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April 1, 2004
This is [[April Fool's Day]]. Some April Fool's hoaxes for this year:

*[[Microsoft Corporation]] agrees to purchase the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] for an undisclosed sum. [[Wikipedia]] is to be merged with [[Encarta]]; an access fee of 99 cents per article retrieved will be instituted once the [[software upgrade]] to [[Windows NT]]-based [[server]]s is complete. [[Office Assistant]] is expected to be added in the immediate future, once voice actors for "it looks like you're vandalizing an article" can be found.  
*[[The Guardian]] newspaper reported that [[Peter Mandelson]] was frontrunner to become the [[BBC]]'s new chairman.
*Both [[The Independent]] and the [[The Today Programme]] claimed [[Brian Eno]] had to remixed the theme tune of [[The Archers]].
*An advert by [[BMW]] claimed new 'SHEF technology' would allow car drivers to cook their evening meals whilst driving home.
*[[The Sun]] reported that [[British Police]] were fitting [[hawk]]s with [[speed cameras]] to catch lawbreaking motorists.
*The [[Daily Mail]] included photographs purporting to be the [[Queen]] gambling on [[horse racing]] amongst her subjects at a local [[betting shopookmakers]].

Things widely thought to be April Fools that actually weren't:

*The [[Associated Press]] reported that [[Google]] would launch an [http://gmail.google.com e-mail service] with 1 GB of storage for each user.
*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]]. 
*The [[Guardian]] [http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1183266,00.html revealed] that the [[1954]] [[World Cup]] winning [[German]] team may have been given performance-enhancing injections.

''References'':
*http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1183684,00.html
*http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/gmail.html