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• Hamas and Islamic Jihad have declared, in principle, their intention to join the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO). (Al Ahram)
• A death squad guns down at least 30 people in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. Several teenagers and a child were among those killed in the districts of Queimados and Nova Iguacu on Thursday night. Authorities blame rogue police officers for the massacre. (BBC) (Wikinews)
• Google doubles the storage space of its Gmail service to two gigabytes. (internetnews.com)
• Pope John Paul II is on the verge of death as a result of his recent health problems. The Vatican announces that the pope has suffered cardiovascular collapse and septic shock. (CNN) The Vatican denies "unsourced" media reports claiming he has already died. (Reuters)
• The United Nations Security Council votes to refer those suspected of war crimes in Darfur to the International Criminal Court. (Sudan Tribune) (Reuters AlertNet) (BBC)
• Zimbabwe parliamentary elections, 2005: In Zimbabwe, the ruling Zanu-PF gains a two-thirds majority over opposition party Movement for Democratic Change amidst claims of dis-enfranchisement and fraud. (News24) (Bloomberg) (BBC)
• Indian security forces launch an offensive against the United Liberation Front of Assam. (BBC)
• The World Bank agrees to fund a controversial hydroelectric dam project in Laos. (Planet Ark) (BBC)
• The Minuteman Project starts a month-long patrolling of the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona for illegal immigrants, with about 100 volunteers, some of them armed. (ABC News)
• The government of Argentina delays the restructuring of its debt by the exchange of old bonds for new because of a decision by a federal court judge in the United States that froze the processing of the old bonds in the possession of the Bank of New York pending a hearing before the appeals court. (Financial Times)

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April Fools hoaxes in 2006

Hoaxes for this year included:

