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Events on April 1

• 1881 Germany's first telephone network goes into operation in Berlin with 48 subscribers.
• 1924 Adolf Hitler is sentenced in the Hitler trial, jointly with several codefendants, to five years of fortress imprisonment for his putsch attempt of November 9, 1923. Erich Ludendorff is acquitted.
• 1933 With the nationwide “Jew boycott,” the National Socialist government launches the exclusion of German Jews from public life.
• 1944 U.S. aircraft bomb the city of Schaffhausen in Switzerland in the war against Germany – probably by mistake. 37 people are killed, approximately 100 are, in some cases, seriously injured, and 300 are left homeless.
• 1953 In the Federal Republic of Germany, men and women are equal under Article 3, paragraph 2, in conjunction with Article 117, paragraph 1 of the Basic Law, although the legislature failed to promptly implement an equal rights act. This only comes into force in 1958.
• 1957 The first conscripts are called up for service in the German Bundeswehr.
• 1963 Second German Television (ZDF) officially launches its nationwide television programming in Mainz after several days of test broadcasts.
• 1976 The members of the Homebrew Computer Club, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne, found the company Apple and present their first computer, the Apple I, the first single-board computer.
• 1991 Detlev Rohwedder, head of the Berlin Treuhandanstalt, is shot in his Düsseldorf home, presumably by the Red Army Faction (RAF). A “Commando Ulrich Wessel” claims responsibility for the crime.
• 2001 The Netherlands is the first country in the world to extend marriage to same-sex couples. Shortly after midnight, the mayor of Amsterdam, Job Cohen, officiates at the weddings of three male couples and one female couple.
• 2013 In Germany, the new versions of the Road Traffic Ordinance and the Penalty Catalogue Ordinance come into force.
• 2024 In Germany, the Cannabis Act comes into force.

Born on April 1

• 1865 Richard Zsigmondy, Hungarian-Austrian chemist, Nobel laureate
• 1883 Karl Arnold, German painter and caricaturist
• 1883 Lon Chaney sr., American actor
• 1920 Toshirō Mifune, Japanese actor
• 1931 Rolf Hochhuth, German playwright
• 1940 Wangari Maathai, Kenyan biologist and politician, Nobel laureate
• 1961 Susan Boyle, British singer
• 1972 Björn Höcke, German educator and politician
• 1980 Randy Orton, American wrestler
• 1991 Sebastian Polter, German footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „1. April“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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