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{{Daybar|April 1, 2004|2004}}
*[[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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*GSN switched hosts on their original programming(Grahm Elwood hosted Whammy!,Kennedy hosted WinTuition,Marc Summers hosted Cram,Mark L. Wahlburg hosted Friend or Foe,and Todd Newton hosted Russian Roulette)
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*94.3 FM, a [[country music]] [[radio station]] in [[Poughkeepsie, New York]] aired a segment that stated that April 1st, 2004 was really [[March 32]] because of a thing in the calendar. This included a (correct) history of the calendar, starting with the [[Julain Calendar]], then the [[Gregorian Calendar]]. It also mentioned how we only have leap years in years divisible by 100 if they are also divisible by 400. (i.e. [[2000]] but not [[1900]]). Then, itm mentioned (probably truthfully) how in years divisible by 10,000 there is no leap year. Then, it said (and this is the prank) that the calendar was still slightly off, so 4 years after a millenial year, there was 1 more day in March. They even added a nice poem, starting with "Thirty days has september..." then they ended it with "But in every Millenal year plus 4, March has one day more"

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.⏎
*94.3 FM, a [[country music]] [[radio station]] in [[Poughkeepsie, New York]] aired a segment that stated that April 1st, 2004 was really [[March 32]] because of a thing in the calendar. This included a (correct) history of the calendar, starting with the [[Julain Calendar]], then the [[Gregorian Calendar]]. It also mentioned how we only have leap years in years divisible by 100 if they are also divisible by 400. (i.e. [[2000]] but not [[1900]]). Then, itm mentioned (probably truthfully) how in years divisible by 10,000 there is no leap year. Then, it said (and this is the prank) that the calendar was still slightly off, so 4 years after a millenial year, there was 1 more day in March. They even added a nice poem, starting with "Thirty days has september..." then they ended it with "But in every Millenal year plus 4, March has one day more"

=== External link ===
* [http://aprilfools.urgo.org/2004.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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