01 April

91st day of the year (92nd in leap year)

Birthdays

 * Annie Nightingale (b.1940), Billy Currie (b.1950), David Gower (b.1957), Susan Boyle (b.1961), Philip Schofield (b.1962), Chris Evans (b.1966), Gemma Hunt (b.1982)

Events

 * 1976: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple Computer
 * 1979: Iran is proclaimed an Islamic Republic
 * 1984: Marvin Gaye shot dead by his father
 * 2015: RIP Cynthia Lennon
 * 2017: Bob Dylan accepts the 2016 Nobel Prize for literature.
 * 2018: the return of The Generation Game

Charts
as announced on this day, with no.1 single (new in bold). Click year for full chart.
 * 1965: The Rolling Stones - The Last Time (3/3)
 * 1975: Bay City Rollers - Bye Bye Baby (3/6)
 * 1980: The Jam - Going Underground/Dreams of Children (3/3)
 * 1986: Cliff Richard & The Young Ones - Living Doll (2/3)
 * 1990: Snap! - The Power (2/2)
 * 2001: Hearsay - Pure and Simple (3/3)
 * 2007: The Proclaimers ft Brain Potter & Andy Pipkin - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) (2/3)
 * 2012: Chris Brown - Turn Up The Music (1/1)
 * 2016: Mike Posner - I Took a Pill in Ibiza (3/4)

Top of the Pops

 * 1964: Alan Freeman & Pete Murray. The Beatles - Can’t Buy Me Love/You Can't Do That (both featured)
 * 1965: JS. The Rolling Stones – The Last Time
 * 1976: Tony Blackburn. Brotherhood of Man - Save Your Kisses For Me
 * 1982: John Peel. Goombay Dance Band - Seven Tears.
 * 1993: Mark Franklin. The Blue Bells - Young At Heart.
 * 2005: Fearne Cotton & Reggie Yates. Tony Christie feat. Peter Kay – (Is This The Way To) Amarillo.
 * 2011: The Story of 1976.