
April 1, 1969
Date of Birth: Arnaud Boetsch, Meulam France, tennis star (1985 European
Junior)
April 1, 1969
Date of Birth: Frank Castillo, El Paso TX, pitcher (Chic Cubs)
April 1, 1969
Date of Birth: John Forest, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
April 1, 1969
Date of Birth: Kevin Dean, Madison, NHL defenseman (NJ Devils)
April 1, 1969
Date of Birth: Traci Lin-Tavi, NYC, actress (Ryan's Hope, F/X, Fright
Night 2)
April 1, 1969
Date of Death: Helena Rubinstein, US cosmetic manufacturer, dies at about
89
April 1,
1968 Event: KEMO (now KOFY) TV channel 20 in San Francisco, CA (IND)
1st broadcast
April 1, 1968
Date of Birth: Joel Smeenge, NFL defensive end (Jacksonville Jaguars)
April 1,
1968 Date of Death: Lev D Landau, Russian physicist (Nobel 1962), dies
at 59
April
1, 1967 Event: 1st British ombudsman sir Edward Compton begins work
April 1,
1966 Event: 1st world festival of black art (Dakar Senegal)
April 1, 1966
Event: China premier Tsjoe en-Lai starts "Cultural revolution"
April 1, 1966
Date of Birth: Dave Vankoughnett, CFL corner (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
April 1,
1966 Date of Birth: Odie Harris, NFL safety/defensive back (Houston
Oilers)
April 1, 1966
Date of Death: Karl B Adam, German theologist (Jesus Christ), dies at 89
April 1,
1965 Event: South Africa worker's union leader Henry Fazzie sentenced
to 10 years
April 1, 1965
Event: Syncom 3, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, passes from
civilian to military control
April 1, 1965
Date of Birth: John "Jumbo" Elliot, NFL tackle (NY Giants, NY Jets)
April 1, 1965
Date of Birth: Mark Jackson, NBA guard (Indiana Pacers)
April 1, 1965
Date of Death: Henry D G Crerar, Canadian general (WW I, Normandy), dies
at 76
April
1, 1964 Event: 10¯F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in
April
April
1, 1964 Event: John Lennon is reunited with his father Freddie after
17 years
April 1, 1964
Event: Robert Lowell's "Benito Cereno," premieres in NYC
April 1, 1964
Date of Birth: John Morris, cricketer (England right-hand batsman v India
1990)
April 1, 1964
Date of Birth: Kevin Duckworth, NBA center (Milwaukee Bucks)
April 1, 1964
Date of Birth: Scott Stevens, Kitchener, NHL defenseman (NJ Devils, Team
Canada)
April 1, 1964
Date of Death: Bozidar Kunc, composer, dies at 60
April 1, 1963
Event: NY Mets purchase Duke Snider from the Dodgers for $40,000
April 1, 1963
Event: NYC's newspapers resume publishing after a 114 day strike
April 1, 1963
Event: Soap operas "General Hospital" & "Doctors" premier on TV
April 1, 1962
Date of Birth: Phillip Schofield, TV personality/designer (Nightfire)
April 1,
1962 Date of Birth: Rich Amaral, Visalia CA, outfielder (Seattle
Mariners)
April 1, 1961
Event: Jim Bakker marries Tammy Faye
April 1, 1961
Date of Birth: Jennifer Runyon, actress (Cindy-A Very Brady Christmas)
April 1,
1961 Date of Birth: Jim Jeffcoat, NFL defensive end (Buffalo Bills)
April 1,
1961 Date of Birth: Mark White, rock guitarist (ABC-All of My Heart)
April 1,
1960 Event: 2nd French atom bomb explodes (Sahara)
April 1, 1960
Event: France performs nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria
April 1,
1960 Event: Mabry Harper catches a 25 lb Walleye in Tennessee
April 1, 1960
