April Fool's Day or All Fools' Day, though not a In the United States, a holiday is a day set aside by a nation or culture (in some cases, multiple nations and cultures) typically for celebration but sometimes for some other kind of special culture-wide (or national) observation or activity. ...holiday in its own right, is a notable day celebrated in many countries on April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ...1 April. The day is marked by the commission of A hoax is an attempt to trick an audience into believing that something false is real. ...hoaxes and other A practical joke or prank is a practice intended to be humorous (usually in action, not just in words) in which another person is fooled, annoyed, or embarrassed in what the perpetrator imagines to be a mild and light_hearted fashion. ...practical jokes of varying sophistication, the aim of which is to embarrass the gullible.

Superstitions

Traditionally, pranks are supposed to be performed before noon. Those done afterwards are supposed to bring bad luck to the perpetrator. This limitation is not, however, universally adhered to since it is believed to have been contrived by annoyed parents and school teachers wanting a respite from the day of pranks, as well as since many of the hoaxes listed below first appeared after noon. Anyone who fails to respond in the proper spirit of tolerance and amusement to the tricks played on them is also said to be liable to suffer bad luck. It is (unreliably) said that being fooled by a pretty girl will be compensated by marriage to, or at least friendship with, her.

Another Superstition is a set of behaviors that may be faith based, or related to magical thinking, whereby the practitioner believes that the future, or the outcome of certain events, can be influenced by certain of his or her behaviors. ...superstition is that marriage on April Fools' Day is not a good idea for a man, for he will be permanently ruled by his wife. It is furthermore believed that children born on this day will experience good luck in most matters, but will only meet with disaster when it comes to gambling.

Origin

The origin of April Fool's day is not entirely clear, but it is generally accepted to have stemmed from the changes in the A calendar is a system for assigning calendar dates to days. ...calendar system [1]  (http://www3.kumc.edu/diversity/other/aprlfool.html). The This page deals with the annual event. ...New Year celebrations used to begin on March 25 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (85th in leap years). ...25 March and last for a week, hence ending on 1 April. In Events January 15 _ Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to Poland February 24 _ Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian Calendar. ...1582, King Charles IX ( June 27, 1550 – May 30, 1574) was born Charles_Maximilien, the son of King Henri II of France and Catherine de Medici. ...Charles IX of France brought in the new The Gregorian calendar is the calendar currently used in the Western world. ...Gregorian calendar, in which the new year began on January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ...1 January. Unfortunately, some people did not hear of the change, and others simply refused to break the tradition. These people became the object of so_called 'fool's errands' and tests of gullibility.

Present day

The This article is about the Internet An internet is a more general term for any set of interconnected computer networks that are connected by internetworking Graphic representation of the WWW information network structure around Wikipedia, as represented by hyperlinks The Internet, or simply the Net, is the publicly available worldwide...Internet makes it more difficult to know what time it was when a potential hoax was perpetrated. _1...Time zones are different in different parts of the world; it is actually the first of April from 0000 _1200 1 April until 2359 +1400 1 April, a period of 49 hours. Those unfamiliar with the April Fool's Day custom may be vulnerable to Internet hoaxes.

Hoaxes

Many For other uses of the word Media see media (disambiguation). ...media organizations have either unwittingly or deliberately propagated hoaxes on April Fools' Day. Even normally serious news media consider April Fools' Day hoaxes fair game, and spotting them has become an annual pastime. The advent of the This article is about the Internet An internet is a more general term for any set of interconnected computer networks that are connected by internetworking Graphic representation of the WWW information network structure around Wikipedia, as represented by hyperlinks The Internet, or simply the Net, is the publicly available worldwide...Internet as a worldwide communications medium has also assisted the pranksters in their work.

