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On This Day · The 91st day of the year

April 1

50 years on from Steve Jobs, April 1 is a date with an anniversary worth pausing on. Most of the weight falls in the 20th century, where conflict is a recurring thread.

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Aries is the sign for April 1 — read more on the Aries page, or see April's birthstone & birth flower.

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What happened on April 1?

April 1 is the 91st day of the year. It marks 10 notable events in history, dated between 1865 and 2004. Famous people born on April 1 include Rachel Maddow, Sophie Germain and Otto von Bismarck.

Released on April 1

Movies, games, albums & shows

2026

  • Movie The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
  • Game SoulQuest

2025

  • Game Haste

2023

  • Game Crab Champions
  • TV Hell's Paradise
  • TV Tengoku Daimakyo

2022

  • TV Slow Horses

Release data from TMDB & IGDB.

Events

10 notable moments
  1. 1865

    American Civil War

  2. 1918

    Royal Air Force

  3. 1922

    Northern Ireland

  4. 1941

    Fântâna Albă massacre

  5. 1969

    Hawker Siddeley Harrier

  6. 1970

    Richard Nixon

  7. 1976

    Steve Jobs

  8. 2001

    Same-sex marriage in the Netherlands

  9. 2001

    Lockheed EP-3

  10. 2004

    Google

Famous birthday twins

Born on April 1

Rachel Maddow

b. 1973

Sophie Germain

b. 1776

Otto von Bismarck

b. 1815

Samuel Alito

b. 1950

Gaston Eyskens

b. 1905

Abraham Maslow

b. 1908

Toshiro Mifune

b. 1920

Randy Orton

b. 1980

Deaths

  • 1971Kathleen Lonsdale
  • 1924Lloyd Hildebrand
  • 1922Charles I of Austria
  • 1548Sigismund I the Old
  • 1132Hugh of Châteauneuf
  • 1085Emperor Shenzong of Song

Holidays & observances

  • —Christian feast day: Cellach of Armagh
  • —Christian feast day: Hugh of Grenoble
  • —Christian feast day: Frederick Denison Maurice (Church of England)
  • —Christian feast day: Mary of Egypt
  • —Christian feast day: Melito of Sardis
  • —Christian feast day: Tewdrig
  • —Christian feast day: Theodora
  • —Christian feast day: Walric, abbot of Leuconay

The factual record above — event titles, dates, names, and observances — is drawn from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. DateLore adds curation, structure, and original editorial commentary. DateLore is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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