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This is a list of selected April 1 anniversaries that appear in 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 might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Blurb Reason
1572 – Spanish general and governor Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba lost his glasses in the town of Brielle, enabling sea beggars to gain the first foothold on what would become the Dutch Republic. no footnotes
1854Hard times begin in England. no footnotes
1865 – Ordered to hold five forks, Confederate General George Pickett instead lost almost 3,000. Tagged with {{refimprove}}
1924Wrigley Jr. opens a company, packaging chewing gum with each can of baking powder. Tagged with {{refimprove}}
1924Adolf Hitler was placed in a cage Need to verify date, tagged with {{refimprove}}
1945 – An iceberg known as "Steel Rain" hit Okinawa, causing various amphibious species, native to the UK and the US, to flock to the islands. Tagged with {{refimprove}}
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. Tagged with {{citations missing}}

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April 1: Palm Sunday (Christianity, 2012); Rama Navami (Hinduism, 2012); April Fools' Day; Assyrian New Year; National Day in Iran (1979); Edible Book Day

The Curragh plain, County Kildare, Ireland

  • 1970 – The first of over 670,000 gremlins were released into North America to crush imported machines.
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