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April Fools' Day
An April Fools' Day prank marker the construction of the Copenhagen Metro in 2001
Too called	April Fool'southward Day
Type	Cultural, Western
Significance	Applied jokes, pranks
Observances	Comedy
Date	1 April
Adjacent fourth dimension	1 April 2023 (2023-04-01)
Frequency	Annual

Apr Fools' Day or April Fool's Twenty-four hour period is an annual custom on i April consisting of practical jokes and hoaxes. Jokesters oftentimes expose their actions by shouting "April Fools!" at the recipient. Mass media tin be involved in these pranks, which may be revealed as such the following 24-hour interval. The custom of setting bated a day for playing harmless pranks upon one'due south neighbour has been relatively common in the globe historically.^[one]

Origins [edit]

An 1857 ticket to "Washing the Lions" at the Tower of London in London. No such outcome ever took identify.

Although the origins of April Fools' is unknown, there are many therories surrounding information technology.

A disputed clan between 1 Apr and foolishness is in Geoffrey Chaucer'due south The Canterbury Tales (1392).^[2] In the "Nun's Priest'south Tale", a vain cock Chauntecleer is tricked by a fox on "Since March began xxx days and two",^{[3] [4]} i.e. 32 days since March began, which is 1 April.^[v] However, it is not clear that Chaucer was referencing i April since the text of the "Nun'southward Priest's Tale" also states that the story takes place on the day when the sun is "in the sign of Taurus had y-rune Twenty degrees and one", which would not be i April. Mod scholars believe that there is a copying error in the extant manuscripts and that Chaucer actually wrote, "Syn March was gon".^[6] If so, the passage would have originally meant 32 days after March, i.e. 2 May,^[vii] the anniversary of the appointment of King Richard 2 of England to Anne of Bohemia, which took place in 1381.

In 1508, French poet Eloy d'Amerval referred to a poisson d'avril (April fool, literally "April's fish"), possibly the first reference to the commemoration in France.^[viii] Some historians suggest that April Fools' originated considering, in the Middle Ages, New year was historic on 25 March in most European towns,^[9] with a holiday that in some areas of France, specifically, ended on i April,^{[10] [xi]} and those who celebrated New Year's Eve on 1 January fabricated fun of those who celebrated on other dates past the invention of Apr Fools' Day.^[12] The employ of 1 January as New year'south Twenty-four hour period became mutual in French republic only in the mid-16th century,^[seven] and that appointment was not adopted officially until 1564, by the Edict of Roussillon, when France switched from the Julian agenda to the Gregorian calendar, as chosen for during the Council of Trent in 1563.^[13] However, there are issues with this theory because at that place is an unambiguous reference to April Fools' Day in a 1561 poem by Flemish poet Eduard de Dene of a nobleman who sends his servants on foolish errands on 1 Apr, predating the modify.^[7] Apr Fools' Day was also an established tradition in Great U.k. before ane Jan was established as the start of the agenda year.^{[xiv] [15]}

In kingdom of the netherlands, the origin of Apr Fools' Mean solar day is often attributed to the Dutch victory in 1572 in the Capture of Brielle, where the Spanish Knuckles Álvarez de Toledo was defeated. "Op 1 apr verloor Alva zijn bril" is a Dutch proverb, which can be translated as: "On the first of April, Alva lost his glasses". In this case, "bril" ("glasses" in Dutch) serves as a homonym for Brielle (the town where it happened). This theory, however, provides no explanation for the international celebration of April Fools' 24-hour interval.

