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| April 1st, 2006 | Event | The Serious Organised Crime Agency, dubbed the British FBI , is created in the United Kingdom. |
| April 1st, 2004 | Event | Google introduces its Gmail product to the public. The launch is met with scepticism on account of the launch date. |
| April 1st, 2002 | Event | The Netherlands legalizes euthanasia, becoming the first nation in the world to do so. |
| April 1st, 2001 | Event | An EP-3E United States Navy plane collides with a Chinese People s Liberation Army fighter jet. The Navy crew makes an emergency landing in Hainan, People s Republic of China and is detainedied in See Hainan Island incident. |
| April 1st, 2001 | Event | Former president of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on charges of war crimes. |
| April 1st, 2001 | Event | Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, which is the first country to allow it. |
| April 1st, 1999 | Event | Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories. |
| April 1st, 1996 | Event | The Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia is created. |
| April 1st, 1989 | Event | Margaret Thatcher s new local government tax, the Community Charge (commonly known as the poll tax ), is introduced in Scotland. |
| April 1st, 1981 | Event | Daylight saving time is introduced in the USSR. |
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