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April Fools Day - 1844
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1844.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Train to Drogheda The Train to Drogheda During the final week of March, 1844 placards appeared all around Dublin advertising that…
April Fools Day - 1860
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1860.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Viewing the Lions Viewing the Lions Late in March 1860 numerous people throughout London received the following invitation: “Tower of London—Admit Bearer…
April Fools Day - 1866
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1866.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Procession of the Animals The Procession of the Animals On April 1, 1866 several hundred people showed up at the gates…
April Fools Day - 1878
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1878.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Edison’s Food Machine Edison’s Food Machine After Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, Americans were quite willing to believe there was…
April Fools Day - 1888
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1888.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Monster of Deadman’s Hole The Monster of Deadman’s Hole The San Diego Union reported that two hunters had killed a bizarre,…
April Fools Day - 1900
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1900.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database Mouse Prank Goes Bad Edith Walrach, a nineteen-year-old woman of a “very nervous temperament,” was said to be in serious condition as a result…
April Fools Day - 1915
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: News reports from April Fool’s Day, 1915.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database Table of Contents Bombs Away The Boston Globe Price Cut Tony Maloney, aka Babe Webster Help Wanted Candy Surprise Do Not Kick April Fool’s Day…
April Fools Day - 1919
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1919.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Venetian Horse Mystery The Venetian Horse Mystery The citizens of Venice woke on the morning of April Fool’s Day to find…
April Fools Day - 1920
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: News reports from April Fool’s Day, 1920.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database Table of Contents Mr. Stiff, Please! Calling Dr. Lyon Prehistoric Skeletons April Fool Alibi Gasoline Alley Desperate Hubby April Fool Riot Call Ill-Timed Joke References…
April Fools Day - 1925
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: News reports from April Fool’s Day, 1925.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database Table of Contents No Mr. Fish Undertakers Pranked Dr. Stransky’s Dinner Party Sell! Mme. Pompadour’s Metric Measure Critics of Catholicism receive Catholic medal Moon Mullins…
April Fools Day - 1933
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1933.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Wisconsin State Capitol Collapses Wisconsin State Capitol Collapses The Madison Capital-Times ran a picture on its front page showing the dome of…
April Fools Day - 1934
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1934.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Man Flies By Own Lung Power Man Flies By Own Lung Power In 1934 many American newspapers, including The New York Times,…
April Fools Day - 1936
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1936.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Vikings in Hawaii Philadelphia Sea Monster Vikings in Hawaii The Honolulu Star-Bulletin ran a story about the discovery of a Viking ship…
April Fools Day - 1937
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1937.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database In the “Pictures to the Editors” section of its March 22, 1937 issue, Life magazine published four photographs sent in by a correspondent who…
April Fools Day - 1940
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: News reports from April Fool’s Day, 1940.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents World To End Tomorrow Association for the Prevention of April Fool Jokes April Fool Experiment Hutchins Quits St. Louis Zoo Changes its Number…
April Fools Day - 1949
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1949.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Great Wasp Swarm Hoax The Great Wasp Swarm Hoax Phil Shone, a New Zealand deejay for radio station 1ZB, announced to…
April Fools Day - 1950
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: News reports from April Fool’s Day, 1950.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents French Actress Kidnapped Skyforest Orange Trees Hawaiian Flying Saucer Flying Bus Pennsylvania Flying Saucer German Flying Saucers “Too Sexy” headline banned The Dailys…
April Fools Day - 1959
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1959.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Hawaiian Tax Refund Kokomo Police Cut Costs The Hawaiian Tax Refund A radio station in Hawaii announced that Congress had authorized…
April Fools Day - 1960
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Items in the news from April Fool’s Day, 1960.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Leaning Tower of Pisa Falls Over Stupid Safecracker There’s an elephant in my yard Atomic Sub in Bedford Fewer Fools “April…