On the internet

• AppleTalk announces that Apple has released an iPod Phone and a worldwide VoIP network called AppleTalk and that they are being forced to change their name...
• MozillaNews reports that Google will be acquiring the Mozilla Foundation, as a whole.
• Google launches an April Fool's Search (although this is not in fact run by the real Google), and also announces a new line of soft drinks called Google Gulp Beta with Auto-Drink(tm)
• Subsim.com clones a CNN report claiming Bush takes on the terrorists in his leisure time with computer game
• The Skeptic's Dictionary front page shows an announcement that the author has given up scientific inquiry and skepticism in place of the pursuit of Veritas.
• Discovery of "extinct" butterfly
• Locus Magazine makes announcements about Charles Stross, new anthologies, and a lethal flamewar.
• The Quakecon website was taken over by rabid imps, killing all the staff and sparking panic in Dallas, Texas. View the carnage here.
• Utopios makes first public release while changing policy by licensing popular Free software and becoming a proprietary OS.
• Mr. Skin featured "Bea Arthur Baring All" and announced a change from all-female to all-male content. Main Page Landing Page Ask Mr. Skin (Warning: some adult content)
• Microsoft to Release Visual Studio 2005 for Unix/Linux (TheServerSide.Net)
• The Tiger Pep Band at DePauw University changed their website design to appear as the Wabash Pep Band from arch-rival school Wabash College. The feature news article described that DePauw was being absorbed into a new "Wabash University" and that the Tiger Pep Band -- soon to celebrate its tenth anniversary -- would become a second-tier ensemble within the Wabash Bands department.
• MSN launches a new site producing spoofed search results for April fools day, MSNSearchSpoof. (This isn't actually a hoax, just an aid to create a hoax.)
• AskJeeves debuts the Jeeves9000
• Mobile Gazette reports that European cellphone standards will be needlessly harmonised.
• Booble.com has become Biible.com, an anti-sex site.
• Star Trek had several hoaxes on their website StarTrek.com including a bogus "Potucker" episode ad, funny clips, and various other articles throughout the home page.
• SpaceDaily reports that President Bush has cancelled the Space Shuttle Program and EADS SPACE falls for it.
• BDgamer.net posts news about Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas PC version leaked all over the net.
• Creative Bits [1] Announces that the rumors were true and Microsoft has purchased the site. This popular Mac Photoshop resource would now be featuring articles on MS Windows and providing Photoshop Tutorials from the Windows version. "Sounds cool? We thought so!"
• Wikipedia announces that its parent organisation, the Wikimedia Foundation has been taken over by the Encyclopædia Britannica. Numerous other pranks ensue on the site.
• GamesBids announces that IOC Could Involve Public In Future Olympic Bid Decisions
• PlanetKDE and PlanetGNOME switched places. GNOME announce a new feature where users are forced to donate to GNOME to use their desktop.
• New RFCs:
  • RFC 4041, Requirements for Morality Sections in Routing Area Drafts (A. Farrel)
  • RFC 4042, UTF-9 and UTF-18 -- Efficient Transformation Formats of Unicode (M. Crispin)
• New IETF Working Group: pride, PRactically IDEal Working Group
• Microsoft to put P2P software .GET into next version of Windows
• Gentoo to drop x86 LiveCDs
• Nature.com reports that bacteria from the Apollo missions is destroying the moon.
• The DARPA Grand Challenge 2006 to take place in Athens, Greece
• NASA's "Astronomy Picture of the Day" featuring a picture of "Water on Mars"
• Ubuntu Linux users who ran an apt update had their normal gdm login screen replaced with a picture of three people, including Mark Shuttleworth, replicating the original picture.
• Dropline GNOME announced SlackLine, a new SRPM based Slackware distribution with 1000 GNOME packages .
• Dr. Mario to be banned from further Nintendo products after parents' complaints about his association to a drug dealer. Local Toronto physician Dr Pablo N. Mario is outraged and sues Nintendo.
• Sonic CulT announces a merger with Sonic Classic, a site with whom they have had a long-standing hatred of.
• Opera Software announced Opera SoundWave, a "platform-independent speech solution for short- and medium-range interpersonal communication".
• GMTV reported on "Fruitshakes", milkshakes produced by feeding cows fruit.
• LiveJournal's Brad Fitzpatrick announced his departure and new corporate policies, including the introduction of banner ads. LiveJournal's web client's "Update Journal" button bounces when moused over, switches with "Check Spelling", and when finally clicked changes text to "Processing Whining".
• OverClocked ReMix states that is taken over by Electronic Arts. Later that day, OC ReMix received a letter from representatives of EA threatening legal action for the hoax. Later still, the legal threat turned out to be a second hoax. The site has since been changed back to its original layout.
• Homestar Runner displayed a hoax message purporting that the popular (and free) animation website would begin charging money for access. A comically mediocre "tour" of pay-site features was also presented.
• Ambrosia Software invited its mailing list subscribers to visit their site and download "Screen Cleaner Pro!," a hoax application which seems to brighten the user's computer monitor with an animated graphic of a cloth being dragged across the screen- the effect is achieved by gradually darkening the monitor before executing the animation.
• IGN carries Microsoft's announcement of World of Wordcraft
• BeyondUnreal announces Epic Games' latest project: Unreal 3: Slug Saga - The Adventures of Ne'Ban
• ThinkGeek listed a number of strange and unique items for sale, including a USB Desktop Fondue Set, iCopulate, and XBOX 2.
• Duck Hunt coming to Nintendo DS with special edition stylus! [2]
• Fark.com had several different pages rotating as index.html, including fake hacker attacks, and a control panel that appeared to log visitors in as Fark's owner Drew Curtis. ([3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11])
• Scientific American "gives up" on science and vows to give equal acknowledgement to Creationist theories. (full article on Slashdot)
• Planetcricket.net reported that Swordfish Studios had announced a new game officially licenced by New Zealand cricket & rugby union international Jeff Wilson called Jeff Wilsons International Rugby versus Cricket 2005. Features included playing cricket with a rugby ball and rugby with cricket bats. (full article)
• GeNToo: Gentoo Linux on the NT kernel. Screenshots to confirm this: http://gentooexperimental.org/nt/gentoo-nt-screenshots.html
• Several comic strip cartoonists make Ouija Board jokes at the same day, with roughly the same dialogue. Strips involved include FoxTrot, Get Fuzzy and Pearls Before Swine.
• Tibia (computer game) is searching for players to make game events. They will get a special character with power to summon monsters and create items, of course they will get money for that job.
• 2600 requires meeting attendees to wear formal attire.
• Blizzard Entertainment announces the Pandaren Xpress, a service in World of Warcraft that allows you to order Chinese Food by typing /panda! (A parody of similar service from Everquest 2)
  • Also in World of Warcraft, Blizzard announce that they are to scrap the currently planned Battlegrounds system in favour of an in-game playable version of Warcraft III.
  • In addition, the avatars on the US forum were all changed to Murlocs, and the Murloc attack sound from the game was played in the background.
• Everything2 bought out by Google; the new owners rebrand it Google Communities
• The Code Project is now concentrating on VB6 development
• The Sonic Stadium releases a fake card battling game at 4pm that fails when trying to start a game, and keeps members in suspense for three hours claiming to be fixing the program. The final error message at 8pm had a category of "April Fool".
• IPodLinux gives up and becomes iPodXP, iPod firmware based on Windows XP. Screen shots: [12] [13]
• Microsoft announces SQL Server for Linux, Unix, and Xbox. (Weblink)
• Deathfall.com posts an interview with filmmaker George Lucas announcing the death of Jar Jar Binks.
• The VGCats website was replaced with an eBay auction for Ms. Pac-Man's slightly soiled bow tie.
• mIRC.net reported on an mIRC 6.2 Preview
• The EFF sends an issue of the "EFFector" (the "10,001st" issue, Vol. 18, No. 11.a) to their mailing list with several humorous falsifications of current events.
• Peter Jackson's King Kong video production diary announces the upcoming Son of Kong, where the son of Kong battles WWII Nazi mutant monsters.
• Googolplex Theaters, a movie theater chain that does everything in Virtual Reality.
• Sonic HQ, a Sonic the Hedgehog fansite changes his name to Shadow HQ
• Digit Online announces that the European Union has banned sales Apple Macintosh computers.
• Pokey the Penguin goes on the auction block.
• Portal Sonic, a Brazilian Sonic the Hedgehog fansite, announces that CoroCoroComics is going to release a new Sonic manga, Team Chaotix.
• Time Doctor Dot Org, a Linux gaming humor site goes down for EU patent infringement of "Funny Patents".
• Spatial Abiword Word Processor is announced.
• Gamestay.com reports Sony is introducing the DVD into PSP (DiP) ultra-thin DVD player for the PlayStation Portable.
• IGN Filmforce announces information on Star Wars episodes VII, VIII, and IX.
• The official Magic: The Gathering homepage gets premium content.
• 4chan adds a furry image board.
• The Best Page In The Universe replaced by TerriAngel's Xanga Site. [14]
• Wilson Miner and Robert Bingaman posted their photos on each others' sites. No one noticed.
• IGN add a video trailer of Grand Theft Auto 4.
• GameSpot news: EA announces Medal of Honor Street.
• Noted entertainment reporter Kristin Veitch announces that she is leaving E!. [15]
• Valve Software announces an update for the game Counter-Strike: Source via Steam
• GameSpot announces that John Woo will direct a movie based on Katamari Damacy; The Rock will star. [16]
• Gamerevolution reviews the gPod, a handheld gaming device entry by Apple.
• Mozilla announced that the new name for the Application Suite would be Allizom.
• Mess with MSN Messenger reports one of its visitors discovered an ancient rock formation in Big Bend National Park that looks suspiciously a lot like the MSN Messenger mascot Mess.be.
• BMEzine posted an article about a couple cutting off their ringfingers in the name of romance.
• Apple announces that they will release the "Gpod" handheld console this year to compete with the Sony PSP.
• BostonBusinessJournal reports that MIT will move to NCAA Division I and all financial aid will be converted to athletic scholariships (article)
• Gallery and Coppermine announce their merger
• Bungie Studios reports that they will be making unusual downloadable content for Halo 2.
• Bonus Stage made a fake update that led to Mario Average Man.
• Visual IRC announced a new version that appeared to be a merger with mIRC.
• Caravel Games announced that their game DROD: Journey to Rooted Hold was not released, while in reality it was.
• A site claming to be BBC reports "zombie" virus in Cambodia.
• CBBC's Newsround website reports that brainbands help children pass exams.
• DDR:uk reports that it has been taken over by Konami and will be presenting the new Dancing Stage Fusion game.
• ComingSoon.net reports that John Hughes is prepping a sequel to his 1986 film Pretty in Pink.
• BattleRoyaleFilm.net reports that Rachael Leigh Cook has landed the title role in an American remake of the South Korean romantic comedy film My Sassy Girl.
• Movie Tome reports that Daniel Radcliffe, Whoopi Goldberg, Lindsay Lohan, Sarah Michelle Gellar, David Boreanaz, Julianne Moore and Bruce Willis have all joined the cast of X-Men 3.
• UnCubed.com reports that a fourth sequel to the 1997 sci-fi film Cube has entered production.
• Making Fiends had the eighteenth episode in the Bulgarian language.
• Tool (band)/A Perfect Circle vocalist Maynard James Keenan claimed on the band's official website to have "found Jesus", which MTV reported, believing it to be true. Maynard And Jesus Split: The Conclusion
• Steve Jackson Games announced a Girl Genius roleplaying game, but phrased the announcement to sound like an obvious hoax, when it was in fact true.
• Tupac Shakur, probably the most notorious rapper who was shot down at Las Vegas in 1996, was said to be alive and well on the CNN website.
• Wrestlecrap announced that they were going to be bought by Vince Russo and renamed Vince Russo presents Wrestlecrap.
• howstuffworks.com has an article about How Hydro-Ordnance Works, simply it's about the military replacing all current arms with water firing weapons.

