1 April 1917: birth of Sydney Newman, without whom etc etc.
1 April 1926: birth of John Scott Martin, Dalek operator and rubber-suited monster extraordinaire.
ii) broadcast anniversaries
1 April 1967: broadcast of fourth episode of The Macra Terror. The Doctor floods the mines with oxygen and then blows them up, killing the Macra.
1 April 1972: broadcast of sixth episode of The Sea Devils. The Doctor sabotages the Sea Devils’ base and it explodes killing them all; he and the Master escape.
iii) date specified in canon
1 April 1963: setting of First Doctor novella Time and Relative (2001), by Kim Newman.
Beagle, Peter S.: The Last Unicorn
Bradbury, Ray: Something Wicked This Way Comes
Howard, Robert E.: Conan the Barbarian
King, Stephen: The Shining
Collins, Suzanne: The Hunger Games
Lynch, Scott: The Lies of Locke Lamora
I have read all of the above, and liked all of them for various reasons.
We read Something Wicked this way Comes for our book club recently and I was surprised to realise how my point of view changed due to age. I first read it as a teenager (I lived near Waukegan where Bradbury based his Green Town stories) and then more than 40 years later and went from identifying with the 2 boys to identifying with the father.
I was pleasantly surprised to like The Hunger Games and The Shining is one of King’s best books. Love the topiary garden segment (not seen in the film)!