April 1

On This Day In History
	1999: Creation of Nunavut Created this day in 1999 by carving a vast region from Canada's Northwest Territories, the Canadian territory of Nunavut stretches across much of the Canadian Arctic and encompasses the traditional lands of the Inuit.
Creation of Nunavut
Biography Of The Day
	Sergey Rachmaninoff Sergey Rachmaninoff, who was born this day in 1873, was a great figure in Russian Romanticism and a leading piano virtuoso who is especially known for his piano concerti and his Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
Sergey Rachmaninoff
More Events On This Day In History
	April Fool 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.
2001	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.
	1984 American entertainer Marvin Gaye was shot and killed by his father in Los Angeles.
	1954 The United States Air Force Academy was created by an act of Congress and was later built in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1945	1945 U.S. troops landed on the Japanese island of Okinawa during World War II.
1918	1918 The United Kingdom's Royal Air Force was formed.
	1917 American composer and pianist Scott Joplin died in a mental institution in New York City.
	1578 English physician William Harvey, who discovered the true nature of the circulation of the blood, was born in Folkestone, Kent.