Event: RCA TIROS (TV & Infra-Red Observation 'weather' Satellite) I
launched
April 1, 1960
Event: U Nu elected premier of Burma
April 1, 1960
Date of Death: Piet[er O] Bakker, Dutch journalist/writer (Ciske), dies at
62
April 1,
1958 Event: KVIQ TV channel 6 in Eureka, CA (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins
broadcasting
April 1, 1958
Event: Marshal Boelganin becomes director of Russian Staatsbank
April 1, 1958
Date of Birth: Anton Innauer, Austria, 70m ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1980)
April 1,
1957 Event: Trial begins in Budapest against participants october
uprising
April 1, 1957
Event: WYES TV channel 12 in New Orleans, LA (PBS) begins broadcasting
April 1,
1957 Event: World's biggest glass oven used
April 1, 1957
Date of Birth: David Gower, cricketer (elegant England left-handed batsman
1978-92)
April 1, 1957
Date of Birth: Donald William Hammond, Frederick MD, PGA golfer (1986 Bob
Hope)
April 1, 1957
Date of Birth: Peter Deutsch, (Rep-D-Florida)
April 1, 1957
Date of Death: Gheorge Tatarescu, premier Romania (1933-37, 39-40), dies
April 1,
1956 Event: 10th Tony Awards: Diary of Anne Frank & Damn Yankees
win
April
1, 1956 Event: KPIC TV channel 4 in Roseburg, OR (CBS) begins
broadcasting
April 1, 1956
Event: Violent clashes in Algeria, kills at least 380
April 1, 1956
Date of Birth: Peter O'Toole, Irish pop bassist (Hothouse Flowers-People)
April 1,
1955 Event: Armed military action taken against bureaucratic strike in
Amsterdam
April 1, 1955
Event: EOKA-bomb attacks against British govt buildings in Cyprus
April 1, 1955
Event: WTVT TV channel 13 in Tampa-St Petersburg, FL (CBS) 1st broadcast
April 1,
1955 Date of Birth: Danny Joe Pohl, Mt Pleasant MI, PGA golfer (1986
Colonial)
April 1, 1955
Date of Birth: Stan Ridway, rocker (Wall Of Voodoo)
April 1, 1955
Date of Death: Silvio d'Amico, Italian theater critic (Il Teatro Italian),
dies at 68
April 1, 1954
Event: 1st Dutch motorway, Amsterdam-Utrecht, opens
April 1, 1954
Event: 1st army helicopter battalion forms, Fort Bragg, NC
April 1, 1954
Event: Earthquake/tsunami ravage Aleutians, 200 killed
April 1, 1954
Event: US Air Force Academy forms
April 1, 1954
Event: WQED TV channel 13 in Pittsburgh, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
April 1,
1954 Date of Birth: Jeff Porcaro, LA Calif, drummer/percussionist
(Toto-Roxanne, Africa)
April 1, 1953
Event: J van Bale appointed governor of New Guinea
April 1, 1953
Event: KXMC TV channel 13 in Minot, ND (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
April 1,
1953 Event: Walcott Worrell & Weekes all make centuries in innings
v India
April 1, 1953
Date of Birth: Aftab Baloch, cricketer (Pakistani in 2 Tests, scored 428
for Sind 74)
April 1, 1953
Date of Birth: Barry Sonnenfeld, director (When Harry Met Sally, Big,
Misery)
April 1, 1952
Event: Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe &
Gamow
April
1, 1952 Event: US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
April 1, 1952
Date of Birth: Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi, Tripoli Libya, bomber (Pan Am
103)
April
1, 1952 Date of Birth: Annette O'Toole, Houston Texas, actress (Cat
People, Superman III)
April 1, 1952
Date of Birth: Billy Currie, rock keyboardist/violinist (Ultravox-We Came