In 1686, John Aubrey referred to the celebration as "Fooles holy mean solar day", the starting time British reference.^[vii] On i April 1698, several people were tricked into going to the Tower of London to "see the Lions washed".^[vii]

Although no biblical scholar or historian is known to have mentioned a human relationship, some accept expressed the belief that the origins of April Fools' Mean solar day may go back to the Genesis flood narrative. In a 1908 edition of the Harper'southward Weekly cartoonist Bertha R. McDonald wrote:

Regime gravely back with information technology to the time of Noah and the ark. The London Public Advertiser of March 13, 1769, printed: "The error of Noah sending the dove out of the ark before the h2o had abated, on the first day of April, and to perpetuate the retention of this deliverance it was thought proper, whoever forgot then remarkable a circumstance, to punish them by sending them upon some sleeveless errand similar to that ineffectual message upon which the bird was sent by the patriarch".^[i]

Long-standing customs [edit]

Great britain [edit]

On April Fools' Day 1980, the BBC announced Large Ben's clock face was going digital and whoever got in bear on first could win the clock hands.^[5]

In the UK, an Apr Fool prank is sometimes later revealed by shouting "Apr fool!" at the recipient, who becomes the "April fool". A study in the 1950s, by folklorists Iona and Peter Opie, found that in the UK, and in countries whose traditions derived from the UK, this continues to be the practise, with the custom ceasing at noon, after which time it is no longer acceptable to play pranks.^[16] Thus a person playing a prank later midday is considered the "April fool" themselves.^[17]

In Scotland, April Fools' Day was originally called "Huntigowk Twenty-four hour period".^[18] The name is a abuse of "chase the gowk", gowk being Scots for a cuckoo or a foolish person; alternative terms in Gaelic would be Là na Gocaireachd, "gowking twenty-four hours", or Là Ruith na Cuthaige, "the 24-hour interval of running the cuckoo". The traditional prank is to enquire someone to deliver a sealed message that supposedly requests assist of some sort. In fact, the message reads "Dinna laugh, dinna smile. Hunt the gowk another mile." The recipient, upon reading it, will explain they can merely help if they first contact some other person, and they send the victim to this next person with an identical bulletin, with the same result.^[18]

In England a "fool" is known by a few unlike names effectually the state, including "noodle", "gob", "gobby", or "noddy".

Republic of ireland [edit]

In Ireland, it was traditional to entrust the victim with an "important letter of the alphabet" to be given to a named person. That person would read the letter, then ask the victim to take it to someone else, and and then on. The letter of the alphabet when opened independent the words "send the fool further".^[nineteen]

Italy, France, Belgium, French-speaking areas [edit]

In Italy, France, Belgium and French-speaking areas of Switzerland and Canada, the i April tradition is often known as "April fish" (poisson d'avril in French, april vis in Dutch or pesce d'aprile in Italian). Possible pranks include attempting to adhere a paper fish to the victim'southward back without being noticed. This fish characteristic is prominently present on many belatedly 19th- to early 20th-century French Apr Fools' Day postcards. Many newspapers likewise spread a false story on April Fish Day, and a subtle reference to a fish is sometimes given as a clue to the fact that it is an April Fools' prank.^{[ citation needed ]}

Deutschland [edit]

In Germany, an April Fool prank is sometimes afterward revealed past shouting "April, April!" at the recipient, who becomes the "April fool".^{[ citation needed ]}

Nordic countries [edit]

Danes, Finns, Icelanders, Norwegians and Swedes celebrate April Fools' Day (aprilsnar in Danish; aprillipäivä in Finnish; aprilsnarr in Norwegian; aprilskämt in Swedish). Most news media outlets will publish exactly 1 false story on 1 April; for newspapers this will typically be a beginning-page commodity but not the elevation headline.^[twenty]

Poland (Prima aprilis) [edit]

In Poland, prima aprilis ("First Apr" in Latin) as a solar day of pranks is a centuries-long tradition. Information technology is a day when many pranks are played: hoaxes – sometimes very sophisticated – are prepared past people, media (which often cooperate to brand the "information" more credible) and even public institutions. Serious activities are usually avoided, and generally every discussion said on 1 April could exist untrue. The confidence for this is so stiff that the Polish anti-Turkish brotherhood with Leopold I signed on i April 1683, was backdated to 31 March.^[21] Even so, for some in Poland prima aprilis ends at noon of 1 Apr and prima aprilis jokes later that hour are considered inappropriate and not classy.

