Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 1

Images

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  Frederick Muhlenberg
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  Richard Nixon
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  Assembled Apple Computer "do-it-yourself" kit
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  Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba
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  George Pickett
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  The Curragh plain, County Kildare, Ireland
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  Hawker Siddeley Harrier taking off
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  First locomotive used on the Brill Tramway
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  The hurley used by Meelick captain, Pat Madden, in the first ever all-Ireland hurling final
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  Two men marrying in Amsterdam, 1 April 2001
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  Philip Sheridan
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  Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Assyrian New Year;	many unreliable sources
Edible Book Day	actual date not specified in article ("on or around 1 April")
1572 – Dutch Revolt: The Geuzen captured the undefended town of Brielle from Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, providing the first foothold on land for the rebels.	refimprove section (CN tags)
1789 – Frederick Muhlenberg became the first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.	refimprove section
1854 – Hard Times, the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, was released.	unreferenced sections
1888 - The first ever all-Ireland hurling final was played in Birr, County Offaly.	Too much uncited
1924 – William Wrigley Jr. founded the Wrigley Company, the world's largest manufacturer and marketer of chewing gum.	unreferenced section
1935 – The Reserve Bank of India, the nation's central bank, was founded during the British Raj.	refimprove section
1944 – The town of Schaffhausen in Switzerland was accidentally bombed by United States aircraft.	Too much uncited
1947 – The main mutiny in a series of mutinies of the Royal New Zealand Navy began.	single source
1976 – Apple Computer was originally founded to sell the Apple I, an early personal computer sold as kits.	missing information
1978 – The Philippine College of Commerce became a chartered state university and renamed the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.	refimprove section; primary sources
1996 – The government of Nova Scotia amalgamated the City of Halifax and the over 200 communities around the area to create the Halifax Regional Municipality.	refimprove section
1999 – Canada's newest territory Nunavut came into being.	refimprove section
2004 – Google launched Gmail, now the most widely used web mail system.	expansion
2006 – Several British policing agencies joined together to become the Serious Organised Crime Agency.	refimprove
William Harvey |b|1578	refimprove
Anne McCaffrey |b|1926|	Too much uncited
Alan Kulwicki |d|1993	Too much uncited

Eligible

• 1234 – Richard Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, was defeated by knights loyal to King Henry III of England at the Battle of the Curragh in County Kildare, Ireland.
• 1293 – Robert Winchelsey left England for Rome to be consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury, but a papal vacancy delayed the ceremony.
• 1865 – American Civil War: The Union Army under Major General Philip Sheridan (pictured) inflicted more than 2,900 casualties on the Confederates at the Battle of Five Forks.
• 1871 – The Duke of Buckingham (pictured) opened the first section of the Brill Tramway, a short railway line to transport goods between his lands and the national rail network.
• 1879 – The Inland Customs Line, established by the British for the collection of the salt tax in India, was abandoned.
• 1922 – Under the South Seas Mandate, Japan set up a government in Koror, precipitating large-scale Japanese settlement in Palau.
• 1933 – English cricketer Wally Hammond set a record for the highest individual score in Test cricket of 336 not out during a match against New Zealand.
• 1941 – Soviet border guards opened fire on civilians attempting to cross the border from the Soviet Union to Romania near Fântâna Albă, killing between 44 and 3,000 people.
• 1952 – Israel enacted a citizenship law, prior to which the country technically had no citizens.
• 1963 – On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the tenth novel of Ian Fleming's James Bond series, was released in the United Kingdom.
• 1969 – The Hawker Siddeley Harrier, the first operational fighter aircraft with V/STOL capabilities, entered service with the Royal Air Force.
• 1970 – U.S. president Richard Nixon signed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring that a prominent warning by the surgeon general be placed on cigarette packages.
• 1970 – The American Motors Corporation introduced its Gremlin, promoted as America's first subcompact car.
• 1990 – The longest prison riot in British penal history began at Strangeways Prison in Manchester, lasting 25 days.
• 2001 – Same-sex marriage in the Netherlands was legalized, making it the first country to do so.
• Born/died this day: | Aimery of Cyprus |d|1205| Franz Egon von Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg |d|1682| Sophie Germain |b|1776| Giuditta Pasta |d|1865| Shivakumara Swami |b|1907| Scott Joplin |d|1917| Alexander Stubb |b|1968| Marvin Gaye |d|1984| Henri Cochet |d|1987| Alex Gilbert |b|1992| Jofra Archer |b|1995| Logan Paul |b|1995| Álex Palou |b|1997| King Combs |b|1998|

Notes

• Federation of Stoke-on-Trent appears on March 31, so Halifax should not appear in the same year

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• 1340 – A band of warriors led by Niels Ebbesen killed Count Gerhard III, ending Holstein rule in Denmark.
• 1833 – Mexican Texans met at San Felipe de Austin to begin the Convention of 1833.
• 1918 – The United Kingdom established the Royal Air Force (badge depicted), near the end of the First World War.
• 1955 – The British Army's Mobile Defence Corps, intended to assist with civil defence after a nuclear attack, was established by royal warrant.
• 2001 – An American [[Lockheed EP-3|Lockheed Template:Nowrap]] and a Chinese [[Shenyang J-8|Shenyang Template:Nowrap]] collided in mid-air off Hainan, resulting in an international dispute between the two countries.