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A sequel is a work of fiction in literature, film, and other creative works that is produced after a completed work, and is set in the same universe but at a later time. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about motion pictures. ... Pretty in Pink is a 1986 film about teenage love and social cliques in 1980s American high school. ... Cook on the cover of FHM. Rachael Leigh Cook (born on October 4, 1979) is an American actress. ... In film, a remake is a newer version of a previously released film or a newer version of the source (play, novel, story, etc. ... Motto: 널리 인간 세계를 이롭게 하라 (Broadly bring benefit to humanity) Anthem: Aegukga Capital Seoul Largest city Seoul Official language(s) Korean Government President Prime Minister Presidential democracy Roh Moo-hyun Han Myung-sook Establishment - Gojoseon - Declaration of Republic - Liberation - First Republic 2333 BC March 1, 1919 August 15, 1945 August 15, 1948 Area  - Total... Romantic comedy films are a sub-genre of comedy films as well as of romance films. ... This article is about motion pictures. ... My Sassy Girl is a 2001 South Korean romantic comedy film. ... Daniel Jacob Radcliffe (born 23 July 1989) is an English actor, best known for playing the wizard Harry Potter in each of the films based on the best-selling book series. ... Sarafina movie poster featuring Whoopi Goldberg Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson, November 13, 1955), is an Academy Award-winning American film actress, comedian, and singer. ... Lindsay Dee Lohan[1] (born 2 July 1986) is an American actress and pop music singer. ... Sarah Michelle Gellar Sarah Michelle Gellar (born April 14, 1977) is an American actress, best known for playing the title role in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ... David Boreanaz David Patrick Boreanaz (born May 16, 1971) is an American film and television actor. ... Julianne Moore Julianne Moore (born Julie Anne Smith on December 3, 1960 in Fayetteville, North Carolina) is a American actress - her father is American, her mother Scottish. ... Bruce Willis Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955 in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany) is an American actor and musician. ... X-Men 3 is the third film adaptation of the X-Men superhero comic books. ... A sequel is a work of fiction in literature, film, and other creative works that is produced after a completed work, and is set in the same universe but at a later time. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII in Roman) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Poster for The Day the Earth Stood Still, an archetypal science fiction film Science fiction has been a film genre since the earliest days of cinema. ... This article is about motion pictures. ... A cube (or regular hexahedron) is a three-dimensional Platonic solid composed of six square faces, with three meeting at each vertex. ... Charlotte, a character in the cartoon Making Fiends is a Flash cartoon by Amy Winfrey. ... Bulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the Southern branch of the Slavic languages. ... Tool is an American rock band, formed in 1990 in Los Angeles, California when drummer Danny Carey joined the rehearsal of his neighbour, singer Maynard James Keenan, guitarist Adam Jones and bassist Paul dAmour when nobody else would show up. ... A Perfect Circle is an alternative rock band, formed by guitarist Billy Howerdel. ... Maynard James Keenan (born April 17, 1964 as James Herbert Keenan) is an American rock singer. ... Steve Jackson Games (SJG) is a game company that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games. ... Girl Genius is a comic book series (ongoing) written and drawn by Phil and Kaja Foglio and published by their company, Studio Foglio LLC under the imprint Airship Entertainment. ... Wrestlecrap is a well-known professional wrestling website created by RD Reynolds and Merle Vincent. ... Vince Russo (born January 24, 1961 in New York City, New York) is an American writer. ... Howstuffworks. ...

