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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)]
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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.
*[[Wrestlecrap]] inducted [[Chris Benoit]] and [[Eddie Guerrero]] into their "Hall of Shame" with fake biographies.

*The Hawaii radio station [[KCCN]] jested on air that [[American Idol]] would implement a new policy, where unlike previous weeks, only one vote from each from Hawaii household would count in the call-in tally. This resulted in an allegation that idol contestant [[Camile Velasco]] was sighted votes in favor of [[Jasmine Trias]] because some voters thought this was a real policy. [http://starbulletin.com/2004/04/13/features/story1.html (According to Verizon's records, calls from Hawaii to "American Idol" numbers increased to 1.43 million from just less than 927,000 the previous week. How this impacted both contestants is open for debate.)]⏎
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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]

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[[Category:Days in 2004|04/01]]
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