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April 1: Palm Sunday in Western Christianity (2007); Independence Day in San Serriffe (1967); April Fools' Day; Assyrian New Year.

• 1318 - The Scottish captured Berwick upon Tweed from the English.
• 1957 - About eight million viewers watched a report on the BBC television programme Panorama about spaghetti trees.
• 1970 - U.S. President Richard Nixon (pictured) signed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act *into law, banning cigarette advertisements on television and radio in the United States.
• 1997 - Cartoonists of popularly syndicated comic strips swapped cartoons for the day.
• 2006 - Five British policing agencies merged to form the Serious Organised Crime Agency.

Recent days: March 31 – March 30 – March 29