In Australia

• The Sunrise breakfast show on Channel 7 Australia broadcast a redo of the BBC's smell-o-vision April fools day joke.
• Whirlpool in Australia report that Former Senator Richard Alston will be Telstra's next CEO (original article) .
• The Sydney Morning Herald reports the new SMEGmail service, offering 1 terabyte of e-mail storage space (original article); and the recruitment of Paris Hilton to increase the exposure of Linux (original article)
• Interplanetary spam responsible for crippling the onboard computer of the Spirit rover
• Virgin Group's Australian Finance Division announced the introduction of a 'scratch and sniff' sausage credit card. Website link
• A radio station in WA, played "You Promise Me" over 10 times in a row on the radio. Saying that other songs were coming up next, they played the same song over. Listeners were tuning in and rang up, but then figured it was April the 1st!

Smell-o-vision is the name given to a type of film where the viewer can smell what is happening in the movie. ... Whirlpool is an Australian Broadband user web site, started in 1998 by Simon Wright. ... ... A terabyte (derived from the SI prefix tera-) is a measurement term for data storage capacity equal to approximately 1000 Gigabytes. ... Paris Hilton at a press conference for GoYellow. ... Tux is the Linux mascot. ... The Virgin Group is the group of companies using the Virgin brand of British celebrity business tycoon Sir Richard Branson. ... Chinese pork sausages A sausage consists of ground meat (and sometimes other animal parts), herbs and spices, and possibly other ingredients, generally packed in a casing (traditionally the intestines of the animal, though now often synthetic), and preserved in some way, often by curing or smoking. ... Credit cards An array of various credit cards. ...

In Canada

• In The Globe and Mail, BMW offered a free pair of "314t" cross-trainers to anyone who purchased a new 3-Series.
• The Toronto Star reports that Ashton Kutcher and Paris Hilton to star in a 2005 remake of Casablanca
• The Canadian site Urban Exploration Resource (UER) posted a mock up of the images posted by the MPAA when popular Bittorrent site Lokitorrent.com was shut down. Urban Exploration Resource Lokitorrent, after MPAA takeover
• Eminent Montreal ping-pong player Yank Hang bombs local gym after losing to James "Chucky" Chung in final round of play.