Well_known hoaxes

• Cleveland Dinosaur Attack: a joke saying that dinosaurs attacked all over Cleveland, including the Rock_N_Roll Hall of Fame and the Cavaliers Stadium.
• Kremvax was originally a fictitious Usenet site at the Kremlin, named like the then large number of Usenet VAXen with names of the form foovax. ...Kremvax: one of the early Internet April Fool's day hoaxes.
• San Serriffe is a fictional island nation created to honour April Fools Day. ...San Serriffe: The Guardian was also the name of a U.S. television series. ...The Guardian printed a supplement featuring this fictional island (a reference to " In typography, serifs are the small features at the end of strokes within letters. ...sans_serif", a family of typefaces).
• FBI Crackdown: These crackdowns [2] (http://songzilla.blogspot.com/2005/04/confirmed_cassette_prosecutions_fbi.html) are rarely true, though entirely feasible.
• Smell_o_vision is the name given to a type of interactive television where the viewer can smell what is happening on the programme. ...Smell_o_vision: The The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was formed in 1927 by means of a royal charter from the Crown. ...BBC purported to conduct a trial of a new technology allowing the transmission of Odor receptors on the antennae of a Luna moth An odor is the object of perception of the sense of olfaction. ...odor over the airwaves to all viewers. Despite the fact that no such capability existed, many viewers reportedly contacted the BBC to report the trial's success.
• The Spaghetti tree is a fictitious tree, a joke designed to fool the gullible who do not know how spaghetti is produced. ...Spaghetti trees: The BBC television program Panorama ran a famous hoax in 1957, showing the Swiss redirects here; for other uses of that term, see Swiss (disambiguation) The Swiss Confederation or Switzerland is a landlocked federal state in Europe, with neighbours Germany, France, Italy, Austria and Liechtenstein. ...Swiss This article is about gathering crops. ...harvesting Spaghetti is a typical Italian dish comprised of long, thin, round pasta. ...spaghetti from This article is about the biological organisms known as trees. ...trees. A lot of people wanted spaghetti trees of their own.
• Metric time is the measure of time interval using the metric system, which defines the second as the base unit of time, and multiple and submultiple units formed with metric prefixes, such as kiloseconds and milliseconds. ...Metric time: Repeated several times in various countries over the years, this hoax claims that the (Clockwise from upper left) Notable Time magazine covers from May 7, 1945; July 25, 1969; December 31, 1999; September 14, 2001; and April 21, 2003. ...time system will be changed to some system where one subdivision is some power of 10 smaller than the next. The idea to metricise time was suggested in France _ Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...France after the The period of the French Revolution in the history of France covers the years between 1789 and 1799, in which democrats and republicans overthrew the absolute monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church was forced to undergo radical restructuring. ...French Revolution: see The French Revolutionary Calendar or French Republican Calendar is a calendar proposed during the French Revolution, and in use by the French government for 13 years from 1793. ...French Revolutionary Calendar.
• Leaning tower of Pisa The Leaning Tower of Pisa (Italian: Torre di Pisa) is the campanile, or bell tower, for the Italian city of Pisas cathedral, located in the Campo dei Miracoli. ...Tower of Pisa: The Netherlands (disambiguation). ...Dutch See TV (disambiguation) for other uses and Television (band) for the rock band Family watching television in the 1950s. ...television news once reported that the famous Tower of Pisa had fallen over. Many shocked and even mourning people contacted the television studio.
• A television licence is an official licence required in some countries for all owners of a television receiver. ...Television licence: In another year the Dutch television news reported that the government had introduced a new way to detect hidden televisions (in many countries in Europe, one must pay a television licence to fund public broadcasting) by simply driving through the streets with a new detector, and that the only way to keep your television from being detected was to wrap it in Aluminium foil (aluminum foil in North American English) is aluminium prepared in thin sheets (on the order of . ...aluminum foil. Within a few hours all aluminum foil was sold out throughout the country.
