April 1st

The April 1st is the 91e Jour of the Année (92e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

A tradition wants that April is the day of the jokes (see the article: Poisson of April).

Events

1 to 1900

• 527 : Justinien is crowned emperor.

• 1307 : Villers-the-Temple is yielded to the Chevaliers of Malta, after the suppression of the Templiers.
• 1328 : advent of Philippe {{VI}} of Valois, cousin of Charles {{IV}} Beautiful the, that this one had indicated as Régent before his death; the General states confirm the non-transmission of the kingdom to the women, and entrust the crown to the Regent, who becomes king de France (until in 1350). End of the line of Capétiens direct.
• 1699 : the perpetual Édit sets up a protectionist policy favorable to the development of the industry of the Spanish Netherlands.
• 1717 : organization with Vienna of the Supreme council of the Netherlands, which will last until in 1757. It is the prince Eugene of Savoy which is named governor and general captain of the Netherlands; but, retained by the campaigns carried out against the Turks, it leaves the capacity to the Savoyard minister Hercules Turinetti, marquis of Prié.
• 1795 (12 germinal year): day of protests without violence of the Parisian people against chèreté of the food products. The Convention Thermidor ienne benefits from it to off-set without judgment of old Montagnard S.
• 1810: Napoleon {{1st}} wife Marie-Louise of Austria.
• 1878 : with Bernissart in Belgium, minors make the discovery of 29 skeletons of Iguanodon S with 322 meters of depth.

20th century

• 1923 : law carrying the military service in France in 18 months.

• 1929 : with New York, the American inventor, made for the first time the demonstration of its new creation: the Yo-yo.
• 1938 : invention of the Nescafe.
• 1939 : end of the war of Spain
• 1944: France: Massacre of Ascq.
• 1976 : Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founds the computer firm Apple.
• 1983 : coming into effect of the retirement at 60 years in France.
• 1984 : Marvin Gaye is abbatu of two balls in the head, by his/her father.
• 1990 : with the Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe is re-elected president.

• 1999 :
• With the Canada, creation of the territory of the Nunavut. The 25.000 inhabitants are mainly Inuits. The official language is the Inuktitut .
• Ian Thorpe changes the world records of the 200 m freestyle in small basin to 1 ' 43" 28.
• in Ukraine, death sentence of, guilty serial killer of fifty-two murder.
• BP Amoco buys for 26,8 billion dollars the company Arco and becomes world number 1 of the private oil producers.
• a ferry transporting 300 people makes shipwreck with broad Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
• is arrété and accused of obstacle to the public communication and damage to data-processing sytèmes. He is the author of a computer virus.
• 2000 :
• France: VAT passes from 20,6% to 19,6%.
• the England gains the Tournoi of the six nations (Rugby).

21e century

• 2001 :
• Arrest of the former president of the Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević by the authorities serbo-Montenegrins at the end 26 hours of seat of its villa.
• an American spy plane is constrained to land urgently in China after having violated the Chinese airspace, an incident which intervenes in a general climate of tension between Beijing and Washington.
• the traditional stamps with the effigy of the queen Elizabeth, founded by the Queen Victoria in 1840, from now on are replaced by other national symbols.
• With Saint-Sebastien (Spain, province of Guipúzcoa), alternate of Javier Castaño, Spanish Matador.
• 2002 : the Netherlands become the first country in the world to recognize the Euthanasie like a legal act.
• 2004 : the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, drawn with: 340,000 specimens, leaves an special edition in 3D accompanied by the adequate pair of glasses.
• 2006 : establishment of Eddie Guerrero with WWE Hall Off Famed

Births

• 1220 : Go-Saga, emperor of the Japan, († March 17th 1272)

