April Fools Day, Best Pranks Throughout History

With a history of hundreds of years, Fools Day, “celebrated” in most countries on April 1, was born as the original hoax, as it is suggestive of innocence “victims”, always willing to believe that everything they eat flies .

The oldest one dating scam in 1915 when a French driver on the front of World War I German camp and flew threw a load that looked like a bomb.

Frightened German soldiers fled in all directions, but after they found out that no explosion occurs, quietly approached the “bomb” which, in fact, a football was accompanied by the message “April 1 hoax! .

2 On 31 March 1940, Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, USA, released a communique announcing that the day will come the end of the world. KYW Radio sent: “The greatest fear of our end of the world are confirmed by astronomers of Franklin Institute.Tomorrow, at 15:00, coming apocalypse. It’s not a hoax of April 1.The panic ended only after astronomers have denied terrible prediction.

Author farce, press officer of the Franklin Institute, William Castellini was dismissed.
3 In 1957, one of the most respected programs of the BBC Panorama, launched another bomb: Due to warm weather, Swiss farmers were able to get a sensational … spaghetti harvest.

The news was accompanied by images of people picking spaghetti from trees, so that, almost instantly, the station was besieged with calls. ”How can I cultivate and spaghetti?” Asked the majority and the BBC responded with humor and diplomacy: “Plant a stick in the box of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope … the best of good. “

4 And whopping lie was advertised on 1 April 1962 only TV station in Sweden, which issued Black. Technical director of the station appeared on TV and told viewers that because of new technology, anyone can see in color schemes, provided they cover the screen with a transparent plastic sheet.

Thousands of viewers have followed the advice, however, the programs could be received just color in 1970 and, obviously, unrelated to technology “revolutionary.”

5 On 1 April 1965, Danish daily Politiken headline on a serious tone as possible: “Parliament voted that required all dogs to be painted white.

Many readers have not guessed charade even after they have read the reason of this measure, written in the same news: “The aim is to increase safety on the roads, given that white dogs are more visible than others.”

6 In 1982, the Daily Mail announces that a local manufacturer has sold 10,000 bras that causes an unprecedented problem. Their locks, as metal blocks radio and TV signal when exposed to human body heat.

Nothing serious so far, but on April 1, 1982, when the story was published, all female employees of laboratories in the British Telecom was obliged to prove that wearing a bra at work!

7 In 1986, Le Parisien said the national symbol of France’s Eiffel Tower, will be demolished.

The news shocked the French people who had hardly recovered even after learning it was a hoax by 1 April.

8 Also talked about a new law on 1 April 1993, German radio station Rundfunk.
“Practitioners jogging in parks will be, from now on, run to 4 miles per hour in this time of year, not to disturb the squirrels, which are in mating season.”

9 In 1997, Internet users around the world have been bombarded with the message:
“The Internet is closed between March 31 and April 2 for spring cleaning.” The message said that they would be thrown away all unused mailboxes online for some time and inactive websites, fake is actually an up-date “a farce old world, which targeted” spring clean “ in telephone networks.

10 A year later, still on the internet to spread the news that, at the initiative of an American Association for Science and Truth “, the number pi (3.14159), one of the constants of mathematics, was changed by law, state authorities Alabama, which, to simplify things, decided that it be equal to 3. Without suspect it’s a joke, hundreds of mathematicians have protested against this measure “abusive.”

11 Also in 1998, fast-food chain Burger King’s published on April 1 a page advertisement in USA Today announcing the launch burger for left, with the same ingredients as the original, but spices are rotated 180 degrees to provide the same degree of satisfaction and those not using the right hand table.

Even if the next day, the company returned saying that it was a hoax, fast-food outlets have been invaded by thousands of customers requiring, as appropriate, at the hamburger again, clumsy, or that “ right-handed. “

12 One of the most resounding of relatively recent hoax was made in the 2008 BBC TV channel. In the series of programs “Miracles evolution”, presented images of British post flyers penguins who allegedly fed the cold of Antarctica, went to spend the winter, hot in South America. 9am.ro

Immediately, however, the BBC aired a story that explains that it was all a hoax of April 1, the flying penguins were performed using a computer.