to Dance)
April 1, 1952
Date of Birth: Rey Robinson, US, 100m sprinter (Olympic-1972)
April 1, 1952
Date of Death: Ferenc MolnÝr, Hungarian playwright (Farkas, Tester), dies
at 76
April 1, 1951
Date of Death: Clement D'Hooghe, composer, dies at 51
April 1, 1950
Date of Birth: Ed[uardus] HTM Nijpels, Dutch minister of Environment (VVD)
April 1,
1950 Date of Birth: Leonard van Spirit, Dutch/British fruit/food
magnate
April 1, 1950
Date of Death: Charles R Drew, surgeon/developer of blood bank concept,
dies at 45
April 1, 1949
Date of Birth: Gill Scott-Heron, US, writer/poet/singer (Whities on the
Moon)
April
1, 1948 Event: H H H Johnson bowls WI to win v England 10-96 match on
debut
April 1, 1948
Date of Birth: Jimmy Cliff, Reggae singer
April 1, 1948
Date of Birth: Simon Crowe, rock drummer (Boomtown Rats-Maxinguaye)
April 1, 1948
Date of Birth: Y Y Williams, Welsh rugby player
April 1, 1947
Event: 1st Jewish immigrants to Israel disembark at Port of Eilat
April 1, 1947
Date of Birth: David Eisenhower, grandson of Pres Dwight, married Julie
Nixon
April 1, 1947
Date of Death: George II, king of Greece, dies at 56
April 1, 1946
Event: 400,000 US mine workers strike
April 1, 1946
Event: Tsunamis generated by a quake in Aleutian Trench strike Hilo Hawaii
April 1,
1946 Event: Van Acker forms Belgian govt (without CVP)
April 1, 1946
Event: Weight Watchers forms
April 1, 1946
Date of Birth: Arthur Conley, US soul singer (Sweet Soul Music)
April 1, 1946
Date of Birth: John Barbata, drummer (Turtles-Happy Together, Eleanor)
April 1,
1946 Date of Birth: Ronnie "Plonk" Lane, London, rock bassist (Small
Faces-Hey Girl)
April 1, 1946
Date of Birth: William Frederick Fisher, Dallas Texas, MD/astronaut (STS
51-I)
April 1, 1946
Date of Death: Noah Beery, actor (Beau Geste, Cimarron Kid, Mammy), dies
at 62
April
1, 1945 Event: 1st edition of Indonesia Merdeka publishes
April 1, 1945
Event: Canadian troop free Doetinchem, Enschede, Borculo & Eibergen
April 1,
1945 Event: Ruhrgebied sealed off by US 1st & 9th army
April 1, 1945
Event: Sons of Elburger Soccer team forms in Elburg
April 1, 1945
Event: US forces invade Okinawa during WW II
April 1, 1945
Date of Birth: Heather Young, Bremerton Wash, actress (Betty-Land of
Giants)
April 1, 1944
Event: German Abwehr ends England spiel, after 132 killed
April 1, 1944
Event: Japanese troops conquer Jessami, East-India
April 1, 1944
Date of Birth: Carol White, England, actress (Daddy's Gone a Hunting)
April 1,
1942 Event: Allied air raid on harbor city Kupang Timor
April 1, 1942
Event: MÇxico changes from 3 time zones to 2
April 1, 1942
Date of Birth: Alan Blakley, rocker (Brian Poole & The Tremeloes)
April 1,
1942 Date of Birth: Danny Brooks, rocker (Dovells)
April 1, 1942
Date of Birth: Phil Margo, Bkln, rock vocalist (Tokens-Lion Sleeps
Tonight)
April 1, 1942
Date of Birth: Samuel R[ay] Delany Jr, US, sci-fi author (Towers of Toron,
Neveryona)
April 1, 1941
Event: Lillian Hellman's "Watch on the Rhine," premieres in NYC
April 1, 1941
Event: Navy takes over Treasure Island (SF Bay)
April 1, 1941
Event: Nazi's forbid Jews access to cafÇs
April 1, 1941
Event: Pro-German Rashid Ali al-Ghailani grabs power in Iraq
April 1, 1941
Date of Birth: Ajit Wadekar, cricketer (stalwart Indian batsman &
capt)