Ukraine [edit]

April Fools' Mean solar day is widely celebrated in Odessa and has the special local name Humorina - in Ukrainian Гуморина (Humorina). This holiday arose in 1973.^[22] An April Fool prank is revealed by saying "Первое Апреля, никому не верю" ("Pervoye Aprelya, nikomu ne veryu") - which means "First of April, I trust nobody" - to the recipient. The festival includes a large parade in the city eye, free concerts, street fairs and performances. Festival participants dress up in a variety of costumes and walk effectually the metropolis fooling around and pranking passersby. One of the traditions on April Fools' Solar day is to dress up the main city monument in funny clothes. Humorina even has its own logo — a cheerful crewman in a lifebelt — whose author was the artist Arkady Tsykun.^[23] During the festival, special souvenirs bearing the logo are printed and sold everywhere. Since 2010, April Fools' Day celebrations include an International Clown Festival and both celebrated as one. In 2019, the festival was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Odessa Moving-picture show Studio and all events were held with an accent on cinema.^[24]

Castilian-speaking countries [edit]

In many Spanish-speaking countries (and the Philippines), "Día de los Santos Inocentes" (Holy Innocents Mean solar day) is a festivity which is very similar to Apr Fools' Day, but information technology is celebrated in belatedly Dec (27, 28 or 29 depending on the location).^{[ commendation needed ]}

Turkey [edit]

Turkey too has a custom of April Fools' pranks.^[25] Pranks and jokes are usually verbal and are revealed by shouting "Bir Nisan!" (April 1st!).

Iran [edit]

In Iran, it is called "Dorugh due east 13om Farvardin" (lie of xiii Farvardin) and people and media prank on thirteen Farvardin (Sizdah bedar) that is equivalent of 1 April. It is a tradition that takes place 13 days after the Persian new twelvemonth (Nowruz). On this day, people go out and leave their houses and take fun outside mostly in natural parks.

Israel [edit]

Israel has adopted the custom of pranking on April Fools' Day.^[26]

Lebanese republic [edit]

In Lebanon, an April Fool prank is revealed by saying كذبة أول نيسان (which ways "First of Apr Lie") to the recipient.

Pranks [edit]

An April Fools' Day prank in Boston'south Public Garden warning people not to photograph sculptures, as lite emitted will "erode the sculptures"

A common prank is to advisedly remove the cream from an Oreo and replace information technology with toothpaste, and there are many like pranks that replace an object (usually food) with another object that looks like the object but tastes different such as replacing carbohydrate with table salt and vanilla frosting with sour cream. Equally well every bit people playing pranks on one another on April Fools' Day, elaborate pranks have appeared on radio and tv set stations, newspapers, and websites, and have been performed by large corporations. In ane famous prank in 1957, the BBC broadcast a pic in their Panorama current affairs series purporting to evidence Swiss farmers picking freshly-grown spaghetti, in what they called the Swiss spaghetti harvest. The BBC was soon flooded with requests to purchase a spaghetti found, forcing them to declare the picture show a hoax on the news the next day.^[27]

With the advent of the Internet and readily bachelor global news services, April Fools' pranks tin catch and embarrass a wider audience than e'er earlier.^[28]

Comparable prank days [edit]

28 Dec [edit]

28 December, the equivalent day in Kingdom of spain and Hispanic America, is also the Christian day of celebration of the Day of the Holy Innocents. The Christian celebration is a religious holiday in its own right, only the tradition of pranks is not, though the latter is observed yearly. In some regions of Hispanic America after a prank is played, the weep is made, "Inocente palomita que te dejaste engañar" ("You lot innocent little pigeon that let yourself exist fooled!"; not to be dislocated with another meaning of palomita, which means "popcorn" in some dialects).^{[ citation needed ]}

In Argentina, the prankster says, "¡Que la inocencia te valga!" which roughly translates as advice to non be as gullible equally the victim of the prank. In Spain, it is common to say just "¡Inocente!" (which in Spanish can mean "innocent" or "gullible").^[29]

In Colombia, the term is used as "Pásala por Inocentes", which roughly means: "Let it become; today it'south Innocent'due south 24-hour interval."^{[ citation needed ]}

In Belgium, this solar day is besides known as the "Day of the Innocent Children" or "Day of the Stupid Children". It used to be a day where parents, grandparents, and teachers would fool the children in some style. But the commemoration of this day has died out in favour of Apr Fools' Day.^{[ citation needed ]}

Notwithstanding, on the Castilian island of Menorca, Dia d'enganyar ("Fooling twenty-four hours") is celebrated on 1 April considering Menorca was a British possession during office of the 18th century. In Brazil, the "Dia da mentira" ("24-hour interval of the lie") is also historic on one April^[29] due to the Portuguese influence.