• Sidd Finch was the subject of a notorious article by George Plimpton in the April 1985 issue of Sports Illustrated. ...Sidd Finch: George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 – September 25, 2003) was an American journalist, writer and actor. ...George Plimpton wrote an article in Sports Illustrated is a popular weekly American sports magazine owned by media giant Time Warner. ...Sports Illustrated about a The New York Mets are a Major League Baseball team based in the borough of Queens in New York City. ...New York Mets prospect who could throw a For the American band of the same name, see Fastball (band). ...fastball at 176 mph (the fastest pitchers in baseball barely reach 100mph). This kid was known as "Barefoot" Sidd Finch. He reportedly learned to throw a ball that fast in a Statues of Buddha such as this, the Tian Tan Buddha statue in Hong Kong, remind followers to practice right living. ...Buddhist monastery, and also threw a The javelin throw is an athletics (track and field) throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear_like object made of metal and fibreglass. ...javelin a quarter of a mile at the British For months before the Olympic Games, runners relay the Olympic Flame from Olympia to the opening ceremony. ...Olympic tryouts. Plimpton said the boy refused to go to the Olympics for fear of hurting someone. Barefoot Sidd was later the subject of a moderately successful book.
• Radio Station "Power 106": A This article is about the largest city in California. ...Los Angeles Radio transmission diagram and electromagnetic waves Radio is a technology that allows the transmission of signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of light. ...radio station "announced" a change from pop to Discothèque redirects here. ...disco music at 7:00 AM, April 1, ( 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993_2003) Events January January 1 _ Czechoslovakia divides. ...1993?). After 12 hours they admitted it was a joke, and switched back to their standard playlist. Within minutes complaints rolled in of "where's the disco?", and the station actually changed formats the next day (and kept disco for a year or two).
• Radio Station KFOG (San Francisco, CA): Pretended to have been the victim of a corporate radio buyout, with a switch to a new format: just the best 15 seconds of every song! The entire morning show was formatted this way, with taped interruptions of various perky listeners gushing over the new format. (This hoax can also be considered a In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. ...parody of several radio buyouts during the late 1990s media consolidations.)
• Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is the sixth-largest country in the world, the only one to occupy an entire continent, and the largest in the region of Australasia/ Oceania. ...Australian Radio Station Triple J (JJJ) is a nationally_networked, government_funded Australian radio station (a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation), mainly aimed at youth (defined as those between 12 and 25). ...Triple J: On 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...1999_ April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ...04_01, breakfast show co_host Adam Spencer is an Australian mathematician, comedian, radio DJ and media personality. ...Adam Spencer said he had a journalist on the line from overseas where there had just been a secret 9 hour Alternative meanings at IOC (disambiguation) The International Olympic Committee is an organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin in 1894 to reinstate the Ancient Olympic Games held in Greece, and organize this sports event every four years. ...IOC meeting and that Sydney had lost the 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...2000 For months before the Olympic Games, runners relay the Olympic Flame from Olympia to the opening ceremony. ...Olympic Games. Motto: Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites (Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine) Other Australian states and territories Capital Sydney Governor HE Professor Marie Bashir Premier Bob Carr (ALP) Area 809,444 km² (5th)  _ Land 800,642 km²  _ Water 8,802 km² (1. ...New South Wales A premier is an executive official of government. ...Premier For other people of the same name, see Bob Carr (disambiguation). ...Bob Carr was also in on the joke. The story was picked up by mainstream media (including The Nine network (slogan Still The One) is an Australian television network owned by Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (Kerry Packers media company). ...Channel 9's Today Show) before Adam revealed the truth.
