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    April Fools' Day originated from a mix-up in the calendar change in 1562 when the new year was moved from April 1st to January 1st. Some people were unaware of the change and continued celebrating the new year on April 1st, making them fools. Over time, playing pranks on April 1st became a tradition. Today, April Fools' Day is celebrated internationally with different traditions of pranks and jokes in various countries. In the late 1980s, Richard Branson staged an April Fools' prank by landing a hot air balloon disguised as a UFO in a field in England, tricking local police officers.

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    April Fools' Day originated from a mix-up in the calendar change in 1562 when the new year was moved from April 1st to January 1st. Some people were unaware of the change and continued celebrating the new year on April 1st, making them fools. Over time, playing pranks on April 1st became a tradition. Today, April Fools' Day is celebrated internationally with different traditions of pranks and jokes in various countries. In the late 1980s, Richard Branson staged an April Fools' prank by landing a hot air balloon disguised as a UFO in a field in England, tricking local police officers.

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    April Fools' Day originated from a mix-up in the calendar change in 1562 when the new year was moved from April 1st to January 1st. Some people were unaware of the change and continued celebrating the new year on April 1st, making them fools. Over time, playing pranks on April 1st became a tradition. Today, April Fools' Day is celebrated internationally with different traditions of pranks and jokes in various countries. In the late 1980s, Richard Branson staged an April Fools' prank by landing a hot air balloon disguised as a UFO in a field in England, tricking local police officers.

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    April Fool's Day Script

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    April Fools' Day originated from a mix-up in the calendar change in 1562 when the new year was moved from April 1st to January 1st. Some people were unaware of the change and continued celebrating the new year on April 1st, making them fools. Over time, playing pranks on April 1st became a tradition. Today, April Fools' Day is celebrated internationally with different traditions of pranks and jokes in various countries. In the late 1980s, Richard Branson staged an April Fools' prank by landing a hot air balloon disguised as a UFO in a field in England, tricking local police officers.

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    April Fools Day

    What is April Fools Day and what are its origins? It is commonly believed that in medieval France,
    New Year was celebrated on 1 April. Then in 1562, Pope Gregory introduced a new calendar for the
    Christian world, changing New Year to 1 January. With no modern communications, news travelled
    slowly and new ideas were often questioned. Many people did not hear of the change, others chose
    to ignore it, while some merely forgot. These people were called fools. Invitations to non-existent
    ‘New Year’ parties were sent and other practical jokes were played. This jesting evolved over time
    into a tradition of playing pranks on 1 April. The custom eventually spread to England and
    Scotland, and it was later transported across the Atlantic to the American colonies of the English
    and the French. April Fools Day has now developed into an international festival of fun, with
    different nationalities celebrating the day in a special ways.

    In France and Italy, if someone plays a trick on you, you are the ‘fish of April’. By the month of
    April fish have only just hatched and are therefore easy to catch. Children stick paper fish to their
    friends’ backs and chocolate fish are found in the shops.
    In Scotland, April Fools Day lasts for two days! The second day is called ‘Taily Day’ and tricks
    on this day involve the bottom (or the ‘tail’ in informal speech). Often a sign saying ‘kick me’ is
    stuck onto someone’s back without them knowing.
    In Spain and Mexico, similar celebrations take place on 28 December. The day is the Feast of the
    Holy Innocents. Originally, the day was a sad remembrance of the slaughter of the innocent children
    by Herod in his search for the baby Jesus. It eventually changed to a lighter commemoration of
    innocence involving pranks and trickery.
    Today, Americans and the British play small tricks on friends and strangers alike on 1 April. A
    common trick is to point to a friend's shoe and say ‘Your shoelace is untied.’ When they look down,
    they are laughed at. Schoolchildren might tell a friend that school has been cancelled. A bag of flour
    might be balanced on the top of a door so that when the ‘victim’ opens the door, the flour empties
    over their head. Sometimes the media get involved. Once, a British short film was shown on April
    Fools Day about spaghetti farmers and how they harvest their crop from spaghetti trees!
    Most April Fool jokes are in good fun and not meant to harm anyone. The best trick is the one
    where everyone laughs, especially the person upon whom the joke has been played.
    April Fool’s Day, 1989
    UFO Lands Near London
    Two British policemen were sent to investigate a glowing flying saucer on 31 March, the day
    before April Fool’s Day. When the policemen arrived at a field in Surrey, they saw a small figure
    wearing a silver space suit walking out of a spacecraft. Immediately the police ran off in the
    opposite direction. Reports revealed that the alien was in fact a midget, and the flying saucer was a
    hot air balloon that had been specially built to look like a UFO by Richard Branson, the 36-year-old
    chairman of Virgin Records.
    Branson had planned to land the balloon in London’s Hyde Park on 1 April. However, a wind
    change had brought him down in a Surrey field. The police were bombarded with phone calls from
    terrified motorists as the balloon drifted over the motorway. One lady was so shocked by the
    incident that she didn’t realise that she was standing naked in front of her window as she was
    describing the UFO to a radio station

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