April Fools Day - 1965
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1965.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Smellovision Taxes Fund Private Club Smellovision BBC TV interviewed a professor who had just invented a device called “smellovision.” It allowed viewers…
April Fools Day - 1969
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1965.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Soviets Land in Kankakee Soviets Land in Kankakee The Daily Journal, a newspaper based in Kankakee, Illinois, reported that a Soviet space…
April Fools Day - 1971
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1971.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Europeans To Drive On Left Side Europeans To Drive On Left Side A French state-run radio station announced that European motorists were…
April Fools Day - 1972
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1972.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Around the World for 210 Guineas Dutch Government Shares Budget Surplus Around the World for 210 Guineas 1972 was the 100-year anniversary…
April Fools Day - 1973
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1973.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Village of Spiggot Boycotts Metric System Dutch Elm Disease Infects Redheads The Village of Spiggot Boycotts Metric System Westward Television, a…
April Fools Day - 1974
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1974.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Eruption of Mount Edgecumbe The Eruption of Mount Edgecumbe Residents of Sitka, Alaska were alarmed when the long-dormant volcano neighboring them,…
April Fools Day - 1975
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1975.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Musendrophilus The Banbury Inscription Snell’s African Journey Foley Island to be Towed The Musendrophilus The famous naturalist David Attenborough gave a…
April Fools Day - 1976
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1976.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Planetary Alignment Decreases Gravity Pennsylvania Capitol Building Collapses First Practical Touring Machine King Kong Climbs CN Tower Planetary Alignment Decreases Gravity British astronomer…
April Fools Day - 1977
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1977.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents San Serriffe Hair-Restoring Well Bionic Horse Wordsworth’s Cottage Sold Gasoline for Statue San Serriffe The Guardian published a special seven-page supplement describing the…
April Fools Day - 1978
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1978.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Sydney Iceberg Superior Fishing Thread The Sydney Iceberg A barge appeared in Sydney Harbor towing a giant iceberg. Sydneysiders were expecting…
April Fools Day - 1979
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1979.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Operation Parallax Topless Protestors Radiation Rouses Prehistoric Creatures The Talking Pelican Operation Parallax Capital Radio, a London radio station, announced that Operation Parallax…
April Fools Day - 1980
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1980.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Big Ben Goes Digital The Eruption of Mt. Milton The Island of Murango The Real Sherlock Holmes Gazette Buys New London Day Big…
April Fools Day - 1981
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1981.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The 26-Day Marathon The Michigan Shark Experiment The British Weather Machine KNOSH Food Network The Black-Hole Diode CBS Newsmen Buy Local Weekly The…
April Fools Day - 1982
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1982.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Interfering Brassieres Tass Expands into American Market Athens Pollution Alert Hong Kong Powdered Water The Laytonsville Dump Stadium The TNBC Network The…
April Fools Day - 1983
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1983.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Origin of April Fool’s Day Dihydrogen Oxide The Perrier Channel The Origin of April Fool’s Day The debate over the origins of…
April Fools Day - 1984
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1984.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Tasmanian Mock Walrus Kremvax Tingle—The Video The Durand Auto Plant Daylight Savings Contest Retrobreeding the Woolly Mammoth The Tasmanian Mock Walrus …
April Fools Day - 1985
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1985.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Sidd Finch Lowering the Congressional Minimum Age Thermal Ties School For Sale The New York City Packers Families limited to .75 children…
April Fools Day - 1986
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1986.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Danish Government Demands British Stop Driving On Left Side of Road City of Providence Closes For Day Eiffel Tower Moves Soviet Missile…
April Fools Day - 1987
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1987.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents First Photograph Discovered LA Highways Close For Repairs The Clegg GTi Turbo Campus Parody Turns Ugly First Photograph Discovered The camera manufacturer…
April Fools Day - 1989
