1st April
APRIL FOOLS’ DAY
April Fools’ Day on April 1st has long been a day when practical jokes and tricks are played on the unaware. It’s a time when children convince their parents they’ve broken a bone. Parents get in on the planning, too. Classic April Fools’ jokes include caramel covered onions or fake doggy doo-doo in inconvenient places. Businesses launch impractical or unbelievable products for the fun of the day and newspapers print incredible headlines catching readers off guard.
Of course, the trick to a good April Fools’ prank is planning. And you also need to be the first to pull it off. There’s no point in pursuing your prank if someone else beats you to it. Once the foolery has been triggered, everyone else will be on high alert and the element of surprise will be lost.
Some practical jokers go to great lengths to pull off their ruse. The more people involved the greater the risk of being discovered before the great plan can be deployed.
April Fools’ Day, also called All Fools’ Day, in most countries the first day of April. It received its name from the custom of playing practical jokes on this day—for example, telling friends that their shoelaces are untied or sending them on so-called fools’ errands. Although the day has been observed for centuries, its true origins are unknown and effectively unknowable. It resembles festivals such as the Hilaria of ancient Rome, held on March 25, and the Holi celebration in India, which ends on March 31.
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On this day in history - 1st April
374 Comet 1P/374 E1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0884 AUs of Earth
527 Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne
705 Greek pope John VII chosen as successor to John VI
1064 Body of bishop Eleutherius of Blandain moved to Doornik
1318 Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by the Scottish from the English.
1340 Niels Ebbesen kills Gerhard III of Holstein in his bedroom, ending the 1332-1340 interregnum in Denmark.
1504 English guilds/corp goes under state control
1515 Portuguese fleet under Afonso de Albuquerque captures the Persian fortress of Ormuz, renaming it the Fort of Our Lady of the Conception
1572 Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Spaniards, during the Eighty Years' War, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic.
1581 Portuguese Cortes subjects himself on Philip II
1663 Gemert fines unwed motherhood (50 guilder penalty)
1693 Cotton Mather's four-day-old son dies, and witchcraft is blamed
1724 Henry Pelham becomes English minister of War
1724 Jonathan Swift publishes Drapier's letters
1748 Ruins of Pompeii rediscovered by Spaniard Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre
1776 Friedrich von Klinger's "Sturm und Drang" premieres in Leipzig
1778 New Orleans businessman Oliver Pollock creates the "$" symbol
1792 Gronings feminist Etta Palm demands women's right to divorce
1803 French law rules the use of intention
1826 Samuel Morey is issued the first U.S. patent for an internal-combustion engine, which he calls a “Gas or Vapour Engine"
1850 San Francisco County government established
1853 Cincinnati becomes 1st US city to employ fulltime professional firefighters
1854 "Hard Times" begins serialisation in Charles Dickens magazine, "Household Words"
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1857 Herman Melville publishes The Confidence-Man
1862 Shenandoah Valley campaign, Jackson's Battle of Woodstock, VA
1863 1st wartime conscription law in US goes into effect
1865 -9] Battle at Blakely Alabama
1865 Battle of 5 Forks Virginia: Union forces defeat Confederates and capture important railway supply line for General Robert E. Lee's army
1866 US Congress rejects presidential veto giving all equal rights in US
1867 Blacks vote in municipal election in Tuscumbia, Alabama
1867 International Exhibition opens in Paris
1867 Singapore, Penang & Malacca become British crown colonies
1868 Hampton Institute opens
1871 New Constitution adopted by the German Empire
1872 1st edition of The Standard
1873 British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die
1873 Mehmed Kemals play "Vatan" premeres in Constantinople
1881 Anti-Jewish riots in Jerusalem
1881 Kingdom post office in Netherlands opens
1888 Students from Rotterdam, Netherlands establish a cricket club called Rotterdamsche Cricket & Football Club Sparta which evolves into Sparta Rotterdam
1889 1st dishwashing machine marketed (Chicago)
1891 London-Paris telephone connection opens
1891 French painter Paul Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti
1891 The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
1899 NC Mutual opens doors for business
1900 1st edition of Dutch newspaper "The People"
1905 British East African Protectorate becomes colony of Kenya
1905 "SOS" first adopted as a morse distress signal (· · · – – – · · ·) by German government
1910 Dumitru Dan (Romania) completes a 62,137 mile (100,000 m) walk
1918 Henry Miller's Theater opens at 124 W 43rd St NYC
1918 United Kingdom: the Royal Air Force is created from the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Flying Corps.
