Today in History - 1st of April

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What Happened On This Day – 1 April

• 2001 The Netherlands becomes the first country to allow same-sex marriage

  Despite opposition from conservative factions, gay and lesbian couples are today allowed to marry in many other countries also.

• 2001 Slobodan Milošević is arrested

  The former President of Serbia was arrested on corruption charges. Later he was put on trial before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague for war crimes during the Yugoslav wars.

• 1976 Apple Inc. is founded

  The computer company, which has evolved into a multinational corporation and whose best-known product is the iPhone, was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. In 2012, the company's global revenue amounted to $156 billion.

• 1957 The BBC broadcasts the spaghetti tree hoax

  The 3-minute film shown on the current affairs program, Panorama, portrayed a Swiss family apparently harvesting spaghetti from a tree. A number of viewers later contacted the BBC to inquire where to find and how to grow such a plant. The hoax is regarded as one of the best April Fools jokes ever pulled.

• 1939 General Franco proclaims victory in the Spanish civil war

  The dictator ruled Spain until his death in 1975. His regime was responsible for gross human rights violations, including murdering numerous political opponents

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Births On This Day – 1 April

• 1961 Susan Boyle

  Scottish singer

• 1940 Wangari Maathai

  Kenyan environmentalist, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1875 Edgar Wallace

  English journalist, author, playwright

• 1873 Sergei Rachmaninoff

  Russian pianist, composer, conductor

• 1815 Otto von Bismarck

  German politician, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire

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