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527 BCE
527 Justinian I named as co-ruler and successor to the throne.
Justinian was a Latin-speaking Illyrian and was born of peasant stock. Justinianus was a Roman name that he took from his uncle, the emperor Justin I, to whom he owed his advancement. He was legally adopted by Justin and held important offices. In 525 he received the title of caesar and, on April 4, 527, was made coemperor with the rank of augustus.
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1748 Ruins of Pompeii rediscovered.
On April 1, 1748, a Spanish engineer and his team rediscovered the lost city of Pompeii, changing forever the way the world thought about history and archaeology.The city had been buried by millions of tonnes of volcanic ash when Mt Vesuvius erupted in 79AD.
(https://www.kidsnews.com.au/history/april-1-is-the-anniversary-of-the-rediscovery-of-the-lost-roman-city-of-pompeii/news-story/748ea8f8525d8ca062089870f56879cc) -
1952 Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow
On April 1, 1948 a paper was published in the Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe, and Gamow, entitled “The Origin of Chemical Elements.” The paper contains a significant scientific discovery. Ralph Alpher and George Gamow explained how the extreme conditions shortly after the big bang could explain the observed abundances of the most common elements in the universe.(https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200804/physicshistory.cfm) -
1974 Ayatollah Khomeini calls for an Islamic Republic in Iran
In the 1970s, Mohammad Reza further enraged Islamic fundamentalists in Iran by holding an extravagant celebration of the 2,500th anniversary of the pre-Islamic Persian monarchy and replaced the Islamic calendar with a Persian calendar.
(https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ayatollah-khomeini-returns-to-iran) -
1976 Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs found Apple Computer in the garage of Jobs' parents house in Cupertino, California
he single-story house at 2066 Crist Drive in Los Altos, California, is the family home where a young Steve Jobs built the first Apple computers in the mid-1970s. The house is now eligible to be named by the city of Los Altos as a historic landmark -- a higher-level designation -- and potentially listed on state and national registers of historic places.(https://www.sanjose.org/listings/steve-jobs-garage) -
2001 Netherlands becomes the first country in the world to make same-sex marriage legal
The law came into effect on 1 April 2001, and on that day four same-sex couples were married by the Mayor of Amsterdam, Job Cohen, who became a registrar specifically to officiate at the weddings. A few months earlier, Mayor Cohen had been junior Minister of Justice of the Netherlands and was responsible for putting the new marriage and adoption laws through Parliament.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_the_Netherlands) -
2007 Michael Phelps smashes his own world record.
American super swimmer Michael Phelps smashes his own world record in the 400m individual medley (4:06.22) to win his record 7th gold medal at the World Championships in Melbourne, Australia
(http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/sports/2007-04/01/content_841132.htm) -
2017 Bob Dylan receives his Nobel Prize for Literature.
The academy, which awards the coveted prize, ended prolonged speculation as to whether the 75-year-old troubadour would use a concert stopover in Stockholm to accept the gold medal and diploma awarded to him back in October. They were handed to Dylan at a “private ceremony in Stockholm” attended by 12 academy members.
(https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/apr/02/bob-dylan-finally-accepts-nobel-prize-in-literature-at-private-ceremony-in-stockholm)
