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1 April 2019 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 1 April 2019 was a Monday.
- Irish Chart Song in 2019
- The Irish chart song for 2019 was “Someone You Loved” by Lewis Capaldi.
- Top Film of 2019
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2019 was Avengers: Endgame.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 1 April is Aries.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 1 April 2019 fell in the Year of the Pig.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for April is Diamond.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 1 April 2019 was Waning Crescent.
On this day: 1 April
- 2001 Former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on war crimes charges.
- 2004 Google launches its Email service Gmail.
- 2006 Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) of the Government of the United Kingdom is enforced, but later merged into National Crime Agency on 7 October 2013.
- 2016 The 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict begins along the Nagorno-Karabakh Line of Contact.
- 2026 The Artemis II lunar flyby mission launches, marking the first crewed flight above low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972.
Famous people born on 1 April
- Debbie Reynolds, American actress, singer, and dancer (1932–2016)
- Bijou Phillips, American actress and model (born 1980)
- Susan Boyle, Scottish singer (born 1961)
- Otto von Bismarck, German lawyer and politician, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (1815–1898)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 2019 in Ireland
A selection from Wikipedia's '2019 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.
- 1 January – Technological University Dublin was established by the amalgamation of the Dublin Institute of Technology, the Institute of Technology Tallaght, and the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown.
- 2 February – The chairman of the National Children's Hospital Development board Tom Costello resigned following the controversy over the spiralling costs of the project.
- 10 March – 39-year-old Micheál Ryan was among the 157 people who were on board an Ethiopian Airlines flight which crashed while en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi.
Life in Ireland in 2019
Taoiseach
Leo Varadkar
Petrol (per litre)
€1.45/L
Loaf of Bread
€1.65
Average House
€320,000
Weekly Wage
€550
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