• Jack Ruby murdered the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, in a very public manner. ...Assassination of Bill Gates William Henry Gates III, KBE (born October 28, 1955), commonly known as Bill Gates, is an American businessman and a computer pioneer. ...Bill Gates: many The Great Wall of China, stretching over 6,700 km, was erected beginning in the 3rd century BC to guard the north from raids by men on horses. ...Chinese and South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK; Korean: Daehan Minguk (Hangul: 대한 민국; Hanja: 大韓民國)), is a country in East Asia, covering the southern half of the Korean Peninsula. ...South Korean websites claimed that CNN or Cable News Network is a cable television network that was founded in 1980 by Ted Turner & Reese Schonfeld [1][2](although he currently is not recognized in CNNs official history). ...CNN reported Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), (founded 1975), headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, is the worlds largest software company (with over 50,000 employees in various countries, as of May 2004). ...Microsoft, was assassinated.
• Write Only Memory (WOM) is the logical converse of Read Only Memory. ...Write Only Memory, advertised for sale by Around 1971, the Signetics Corporation introduced the 555_timer circuit. ...Signetics in April of 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ...1972; included in its An integrated circuit (IC) is a thin chip consisting of at least two interconnected semiconductor devices, mainly transistors, as well as passive components like resistors. ...IC databooks through the late Centuries: 1st century BC _ 1st century _ 2nd century Decades: 20s _ 30s - 40s _ 50s _ 60s - 70s - 80s _ 90s _ 100s _ 110s _ 120s 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 Note: Sometimes the 70s is used as shorthand for the 1970s, the 1870s, or other such decades...70s.
• Death of a Mayor: in 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...1998, local radio hosts Categories: Stub ...Opie and Anthony reported that Alternative meanings: Boston (disambiguation) The 18th_century Old State House in Boston is surrounded by tall buildings of the 19th and 20th centuries. ...Boston A mayor (Latin maīor better) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ...mayor Thomas M. Menino (born December 27, 1942) is the current mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, first elected on November 2, 1993. ...Thomas Menino had been killed in a car accident while in State nickname: Everglade State, Sunshine State Other U.S. States Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Governor Jeb Bush Official languages English Area 170,451 km² (22nd)  _ Land 137,374 km²  _ Water 30,486 km² (17. ...Florida. Menino happened to be on a flight at the time, lending truth to the prank as he could not be reached. The rumor spread quickly across the city, eventually causing news stations to issue alerts denying the hoax. The pair were fired shortly thereafter.
• In Buddhist iconography this is the Wheel of Dharma. A card in the Tarot deck, the wheel of fortune is said to symbolizes good and bad luck, fortune and disaster, which follow each other cyclically. ...Wheel of Fortune/ Jeopardy! is a popular international television game show, originally devised by Merv Griffin, who also devised Wheel of Fortune. ...Jeopardy! Double Switch: In 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Reef. ...1997, Pat Sajak appears on a 1980s episode of Wheel of Fortune rerunning on the Game Show Network Pat Sajak (born Patrick Sajdak, October 26, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois) is the current host of the Wheel of Fortune game show. ...Pat Sajak, the host of Wheel of Fortune, traded hosting duties with Jeopardy!'s George Alexander Trebek (born July 22, Canadian_American game show host of the syndicated version of the popular Jeopardy! television program for almost 20 years. ...Alex Trebek for one show. In addition to Sajak hosting Jeopardy!, he and cohost Vanna White (born February 18, 1957, in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina) is an American television personality who is best known as the hostess on the long_running game show Wheel of Fortune. ...Vanna White appeared as contestants on the episode of Wheel that was being hosted by Trebek. White's position at the famed Wheel letterboard was filled by Sajak's wife Leslie.
• Comic strip switcheroo: For April Fool's Day 1997, the A cartoonist at work. ...cartoonists who draw a number of popularly sydicated comic strips switched roles for a day, each finding someone else to draw their strip for April Fools'. In some cases, the artist drew his or her own characters in the other strip's milieu, while in others, he or her will draw his own strip, with visitors from another. While cartoonists have done this sort of "switcheroo" since 1997, especially in online comics, the biggest such example was on this single day in 1997.
