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April 1, 2004
''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)]
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* [[Suprnova.org]] announced that, owing to a huge surge in Japanese traffic, the site would slowly transition to Japanese, and discontinue its English-language version.
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*[[Wrestlecrap]] inducted [[Chris Benoit]] and [[Eddie Guerrero]] into their "Hall of Shame" with fake biographies.

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://www.urgo.org/aprilfools2004.html A long list of supposed 2004 April Fool's]

[[Category:April Fool's Day]]
[[Category:Days in 2004|04/01]]
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