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''See also'': [[March 31, 2004]] - [[April 2004]] - [[April 2, 2004]]

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*[[George W. Bush]] signs the [[Unborn Victims of Violence Act]], commonly known as [[Laci Peterson|Laci]] and Conner's Law, that states that an act of violence that leads to the death of a pregnant mother and her child can be counted as two offenses. [http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/04/20040401-3.html (White House)] [http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040401-041701-1460r (UPI)]
(contracted; show full)
*[[OverClocked ReMix]] featured a poorly-made [[Final Fantasy]] medley rearrangement submitted by Final Fantasy composer [[Nobuo Uematsu]]. Later in the day, the ReMix is attributed to [[Chrono Trigger]] composer [[Yasunori Mitsuda]].
*[[:pt:Revista Set|Set]][http://www.uol.com.br/setonline], a [[Brazil
|Brazil]]ian]] [[Film journals and magazines|film magazine]], said that [[Industrial Light and Magic]] was burned and [[Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith|Star Wars Episode III]] was delayed to [[2007]], and also that [[Johnny Knoxville]] was chosen for [[Indiana Jones]] in ''[[Indiana Jones 4]]''. (the pages were only deleted Saturday, April 3)
(contracted; show full)]] but not [[1900]]). Then, itm mentioned (probably truthfully) how in years divisible by 10,000 there is no leap year. Then, it said (and this is the prank) that the calendar was still slightly off, so 4 years after a millennial year, there was 1 more day in March. They even added a nice poem, starting with "Thirty days has September..." then they ended it with "But in every Millenal year plus 4, March has one day more"
*[[Adult Swim]] pulled a stunt in which drawn moustaches were edit
ted into the episodes.

Genuine events that had been interpreted as April Fools included:

*The [[National Archives (UK)]] revealed that during the [[Cold War]], there were British plans to use [[chicken]]s to regulate the temperature in a [[nuclear bomb]].[http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1183684,00.html]
*[[The Guardian]] revealed that the [[Football World Cup 1954|1954 World Cup]]-winning [[Germany national football team|Germany team]] may have been given performance-enhancing injections.[http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1183266,00.html]
*The [[Associated Press]] reported that [[Google]] would launch an [http://gmail.google.com/ e-mail service] with 1 GB of storage for each user. [http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/gmail.html]
*[[The Register]] [http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/36707.html], '''Web Hosting Industry News''' [http://thewhir.com/features/subdomain.cfm] and [[Slashdot]] [http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/30/0240215] report that Ideaflood, Inc. has filed a [[patent]] on the idea of user [[subdomain]]s and is now attempting to collect royalties from various websites.

=== External link ===
* [http://aprilfools.urgo.org/2004.html A long list of supposed 2004 April Fool's]

[[Category:April Fool's Day]]
[[Category:Days in 2004]]

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