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From Wikipedia's newest articles:

• ...that Nils Olav is the world's highest ranked penguin (pictured)?
• ...that Richard de Southchurch, Sheriff of Essex, planned to attack London with burning cocks?
• ...that Rush Limbaugh was appointed an ambassador to India?
• ...that the Tempest Prognosticator employs a jury of twelve leeches that use small hammers to ring a bell to indicate the approach of a storm?
• ...that the old surgery technique of grafting monkey testicles onto human males has some modern supporters?

• Adam Air Flight 574 disappears near the Indonesian island of Sulawesi (map pictured) with 102 people onboard.
• Romania and Bulgaria join the European Union, bringing the total number of member states to 27.
• The Islamic Courts Union is forced to retreat after the Battle of Jilib deprives them of Kismayu, their last stronghold in Somalia.
• At least eight bombings in Bangkok kill three people, leading authorities to cancel New Year's Eve celebrations in the city.
• A van bomb explosion in Madrid Barajas International Airport injures 26 and leaves two missing.

April 1: Palm Sunday in Western Christianity (2007); Independence Day in San Serriffe (1967); April Fools' Day; Assyrian New Year.

• 1318 - The Scottish re-took Berwick upon Tweed from the English.
• 1957 - About eight million viewers watched a report by the BBC's Panorama on spaghetti trees.
• 1970 - U.S. President Richard Nixon (pictured) signed a law banning cigarette advertisements on American television and radio.
• 1997 - Cartoonists of popularly syndicated comic strips swapped cartoons for the day.
• 2006 - The Serious Organised Crime Agency was created under the provisions of a 2005 Act of the United Kingdom Parliament.

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