1919 Stanley Cup Final, Seattle Ice Arena, Seattle, WA: With Montreal Canadiens (NHL) & Seattle Metropolitans (PCHA) tied at 2-2-1, trophy not awarded due to worldwide flu epidemic
1920 The (Anglican) Church in Wales disestablished
1920 Stanley Cup Final, Mutual Street Arena, Toronto, ON: Jack Darragh scores a hat-trick as Ottawa Senators (NHL) beat Seattle Metropolitans (PCHA), 6-1 for a 3-2 series win
1924 Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co
1924 Hitler sentenced to 5 years labor for "Beer Hall Putsch" but General Ludendorff acquitted
1924 Imperial Airways forms in Britain
1924 The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
1925 1st transmission of Danish state radio
1925 Hebrew University, Jerusalem dedicated [see May 9, 1925]
1926 Montreal Maroons' Clint Benedict becomes first NHL goalie to record 3 straight playoff shutouts, in a 3-0 win against the visiting Victoria Cougars in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Championship series
1927 1st automatic record changer introduced by His Master's Voice
1928 Chiang Kai-shek's army crosses Yang-tse
1929 Austrian government of Ignaz Seipel falls
1929 Doorne's trailer factory in Einsdhoven Netherlands opens
1929 Louie Marx introduces Yo-Yo
1929 Luis Buñuel releases "Un Chien Andalou" 24-minute film
1929 Morehouse College, Spellman College & Atlanta University affiliate
1930 "The Blue Angel" starring Marlene Dietrich in her breakthrough role premieres in Germany
1930 Chicago Cubs catcher Leo Hartnett breaks the altitude record for a catch by gloving a baseball dropped from the Goodyear blimp 800 feet over Los Angeles, California
1930 American golfer Bobby Jones starts his Grand Slam season by winning the Southeastern Open by 13 strokes over Horton Smith at the Forest Hills-Ricker Golf Course in Atlanta, Georgia
1931 Earthquake devastate Managua Nicaragua, kills 2,000
1931 Jackie Mitchell becomes the second female (after Lizzie Arlington 1898) in organised baseball when she signs with the Chattanooga Lookouts Baseball Club
1933 England cricket batsman Wally Hammond smashes 34 fours, 10 sixes in a Test record unbeaten 336 in the drawn 2nd Test against New Zealand in Auckland
1933 Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany
1933 Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews by boycotting Jewish businesses
1933 Scotland beats Ireland, 8-6 at Lansdowne Road, Dublin to win the Home Nations Rugby Championship and Triple Crown
1934 Clyde Barrow kills two young highway patrolmen, H. D. Murphy and Edward Bryant Wheeler, at the intersection of Route 114 near Grapevine, Texas. Bonnie Parker's role in the murders helps turn public perception against the gang for good
1935 1st radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, NY
1936 Orissa constituted a province of British India
1936 Charles "Lucky" Luciano" is arrested in Arkansas on a criminal warrant from New York
1937 Aden becomes a British crown colony
1938 World heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis KOs Harry Thomas in 5th round of their title bout in Chicago; 3rd defence by Louis
1938 Nescafé introduces their flagship brand in Switzerland
1939 US recognizes Francisco Franco's government in Spain at end of Spanish civil war. Pope Pius XII congratulates Generalissimo Franco's victory in Spain
1940 Filipino President Quezon officially authorizes the printing and publication of the grammar and dictionary prepared by the Institute of the National Language.