• The Trouble with Tracy was a Canadian television series produced by CTV for the 1971_1972 television season. ...The Trouble with Tracy: In 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Events January January 1 _ Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil. ...2003, Comedy Network is a Canadian specialty channel with comedy programming. ...The Comedy Network in Canada is an independent sovereign state in northern North America, the northern_most country in the world, and the second largest in total area. ...Canada announced that it would be producing and airing a remake of the 1970s _ Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...1970s Canadian A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ...sitcom The Trouble with Tracy, with Laurie Elliott in the role of Tracy (originally played by Diane Nylund). The original series is widely considered to be one of the worst sitcoms ever produced. Several media outlets fell for the hoax.
• Shuttle landing: A Vancouver radio station successfully tricked many listeners in believing that a space shuttle had to do an emergency landing at the Vancouver International Airport.
• This article is about the radio personality; for Anna Nicole Smiths attorney, see her article. ...Howard Stern's April 1st, 2004 show: The show started off with a message stating that due to increased pressure from the The acronym FCC can refer to: Farm Credit Corporation/Farm Credit Canada, a Canadian government organization Federal Communications Commission, a US government organization Families with Children from China, an adoption support organization Florida Christian College, a college in central Florida Foreign Correspondents Club, a group of clubs for correspondents and...FCC, the Howard Stern show had been cancelled, and they played pop songs till after 9:00 am, when Stern came back on and said it was a joke. The pop music was a joke due to the fact that Stern's home station is 92.3 FM K_ROCK, a popular alternative rock station.
• Taco Liberty Bell: On April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ...April 1, 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...1996, See also: Priszm Brandz External links http://www. ...Taco Bell took out a full_page advertisement in The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...The New York Times announcing that they had purchased the The Liberty Bell is an American bell of great historic significance, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ...Liberty Bell to "reduce the country's debt" and renamed it to "the Taco Liberty Bell." In a White House press conference, Mike McCurry , born 21 December 1954 in Blackwell, Oklahoma, and educated at Princeton and Georgetown, is an American politician, lobbyist, theologian, and educator. ...Mike McCurry was quoted as saying that the federal government would also be "selling the Lincoln Memorial to Ford Motor Co. and renaming it the Lincoln_Mercury Memorial." Thousands of people who did not immediately get the April Fool's Day hoax protested.
• In 1995, the National Television Station TVM might be an acronym or abbreviation for: Time value of money Track_via_missile, a missile guidance technique. ...TVM in This article is about the European nation. ...Malta announced the discovery of a new underground prehistoric temple. The discovery of a Mummified cat from Ancient Egypt. ...mummy eventually led to the announcement that it was an April's Fool joke. This was done during a TV programme conducted by John Demanuele.
• Another famous April's Fool Joke was carried out by newscaster Anna Bonanno, which announced that This article is about the European nation. ...Malta would follow the European continent in changing its motoring rules and motor vehicles would start driving on the right. At the end of the news, it was announced that this was nothing but an April's Fool Joke.
• In 2005, one of the largest P2P web sites in China, VeryCD, announced that it had been closed due to some uncontrollable force.