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1989.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents UFO Lands Near London Driver’s Weight Sensors April Fool’s Wedding Barbara Bush Goes Red Soundproof Paint Secretary of State Baker Introduces Himself…
April Fools Day - 1990
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1990.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Five-Wheel Drive Chunnel Blunder Mona Lisa Frowns Augusta National Turns Public Scotland on Sunday Becomes A Daily The Guardian for Sunday Moore’s…
April Fools Day - 1991
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1991.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The One-Way Highway Stonehenge To Move The Rich People’s Liberation Front Chickpanzees The Red-Foliaged Cabbage Patch Doll Queen Faces Challenger First Annual…
April Fools Day - 1992
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1992.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Nixon For President Caffeine Manager Welcome to Chicago Smithsonian Peanut Butter Conference Belgium Divides Space Shuttle Lands in Belgium No Speed Limit…
April Fools Day - 1993
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1993.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Space Shuttle Lands in San Diego Chinese April Fools Barnes Wallis Moth Machine Asterix Village Found Beer Truck Must Be Drained Radio…
April Fools Day - 1994
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1994.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Drunk Driving on the Internet Vodka Bars Spray-on Tights and Spray-on Hair Russian Political Jokes Flying Rabbit Superworms Margaret Thatcher Discovered to…
April Fools Day - 1995
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1995.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Hotheaded Naked Ice Borers Euro Disney Lenin Hotheaded Naked Ice Borers Discover Magazine published an article detailing the discovery by wildlife biologist…
April Fools Day - 1996
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1996.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Taco Liberty Bell Life Discovered on Jupiter The Taco Liberty Bell The fast food chain Taco Bell took out a full…
April Fools Day - 1997
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1997.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Internet Spring Cleaning WAIL Internet Spring Cleaning A message spread throughout the internet announcing that the internet would be shut down for…
April Fools Day - 1998
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1998.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Left-Handed Whopper Guinness Mean Time Smaugia Volans The Left-Handed Whopper Burger King published a full page advertisement in USA Today announcing…
April Fools Day - 1999
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1999.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Webnode Telepathic E-Mail Total Home Remote Electricity vBay Azcot Euro Anthem Y2K solved St. Louis Arena Fund Bank Teller Fees Zebra Savings…
April Fools Day - 2000
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 2000.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Freewheelz 15th Annual New York City April Fool’s Day Parade FatSox M3 Zebra Crossing OPEC Free Fuel Offer Freewheelz Esquire magazine introduced its…
April Fools Day - 2001
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 2001.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Interview With President Carter Sky Becoming Less Blue Royalty Fees for Impersonations Darcey Bussell To Be Next Bond Woman New Aspen Law School…
April Fools Day - 2002
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 2002.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Media Pranks Federally Funded Health Care for Pets Figment, The Safe Cigarette Dodo Returns from the Dead Harmony Cousins Pay-for-Programming Radio Service Martha…
April Fools Day - 2004
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 2004.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Media Pranks Portable Zip Codes Hawkeye Cameras Catch Speeders The Queen Visits the Bookie Medical ID Chips Day Lost to Stronger Trade Winds…
April Fools Day - 2005
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 2005.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Media Pranks Migrant Mother Makeover Exploding Maple Trees Orchestra Steroid Scandal Steve Jobs Joins Ikea Bush Twins Enlist Scientists Concede Creationists Might Be…
Freewheelz
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoax. Summary: An article described a company that gave away free cars. AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database The April 2000 issue of Esquire magazine included an article titled “There Are No Free Wheels” about a company called Freewheelz.…
Interfering Brassieres
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoax. Summary: An article warned women that their bras might be causing television interference. AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database On April 1, 1982 the British Daily Mail published an article titled “Do not adjust your set—it could be…
Man Flies By Own Lung Power
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoax. Summary: A widely printed photograph showed a man flying by means of a device powered by the breath of his lungs. AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database In April 1934 numerous U.S. newspapers printed a photograph distributed by…
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April Fools Day - 1844
