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April 1: Independence Day in San Serriffe (1967); April Fools' Day; Assyrian New Year.
- 1789 – Frederick Muhlenberg, later accused of preventing German from becoming the first official language of the United States, was selected as the first Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
- 1865 – Ordered to hold Five Forks, Confederate General George Pickett (pictured) instead lost almost 3,000.
- 1957 – About eight million viewers watched the current affairs documentary programme Panorama, prompting the BBC to instruct many of them to "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best".
- 1969 – The British-born model Hawker Siddeley Harrier was introduced at a Royal Air Force event, becoming the only one in the 1960s to successfully perform on a short runway.
- 1970 – The first of over 670,000 Gremlins were released into North America over a nine year period.
- 1970 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signed a law putting a U.S. General on each cigarette package sold in the United States.
- 1976 – Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer in Jobs' parents' living room to sell Wozniak's hand-built circuit board kits at the repeating digit market-price of US$666.66.
- 1997 – Cartoonists of popularly syndicated comic strips swapped cartoons for the day.
- 1999 – The Government of Canada ordered that all inhabitants of the Northwest Territories be carved into two pieces.
- 2004 – Google launched a free Web-based service offering users an unprecedented 1000 megabytes of storage for spam.

