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| 100 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Apr 1925 | Sala Burton: (Rep-D-California, 1983- ) | |||
| 01 Apr 1925 | Francis William Davenport: Composer, dies at 77 | |||
| 01 Apr 1925 | 1st transmission of Danish state radio | |||
| 01 Apr 1925 | Hebrew University, Jerusalem dedicated | |||
| 01 Apr 1925 | Lars Jørgen Madsen, Danish target shooter (b. 1871) | |||
| 01 Apr 1925 | Kathy Stobart, English saxophonist (d. 2014) | |||
| 01 Apr 1925 | WW2 | Werner von Blomberg was promoted to the rank of Oberst. | ||
| 01 Apr 1925 | WW2 | Walther von Brauchitsch was promoted to the rank of Oberstleutnant. | ||
| 75 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Apr 1950 | Ed[uardus] HTM Nijpels: Dutch Minister of Environment (VVD) | |||
| 01 Apr 1950 | Leonard van Spirit: Dutch / British fruit / food magnate | |||
| 01 Apr 1950 | Charles R Drew: Surgeon / developer of blood bank concept, dies at 45 | |||
| 01 Apr 1950 | Recep Peker, Turkish soldier and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1889) | |||
| 01 Apr 1950 | Charles R. Drew, American physician and surgeon (b. 1904) | |||
| 01 Apr 1950 | Daniel Paillé, Canadian academic and politician | |||
| 01 Apr 1950 | Loris Kessel, Swiss race car driver (d. 2010) | |||
| 01 Apr 1950 | Samuel Alito, American lawyer and jurist | |||
| 01 Apr 1950 |
death Charles Richard Drew Died 1 Apr 1950 at age 45 (born 3 Jun 1904). Black-American physician and surgeon who was an authority on the preservation of human blood for transfusion. He organized and directed the blood-plasma programs of the United States and Great Britain in the early years of World War II, while also agitating the authorities to stop excluding the blood of blacks from plasma-supply networks. His death resulted from a car accident. |
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01 Apr 1950
Richard Hamming |
Richard Hamming (computer science) Publication of Richard Hamming's paper "Error detecting and error correcting codes", seminal in the construction of error detection and correction codesand from which Hamming code and the Hamming distance derive. |
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| 50 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Apr 1975 | Kristine Quance: 100m breaststroke / 200m medley (1996 Olympics) | |||
| 01 Apr 1975 | Magdalena Maleeva: Sofia, Bulgaria -- Tennis star (1995 Chicago Moscow) | |||
| 01 Apr 1975 | Eugeen Yoors: Flemish draftsman / glass painter, dies at 95 | |||
| 01 Apr 1975 | Cambodia President Lon Nol flees for Red Khmer | |||
| 01 Apr 1975 | John Butler, American-Australian singer-songwriter and producer (The John Butler Trio) | |||
| 01 Apr 1975 | George Bastl, Swiss tennis player | |||
| 01 Apr 1975 | The Bay City Rollers TV series 'Shang-A- Lang' premiered on ITV in the UK. | |||
| 25 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Apr 2000 | Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, Scottish lawyer and judge (b. 1924) | |||
| 01 Apr 2000 | Santana started a nine week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with, 'Maria Maria.' | |||
| 20 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Apr 2005 | Robert Coldwell Wood, American political scientist and academic (b. 1923) | |||
| 01 Apr 2005 | Jack Keller, American songwriter and producer (b. 1936) | |||
| 01 Apr 2005 | Harald Juhnke, German actor and singer (b. 1929) | |||
| 01 Apr 2005 | Alexander Brott, Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1915) | |||
| 01 Apr 2005 | Paul Bomani, Tanzanian politician and diplomat, 1st Tanzanian Minister of Finance (b 1925) | |||
| 01 Apr 2005 | During the first leg of their Vertigo World tour, U2 appeared at the Arrowhead Sports Arena in Anaheim, Southern California, with Kings Of Leon as the opening act. By the end of the 131 date tour, 4,619,021 tickets had been sold with a total gross of $389 million. | |||
| 15 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Apr 2010 | Tzannis Tzannetakis, Greek soldier and politician, 175th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1927) | |||
| 01 Apr 2010 | John Forsythe, American actor and producer (b. 1918) | |||
| 10 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Apr 2015 | Nicolae Rainea, Romanian footballer and referee (b. 1933) | |||
| 01 Apr 2015 | Misao Okawa, Japanese super-centenarian (b. 1898) | |||
| 01 Apr 2015 | Cynthia Lennon, English author (b. 1939) | |||
| 01 Apr 2015 | Eddie LeBaron, American football player, manager, and sportscaster (b. 1930) | |||
| 01 Apr 2015 | John Paul Hammerschmidt, American soldier and politician (b. 1922) | |||
| 01 Apr 2015 | Cynthia Lennon, first wife of The Beatles' John Lennon, died at her home in Spain following a short battle with cancer. At the height of The Beatles' early success she was, at the insistence of the band's management, kept in the background so their legions of female fans were not aware of her existence. The couple divorced in 1968 after Cynthia discovered her husband's affair with Yoko Ono. | |||
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