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Articles in category "Era -> 1950-1976":
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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…
Miss Perfect Profile
Type: Publicity Stunt. Summary: The head of a modeling agency invented phony titles to promote his models. Newspapers and magazines like to print pictures of attractive young women, especially if the pictures are vaguely newsworthy. For instance, if the woman has just been awarded a title such as “Miss Congeniality,”…
Principality of Outer Baldonia
Type: Fictitious Country. Summary: The Principality of Outer Baldonia started as a practical joke among friends on a fishing trip and it became a country. Posted by: Elliot Feldman Russell Arundel was an executive with the Pepsi-Cola Company. He was also a well-known eccentric. In 1948, he purchased the…
Walt Disney Frozen
Type: Urban Legend. Summary: According to rumor, Walt Disney’s cryogenically preserved body is kept in a tank under Disneyland’s Pirates of the Caribbean ride. Posted by: Elliot Feldman Walt Disney Walt Disney died on December 15, 1966, but a rumor has long persisted that his body was cryogenically frozen…