• Alternative 3 is an infamous television programme, broadcast in the UK in 1977. ...Alternative 3, a fictional documentary broadcast in the The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country in western Europe, and a member of the British Commonwealth and European Union. ...United Kingdom in 1977, was originally intended as an April Fool's Day hoax, but due to industrial action it was not broadcast until June. This Expose may mean: exposure, such as to weather or radiation, or in photography an exposé, in investigative journalism Exposé, in Mac OS X the dance music band Exposé Exposés debut album Exposé This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the...exposé of international collusion to prepare for A disaster is a natural or man_made event that negatively affects life, property, livelihood or industry often resulting in permanent changes to human societies, ecosystems and environment. ...global catastrophe fooled many people, and is still the subject of This proposed logo for a US government agency was dropped due to fears that its masonic symbolism would provoke conspiracy theories A conspiracy theory is a theory that claims an event or series of events is the result of secret manipulations by two or more individuals or an organization, rather...conspiracy theories.
• On the first of April, 2004, Suprnova. ...suprnova.org announced that, owing to a huge surge in Japanese traffic, the site would slowly transition to Japanese, and discontinue its English_language version.
• In 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...2002, the Canada is the second largest and the northern_most country in the world, occupying most of the North American land mass. ...Canadian news site bourque.org announced that The Minister of Finance is one of the most important positions in the Cabinet of Canada. ...Finance Minister The Right Honourable Paul Edgar Philippe Martin, (born August 28, 1938 in Windsor, Ontario) is the 21st Prime Minister of Canada, succeeding Jean Chrétien on December 12, 2003. ...Paul Martin had resigned. The The Canadian dollar, CAD or C$, is the unit of currency of Canada. ...Canadian dollar dropped to its lowest level in a month before Martin's office denied the story.
• In 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Events January January 1 _ Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil. ...2003, there was a rumor in Hong Kong (香港; Cantonese IPA: ; Jyutping: hoeng1 gong2; Yale: heūng góng; pinyin: Xiānggǎng; Wade_Giles: Hsiang_kang) is one of the two Special Administrative Regions of the Peoples Republic of China. ...Hong Kong that Hong Kong had become an infected area and would be quarantined because of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is an atypical form of pneumonia. ...SARS, all immigration ports would also be closed. The same rumor also mentions Tung Chee_hwa (Traditional Chinese: 董建華 Simplified Chinese: 董建华 Pinyin: Dǒng Jiànhuá) (born July 7, 1937, or the 29th day of the fifth month in the Chinese calendar) is the first Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ...Tung Chee Hwa, the The Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Chinese: 香港特別行政區行政長官 pinyin: Xiānggǎng Tèbié Xíngzhèngqū Xíngzhèng Zhangguān) is the head of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the Peoples Republic of China, and represents the Region. ...Chief Executive of Hong Kong at that time, had resigned. This caused a panic that Hong Kong people rushed into supermarkets to buy food. The Hong Kong government had to hold a press conference that officially denied the rumor. Later it was revealed that the rumor was spread by a student, by imitating the design of This article needs copyediting (checking for proper English spelling, grammar, usage, etc. ...Ming Pao newspaper website, which was intended to be an April Fool's Day hoax, and the student was arrested for spreading false news.
• Ouija Board Comic. In April Fools 2005, This page is about the comic strip; for other uses, see Foxtrot (disambiguation). ...FoxTrot, Neither cast ye your pearls before swine is an advice Jesus gives us according to Matthew 7:06. ...Pearls Before Swine, and Get Fuzzy is a daily comic strip written and drawn by Darby Conley. ...Get Fuzzy pulled April Fools by having all three strips with the same 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. ...Ouija Board gag. Basically, the Ouija board told the character to punch another next to him, all ending with afterlife being a peaceful place, and that he has pleased the god.
• The Godzilla of the nineties Godzilla was a giant, amphibious, reptilian monster in the Japanese_produced 1954 film Godzilla. ...Godzilla forum war. Began two weeks before April Fools 2005 with the hacking of Tokyo Monsters (http://www.tokyomonsters.com) by MaserCity (http://www.masercity.com) and the shutdown of other Godzilla webpages such as Godzilla Stomp (http://www.gojistomp.org) and kaijuphile.com (http://www.kaijuphile.com). More details available here  (http://www.gojistomp.org/errrors/aprilfools.htm).
• Every April 1st since 1989, the Internet Engineering Task Force has published one or more humorous RFC documents, following in the path blazed by the June 1973 RFC titled ARPAWOCKY. List RFC 527 _ ARPAWOCKY R. Merryman, UCSD; 22 June 1973; a Lewis Carroll pastiche RFC 748 _ Telnet randomly_lose option. ...April 1st RFC
• Google's hoaxes

