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01 April, 2006

The Serious Organised Crime Agency, dubbed the British FBI, is created in the United Kingdom.

01 April, 2002

The Netherlands legalizes euthanasia, becoming the first nation in the world to do so.

01 April, 2001

An EP-3E United States Navy plane collides with a Chinese Peoples Liberation Army fighter jet. The Navy crew makes an emergency landing in Hainan, Peoples Republic of China and is detained. See Hainan Island incident.

01 April, 2001

Former president of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Miloševic surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on charges of war crimes.

01 April, 2001

Same-sex marriage comes into force in the Netherlands, which is the first country to allow it.

01 April, 1999

Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved from the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.

01 April, 1996

The Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia was created.

01 April, 1989

Margaret Thatchers new local government tax, the Community Charge (commonly known as the poll tax), was introduced in Scotland.

01 April, 1981

Daylight saving time is introduced in the USSR.

01 April, 1980

New York Citys Transit Worker Union 100 goes on strike, lasting 11 days.

01 April, 1979

Irans government becomes an Islamic Republic by a 98% vote, overthrowing the Shah officially.

01 April, 1978

Philippine College of Commerce, through a presidential decree, was converted to Polytechnic University of the Philippines.

01 April, 1976

Apple Computer is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

01 April, 1976

Conrail takes over operations from six bankrupt railroads in the northeastern U.S..

01 April, 1974

In the United Kingdom, the Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties come into being.

01 April, 1973

Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Corbett National Park, India.

01 April, 1970

President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring surgeon generals warnings on tobacco products and banning cigarette advertisements on television and radio in the United States starting on January 1, 1971.

01 April, 1969

The Hawker Siddeley Harrier enters service with the RAF.

01 April, 1967

The United States Department of Transportation begins operation.

01 April, 1963

The Soap Opera General Hospital debuted

01 April, 1955

The EOKA rebellion starts in Cyprus, aiming at the islands independence from the United Kingdom.

01 April, 1954

President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.

01 April, 1949

Chinese Civil War: Communist Party of China hold unsuccessful peace talks with the Kuomintang in Beijing, after three years of fighting.

01 April, 1949

The twenty-six counties of the Irish Free State become the Republic of Ireland.

01 April, 1948

Cold War: Berlin Airlift - Military forces, under direction of the Soviet-controlled government in East Germany, set-up a land blockade of West Berlin.

01 April, 1948

Faroe Islands receive autonomy from Denmark.

01 April, 1946

Aleutian Island earthquake: A 7.8 magnitude earthquake near the Aleutian Islands creates a tsunami that strikes the Hawaiian Islands killing 159 (mostly in Hilo, Hawaii).

01 April, 1946

Formation of the Malayan Union.

01 April, 1945

World War II: Operation Iceberg - United States troops land on Okinawa in the last campaign of the war.

01 April, 1944

Accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen. The bombers were lost.

01 April, 1941

The Blockade Runner Badge for German navy is instituted.

01 April, 1939

Generalísimo Francisco Franco of the Spanish State announced the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the last of the Republican forces surrendered.

01 April, 1937

Aden becomes a British crown colony.

01 April, 1936

Orissa Formation of the Indian state orissa(1936), formerly known as UTKAL.

01 April, 1933

The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in the series of anti-Semitic acts that will be known as the Holocaust.

01 April, 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 the book Mein Kampf.

01 April, 1924

First revenue flight for Belgiums Sabena Airlines

01 April, 1924

The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.

01 April, 1918

The Royal Flying Corps is replaced by the Royal Air Force.

01 April, 1912

The Greek athlete Konstantinos Tsiklitiras breaks the world record in standing long jump jumping 3.47 meters.

01 April, 1891

The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.

01 April, 1873

The British steamer SS Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547.

01 April, 1867

Singapore becomes a British crown colony.

01 April, 1865

American Civil War: Battle of Five Forks - In Siege of Petersburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee begins his final offensive.

01 April, 1857

Herman Melville publishes The Confidence-Man.

01 April, 1854

Hard Times begins serialisation in Charles Dickens magazine, Household Words.

01 April, 1826

Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.

01 April, 1789

In New York City, the United States House of Representatives holds its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first House Speaker.

01 April, 1572

In the Eighty Years War, the Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Spaniards, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic.

01 April, 1340

Niels Ebbesen kills Gerhard III of Holstein in his bedroom, ending the 1332-1340 interregnum in Denmark.

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