First day of a new month [edit]

In many English-speaking countries, mainly Uk, Ireland, Commonwealth of australia, New Zealand and Southward Africa, it is a custom to say "pinch and a punch for the first of the month" or an culling, typically by children. The victim might answer with "a flick and a kick for being so quick", and the aggressor might reply with "a dial in the eye for being and then sly".^[30]

Another custom in Uk and North America is to say "rabbit rabbit" upon waking on the first twenty-four hours of a month, for good luck.^[31]

Reception [edit]

The practice of April Fool pranks and hoaxes is controversial.^{[17] [32]} The mixed opinions of critics are epitomized in the reception to the 1957 BBC "spaghetti-tree hoax", in reference to which, newspapers were separate over whether it was "a bang-up joke or a terrible hoax on the public".^[33]

The positive view is that Apr Fools' tin can be good for ane'south health because information technology encourages "jokes, hoaxes ... pranks, [and] belly laughs", and brings all the benefits of laughter including stress relief and reducing strain on the heart.^[34] There are many "best of" Apr Fools' Twenty-four hours lists that are compiled in society to showcase the best examples of how the 24-hour interval is celebrated.^[35] Various April Fools' campaigns have been praised for their innovation, creativity, writing, and general try.^[36]

The negative view describes April Fools' hoaxes as "creepy and manipulative", "rude" and "a little bit nasty", besides every bit based on Schadenfreude and cant.^[32] When genuine news or a genuine important guild or alert is issued on April Fools' Mean solar day, there is risk that it will be misinterpreted as a joke and ignored – for instance, when Google, known to play elaborate April Fools' Day hoaxes, announced the launch of Gmail with 1-gigabyte inboxes in 2004, an era when competing webmail services offered 4-megabytes or less, many dismissed it as a joke outright.^{[37] [38]} On the other hand, sometimes stories intended as jokes are taken seriously. Either mode, there tin be adverse effects, such as confusion,^[39] misinformation, waste product of resources (peculiarly when the hoax concerns people in danger) and even legal or commercial consequences.^{[forty] [41]}

In March 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, various organizations and people cancelled their Apr Fools' Day celebrations, or advocated against observing April Fools' Day, as a mark of respect due to the big corporeality of tragic deaths that COVID-19 had acquired upwards to that indicate, the wish to provide truthful information to counter the misinformation about the virus, and to pre-empt any attempts to incorporate the virus into any potential pranks.^{[42] [43]} For case, Google decided not to proceed "its infamous Apr Fools' jokes" tradition for that year.^[44] Because the pandemic was still ongoing a year later in 2021, they besides decided not to do pranks that year.^[45]

In Thailand, the police force warned ahead of Apr Fools' in 2021 that posting or sharing false news online could lead to maximum of five years imprisonment.^[46]

Other examples of 18-carat news on i April mistaken as a hoax include:

• 1 Apr 1946: Warnings nigh the Aleutian Island earthquake's seismic sea wave that killed 165 people in Hawaii and Alaska.^[47]
• i April 1984: News that the vocaliser Marvin Gaye was shot and killed the 24-hour interval earlier his 45th birthday by his begetter Marvin Gay Sr. (sic) on 1 Apr 1984. Several people close to Gaye such every bit swain singers Smokey Robinson and Jermaine Jackson, brother of Michael Jackson didn't believe the news initially and had to telephone call other people who knew Gaye to confirm the news, Al Sharpton during his interview for the VH1 documentary VH1'due south Most Shocking Moments in Rock & Roll referenced the coincidence of the appointment when he said that Gaye's death came "similar a sick, sad joke to all of us."^{[48] [49] [50] [51] [52]}
• i April 1995: News that the vocalizer Selena was shot and killed by the former president of her fan club Yolanda Saldívar on 31 March 1995. When radio station KEDA broke the news on 31 March 1995, many people accused the staff of lying because the side by side day was April Fools' Day.^[53]
• 1 April 2004: Gmail is announced to the public by Google. Some of the announced features for the service were not considered technologically possible with the engineering available in 2004.^[54]
• ane April 2005: News that the comedian Mitch Hedberg had died on 29 March 2005.^[55]
• 1 April 2005: Annunciation about Powerpuff Girls Z, by Aniplex, Cartoon Network and Toei Animation. The TV show was an anime adaption of the cartoon The Powerpuff Girls and the idea that a cartoon would get turned into an anime was considered very outlandish in 2005 as this was the showtime fourth dimension it happened.^[56]
• 1 Apr 2008: Announcement that the NationStates government simulation browser game had received a end and desist letter from the United nations (UN) for unauthorized usage of its name and keepsake for the fictional intergovernmental organization where players (as nations) can create and vote on international police within the game world and that due to this, NationStates has now changed its version of the UN into the "World Associates" (WA) with a different emblem. On ii Apr 2008, NationStates developer Max Barry revealed that the letter of the alphabet from the UN was infact real and he had really received it on 21 January 2008 merely chose only to start complying with it on 1 Apr to deliberately fool people into thinking the declaration was the annual NationStates April Fools prank and that considering the legal action was real, the changes are permanent.^{[57] [58]}
• 1 April 2009: Announcement that the long running soap opera Guiding Light was existence cancelled. The appointment was then heavily associated with jokes and pranks that fifty-fifty some of the cast and crew didn't believe the news when it was appear past CBS, the Goggle box network that aired the show.^[59]
• i Apr 2011: Isaiah Thomas alleged for the NBA draft. Thomas is curt and basketball game players in the NBA are usually taller than boilerplate as height gives advantage to playing basketball.^[lx]

In pop civilisation [edit]

Books, films, telemovies and boob tube episodes have used April Fools' Day as their title or inspiration. Examples include Bryce Courtenay'due south novel April Fool's Twenty-four hours (1993), whose championship refers to the day Courtenay's son died. The 1990s sitcom Roseanne featured an episode titled "April Fools' Day". This turned out to be intentionally misleading, every bit the episode was almost Taxation Mean solar day in the United states of america on 15 April – the terminal day to submit the previous year's tax information. Although Tax Day is usually 15 April as depicted in the episode, it can be moved back a few days if that day is on a weekend or a holiday in Washington, D.C. or some states, or due to natural disasters when it can occur as tardily as xv July.^[61]

Farther reading [edit]

• Wainwright, Martin (2007). The Guardian Book of April Fool's Solar day. Aurum. ISBN978-1-84513-155-v.
• Dundes, Alan (1988). "April Fool and April Fish: Towards a Theory of Ritual Pranks". Etnofoor. 1 (1): 4–14. JSTOR 25757645.
• Similar events documented past other Wiki languages also exist such as Poisson d'avril (France) and in the USA the International day of the joke result which is assigned the beginning Sunday in May.^[62]

Encounter besides [edit]

• Feast of Fools, a similar medieval festival
• List of April Fools' Day jokes
• List of practical joke topics

Bibliography [edit]

• Patoski, Joe Nick (1996). Selena: Como La Flor. Boston: Lilliputian Brown and Visitor. ISBN978-0-316-69378-3.
• Ritz, David (1991). Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press. ISBN0-306-81191-X.

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External links [edit]

• Wikipedia victim of onslaught of April Fool'southward jokes at Wikinews
• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "April-Fools' 24-hour interval". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
• "Top 100 April Fools' 24-hour interval hoaxes of all time". Museum of Hoaxes.
• "April Fools' Day On The Web: List of all known April Fools' 24-hour interval Jokes websites from 2004 until present".

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