On a day like today on April 1, 1939 Francisco Franco signs the last military part that officially ends the Spanish Civil War. The part was broadcast by announcer Fernando Fernández de Córdoba on Radio Nacional de España and announces the end of a dispute that had begun on July 17, 1936 with the coup against the government of the Second Republic.
He also On April 1, 1976, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded the computer company Apple Computer in the garage of Steve Jobs’ home in Palo Alto, California, where they design and build the Apple 1, one of the first personal computers and the first to combine a microprocessor with a connector for a keyboard and monitor.
You want to know more? Discover the ephemeris of April 1st and see what happened, who was born on a day like today and who died. Also, don’t miss what’s celebrated, today’s horoscope and saints.
What happened on April 1st?
1919: The German Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus school for architecture and applied arts in Weimar, origin of the art movement of the same name that dominated the interwar period.
1924: Hitler is sentenced to five years in prison for high treason because on November 8 he tried to forcefully overthrow the Bavarian government.
[1945:[1945: World War II: US troops land on Okinawa.
1959: Franco inaugurates the Valley of the Fallen, begun nineteen years ago.
1979: After the popular uprising against the Shah of Persia, the Islamic Republic of Iran is proclaimed.
1995: Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma puts the Crimean government under his control after abolishing its constitution.
2001: Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is arrested in Belgrade.
2002: The Netherlands is the first country in the world to recognize euthanasia as a legal act.
2019: In Spain, the 8-week paternity leave comes into force.
Who was born on April 1st?
1815: Prince Otto von Bismarck, politician and statesman, architect of German unification.
1883: Lon Chaney, American actor
1919: Joseph E. Murray, American, Nobel Prize in Medicine 1990.
1920: Toshirō Mifune, Japanese actor.
1929: Milan Kundera, French writer of Czech origin.
1948: Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican musician.
1951: Antonio Hernández Mancha, Spanish lawyer and politician, former president of the Alianza Popular.
1961: Juan Echonove, Spanish actor.
1961: Sergio Scariolo, Italian basketball coach.
Who died on April 1st?
1991: Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer.
1993: Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, Count of Barcelona, father of King Juan Carlos I of Borbón.
2004: Enrique Grau, Colombian painter and sculptor.
2008: Pedro Zaragoza, former mayor of Benidorm and promoter of tourism.
2017: Salvador Pániker-Alemany, philosopher, editor and engineer.
2019: Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Spanish writer.
What is celebrated on April 1st?
Today, April 1st, the International Fun at Work Day.
Horoscope for April 1st
Those born on April 1 belong to the zodiac sign. Zodiac Aries.
Santoral from April 1st
Today, April 1st, the Santos Celso, Macario, Hugo, Esteban, Venancio, Victor and Teodora.