1941 Lillian Hellman's "Watch on the Rhine" premieres in NYC
1941 US Navy takes over Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay
1941 Nazis forbid Jews access to cafés
1941 Pro-German Rashid Ali al-Ghailani grabs power in Iraq
1941 The Blockade Runner Badge for German Kriegsmarine is instituted.
1942 Allied air raid on harbor city Kupang Timor
1942 Mexico changes from 3 time zones to 2
1943 Jan Dieters, Dutch politician and resistance fighter who was the head of the Communist Party of the Netherlands, is arrested by the Nazis
1944 Japanese troops conquer Jessami, Eastern India
1945 World War II: Canadian troops free the Dutch cities of Doetinchem, Enschede, Borculo and Eibergen
1945 World War II: The Ruhr Pocket of German forces are encircled by the US Ninth Army and US First Army, eventually leading to the capture of 317,000 German troops
1945 Battle of Okinawa: US ground forces invade Okinawa during World War II in the largest amphibious assault of the Pacific theatre
1946 400,000 US mine workers strike
1946 Tsunamis generated by a quake in Aleutian Trench strike Hilo, Hawaii
1946 Van Acker forms Belgian government (without CVP)
1946 The Malayan Union is formed as a federation of the Malay states and the Straits Settlements of Penang and Malacca
1947 1st Jewish immigrants to Israel disembark at Port of Eilat
1947 Shin Takarajima (New Treasure Island) by Osamu Tezuka published, first manga cartoon in tankōbon form
1948 Fast bowler Hines Johnson has match figures of 10-96 on debut in West Indies 4th cricket Test win v England in Kingston, Jamaica; first fast bowler to take 10 wickets in a single Test for West Indies
1948 Faroe Islands receive autonomy from Denmark
1952 Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow
1952 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1953 J van Bale appointed governor of New Guinea
1953 KXMC TV channel 13 in Minot, ND (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 West Indian cricket batsmen Frank Worrell (237), Clyde Walcott (118) and Everton Weekes (109) all make centuries in 1st innings of drawn 5th Test v India in Kingston, Jamaica
1954 US Air Force Academy established
1954 1st Dutch motorway, Amsterdam-Utrecht, opens
1954 1st US Army helicopter battalion forms, Fort Bragg, NC
1954 Earthquake/tsunami ravage Aleutians, 200 killed
1954 WQED TV channel 13 in Pittsburgh, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1954 Detroit Red Wings right wing Gordie Howe scores 2 goals and an assist, and sets a Stanley Cup playoff record for fastest goal from the start of a game (:09) in a 4-3 2OT win over Toronto in Game 5 of the Semi-Finals
1955 Armed military action taken against bureaucratic strike in Amsterdam
1955 EOKA-bomb attacks against British government buildings in Cyprus
1955 WTVT TV channel 13 in Tampa-St Petersburg, FL (CBS) 1st broadcast
1956 10th Tony Awards: Diary of Anne Frank & Damn Yankees win
1956 KPIC TV channel 4 in Roseburg, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 Violent clashes in Algeria, kills at least 380
1957 Trial begins in Budapest against participants october uprising
1957 WYES TV channel 12 in New Orleans, LA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 World's biggest glass oven used
1958 KVIQ TV channel 6 in Eureka, CA (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 Marshal Nikolai Bulganin becomes director of Soviet State Bank
1960 Census determines the resident population of the United States to be 179,245,000
1960 2nd French atom bomb explodes (Sahara)
1960 France performs nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds, Algeria
1960 U Nu elected premier of Burma
1960 1st weather satellite launched (TIROS 1)
1963 NY Mets purchase future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Duke Snider from the LA Dodgers for $40,000; Snider had starred for the Brooklyn Dodgers 1947-57
1963 NYC's newspapers resume publishing after a 114 day strike
1963 American television soap opera premieres: "General Hospital" (ABC) & "Doctors" (NBC)
1964 10°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in April
1964 John Lennon is reunited with his father Freddie after 17 years
1964 Robert Lowell's "Benito Cereno" premieres in NYC
1965 South Africa worker's union leader Henry Fazzie sentenced to 10 years
1965 Syncom 3, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, passes from civilian to military control
1966 1st world festival of black art (Dakar Senegal)
1966 Loyalist led by Ian Paisley, a Protestant fundamentalist preacher, founded the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee to challenge the civil rights movement; it set up a paramilitary-style wing called the Ulster Protestant Volunteers