• 1543: François de Bonne of Lesdiguières, chief Protesting of the Dauphine , Marshal of France, last Constable of France and knight of the Order of the Holy Spirit († September 28th 1626).
• 1750 : Hugo Kołłątaj, militant and political writer, theorist and philosopher Polish († February 28th 1812)
• 1753: Joseph de Maistre, politician, writer and Savoyard philosopher . († February 26th 1821)
• 1776: Sophie Germain, French mathematician († June 27th 1831)
• 1793: Edouard Corbière, sailor, writer, journalist and ship-owner French († September 27th 1875)
• 1815: Otto von Bismarck, first Chancellor of the German Empire († July 30th 1898)
• 1866: Ferruccio Busoni, type-setter, pianist, professor and Italian leader. († July 27th 1924)
• 1868: Edmond Rostand, writer French. († December 2nd 1918)
• 1873 of the Gregorian Calendar: Sergueï Rachmaninov, type-setter and Russian pianist († March 28th 1943)
• 1883: Lon Chaney, American dumb movie actor. († August 26th 1930)
• 1896: Jean Tissier, French actor. († March 31st 1973).
• 1902 : Denise Colomb, French photographer († January 1st 2004)
• 1905: Gaston Eyskens, Belgian politician
• 1908: Abraham Maslow, psychological American. († June 8th 1970)
• 1911:
• Armel Guerne, poet and translator born in Switzerland
• Adam Kozlowiecki, man of the church Polish
• 1921: Andre Stil, writer French
• 1925: Wojciech Has, realizer Polish
• 1927: Jacques Mayol, apneist French († 2001)
• 1929:
• Milan Kundera, writer of languages Czech and French
• Michel Demolished, politician French
• Marcel Amont, singer
• 1932: Debbie Reynolds, American actress
• 1938: Ali MacGraw, American actress
• 1940: Wangari Maathai, prize winner of the Nobel Prize of peace, 2004
• 1942: Samuel Delany, writer of Science fiction
• 1948: Jimmy Cliff, singer
• 1953: Barry Sonnenfeld, American realizer
• 1971: Method Man, American rappor
• 1974: Paolo Bettini, Italian racing cyclist
• 1976: Clarence Seedorf, footballer Dutch
• 1981: Hannah Spearritt, singer and British actress
• 1983: Franck Ribéry, footballer French

Death

• 1085 : Shenzong, emperor of China (° May 25th 1048)

• 1204: Aliénor of Aquitaine, queen of Henry {{II}} of England (°C. 1121)
• 1205: Amaury {{II}} of Lusignan, king de Jérusalem (° 1145)
• 1455: Zbigniew Oleśnicki, monk and Polish statesman, bishop of Cracow of 1423 until its death, regent of the Kingdom of Poland during the minority of the king Ladislas {{III}} Jagellon, cardinal first Polish in 1449. (° December 5th 1389).
• 1548 : Zygmunt {{Ier}} Stary, king of Poland and Large-Duke of Lithuania (° January 1st 1467)
• 1621: Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (° October 17th 1577)
• 1684: Roger Williams, theologist states-unien (° December 21st 1603)
• 1799: Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, inventive French
• 1839: Jerónimo Jose Candido, Spanish Matador (° January 8th 1770).
• 1917 : Scott Joplin, musician and type-setter of ragtime states-unien (° December 24th 1868)
• 1922: Charles {{Ier}}, emperor of Austria and king de Hongrie (° August 17th 1887)
• 1947: Georges {{II}}, king of Hellènes (° July 20th 1890)
• 1950: Charles R. Drew, physicist states-unien (° June 3rd 1904)
• 1966: Blank O' Brien, Irish humorist (° October 4th 1911)
• 1968: Lev Davidovich Pram, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize of physics 1962 (° January 22nd 1908)
• 1976: max Ernst, German artist (° April 2nd 1891)
• 1976: Roger River, racing cyclist French (° February 23rd 1936)
• 1984: Marvin Gaye, singer states-unien (° April 2nd 1939)
• 1991: Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer states-unienne (° May 11th 1894)
• 1993: Andree Brunin, French poet (° February 13rd 1937)
• 1994: Robert Doisneau, photographer French (° April 14th 1912)
• 1998: Rozz Williams, Type-setter and American Singer (° 1979)
• 2001: Trinh Cong Its, Vietnamese type-setter (° February 28th 1939)
• 2003: Leslie Cheung, actor and Chinese singer of HongKong (° September 12th 1956)

Celebrations

• In certain countries one celebrates the Poisson of April. In North America, April first was connected to the medieval tradition of the festival the insane ones. It is known under the name of “April Fool' S day” (day of insane of April) or “All Fool' S day” (day of all the insane ones).

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

• Caidoc of Arras and Fricor of Arras (7th century), monks.

• Cellach (9th century)
• Cellach (12th century)
• Dodolin of Vienna (7th century), bishop.
• Gilbert de Caithness bishop
• Leucone de Troyes († 666), bishop.
• Macaire of Pélécète (), higoumene in Constantinople.
• Marie the penitent Egyptian woman.
• Méliton de Sardes († 190), bishop.
• Quintien d' Arménie and Irenee d' Arménie
• Théodora (2nd century)
• Venance de Dalmatie bishop
• Victor of Egypt and Etienne of Egypt
• Valéry de Leuconay, abbot. Principal festival the December 12th. This mention on April first is perhaps due to a confusion with saint Leucone de Troyes.

Catholic saints of the day

• Hugues of Grenoble bishop.

Orthodoxe saints of the day

• Abraham Bulgarian the († 1229)
• Euthyme de Souzdal († 1404), archimandrite.

See too

• 1 {{er}} April in sport
• 1 {{er}} April in the railroads

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