The Globe and Mail is a large Canadian English language national newspaper based in Toronto. ... Regional competition level table tennis, showing table, net, and player getting ready to return the ball with a winning backhand topspin stroke. ...

In Denmark

• The Danish tabloid Ekstra Bladet reports that the film Indiana Jones 4, will be filmed this year in Denmark, partly in Copenhagen and partly on the island of Bornholm. [17]

Ekstra Bladet is a Danish tabloid newspaper focusing on sensationalist stories. ... Indiana Jones 4 is a working title given to what will be the fourth of the Indiana Jones series of theatrical films. ... Copenhagen (Danish: København) is the capital of Denmark, and the name of the municipality (Danish, kommune) in which it resides. ... Bornholm is a Danish island in the Baltic Sea. ...

In Germany

• In football, Bayern Munich announces on its website that it is set to sign Real Madrid and England superstar and cultural icon David Beckham. Weblink (in German) Weblink (in English) (Reuters/Yahoo!)

• German's biggest newspaper BILD teams up with beer brewer Veltins to create personalized fake BILD headlines.

Football (soccer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Bayern Munich or FC Bayern München is a German football club based in Munich, capital of the state of Bavaria. ... Real Madrid is a Spanish football club ranked as The 20th Centurys Best Club by FIFA. They play their home games at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid. ... First international Scotland 0 - 0 England (Partick, Scotland; 30 November 1872) Largest win Ireland 0 - 13 England (Belfast, Northern Ireland; 18 February 1882) Worst defeat Hungary 7 - 1 England (Budapest, Hungary; 23 May 1954) World Cup Appearances 12 (First in 1950) Best result Winners, 1966 European Championship Appearances 7 (First... A cultural icon is a notable individual who has transcended mere celebrity to come to represent a given Zeitgeist to a sizable part of civilization. ... David Beckham David Robert Joseph Beckham OBE (born May 2, 1975) is an English footballer born in Leytonstone, London. ...

In India

• The Times of India says Dan Brown reveals that Kashmir actually belongs to the US in his new upcoming book. [18]

The Common Man featured on a commemorative stamp released by the Indian Postal Service on the 150th Anniversary of the Times of India - 1988. ... Dan Brown (born June 22, 1964) is an American author of thriller fiction, best known for writing the controversial 2003 bestseller, The Da Vinci Code. ... Shown in green is the Kashmiri region under Pakistani control. ...

In Malaysia

• Malaysian radio station Hitz.FM's Morning Crew, Rudy and JJ (famous for their Gotcha pranks), announce that they have been fired for coming in late the day before, and take hostage of the station. The drama went on for their entire morning shift. Malaysian newspaper The Malay Mail carried the story thinking that it was for real. They carried the story the day after, announcing that it was an April fool's prank.

In the Netherlands

• NOS Jeugdjournaal, Dutch Journal for Kids announced that the government wants to prohibit using MSN Messenger for children under the age of 14. Thousands of children called a special telephone number to vote against the plan, and were told it was a joke.
• A Zoo in Emmen announced the birth of a zebra whose patterning was chequered, as opposed to the conventional stripes. Readers were invited to visit the zoo.

Emmen is a municipality and a town in the northeastern Netherlands. ...

In New Zealand

• Telecom New Zealand published a full-page advertisement in the New Zealand Herald publicising the reintroduction of the first-generation cellphone, the brick.
• The Otago Daily Times newspaper announced a breakthrough link between an additive in printing ink and obesity, urging its readers to soak their newspaper in water and wrap themselves in its pages to test the results for themselves.
• Campbell Live (TV3's recently launched current events programme) exposed advanced Government plans to sell much of the national park on Stewart Island/Rakiura to the United States for use as an air base supporting their operations in Antarctica.

Telecom New Zealand NZX: TEL ASX: TEL NYSE: NZT is a Wellington-based telephone company formed after the privatisation of the New Zealand Post Office in 1990 and is also New Zealands second largest mobile operator. ... The New Zealand Herald is a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand. ... Cellular redirects here. ... Current TV3 logo. ... Rakiura National Park is located on Stewart Island. ... Stewart Island/Rakiura is the third largest island of New Zealand. ...

In Sweden

• Sydsvenska Dagbladet claimed that Pope Benedict XVI visited a Swedish school on the 30th of March. The article provided three pictures of a dressed up pope.

The main headquarters in Malmö. Sydsvenska Dagbladet Snällposten (also known as Sydsvenskan) is a daily newspaper in Sweden. ... Pope Benedict XVI (Latin: ), born Joseph Alois Ratzinger (born April 16, 1927) is the 265th and reigning pope, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, and sovereign of Vatican City State. ...

