On This Day for April 1 - Creation of Nunavut, Sergey Rachmaninoff is featured, and more

Created: 2020-04-01 10:02 Updated: 2020-04-01 10:02 Notebook: On this Day in History

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April 01

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Sergey Rachmaninoff

FEATURED EVENT

1999

Creation of Nunavut

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

Musicians playing at the Feast of Fools in Torrechiara, Italy.

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2001: The Netherlands became the first country to grant equal marriage rights to same-sex couples.

2001: The midair collision of a U.S. spy plane and a Chinese fighter jet that was tailing it over the South China Sea resulted in the death of the Chinese pilot and the landing of the damaged American plane on Hainan Island, where its crew was detained for 11 days. [ Read about 10 famous names in the espionage game .]

1984: American entertainer Marvin Gaye was shot and killed by his father in Los Angeles. [ Take our rock-and-roll quiz .]

1976: Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne formed Apple Computer Inc., and it became one of the world's leading tech companies. [ Test your knowledge of tech companies .]