April 1, 1941
Date of Death: Hippolyte Delehaye, Flemish historian, dies at 81
April 1, 1939
Event: US recognizes Franco government in Spain at end of Spanish civil
war Pope Pius XII congratulates Generalissimo Franco's victory in Spain
April 1,
1939 Date of Birth: Ali MacGraw, Pound Ridge NY, actress (Love Story,
Goodbye Columbus)
April 1, 1939
Date of Birth: Phil Niekro, knuckleball pitcher (NY Yankees, Atlanta
Braves)
April 1, 1939
Date of Birth: Rudolph Isley, Cincinnati Ohio, rocker (Isley
Brothers-Shout)
April 1, 1938
Event: Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, NY
April 1, 1938
Event: Joe Louis KOs Harry Thomas in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
April 1, 1937
Event: Aden becomes British crown colony
April 1, 1936
Event: Orissa constituted a province of British India
April 1, 1936
Date of Death: Mikhail Vladimirovich Ivanov-Boretsky, composer, dies at 61
April 1,
1935 Event: 1st radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, NY
April 1,
1935 Date of Birth: Hans H Boswinkel, actor/director (Surprise Attack,
Tutorials in Love)
April 1, 1935
Date of Birth: John Murray, cricketer (Eng 1961-67, 1st wk called Murray
to play Tests)
April 1, 1934
Event: Bonnie & Clyde kill 2 police officers
April 1, 1934
Date of Birth: Don Hastings, Bkln NY, actor (Capt Video, Bob-As the World
Turns)
April 1, 1933
Event: Hammond scores 336* v NZ at Auckland, 47 fours 10 sixes
April 1, 1933
Event: Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany
April 1, 1933
Event: Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews boycotting Jewish
businesses
April 1, 1933
Date of Birth: Dan Flavin, US minimalist sculptor
April 1, 1933
Date of Death: Frederick Lord Chelmsford, viceroy of Brit-Ind (1916-21),
dies at 64
April 1, 1932
Date of Birth: Alexander Colleridge Vanderpuiye Baka Tetteh-Lartey, actor
April 1,
1932 Date of Birth: Debbie Reynolds, El Paso Texas, actress (Singin'
in the Rain)
April 1, 1932
Date of Birth: Gordon Jump, Dayton Ohio, actor (Arthur Carlson-WKRP,
Growing Pains)
April 1, 1932
Date of Birth: Jiri Smutny, composer
April 1, 1931
Event: Earthquake devastate Managua Nicaragua, kills 2,000
April 1, 1931
Event: Jackie Mitchell became 1st female in professional baseball
April 1, 1931
Date of Birth: George Baker, Bulgaria, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Curse of
the Fly)
April 1, 1931
Date of Birth: Rolf Hochhuth, German playwright (Deputy)
April 1, 1930
Event: "Blue Angel," starring unknown Marlene Dietrich, premieres in
America
April 1, 1930
Date of Birth: Grace Lee Whitney, Ann Arbor Mich, actress (Yeoman
Rand-Star Trek)
April 1, 1930
Date of Birth: Joan Franks-Williams, composer
April 1, 1930
Date of Death: Cosima Liszt, wife of Austrian composer Richard Wagner,
dies at 92
April 1, 1930
Date of Death: Zawditu, 1st reigning female monarch of Ethiopia, dies
April 1,
1929 Event: Austrian govt of Ignaz Seipel falls
April 1, 1929
Event: Doorne's trailer factory in Einsdhoven Netherlands opens
April 1, 1929
Event: Louie Marx introduces Yo-Yo
April 1, 1929
Event: Luis Bu§uel releases "Un Chien Andalou," 24-minute film
April 1, 1929
Event: Morehouse College, Spellman College & Atlanta University
affiliate
April 1, 1929
Date of Birth: Milan Kundera, Czech poet/writer (Joke, Unbearable