In the United Kingdom

• BMW printed a full page ad in a number of national UK newspapers (including The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, and the Daily Mail) saying that in 2007 the EU was to ban right-handed cars being driven in mainland Europe (effectively banning every British car), and that they had invented steering wheel-less technology. The ad can be seen here.
• Mugglenet is replaced with a page stating that J.K. Rowling has taken legal action against the site, causing it to be shut down. (It also contained a fake countdown to "Harry Potter 5: The Pillar of Storgé")
• The BBC report that a think-tank has suggested that disabled people should not appear on television until after the 9pm watershed.
• Bush twins to join Air Force tech unit in Iraq
• The Independent: Jamie Oliver is to be the new Conservative candidate of the Arundel and South Downs after the saga of Howard Flight.
• King Arthur Pendragon claimed that English Heritage had handed ownership of Stonehenge to the Druids, as part of a project to place a roof and restore the ancient temple to its former glory [19]
• The Today programme on BBC Radio 4 reported that, as a result of an obscure 19th century rule of succession of the House of Saxe-Coburg, Camilla Parker-Bowles's son, Thomas Parker-Bowles, who is older than Prince William, will become second in line to the British throne following the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla on 8 April 2005.
• The Guardian reported that Charles, Prince of Wales had been appointed 'Countryside Tsar' by Tony Blair in the run-up to the imminent general election. The ban on foxhunting will be revoked, as long as it is made into a sport of the people.
• The Sun reported that EU bureaucrats wanted to ban April Fools' Day because of physical and mental injury caused to the victims of jokes; and that gypsies had camped in Windsor Castle, claiming a centuries-old right to pitch tents there.
• The Times Sports section claims that the Premiership is to covert into an NFL-style 32-team play-off system.

BMW AG (an abbreviation of Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, or in English, Bavarian Motor Works), is a German company and manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles. ... The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom. ... The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ... For other uses, see The Independent (disambiguation). ... The Daily Mail is a British newspaper, currently a tabloid, first published in 1896. ... A think tank is a research institute or other organization providing advice and ideas on problems of policy, commerce, and military interest, and are often associated with military laboratories, corporations, academia, or other institutions. ... Watershed is a term used in the United Kingdom (as well as Canada) to describe a time in television schedules beyond which it is permissible to show a television programmes which have adult content. It is known in the US as Safe Harbor. Adult content can be generally defined as... For other uses, see The Independent (disambiguation). ... Jamie Oliver on Jamies School Dinners James (Jamie) Trevor Oliver, MBE (born on May 27, 1975), also known as the Naked Chef, is a British celebrity chef. ... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the right-of-centre in the United Kingdom. ... Arundel and South Downs is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... Howard Emerson Flight (born 16 June 1948) is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. ... English Heritage is a United Kingdom government body with a broad remit of managing the historic environment of England. ... Stonehenge Stonehenge is a Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic monument located near Avebury in the English county of Wiltshire, about 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Salisbury. ... Arch-Druid in his full Judicial Costume (1845 etching) In Celtic polytheism the word Druid denotes the priestly class in ancient Celtic societies, which existed through much of Western Europe north of the Alps and in the British Isles. ... A roof tiled in imitation of thatch at Croyde, north Devon, England Rooftops in Vietnam Snow on the roof A roof is the top covering of a building that sheds rain or snow, keeping the building interior dry. ... Today, commonly referred to as the Today programme to avoid ambiguity, is BBC Radio 4s long-running early morning news and current affairs programme, which is now broadcast from 6am to 9am from Monday to Friday and from 7am to 9am on Saturdays. ... BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... Saxe-Coburg-Gotha or Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (German: Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha) was once the name given to the two German duchies of Saxe-Coburg and Saxe-Gotha in Germany, in the present states of Bavaria and Thuringia, which were in personal union between 1826 and 1918. ... Camilla Parker Bowles (born July 17 1947) was mistress, now girlfriend, of Charles, Prince of Wales. ... HRH Prince William of Wales William Arthur Philip Louis His Royal Highness Prince William of Wales (William Arthur Philip Louis Mountbatten-Windsor) (born June 21, 1982) is a member of the British Royal Family, grandson of Queen Elizabeth II and first son of Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales. ... Prince Charles may refer to: Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, current heir-apparent to the British throne Any of the previous British royals named Charles, Prince of Wales The former Belgian regent, Prince Charles of Belgium This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might... April 8 is the 98th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (99th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Prince of Wales The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor) (born 14 November 1948), is the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. ... The Right Honourable Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service. ... The Sun, a tabloid daily newspaper published in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, has the highest circulation of any daily English-language newspaper in the world, standing at around 3,200,000 copies daily in late-2004, but at one point in the past decade, almost 5... A bureaucrat is a member of a bureaucracy, usually within an institution of the government. ... The Roma people (singular Rom; sometimes Rroma, Rrom), often referred to as Gypsies, are an ethnic group who live primarily in Southern and Eastern Europe Europe, Western Asia and the Middle East. ... Windsor Castle: The Round Tower or keep dominating the castle, as seen from the River Thames. ... A tent is a shelter, consisting of sheets of fabric or other material draped over or attached to a frame of poles. ... The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom. ... Premiership may refer to: The FA Premier League, Englands highest-level competition in football (soccer) In Australian rules football (and the AFL) a premiership refers to the title won during a particular year. ... NFL logo For other uses of the abbreviation NFL, see NFL (disambiguation). ... A playoff in sports (North American professional sports in particular) is a game or series of games played after the regular season is over with the goal of determining a league champion. ...