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1844.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Train to Drogheda The Train to Drogheda During the final week of March, 1844 placards appeared all around Dublin advertising that…
April Fools Day - 1860
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1860.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Viewing the Lions Viewing the Lions Late in March 1860 numerous people throughout London received the following invitation: “Tower of London—Admit Bearer…
April Fools Day - 1866
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1866.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Procession of the Animals The Procession of the Animals On April 1, 1866 several hundred people showed up at the gates…
April Fools Day - 1878
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1878.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Edison’s Food Machine Edison’s Food Machine After Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, Americans were quite willing to believe there was…
April Fools Day - 1888
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1888.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Monster of Deadman’s Hole The Monster of Deadman’s Hole The San Diego Union reported that two hunters had killed a bizarre,…
April Fools Day - 1900
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1900.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database Mouse Prank Goes Bad Edith Walrach, a nineteen-year-old woman of a “very nervous temperament,” was said to be in serious condition as a result…
April Fools Day - 1915
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: News reports from April Fool’s Day, 1915.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database Table of Contents Bombs Away The Boston Globe Price Cut Tony Maloney, aka Babe Webster Help Wanted Candy Surprise Do Not Kick April Fool’s Day…
April Fools Day - 1919
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1919.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Venetian Horse Mystery The Venetian Horse Mystery The citizens of Venice woke on the morning of April Fool’s Day to find…
April Fools Day - 1920
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: News reports from April Fool’s Day, 1920.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database Table of Contents Mr. Stiff, Please! Calling Dr. Lyon Prehistoric Skeletons April Fool Alibi Gasoline Alley Desperate Hubby April Fool Riot Call Ill-Timed Joke References…
April Fools Day - 1925
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: News reports from April Fool’s Day, 1925.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database Table of Contents No Mr. Fish Undertakers Pranked Dr. Stransky’s Dinner Party Sell! Mme. Pompadour’s Metric Measure Critics of Catholicism receive Catholic medal Moon Mullins…
April Fools Day - 1933
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1933.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Wisconsin State Capitol Collapses Wisconsin State Capitol Collapses The Madison Capital-Times ran a picture on its front page showing the dome of…
April Fools Day - 1934
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1934.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Man Flies By Own Lung Power Man Flies By Own Lung Power In 1934 many American newspapers, including The New York Times,…
April Fools Day - 1936
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1936.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Vikings in Hawaii Philadelphia Sea Monster Vikings in Hawaii The Honolulu Star-Bulletin ran a story about the discovery of a Viking ship…
April Fools Day - 1937
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1937.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database In the “Pictures to the Editors” section of its March 22, 1937 issue, Life magazine published four photographs sent in by a correspondent who…
April Fools Day - 1940
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: News reports from April Fool’s Day, 1940.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents World To End Tomorrow Association for the Prevention of April Fool Jokes April Fool Experiment Hutchins Quits St. Louis Zoo Changes its Number…
April Fools Day - 1949
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1949.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Great Wasp Swarm Hoax The Great Wasp Swarm Hoax Phil Shone, a New Zealand deejay for radio station 1ZB, announced to…
April Fools Day - 1950
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: News reports from April Fool’s Day, 1950.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents French Actress Kidnapped Skyforest Orange Trees Hawaiian Flying Saucer Flying Bus Pennsylvania Flying Saucer German Flying Saucers “Too Sexy” headline banned The Dailys…
April Fools Day - 1959
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1959.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Hawaiian Tax Refund Kokomo Police Cut Costs The Hawaiian Tax Refund A radio station in Hawaii announced that Congress had authorized…
April Fools Day - 1960
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Items in the news from April Fool’s Day, 1960.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Leaning Tower of Pisa Falls Over Stupid Safecracker There’s an elephant in my yard Atomic Sub in Bedford Fewer Fools “April…
April Fools Day - 1965
