Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 1
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This is a list of selected April 1 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.April 1: Independence Day in San Serriffe (1967); April Fools' Day; Assyrian New Year
- 1865 – Ordered to hold five forks, Confederate General George Pickett instead lost almost 3,000.
- 1918 – The British Armed Forces established a new branch to grant personnel the power to fly.
- 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.
- 1976 – Two college dropouts and a business partner with cold feet founded what is now Apple Inc. to sell their handicrafts (pictured), eventually offering them at a market-price of US$666.66 because they liked repeating digits.
- 1999 – Under the terms of two laws passed by the Canadian Parliament in 1993, the Northwest Territories carved all of their inhabitants into two pieces.
- 2002 – The Netherlands, on their one-year anniversary of recognising a new form of marriage, legalized euthanasia.
