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April 1, 2004
'''[[April 1]], [[2004]]''' was an [[April Fool's Day]]. Hoaxes for this year included:

*In [[April 1st RFC|a tradition]] dating back to at least [[1978]] ([http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0748.txt RFC 748]), the [[IETF]] issues [http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3751.txt RFC 3751], Omniscience Protocol Requirements, written by Scott Bradner, the Secretary and VP of Standards for the [[Internet Society]]. See [[April 1st RFC]].
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*[[Howard Stern]]'s daily radio program was introduced by Tom Chiusano, the general manager of [[WXRK]] (which hosts the program), announcing that [[Viacom]] was pulling the plug on the show because of "the weight of the government pressure and its effects on our corporation." During the next hour, a mock replacement show with two different DJs ensued, and listeners from across the country called to complain. [http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4648090/]
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* The [[Motley Fool]] investment site announced that [[Hormel Foods Corporation]] planned to sue the [[United States]] government over the [[CAN-SPAM]] anti-spam law.  [http://www.fool.com/features/2004/h040331.htm?source=mppromo]


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 [[1954]] [[World Cup]] winning [[German]] 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]

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