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1965.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Smellovision Taxes Fund Private Club Smellovision BBC TV interviewed a professor who had just invented a device called “smellovision.” It allowed viewers…
April Fools Day - 1969
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1965.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Soviets Land in Kankakee Soviets Land in Kankakee The Daily Journal, a newspaper based in Kankakee, Illinois, reported that a Soviet space…
April Fools Day - 1971
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1971.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Europeans To Drive On Left Side Europeans To Drive On Left Side A French state-run radio station announced that European motorists were…
April Fools Day - 1972
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1972.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Around the World for 210 Guineas Dutch Government Shares Budget Surplus Around the World for 210 Guineas 1972 was the 100-year anniversary…
April Fools Day - 1973
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1973.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Village of Spiggot Boycotts Metric System Dutch Elm Disease Infects Redheads The Village of Spiggot Boycotts Metric System Westward Television, a…
April Fools Day - 1974
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1974.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Eruption of Mount Edgecumbe The Eruption of Mount Edgecumbe Residents of Sitka, Alaska were alarmed when the long-dormant volcano neighboring them,…
April Fools Day - 1975
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1975.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Musendrophilus The Banbury Inscription Snell’s African Journey Foley Island to be Towed The Musendrophilus The famous naturalist David Attenborough gave a…
April Fools Day - 1976
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1976.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Planetary Alignment Decreases Gravity Pennsylvania Capitol Building Collapses First Practical Touring Machine King Kong Climbs CN Tower Planetary Alignment Decreases Gravity British astronomer…
April Fools Day - 1977
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1977.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents San Serriffe Hair-Restoring Well Bionic Horse Wordsworth’s Cottage Sold Gasoline for Statue San Serriffe The Guardian published a special seven-page supplement describing the…
April Fools Day - 1978
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1978.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Sydney Iceberg Superior Fishing Thread The Sydney Iceberg A barge appeared in Sydney Harbor towing a giant iceberg. Sydneysiders were expecting…
April Fools Day - 1979
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1979.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Operation Parallax Topless Protestors Radiation Rouses Prehistoric Creatures The Talking Pelican Operation Parallax Capital Radio, a London radio station, announced that Operation Parallax…
April Fools Day - 1980
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1980.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Big Ben Goes Digital The Eruption of Mt. Milton The Island of Murango The Real Sherlock Holmes Gazette Buys New London Day Big…
April Fools Day - 1981
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1981.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The 26-Day Marathon The Michigan Shark Experiment The British Weather Machine KNOSH Food Network The Black-Hole Diode CBS Newsmen Buy Local Weekly The…
April Fools Day - 1982
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1982.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Interfering Brassieres Tass Expands into American Market Athens Pollution Alert Hong Kong Powdered Water The Laytonsville Dump Stadium The TNBC Network The…
April Fools Day - 1983
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1983.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Origin of April Fool’s Day Dihydrogen Oxide The Perrier Channel The Origin of April Fool’s Day The debate over the origins of…
April Fools Day - 1984
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1984.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Tasmanian Mock Walrus Kremvax Tingle—The Video The Durand Auto Plant Daylight Savings Contest Retrobreeding the Woolly Mammoth The Tasmanian Mock Walrus …
April Fools Day - 1985
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1985.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Sidd Finch Lowering the Congressional Minimum Age Thermal Ties School For Sale The New York City Packers Families limited to .75 children…
April Fools Day - 1986
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1986.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Danish Government Demands British Stop Driving On Left Side of Road City of Providence Closes For Day Eiffel Tower Moves Soviet Missile…
April Fools Day - 1987
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1987.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents First Photograph Discovered LA Highways Close For Repairs The Clegg GTi Turbo Campus Parody Turns Ugly First Photograph Discovered The camera manufacturer…
April Fools Day - 1989
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1989.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents UFO Lands Near London Driver’s Weight Sensors April Fool’s Wedding Barbara Bush Goes Red Soundproof Paint Secretary of State Baker Introduces Himself…
