Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 1
Appearance
April 1: Palm Sunday in Christianity (2007); Independence Day in San Serriffe (1967); April Fools' Day; Assyrian New Year.
- 1318 - The Scottish re-took Berwick upon Tweed from the English.
- 1957 - Eight million viewers watched the television programme Panorama, prompting several of them to contact the BBC the following day and ask for instructions on how to grow spaghetti trees.
- 1970 - U.S. President Richard Nixon (pictured) signed a law putting "the Surgeon General" on cigarette packages.
- 1997 - Cartoonists of popularly syndicated comic strips swapped cartoons for the day.