Lists of April Fool hoaxes

• April 1, 2001
• April 1, 2002 was an April Fools Day. ...April 1, 2002
• April 1, 2003
• April 1, 2004 was an April Fools Day. ...April 1, 2004
• April 1, 2005 was an April Fools Day that fell on a Friday. ...April 1, 2005

Other prank days in the world

The France - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...French prank day is also April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ...April 1. The tradition for the fr:Poisson d'avril (literally "April Fish") is for people to attempt to attach a paper fish to their chosen victim's back without them noticing.

In the Spanish speaking world, similar pranks are practiced on December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 3 days remaining. ...December 28, the The Holy Innocents by Giotto di Bondone. ...Day of the Holy Innocents. This custom also exists in certain areas of The Kingdom of Belgium ( Dutch: Koninkrijk België, French: Royaume de Belgique, German: Königreich Belgien) is a country in Western Europe, bordered by the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, France, and the North Sea. ...Belgium, including the province of For other uses, see Antwerp (disambiguation). ...Antwerp (which is situated in This article is in need of attention. ...Flanders). The tradition is that children lock out their parents or teachers, only letting them in again if they promise to bring treats the same evening or the next day.

In Iran ( Persia: ایران) is a Middle Eastern country located in southwestern Asia that until 1935 was referred to in the West as Persia. ...Iran, people play jokes on each other on the 13th day of the new year ( Norouz (also spelled Norooz, Noruz, Naw-Rúz or Nowrouz) is the traditional Iranian festival of the New Year which starts at the exact moment of the vernal equinox, commencing the start of the spring. ...Norooz). This day is called "Sizdah bedar" (Out-door thirteen), and it is April 3 is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 272 days remaining. ...April 3 (13th of Farvardin in Persian Calendar). It is believed that people should go out on this date in order to escape the Numerology is an arcane study of the purported mystical relationship between numbers and the character or action of physical objects and living things. ...bad luck of number 13 (Thirteen) is the natural number following 12 and preceding 14. ...13.

In For a discussion of Jews as an ethnicity or ethnic group see the article on Jew. ...Judaism, the traditional day of pranks, hoaxes and mockery is Purim (פּוּרִים Lots, Standard Hebrew Purim, Tiberian Hebrew Pûrîm: plural of פּוּר pûr Lot, from Akkadian pūru) is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance of the Persian Jews from the plot of the evil Haman to exterminate them, as recorded in the biblical Book of Esther. ...Purim. However, modern The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ...Jews prefer to play pranks on April Fools' day.

Quotes About April Fools' Day

"April 1st: This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three-hundred and sixty-four." — Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was a famous and popular American humorist, writer and lecturer. ...Mark Twain

See also

• April Fool is the codename for a spy who played a key role in the downfall of the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. ...April Fool (double agent) is the codename for a spy and A double agent pretends to spy on a target organization on behalf of a controlling organization, but in fact is loyal to the target organization. ...double agent who played a key role in the downfall of the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein Saddām Hussein ʻAbd al-Majid al-Tikrītī (Often spelt Husayn or Hussain; Arabic صدام حسين عبدالمجيد التكريتي; born April 28, 1937 1) was President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. ...Saddam Hussein.
• San Serriffe is a fictional island nation created to honour April Fools Day. ...San Serriffe is a fictional island nation created to honour April Fool's Day.

External links

• The Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time (http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/)
• Snopes.com's Urban Legend website page on origins of April Fools' Day (http://www.snopes.com/holidays/april/aprlfool.htm)
• 1957: BBC fools the nation (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/1/newsid-2819000/2819261.stm)
• The Fools Day _ Includes hoaxes, pranks, trivia, history, quotes, messages, funny party ideas and April Fool recipes. (http://www.thefoolsday.com/)
• Enjoying April Fools' Day online (http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3233583a11275,00.html)
• Several Years of April Fool's Stories (http://www.sharpened.net/april1.php)