1966 "Hold On, I'm Comin'" single released by Sam & Dave
1967 1st British ombudsman Sir Edward Compton begins work
1967 The United States Department of Transportation begins operation.
1968 KEMO (now KOFY) TV channel 20 in San Francisco, California (IND) 1st broadcast
1969 Royal Canadian Mint formally forms as a Crown Corporation
1969 Seattle Pilots trade little-known minor league outfielder Lou Piniella to KC Royals for 2 prospects; hits .282 with 11 HRs & 68 RBI to win AL Rookie of the Year; becomes leading MLB manager
1969 The Hawker Siddeley Harrier (vertical take-off fighter) enters service with the RAF.
1970 John Lennon and Yoko Ono release hoax they are having dual sex change operations
1970 Federal Bankruptcy Referee Sidney Volinn declares MLB's Seattle Pilots bankrupt; car dealer Bud Selig buys franchise for $10.8 million and moves club to Milwaukee (Brewers)
1970 US President Richard Nixon signs bill limiting cigarette advertisements from 1st Jan 1971
1970 Serious riots continue in the Ballymurphy estate in Belfast between Catholic residents and the British Army
1971 US/Canada ISIS 2 launched to study ionosphere
1971 United Kingdom lifts all restrictions on gold ownership
1972 30,000 attend Mar Y Sol rock concert, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico
1972 MLB players stage first ever collective strike; play resumes (13/4/72) when owners and players agree to $500,000 increase in pension fund payments
1973 Japan allows its citizens to own gold
1973 John Lennon and Yoko Ono form a new country with no laws or boundaries, called Nutopia, its national anthem is silence
1973 OPEC increases price of petroleum by 5.7 percent
1973 Boston Celtics captain John Havlicek scores career high 54 points in 134-109 rout of Atlanta Hawks in Game 1 of 1st round Eastern Conference playoffs; hits NBA playoff record 24-of-36 field-goal attempts
1973 Despite a final round, 5-3 loss to Montreal, Boston Bruins center Phil Esposito wins his third consecutive NHL scoring title with 130 points from 55 goals and 75 assists in the 78-game season
1974 Ayatollah Khomeini calls for an Islamic Republic in Iran
1974 Pioneer Hall opens at Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground, Florida
1974 Yourdon Inc consulting formed by Edward Yourdon
1974 In the England the Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties come into being.
1975 Cambodia President Lon Nol flees for Red Khmer
1976 Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs found Apple Computer in the garage of Jobs' parents house in Cupertino, California
1976 Conrail takes over operations from six bankrupt railroads in the northeastern U.S..
1976 Jovian-Plutonian gravitational effect is first reported by the astronomer Patrick Moore.
1976 "Helter Skelter", detailing Charles Manson's cult "family", their capture, trial, conviction and aftermath, premieres on CBS
1977 Attempt for Muslim state in Chad fails
1978 "The Bob Newhart Show" last airs on NBC-TV
1978 Philippine College of Commerce becomes the Polytechnic University of the Philippines by presidential decree
1978 132nd Grand National: Bob Davies on 14/1 chance Lucius wins by half a length from Sebastian V
1978 New York Islanders right wing Mike Bossy becomes first NHL rookie to score 50 goals in a season after scoring #50 and #51 in the closing moments in a 3-2 win over Washington
1979 Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of Shah
1980 Failed assassination attempt on Iraqi vice-premier Tariq Aziz
1980 France performs nuclear test
1980 New York City's Transit Worker Union 100 begins a strike lasting 11 days.
1981 CNN airs a videotape that shows that Tamara Rand predicted that Reagan is in danger from someone named Jack Humley (a hoax)
