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Bill Murray

Groundhog Day is a 1993 American fantasy comedy film directed by Harold Ramis and written by Ramis and Danny Rubin. It stars Bill Murray (pictured), Andie MacDowell, and Chris Elliott. Murray portrays Phil Connors, a cynical television weatherman who becomes trapped in a time loop forcing him to relive the same day over and over. The film is a comedy directed by Harold Ramis and written by Ramis and Danny Rubin. It stars Bill Murray (pictured), Andie MacDowell, and Chris Elliott. Murray portrays Phil Connors, a cynical television weatherman who becomes trapped in a time loop forcing him to relive the same day over and over. The film is a comedy directed by Harold Ramis and written by Ramis and Danny Rubin. It stars Bill Murray (pictured), Andie MacDowell, and Chris Elliott. Murray portrays Phil Connors, a cynical television weatherman who becomes trapped in a time loop forcing him to relive the same day over and over.^{[April Fools!]} (Full article...)

Senator Fred H. Brown

• ... that Fred H. Brown (pictured) went from a bean eater to a bean counter?
• ... that there are dragons in Buckingham Palace?
• ... that Napoleon Bonaparte once acted as the main character in a soap opera and once fell from a Harley Davidson motorbike?
• ... that there has been a bottomless pit in East Flagstaff, Arizona, for more than 100 years?
• ... that President George H. W. Bush was King of the Pit?
• ... that an Alligator in PVC made Mary Quant look wet?
• ... that Mussolini is not interested in politics?
• ... that Mr. Spock ate my balls?

Didier Ratsiraka

• Dozens of civilians are killed and 35,000 others displaced after Islamist rebels seize the city of Palma in Mozambique.
• Former President of Madagascar Didier Ratsiraka (pictured) dies at the age of 84.
• The cargo ship Ever Given is freed after it had run aground, blocking the Suez Canal for six days and resulting in a traffic jam of more than 350 vessels.

April 1: Paschal Triduum begins (Western Christianity, 2021); Iranian Islamic Republic Day (1979)

First locomotive used on the Brill Tramway

• 1340 – A band of warriors led by Niels Ebbesen killed Count Gerhard III, ending Holstein rule in Denmark.
• 1871 – The Duke of Buckingham opened the first section of the Brill Tramway (locomotive pictured), a short railway line to transport goods between his lands and the national rail network.
• 1933 – English cricketer Wally Hammond set a record for the highest individual score in Test cricket of 336 not out during a match against New Zealand.
• 2001 – An American Lockheed EP-3 and a Chinese Shenyang J-8 collided in mid-air off the island of Hainan, resulting in an international dispute between the two countries.