Lightness of Being)
April 1, 1928
Event: Chiang Kai-shek's army crosses Yang-tse
April 1, 1928
Date of Birth: Dimitri Frenkel Frank, Dutch writer/director (Hadimassa)
April 1,
1928 Date of Birth: George Grizzard, NC, actor (Wrong is Right,
Bachelor Party, Attica)
April 1, 1928
Date of Birth: Herbert Klein, newscaster/press secretary
April 1, 1928
Date of Birth: Jane Powell, Portland Oregon, singer/actress (7 Brides for
7 Brothers)
April 1, 1927
Event: 1st automatic record changer introduced by His Master's Voice
April 1,
1927 Date of Birth: Amos Milburn, rocker
April 1, 1926
Event: Halsteren Soccer team forms in Halsteren
April 1, 1926
Date of Birth: Anne [Inez] McCaffrey, US, sci-fi author (Dragonflight,
Dragondrums)
April 1, 1926
Date of Birth: Lyndon Brook, actor (Invasion, Reach for the Sky)
April 1, 1925
Event: 1st transmission of Danish state radio
April 1, 1925
Event: Hebrew University, Jerusalem dedicated [see May 9, 1925]
April 1, 1925
Date of Birth: Sala Burton, (Rep-D-CA, 1983- )
April 1, 1925
Date of Death: Francis William Davenport, composer, dies at 77
April 1, 1924
Event: Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co
April 1,
1924 Event: Hitler sentenced to 5 years labor but Gen Ludendorff
acquitted
April 1, 1924
Event: Imperial Airways forms in Britain
April 1, 1924
Date of Birth: Gunther Becker, composer
April 1, 1923
Date of Birth: Bobby Jordan, NY, actor (Bowery Champs, Kid Dynamite,
Flying Wild)
April 1, 1922
Date of Birth: William Manchester, Attleboro Mass, historian (Death of a
President)
April 1, 1922
Date of Death: Charles I, emperor (Austria)/King of Hungary (Charles IV),
dies
April
1, 1921 Date of Birth: Douglas Allenbrook, composer
April 1, 1921
Date of Birth: William L Bergsma, Oakland California, composer (Fortunate
Island)
April 1, 1920
Event: Church disforms in Wales
April 1, 1920
Event: Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) beat Seattle (PCHA), 3 games to
2
April 1,
1920 Date of Birth: Joan Frances Will, actress
April 1, 1920
Date of Birth: Toshiro Mifune, Tsing-tao China, writer/actor (Shogun)
April 1,
1918 Event: England's Royal Flying Corps replaced by Royal Air Force
April 1,
1918 Event: Henry Miller's Theater opens at 124 W 43rd St NYC
April 1, 1918
Date of Death: Karl Fritjof Valentin, composer, dies at 64
April 1, 1917
Date of Birth: Johnny Andrews, Boston, singer/host (Songs at Twilight)
April 1,
1917 Date of Birth: Leon Janney, Ogden Ut, actor (Hawk)
April 1, 1917
Date of Death: Scott Joplin, ragtime composer (Sting), dies at 48
April 1, 1916
Event: 1st US national women's swiming championships held
April 1, 1916
Date of Death: Gabrielle Petit, Belgian resistance fighter, executed
April 1,
1916 Date of Death: Sjoerd van der Schaaf, Frisian journalist/writer
(AbbingawÉld), dies
April 1, 1915
Date of Birth: Art Lund, Salt Lake City Utah, singer (Ken Murray Show)
April 1,
1915 Date of Birth: Willy Dixon, blues artist (Mellow Down Easy)
April 1,
1915 Date of Death: Johann Joseph Abert, composer, dies at 82
April 1, 1914
Event: UVS Soccer team forms in Lead
April 1, 1914
Date of Birth: Carla van Neste, Belgian violinist
April 1, 1914
Date of Death: Rube Waddell, baseballer, dies at 37 of TB
April 1, 1911
Date of Birth: Evert H "Bep" Bakhuys, Dutch soccer star/writer