In the United States

• Jennifer Government: NationStates claims to be forbidden by the Department of Homeworld Security. [20] (also contains a reference to 1984)
• National Public Radio's news program All Things Considered reports on New England's maple syrup industry downturn and the dangers of leaving maple trees untapped. [21]
• The Manhattan College Quadrangle reports that campus food-service operator, Sodexho, has replaced food service workers with strippers.[22]
• MiceAge.com posts a spoofed article about Disney Casino Adventure, a Vegas-style makeover of the Disney California Adventure theme park at Disneyland.
• Peter Gammons announces on the Dan Patrick radio show that Pete Rose is now eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame.
• CollegeHumor sold to Philip Morris USA. CollegeHumor.com
• FBI Crackdown on VCR use is a ruse based on P2P legal proceedings and paranoia.
• A&W Restaurants announce new deal of "Two grandpas for five dollars".
• Santa Fe Institute [23] changed their splash page to Greek fonts.

Ouija Board Comic Strips: In 2005, the comic strips FoxTrot, Pearls Before Swine, and Get Fuzzy all ran essentially the same gag involving a Ouija board telling one character to punch another. [24] Created by Max Barry, Jennifer Government: NationStates is a game on the World Wide Web that is based on, and is a promotional tool for, his novel Jennifer Government. ... Nineteen Eighty-Four is a satirical political novel by George Orwell. ... NPR logo NPR redirects here. ... All Things Considered, sometimes abbreviated ATC, is a news radio program in the United States, broadcast on the National Public Radio network. ... Manhattan College is a Catholic college in the Lasallian tradition in New York City. ... Sodexho, or more properly Sodexho Alliance, is a French multinational corporation and one of the largest foodservice companies in the world. ... Peter Gammons (born April 9, 1945) is a sportswriter and media personality. ... Daniel Patrick Pugh (born May 15, 1956), better known as Dan Patrick, is a sportscaster from Mason, Ohio, United States. ... Peter Edward Pete Rose Sr. ... The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, located at 25 Main Street in Cooperstown, New York, United States, is a semi-official museum operated by private interests that serves as the central point for the study of the history of baseball in the United States and beyond, the display... A&W restaurant in Page, Arizona A&W is a chain of fast food restaurants distinguished by their draft root beer and root beer floats, made on the premises from concentrate and served in large glass mugs. ... The Santa Fe Institute [SFI] is a non-profit research institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico founded by Murray Gell-Mann in 1984 to study complex systems and disseminate the notion of a separate interdisciplinary study of complexity theory. ... A typical Ouija board Ouija (pronounced wee-juh or wee-jee) refers to the belief that one can receive messages during a séance by the use of a Ouija board (also called a talking board or spirit board) and planchette. ... First panel of most 2006 Sunday strips. ... Pig and Rat in Pearls Before Swine Pearls Before Swine is a comic strip written and illustrated by Stephan Pastis. ... Bucky Katt Get Fuzzy is an American daily comic strip written and drawn by Darby Conley. ...

Events mistaken as April Fool's Day hoaxes

Genuine events that had been interpreted as April Fools included:

• Adult Swim aired an unfinished version of its newest show Squidbillies. Later on in the morning they admited to the fact that it was unfinished. (Some people have, however, begin to suspect that Squidbillies is a joke in itself.).
• Pope John Paul II's near-death condition (he died the next day)
• Christopher Eccleston quits Doctor Who (2005) after one series [25]
• comedian Mitch Hedberg's death
• Frank Perdue's death
• The announcement of the tea tablet
• Zinedine Zidane playing again with the France national football team
• Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 64-Bit Versions are RTM and can be downloaded from MSDN
• British Home Secretary Charles Clarke is being asked to pardon Anne Boleyn for the crimes of adultery, incest and witchcraft for which she was beheaded in 1536. [26]
• [27] Google doubles Gmail disk space quota to 2Gb.
• [28] Google offers Ride Finder for real time information on taxi cabs in selected cities.
• [29] Fairfax County, Virginia imposes ambulance charge.
• [30] The BBC asks to interview long-deceased singer Bob Marley.
• [31] Nintendo-Reloaded was the previous name for the upcoming console, which is now called Revolution.
• Best Buy to end Rebates
• One of Cartoon Network's Cartoon Cartoon series, The PowerPuff Girls was said to be in the process of being adapted to an Anime, tentatively titled "Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z" by Aniplex (Of "Full Metal Alchemist" fame) and Toei (of, besides others "Dragon Ball" fame) in part of a deal involving IGPX and one other series that has yet to be announced.

