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April 1, 2002
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'''[[April 1]], [[2002]]''' was an [[April Fool's Day]] falling on a [[Monday]]. Hoaxes for this year included:

* [[The Register]]: [http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/24652.html reported] [[AOL]] buying up [[weblog]]s
* The [[Open Directory]] [http://[email protected]/April-01-2002_GOD_PR.html re-branded] itself as the 'Microsoft Directory Project'
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* [[CNN]] reported that two [[Montreal]] [[disk jockey]]s managed to phone [[Bill Gates]] on the pretext that one of them was [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Prime Minister of Canada|prime minister]] [[Jean Chrétien]] wanting to set up a meeting with Gates.  What CNN didn't mention is that these two have a reputation for their audacious prank calls.  Previous recipients of their attention have included [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]] and [[Pope John Paul II]].
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*[[Blizzard Entertainment]], the [[computer game]] company that produced [[Warcraft III]], announced they would be adding a fifth playable [[race]] to the game: the [[Pandaren#Pandaren|Pandaren]], a race of [[bamboo]]-eating, sword-wielding warriors (later, one Pandaren character was actually added).{{noMention}}
*[[Alex McLeish]], manager of [[Scotland|Scotish]] [[Football_%28soccer%29|football club]] [[Rangers_fc|Rangers]] announced the signing of seventeen year old [[Turkey|Turkish]] player ''Arilo Flaydops'' in a £5 million deal, his name is infact an acronym of "April Fool's Day" but many [[United Kingdom|British]] newspapers covered the story. {{noMention}}

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