1 Aprile

The **1st o Aprile** is the 91st day o the year (92nt in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 274 days ti come.

## Events

* 1318 - Scotland taks Berwick-upon-Tweed frae Ingland.
* 1789 - Frederick Muhlenberg is electit the first Speaker o the Unitit States Hoose o Representatives.
* 1867 - Singapore becomes a Breetish croun colony.
* 1873 - The ship "RMS Atlantic" sinks near Nova Scotia, Canadae, killin 545 fowk.
* 1897 - The ceety o Nagano in Japan is foondit.
* 1899 - Germany taks control o present-day Papua New Guinea, unner the nemme o "German New Guinea".
* 1918 - The Breetish Ryal Air Force is foondit.
* 1921 - Adrienne Bolland becomes the first wumman tae fly across the Andes, frae Mendoza, Argentinae tae Santiago, Chile.
* 1924 - The Ryal Canadian Air Force is foondit.
* 1924 - Adolf Hitler is sentencit tae 5 year in preeson for his pairt in the Beer Haw Putsch; he only spends 9 month there an writes Mein Kampf.
* 1935 - Indie's Central Bank is foondit.
* 1936 - Orissa becomes a state o Indie.
* 1939 - Spaingie Ceevil War ends, as the last Republicans surrender.
* 1946 - A yirdquauk aff Alaska's Aleutian Islands causes a tsunami that hits the toun o Hilo, Hawaii.
* 1947 - Paul o Greece becomes King.
* 1948 - The Faroe Islands gain autonomy frae Denmark.
* 1949 - Canadae ends internment o Japanese fowk.
* 1957 - The BBC braidcasts a Hunt the gowk-prank documentary aboot a spaghetti hairst in Swisserland.
* 1974 - Ingland an Wales: The Local Govrenment Act 1972 enters intae force, chyngin coonty mairches an the nummer o coonties; Monmouthshire an Newport are offeecially transferred frae Ingland tae Wales.
* 1979 - The Islamic Republic o Iran is creatit.
* 1990 - Margaret Thatcher introduces the poll tax in Scotland.
* 1998 - Blackpool, Ingland becomes an independent unitary authority.
* 1999 - Nunavut becomes a territory o Canadae.
* 2001 - The Netherlands becomes the first kintra tae introduce same-sex marriage.
* 2004 - Gmail appens.
* 2009 - Albanie an Croatie jyn NATO.
* 2009 - A Super Puma helicopter crashes intae the North Sea aff Scotland, killin 18 fowk.
* 2012 - Aung San Suu Kyi wins a seat in pairlament in Burma's elections.
* 2013 - Creation o Polis Scotland, the new single Scots polis force.
* 2017 - A laundslide in Mocoa, Colombie, kills at least 254 fowk.
* 2018 - The Fowkrepublic o Cheenae's Tiangong 1 space station breaks up an faws intae the Yird's atmosfere, laundin in the Sooth Paceefic Ocean naur Tahiti.
* 2019 - It is revealed that "Reiwa" will be the name o Japan's new imperial era whan Naruhito becomes Emperor at the end o the month.
* 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: Twa mair scheduled annual events are cancelled acause o the COVID-19 virus - The Wimbledon Championships an the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

## Births

* 1815 - Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor o Germany (d. 1898)
* 1865 - Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrick-Hungarian chemist (d. 1929)
* 1873 - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Roushie componer (d. 1943)
* 1924 - Brendan Byrne, American politeecian (d. 2018)
* 1932 - Debbie Reynolds, American actress an sangster (d. 2016)
* 1942 - Brian Binley, Inglish politeecian
* 1957 - Stephen O'Brien, Inglish politeecian
* 1961 - Susan Boyle, Scots sangster
* 1962 - Chris Grayling, Inglish politeecian
* 1967 - Joe FitzPatrick, Scots politeecian
* 1976 - Clarence Seedorf, Dutch fitbawer
* 1987 - Ding Junhui, Cheenese snooker player
* 1995 - Logan Paul, American social media enterteener an actor

## Daiths
* 1922 - Emperor Charles I o Austrick (b. 1887)
* 1947 - George II o Greece (b. 1890)
* 1984 - Marvin Gaye, American sangster (b. 1939)
* 1993 - Infante Juan, Coont o Barcelona, Spaingie ryal (b. 1913)
* 2015 - Misao Okawa, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1898)

## Halidays

* Hunt the gowk
* Aprile Fools' Day
* Islamic Republic Day (Iran)
* Odisha Day
* First day o Schuil (Japan)