1981 Daylight saving time is introduced in the USSR.
1981 Edmonton center Wayne Gretzky has an assist (his 103rd) in the Oilers 4-4 tie with Colorado Rockies to break Bobby Orr's 10-year mark for most assists in a single NHL season
1982 Anguilla (dependent territory of UK) adopts constitution
1982 US formally transfers Canal Zone to Panama
1982 NHL Quebec center Peter Stastny scores 4th career hat trick and 4 assists, and his brother Marian adds 5 assists to lead the Nordiques to an 8-5 win at Boston
1983 Anti-nuclear demonstrators link arms in 14-mile human chain in England
1983 Iraq increases missile attacks on Iran
1984 14th Easter Seal Telethon raises $24,600,000
1984 8 men record longest distance (13 miles) rowed in 24 hours
1984 3rd NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: USC goes back-to-back; beats Tennessee, 72-61; Cheryl Miller 2nd consecutive MOP award
1984 PGA Tournament Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: 24-year old Fred Couples finishes at 277 (-11), 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Lee Trevino
1985 47th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Villanova beats Georgetown, 84-75; Wildcats lowest-seeded team to win tournament (8)
1986 Ranji Trophy Men's Cricket, Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi: Delhi beats Haryana by innings & 141; Manoj Prabhakar 113, Kirti Azad 107, Mohinder Amarnath 194, Ajay Sharma 110
1986 US submarine Nathaniel Green runs aground in Irish Sea
1986 World oil prices dip below $10 a barrel
1989 A. Bartlett Giamatti replaces Peter Ueberroth as 7th commissioner of Major League Baseball; dies suddenly of a heart attack 5 months later
1990 "Ha!" comedy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
1990 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, GC at Desert Mountain: Jack Nicklaus wins his first start on the Senior PGA Tour by 4 strokes from Gary Player
1990 9th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Auburn, 88-81; Cardinal point guard Jennifer Azzi MOP
1990 It becomes illegal in Salem Oregon to be within 2 feet of nude dancers
1990 WrestleMania VI, Skydome, Toronto, ON (67,678): Ultimate Warrior beats Hulk Hogan for WWF Heavyweight and Intercontinental titles
1990 Nabisco Dinah Shore Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Betsy King wIns the second of her 3 DS events, 2 strokes ahead of Shirley Furlong and Kathy Postlewait
1991 Iran releases British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years
1991 US Supreme Court rules jurors cannot be barred from serving due to race
1991 US minimum wage goes from $3.80 to $4.25 per hour
1991 Warsaw Pact officially dissolves
1991 53rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Duke beats Kansas, 72-65; Blue Devils' first title; power forward Christian Laettner MOP
1992 Battleship USS Missouri, on which the Japanese surrender took place, decommissioned
1992 Last defendant in St John sex assault case sentenced to 3 yrs probation
1992 NHL players begin first strike in 75-year history; 10 day action earns large playoff bonus increase, more control over licensing of their likenesses and changes to free agency system
1992 Rocker Billy Idol fined $2,000 for hitting a woman
1992 Sheffield Shield Men's Cricket Final, Perth: West Australia beats NSW by 44 runs; Justin Langer 149
1992 World's 7 wealthiest nations agree on $24B aid for former USSR
1993 Alan Bennett's play "The Madness of George III" premieres in London
1993 Reigning NASCAR Winston Cup champion Alan Kulwicki perishes in a private plane crash en route to Bristol for the Food City 500
1995 Carlson Wagonlit Travel Agency begins charging $15 service fee
1995 New York Islanders retire Swedish right wing Bobby Nystrom's uniform #23
1995 Blackburn Rovers striker Chris Sutton scores fastest goal in English Premier League history when he nets after 12.94 seconds in 2-1 win at Everton
1996 58th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Syracuse, 76-67; Wildcats' 6th national championship
1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Boston MA on WBCN 104.1 FM (morn)
1996 Veteran American MLB umpire John McSheery dies of heart attack while umpiring on Opening Day at the Cincinnati Reds' Riverfront Stadium; he was 51
1996 The Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia is created.
1997 69 year old Gordie Howe begins playing AHL game with Syracuse Crunch
1997 Comet Hale-Bopp Perihelion (0.914 AU)
1997 Shell Oil confirms it will declare force majeure at its Nigerian Bonny terminal due to local protests which disrupted 210 million barrels per day of the company's oil production
1999 Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
1999 Detroit Pistons guard Joe Dumars becomes 10th player in NBA history to play 1,000 games with the same team and one of 8 to play 1,000 games with his only team; scores 18 points in 107-75 rout of Chicago Bulls
1999 Philadelphia 76ers head coach Larry Brown wins his 900th pro game with an 88-84 win over Miami Heat; Brown record: 671-547 NBA, 229-107 ABA, combined 900-654
2000 American boxer Chris Byrd wins WBO Heavyweight title when Ukrainian champion Vitali Klitschko retires with a shoulder injury at the end of the 9th round in Berlin, Germany
2000 Michelle Kwan pushes through all 7 triple jumps at the Palais des Exposition in Nice, France to become the first American since Peggy Flemming to win 3 world figure skating titles
2001 20th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Notre Dame beats Purdue, 68-66; Fighting Irish forward Ruth Riley is named Most Outstanding Player