April 1, 1911
Date of Birth: Ferdinand J Kranenburg, Dutch Secretary of Defense (soc
dem)
April
1, 1911 Date of Birth: GÅnther Rennert, Essen Germany, opera
director/producer
April 1, 1910
Event: Dumitru Dan (Romania) completes a 62,137 mile (100,000 m) walk
April 1,
1910 Date of Death: Andreas Aschenbach, German painter/engraver, dies
at 94
April 1, 1909
Date of Birth: Abner Biberman, Milwaukee Wisc, director/actor
(Imhook-Kodiak)
April 1, 1909
Date of Birth: Eddie Duchin, Mass, society pianist/bandleader (Eddie
Duchin Orch)
April 1, 1908
Date of Birth: Abraham H Maslow, US psychologist (humanistic psychology)
April 1,
1907 Date of Birth: Walter Kaufmann, composer
April 1, 1906
Date of Birth: Ned Glass, Poland, actor (Sol-Julia, Uncle Moe-Bridget
Loves Bernie)
April 1, 1906
Date of Birth: Sigve Lie, Norway, yachtsmans (Olympic-gold-1948, 52)
April 1,
1905 Event: British East African Protectorate becomes colony of Kenya
April 1,
1905 Date of Birth: Clara "Mother" Hale, US social worker (Hale House)
April 1,
1905 Date of Birth: Gaston Eyskens, PM of Belgium (1949, 1958-61,
1968-72)
April 1, 1905
Date of Birth: Winfried P I Zillig, German opera composer/conductor
(Fantasia Irica)
April 1, 1904
Date of Birth: Juan Gil-Albert, poet
April 1, 1902
Date of Birth: L P Jai, cricketer (one Test India v England 1934, scored
19 & 0)
April 1, 1901
Date of Birth: Boris Koutzen, composer
April 1, 1901
Date of Death: Franáois M Raoult, Fren physicist/chemist (Law of Raoult),
dies at 70
April 1, 1900
Event: 1st edition of Dutch newspaper "The People"
April 1, 1899
Event: NC Mutual opens doors for business
April 1, 1898
Date of Birth: Nita Naldi [Anita Donna Dooley], NYC, actress (Blood &
Sand)
April 1, 1898
Date of Birth: Pola Gojawiczynska, Polish writer (Stolica)
April 1, 1898
Date of Birth: Roger Bastide, French sociologist
April 1, 1897
Date of Birth: Willem H van de Pol, Dutch theologist (Christian Dilemma)
April 1,
1895 Date of Birth: Alberta Hunter, blues singer/composer (Downhearted
Blues)
April 1, 1893
Date of Birth: Cicely Courtneidge, Sydney Australia, actress (Double
Exposure)
April 1, 1891
Event: London-Paris telephone connection opens
April 1, 1891
Event: Painter Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti
April 1, 1889
Event: 1st dishwashing machine marketed (Chicago)
April 1, 1888
Event: Soccer team Sparta forms in Rotterdam
April 1, 1887
Date of Birth: Leonard Bloomfield, US linguist
April 1, 1886
Date of Birth: Casimir von Paszthory, composer
April 1, 1886
Date of Birth: Wallace Beery, KC MO, actor (Alias a Gentleman, Dinner at
8)
April
1, 1885 Date of Birth: Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill (Hozier),
British barones
April 1, 1884
Date of Birth: Laurette Taylor, [Helen LM Cooney], US actress (Broadway)
April 1,
1883 Date of Birth: Aleksander V Aleksandrov, Russian
composer/conductor
April 1, 1883
Date of Birth: Lon Chaney, CO, man of 1000 faces, actor (High Noon,
Phantom of Opera)
April 1, 1881
Event: Anti-Jewish riots in Jerusalem
April 1, 1881
Event: Kingdom post office in Netherlands opens
April 1, 1878
Date of Birth: Carl Sternheim, German playwright (Hyperion/Tabula Rasa)
April 1,
1878 Date of Death: Eugene Gautier, composer, dies at 56
April 1, 1876
