Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 1
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April 1: Palm Sunday in Western Christianity (2007); Independence Day in San Serriffe (1967); April Fools' Day; Assyrian New Year.
- 1318 - Scotland re-captured Berwick-upon-Tweed from England.
- 1957 - About eight million viewers watched a report on the BBC television programme Panorama about spaghetti trees.
- 1970 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon (pictured) signed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, banning cigarette advertisements on television and radio in the United States.
- 1997 - Cartoonists of popularly syndicated comic strips swapped cartoons for the day.
- 2006 - Five British policing agencies merged to form the Serious Organised Crime Agency.