2001 Netherlands becomes the first country in the world to make same-sex marriage legal
2001 Former president of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on charges of war crimes.
2001 WrestleMania XVII, Astrodome, Houston, TX: 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin beats The Rock in a no disqualification match for the WWF Championship
Actor and Professional Wrestler Dwayne Johnson
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2002 64th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Maryland beats Indiana, 64-52; Terrapins' first title in first title game
2002 The Netherlands legalizes euthanasia, becoming the first nation in the world to do so.
2002 "Stop to Love" compilation album by Luther Vandross is released
2004 Google introduces Gmail: the launch is met with skepticism on account of the launch date
2006 The Serious Organised Crime Agency, dubbed the 'British FBI', is created in the United Kingdom.
2007 Kraft Nabisco Championship Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Morgan Pressel wins by 1 from Brittany Lincicome, Catriona Matthew & Suzann Pettersen; youngest-ever winner of an LPGA major at 18 years, 313 days
2007 WrestleMania XXIII, Ford Field, Detroit, MI: John Cena beats Shawn Michaels; The Undertaker defeats Batista; Bobby Lashley downs Umaga
2007 American super swimmer Michael Phelps smashes his own world record in the 400m individual medley (4:06.22) to win his record 7th gold medal at the World Championships in Melbourne, Australia
2008 New York Yankees set a MLB record by winning their 11th straight home opener, 3-2 against Toronto Blue Jays
2009 Croatia and Albania join NATO
2011 After protests against the burning of the Quran turned violent, a mob attacked a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan and killed thirteen people, including eight foreign workers.
2011 Alan Rickman's last performance in "Seminar" on Broadway
2012 Plane crash in Western Siberia kills at least 31 people (UTair Aviation ATR-72)
2012 32nd Golden Raspberry Awards: Jack and Jill wins
2012 47th Academy of Country Music Awards: Taylor Swift, Blake Shelton, and Miranda Lambert win
2012 Kraft Nabisco Championship Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Sun-Young Yoo wins sudden-death playoff on 1st extra hole after I.K. Kim misses a one-foot putt on the 72nd hole for the win
2012 WrestleMania XXVIII, Sun Life Stadium, Miami Gardens, FL: The Rock defeats John Cena, titled "Once in a Lifetime"
2013 9 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Tikrit, Iraq
2013 The world’s first smelling TV screen is unveiled in Japan
2014 NATO suspends all practical civilian and military cooperation with Russia
2014 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts Peter Gabriel, Hall & Oates, Kiss, Nirvana, Linda Ronstadt and Cat Stevens
2015 56 people are killed after the Russian trawler Dalniy Vostok sinks off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula
2016 The Golden State Warriors NBA record winning home run ends at 54 games with a 109-106 defeat to the Boston Celtics; the loss at Oracle Arena was the Warriors’ first since January 2015
2017 Bob Dylan receives his Nobel Prize for Literature at a private ceremony in Stockholm
2017 Chinese leaders announce plans to build city in Xiongan New Area, 3x size of New York
2018 37th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Notre Dame beats Mississippi State, 61-58; Fighting Irish forward Jessica Shepard, 19 points
2019 China announces new laws against fentanyl-related substances to come into effect 1 May
2019 Saudi Arabian oil company Saudi Aramco revealed to be world's most profitable company when its earnings released - $111.1 billion in the last year
2019 Japanese government announces the name of a new era 'Reiwa' for the next Emperor, Crown Prince Naruhito
2019 Major archaeological site announced discovered on a reef in the middle of Lake Titicaca, in Andes, dated 8th and 10th centuries AD from Tiwanaku state
2019 Methane, a gas usually made by living things, detected on Mars in 2013 by European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter reported in "Nature Geoscience"
2019 US online sales overtake retail sales for the first time, with 11.813% online compared with 11.807% for general merchandise stores
2020 All England Lawn Tennis Club cancels Wimbledon for the first time since World War II because of the COVID-19 pandemic; entire grass-court season abandoned
2020 US President Donald Trump says the US Strategic National Stockpile is almost depleted amid widespread shortages of medical equipment to fight COVID-19