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− | '''{{PAGENAME}}''' | + | '''April 1''' in history: |
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| + | * Every year: April Fool's Day, on which people play tricks on one another, is celebrated in much of the Western world; its origin is uncertain, but one explanation is that it marked the end of the week celebrating the New Year, which began on [[March 25]] until the adoption of the Gregorian calendar. |
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| + | * 1999: one-fifth of [[Canada]]'s land mass became the Inuit territory of Nunavut (meaning "our land"). |
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| + | * 1945: The first of 172,000 troops of the [[U.S.]] Tenth Army began moving ashore on Okinawa in the largest amphibious operation in the Pacific theater during World War II. |
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| + | * 1918: Great Britain formed the Royal Air Force (RAF), the world's first independent air service. |
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| + | * 1899: Under the terms of the Dawes Act of 1887, the process of allotting Native American tribal lands in [[Oklahoma]] to individuals began; the effect was to open the Indian Territory to white settlement. |
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| + | * 1840: The first political party in U.S. history based exclusively on an antislavery platform, the Liberty party, was founded in Albany, [[New York]] |
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| + | [[Category:April]] [[Category:Days of the Year]] |