The Adult Swim logo. ... Squidbillies is an animated television show produced by Williams Street Studios, the creators of Aqua Teen Hunger Force on Adult Swim, about a family of hillbilly squids that live in the north Georgia mountains. ... Pope John Paul II (Latin: ), born Karol Józef WojtyÅ‚a (May 18, 1920 – April 2, 2005) reigned as pope of the Roman Catholic Church for almost 27 years, from October 16, 1978 until his death, making his the second-longest pontificate. ... Christopher Eccleston Christopher Eccleston (born on 16 February 1964 in Salford, Lancashire) is an English stage, television and film actor, best known for his roles in several high profile prestige films and television series and for playing the ninth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who. ... Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC about a mysterious time-travelling adventurer known only as The Doctor, who explores time and space with his companions, fighting evil. ... Mitch Hedberg Mitch Hedberg (February 24, 1968 – March 29, 2005) was an American stand-up comedian known for his odd subject matter, stylistic elocution, subdued delivery, and memorable routines that often consisted of a string of one-line non sequiturs. ... Frank Perdue (May 9, 1920 – March 31, 2005), born in Salisbury, Maryland, was for many years the president of Perdue Farms, now one of the largest chicken-producing companies in the United States. ... Zinédine Yazid Zidane (born June 23, 1972, in Marseille, France), nicknamed Zizou, is a French football player for Real Madrid and France, widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the world. ... First international Belgium 3 - 3 France (Brussels, Belgium; 1 May 1904) Largest win France 10 - 0 Azerbaijan (Paris, France; 6 September 1995) Worst defeat Denmark 17 - 1 France (London, England; 19 October 1908) World Cup Appearances 12 (First in 1930) Best result Winners, 1998 European Championship Appearances 6 (First in... Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT, SEHK: 4338) is an international computer technology corporation with 2005 global annual sales of close to $40 billion USD and about 64,000 employees in 85 countries and regions which develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. ... Term used in software development; a piece of software has been released to manufacturing (frequently abbreviated RTM) when its code base is deemed complete, typically after a beta test. ... The Home Secretary (official full title Secretary of State for the Home Department) is the chief United Kingdom government minister responsible for law and order in England and Wales; his or her remit includes policing, the criminal justice system, the prison service, internal security, and matters of citizenship and immigration. ... ... A pardon is the forgiveness of a crime and the penalty associated with it. ... A portrait of Anne painted some years after her death. ... Man and woman undergoing public exposure for adultery in Japan, around 1860 Adultery is generally defined as consensual sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their lawful spouse. ... Incest is sexual activity between close family members. ... Witchcraft, in various historical, religious and mythical contexts, is the use of certain kinds of alleged supernatural or magical powers. ... Events February 2 - Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina. ... Google Inc. ... Gmail is a popular free webmail and POP e-mail service, currently in beta testing, from Google, Inc. ... Google Inc. ... Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation. ... Robert Nesta Marley, OM, (February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981) better known as Bob Marley, was a Jamaican singer, guitarist, songwriter, Rastafarian and activist. ... Best Buy is sometimes called the big blue box because of the prominent design on Best Buy stores resembling a blue box. ... Cartoon Network is a cable television channel created by Turner Broadcasting and dedicated to showing animated programming. ... What-A-Cartoon!, also known as World Premiere Toons or WAC for short, was the mid-1990s animation showcase that appeared on the Cartoon Network. ... The Powerpuff Girls is an American animated television series about three little girls with superpowers who have dedicated their lives to fighting crime and the forces of evil. ... Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z (出ましたっ!パワパフガールズZ ) is the provisional name for a Japanese anime spin-off of the American animated television series The Powerpuff Girls. ... Fullmetal Alchemist DVD cover by FUNimation Fullmetal Alchemist (鋼の錬金術師, Hagane no Renkinjutsushi in the original Japanese) is a 51-episode anime TV series which ran in Japan from October 4, 2003 to October 2, 2004. ... Toei can refer to: Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation Toei Animation This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Dragon Ball Volume 1 (Japanese version). ... IGPX Immortal Grand Prix refers to two anime series produced by Cartoon Network and Production I.G.. The first is a Micro-series consisting of five five-minute episodes. ...

See also

• April 1, 2004
• Wikinews article about the April Fool's Day edits on Wikipedia
• BBC list of ten news stories from the day which sounded like - but weren't - hoaxes

April 1, 2004 was an April Fools Day that fell on a Thursday. ...

External link

• A long list of supposed 2005 April Fool's