Event: 1st official NL baseball game (Boston-6, Phila-5)
April 1, 1875
Date of Birth: Edgar Wallace, England, novelist/playwright/journalist
(Terror)
April 1, 1873
Event: British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547
die
April
1, 1873 Event: Mehmed Kemals play "Vatan" premeres in Constantinople
April 1,
1873 Date of Birth: Sergei Rachmaninoff, Novgorod Russia, composer
(Prelude in C# Minor)
April 1, 1872
Event: 1st edition of The Standard
April 1, 1872
Date of Birth: Tadeusz Joteyko, composer
April 1, 1871
Date of Birth: F Melius Christiansen, composer
April 1, 1870
Date of Death: Patrick Gass, sgt of Lewis & Clark Expedition, dies at
98
April
1, 1869 Date of Birth: Peter A Egge, Norwegian writer (De Droom)
April 1,
1869 Date of Death: Anthony G O Ridder van Rappard, Min of Reformed
Worship, dies at 69
April 1, 1868
Event: Hampton Institute opens
April 1, 1868
Date of Birth: Edmond Rostand, France, poet/playwright (Cyrano de
Bergerac)
April 1, 1867
Event: Blacks vote in municipal election in Tuscumbia, Alabama
April 1, 1867
Event: International Exhibition opens in Paris
April 1, 1867
Event: Singapore, Penang & Malakka become British crown colonies
April 1,
1866 Event: US Congress rejects presidential veto gives all equal
rights in US
April 1, 1866
Date of Birth: Ferruccio D M B Busoni, Italy, pianist/composer/conductor
(Arlecchino)
April 1, 1866
Date of Birth: Johannes C H de Meòere, Dutch zoologist
April 1, 1866
Date of Birth: Sophonisba Breckenridge, scholar/teacher/social activist
April 1,
1866 Date of Death: Aime Ambroise Simon Leborne, composer, dies at 98
April 1,
1866 Date of Death: Johannes C H de Meijere, Dutch zoologist, dies
April 1,
1865 Event: -9] Battle at Blakely Alabama
April 1, 1865
Event: Battle of 5 Forks Virginia, signalling end of Lee's army
April 1, 1865
Date of Birth: Richard Zsigmondy, Germany, chemist (Nobel-1925)
April 1, 1864
Date of Birth: Marie Jungius, Dutch fairy tale writer
April 1, 1863
Event: 1st wartime conscription law in US goes into effect
April 1, 1862
Event: Shenandoah Valley campaign, Jackson's Battle of Woodstock, VA
April 1,
1858 Date of Birth: Arnold Aletrino, Dutch
physician-criminologist/author (From Life)
April 1, 1858
Date of Birth: Gaetano Mosca, Italian sociologist (Circulation of Elite)
April 1,
1853 Event: Cincinnati became 1st US city to pay fire fighters a
regular salary
April 1, 1852
Date of Birth: Edward Austin Abbey, US, painter (Quest of the Holy Grail)
April 1,
1850 Event: SF County Govt established
April 1, 1847
Date of Birth: Gavriil Musicescu, composer
April 1, 1847
Date of Birth: Jules-Nicolas Crevaux, French explorer (South America)
April 1,
1843 Date of Birth: Ludwig Enneccerus, German jurist
April 1, 1836
Event: Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Cocos Islands
April 1, 1834
Date of Birth: Isidore Edouard Legouix, composer
April 1, 1832
Date of Death: Robert the Hermit, US ex-slave/hermit in Massachusetts,
dies
April
1, 1830 Date of Death: Carl Borromaus Neuner, composer, dies at 51
April 1,
1826 Event: Samuel Mory patents internal combustion engine
April 1, 1823
Date of Birth: Simon Bolivar Buckner, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in
1914
April
1, 1817 Date of Birth: Johannes J van Oosterzee, Dutch theologist