April Fools Day - 1990
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1990.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Five-Wheel Drive Chunnel Blunder Mona Lisa Frowns Augusta National Turns Public Scotland on Sunday Becomes A Daily The Guardian for Sunday Moore’s…
April Fools Day - 1991
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1991.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The One-Way Highway Stonehenge To Move The Rich People’s Liberation Front Chickpanzees The Red-Foliaged Cabbage Patch Doll Queen Faces Challenger First Annual…
April Fools Day - 1992
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1992.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Nixon For President Caffeine Manager Welcome to Chicago Smithsonian Peanut Butter Conference Belgium Divides Space Shuttle Lands in Belgium No Speed Limit…
April Fools Day - 1993
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1993.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Space Shuttle Lands in San Diego Chinese April Fools Barnes Wallis Moth Machine Asterix Village Found Beer Truck Must Be Drained Radio…
April Fools Day - 1994
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1994.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Drunk Driving on the Internet Vodka Bars Spray-on Tights and Spray-on Hair Russian Political Jokes Flying Rabbit Superworms Margaret Thatcher Discovered to…
April Fools Day - 1995
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1995.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Hotheaded Naked Ice Borers Euro Disney Lenin Hotheaded Naked Ice Borers Discover Magazine published an article detailing the discovery by wildlife biologist…
April Fools Day - 1996
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1996.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Taco Liberty Bell Life Discovered on Jupiter The Taco Liberty Bell The fast food chain Taco Bell took out a full…
April Fools Day - 1997
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1997.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Internet Spring Cleaning WAIL Internet Spring Cleaning A message spread throughout the internet announcing that the internet would be shut down for…
April Fools Day - 1998
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1998.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents The Left-Handed Whopper Guinness Mean Time Smaugia Volans The Left-Handed Whopper Burger King published a full page advertisement in USA Today announcing…
April Fools Day - 1999
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Notable hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 1999.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Webnode Telepathic E-Mail Total Home Remote Electricity vBay Azcot Euro Anthem Y2K solved St. Louis Arena Fund Bank Teller Fees Zebra Savings…
April Fools Day - 2000
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 2000.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Freewheelz 15th Annual New York City April Fool’s Day Parade FatSox M3 Zebra Crossing OPEC Free Fuel Offer Freewheelz Esquire magazine introduced its…
April Fools Day - 2001
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 2001.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Interview With President Carter Sky Becoming Less Blue Royalty Fees for Impersonations Darcey Bussell To Be Next Bond Woman New Aspen Law School…
April Fools Day - 2002
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 2002.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Media Pranks Federally Funded Health Care for Pets Figment, The Safe Cigarette Dodo Returns from the Dead Harmony Cousins Pay-for-Programming Radio Service Martha…
April Fools Day - 2004
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 2004.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Media Pranks Portable Zip Codes Hawkeye Cameras Catch Speeders The Queen Visits the Bookie Medical ID Chips Day Lost to Stronger Trade Winds…
April Fools Day - 2005
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoaxes. Summary: Hoaxes perpetrated on April Fool’s Day, 2005.AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day DatabaseTable of Contents Media Pranks Migrant Mother Makeover Exploding Maple Trees Orchestra Steroid Scandal Steve Jobs Joins Ikea Bush Twins Enlist Scientists Concede Creationists Might Be…
Freewheelz
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoax. Summary: An article described a company that gave away free cars. AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database The April 2000 issue of Esquire magazine included an article titled “There Are No Free Wheels” about a company called Freewheelz.…
Interfering Brassieres
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoax. Summary: An article warned women that their bras might be causing television interference. AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database On April 1, 1982 the British Daily Mail published an article titled “Do not adjust your set—it could be…
Man Flies By Own Lung Power
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoax. Summary: A widely printed photograph showed a man flying by means of a device powered by the breath of his lungs. AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database In April 1934 numerous U.S. newspapers printed a photograph distributed by…
