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.
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.
1970 – The first of over 670,000 gremlins was released into North America.
1976 – Two college dropouts co-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.
2004 – Google launched a free Web-based e-mail service, providing users an unprecedented 1000 megabytes of storage for spam.