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Today in History: April 1

1778 Oliver Pollock, creates the dollar sign.

1863 The first wartime conscription law goes into effect in the United States.

1920 Germany's Workers Party changes its name to the Nationalist Socialist German Worker's Party (Nazis).

1924 Adolf Hitler sentenced to five years in prison for the "Beer Hall Putsch."

1945 U.S. forces launch invasion of Okinawa.

1946 A miner's strike in the U.S. idles 400,000 workers.

1948 The Berlin Airlift begins, relieving the surrounded city from the Soviet siege.

1954 The U.S. Air Force Academy is founded in Colorado.

1982 The United States transfers control of the Panama Canal Zone to Panama.


Born on April 1

1883 Lon Chaney, film actor.


JOTD

White people are always annoyed that only black people can say the n word, but white people have some phrases only they can say too

Things like “Hi Dad!” and “Thanks for the warning, officer.”