From 10.00am (AEDT) – Motorsport – Supercars Championship Melbourne 400 – Melbourne

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Start of World Autism Awareness Month

April Fool’s Day

Anniversary of:
• the ruins of Pompeii being rediscovered by Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre (1748)
• US businessman Oliver Pollock creating the $ symbol (1778)
• Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founding Apple Computer (1976)
• the Netherlands becoming the first country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage (2001) and euthanasia (2002)