April 1 in History
1 April in History – 56 years ago
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2009
Albania and Croatia join NATO; France reintegrated into NATO
1999
Nunavut formed from eastern Northwest Territories
starts
1955
Insurgents in Cyprus demand union with Greece
1950
Somaliland placed under Italian trusteeship
starts
1945
US captures Okinawa
1941
Pro-Axis military coup in Iraq
1939
Franco declares end of Spanish Civil War
ends
1939
Spanish Civil War
1937
Aden detached from British India
1937
Burma separated from British India
1936
Bihar, Orissa & Sind become provinces of India
1930
Yan Xishan expels Chiang Kaishek’s men from Tianjin and Beiping
1920
US withdraws from Siberia
ends
1919
British withdraw from Transcaspian region
ends
1917
US buys Danish West Indies, which become US Virgin Islands
1916
Iyasu of Ethiopia allegedly declares for Ottoman Sultan
1912
Bengal reunited as one province
ends
1897
Jandamarra wages guerrilla war against Australian settlers
starts
1849
Genoa revolts; suppressed by Sardinia
ends
1849
Brescia in revolt against Austria
starts
451
Attila overruns northern Gaul, ravaging many cities*
ends
412
Goths march from Italy to Gaul*
393
Italy declares for Eugenius*
starts
286
Maximian rules western Roman Empire
241
Persians capture Hatra*
ends
232
Sasanians invade Roman Mesopotamia*
starts
230
Sabaeans and Himyarites defeat Aksumites near Zafar*
starts
70
Garamantes attack Leptis Magna*
*Actual date uncertain; set to 1 April for purposes of Omniatlas
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