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

This message contains graphics. If you do not see the graphics, click here to view. April 01 FEATURED BIOGRAPHY Sergey Rachmaninoff READ MORE   FEATURED EVENT 1999 Creation of Nunavut READ MORE   Advertisement Advertisement   MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY Today: April Fools' Day, celebrated today with joking relationships and practical jokes, may have grown out of the medieval Feast of Fools, which was held on January 1. 2004: Google launched Gmail , and five years later the number of people using the e-mail service surpassed one billion. [Take our computers and technology quiz.] 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.] SEE ALL EVENTS ON THIS DAY ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY 1932 Debbie Reynolds American actress and singer 1815 Otto von Bismarck German chancellor and prime minister 1961 Susan Boyle Scottish singer 1908 Abraham Maslow American psychologist 1873 Sergey Rachmaninoff Russian musician 1920 Mifune Toshirō Japanese actor SEE ALL BIOS ON THIS DAY   Advertisement   FOLLOW: To unsubscribe from Britannica e-mails, click here. Encyclopædia Britannica 325 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 200 Chicago, Illinois 60654 United States © 2021 Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Privacy Policy • Help