Serious events that happened on the 1st of April

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IsawYoshi on 01 April 2014

It's been a lovely day so far with quite a bit of funny stuff happening. But it's not long till the day's over, at least for me. But it got me thinking. You see, a couple of years ago, 2011, something happened. It was not funny, nor was it a joke, but even so, everyone thought it was just that, a joke. Because on the 1st of April 2011 the decision was taken; the emergency and the maternity ward in our local hospital were to be shut down. A horrible message in it self; the closest hospital to us lies two more hours away and some already had three-four hours to drive, but the mere fact that they did it on the first of April made it so much worse. As they say: Dick move.

Do you have any stories of serious events or happenings on the 1st of april?

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Nintentacle on 01 April 2014

Well I was told that my father died on April 1st...

April Fools!

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IsawYoshi on 01 April 2014

Nintentacle said:

Well I was told that my father died on April 1st...

April Fools!

Couldn't hold ya horses could ya!? :D

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F0X on 01 April 2014

I joined VGChartz on April 1st, 2012.

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Mr Khan on 01 April 2014

Let's look at significant events in history occurring on April 1st, within the last 100 years, per Wikipedia

1924: Hitler was imprisoned for the failed "Beer Hall Putsch." This was when he wrote Mein Kampf.
1933: The recently-elected Nazis organize their first boycott of Jewish businesses.
1935: Founding of India's central bank.
1939: The last of the Republican forces surrender in the Spanish Civil War, cementing Fascist victory
1941: An anti-Hashemite coup in Iraq brings Iraq into the Axis Powers.
1945: American landing on Okinawa.
1948: West Berlin blockaded by East German and Soviet forces, preceding the Berlin airlift
1960: The first TV satellite broadcast
1970: The "surgeon general's warning" becomes mandated for Tobacco products by American law.
1976: Apple was founded.
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2004: Gmail launched.

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Conegamer on 02 April 2014

As Axum said, we're now moderators, which is pretty "real". Though, technically here that was at 12:15AM today, so it's not April 1st :P

A good thread though, I like the idea. One of the big problems is the "real" news will take a while to filter through, so we likely won't know for a while.

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

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greencactaur on 02 April 2014

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Porcupine_I on 02 April 2014

Every year some people getting seriously pissed at some April Fools jokes.

“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”

- George Orwell, ‘1984’