Ephemeris, 01 April

It happened one 01 April

1933 : Beginning of the persecution of Jews in Germany On 1 April 1933, Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews by declaring a boycott of Jewish owned businesses.
1946 : Earthquake and Tsunami in the Aleutian Islands On 1 April 1946, an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 occured in the Aleutian Islands. A tsunami then spread in all the pacific ocean and created waves over 18 meters at the Hawaii Islands. It was after this catastrophe that the U.S. established a warning system against tsunamis in the Pacific.
1957 : BBC hoax On 1 April 1957, on its Panorama programme, the BBC created a story on the spaghetti harvest in the trees and their drying, in Switzerland.
1970 : Prohibition of cigarette advertising in the U.S. On 1 April 1970, Richard Nixon, U.S. President signed the law banning cigarette advertising on radio and television.

April Fools' Day Day of jokes in Europe, April Fools' Day in Anglo-Saxon countries and Day of lie (Dia da mentira) in Portugal and Brazil.
Islamic Republic Day in Iran

Richard Nixon
Solutions are not the answer.

Sophie Germain, French mathematician (1776)
Otto von Bismarck, German politician (1815)
Edmond Rostand, French dramatist (1868)
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer and pianist (1873)
Edgar Wallace, English writer (1875)
Lon Chaney, American actor (1883)
Wallace Beery, American actor (1885)
William Sidis, American child prodigy (1898)
Toshirō Mifune, Japanese actor (1920)
Jacques Mayol, French diver freediving (1927)
Milan Kundera, Czech writer (1929)
Debbie Reynolds, American actress, singer and dancer (1932)
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist, Nobel Laureate (1933)
Vladimir Posner, Russian journalist (1934)
Ali MacGraw, American actress (1939)
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican musician and singer (1948)
Annette O'Toole, American actress (1952)
Barry Sonnenfeld, American director (1953)
Susan Boyle, Scottish singer (1961)
Erik Breukink, Dutch cyclist (1964)
Sandra Völker, German swimmer (1974)
Cécile Duflot, French politician (1975)
Mirka Federer, Swiss tennis player (1978)
Sergey Lazarev, Russian singer (1983)
Matt Lanter, American actor (1983)
Ireen Wüst, Dutch speed skater (1986)

Sòng Shénzōng, Emperor of China (1085)
Scott Joplin, American composer and musician (1917)
Robert Lynen, French actor and resistant (1944)
Helena Rubinstein, Polish cosmetics industrialist (1965)
Lev Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize (1968)
Bruno Coquatrix, French impresario (1979)
Marvin Gaye, American singer (1984)
Robert Doisneau, French photographer (1994)
Leslie Cheung, Actor from Hong Kong (2003)
John Forsythe, American actor (2010)

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