April 1,
1815 Date of Birth: Otto Von Bismarck, Germany, chancellor (1866-90)
April 1,
1814 Date of Death: Jozef de Ferraris, French/Austrian
general/cartographer, dies at 87
April 1, 1809
Date of Birth: Nikolai Gogol, writer
April 1, 1809
Date of Birth: Willem Ruys J Dz, Dutch ship owner
April 1, 1807
Date of Birth: Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic
April 1, 1807
Date of Death: Louis Franáois Chambray, composer, dies at 69
April 1, 1807
Date of Death: Mikl¢s RÇvai, Hungarian linguistic/poet, dies at 57
April 1, 1807
Date of Death: Vaclav Josef Bartolomej Praupner, composer, dies at 61
April 1,
1803 Event: French law rules the use of intention
April 1, 1802
Date of Birth: Hubert Reis, composer
April 1, 1799
Date of Death: Narciso Casanovas, composer, dies at 52
April 1, 1793
Event: Volcano Unsen on Japan erupts killing about 53,000
April 1, 1793
Date of Birth: Edouard Corbiäre, French captain/writer (Le negrier)
April 1, 1792
Event: Gronings feminist Etta Palm demands women's right to divorce
April 1, 1789
Event: House of Reps 1st full meeting, NYC, F Muhlenberg 1st speaker
April 1,
1785 Date of Birth: J H Ferdinand Olivier, German painter
April 1, 1778
Event: Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, creates "$" symbol
April 1,
1776 Event: Friedrich von Klinger's "Sturm und Drang," premieres in
Leipzig
April 1, 1772
Date of Birth: Ignaz Franz von Mosel, composer
April 1, 1755
Date of Birth: Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, French lawyer (Fisiologia
del Gusto)
April 1, 1748
Event: Ruins of Pompeii found
April 1, 1734
Date of Death: Louis Lully, composer, dies at 69
April 1, 1732
Date of Birth: Franz Josef Haydn, Austria, composer (Die Schîpfung)
April 1, 1725
Date of Birth: Franáois Bainville, composer
April 1, 1724
Event: Henry Pelham becomes English minister of War
April 1, 1724
Event: Jonathan Swift publishes Drapier's letters
April 1, 1721
Date of Birth: Pieter Hellendaal, Dutch violinist/organist/composer
(Glees)
April 1, 1697
Date of Birth: AbbÇ PrÇvost, French novelist/journalist (Manon Lescaut)
April 1,
1663 Event: Gemert fines unwed motherhood (50 guilder penalty)
April 1, 1643
Date of Birth: Christian Demelius, composer
April 1, 1611
Date of Death: Gillis van Valkenborch, Flemish painter, buried at about 72
April 1,
1582 Date of Birth: Gaspar de Crayer, Flemish painter
April 1, 1582
Date of Birth: Thomas Simpson, composer
April 1, 1581
Event: Portugese Cortes subjects himself on Philip II
April 1, 1578
Event: William Harvey of England discovers blood circulation
April 1, 1578
Date of Birth: William Harvey, England, physician (discovered blood
circulation)
April 1, 1572
Event: Bloys van Treslong conquers Brielle
April 1, 1548
Date of Death: Sigismund I, the Elder, King of Poland, dies at 81
April 1, 1504
Event: English guilds/corp goes under state control
April 1, 1283
Date of Birth: Ludwig IV of Baveria, Roman Catholic Bavarian emperor
(1314-47)
April 1, 1205
Date of Death: Amalrik II, King of Cyprus/Jerusalem, dies
April 1, 1204
Date of Death: Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of Louis VII & Henry II,
dies at 81
April 1, 1064
Event: Body of bishop Eleutherius of Blandain moved to Doornik
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