Here's everything you should know about April Fools' Day, including how it started and some of the most infamous pranks.

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April 1st is known as April Fools' Day, a day filled with pranks, jokes, and trickery. People around the world play tricks on ...

F or Britons the end of the tax year looms on April 5th. Why such a seemingly random date?

Again, the history is fuzzy on this, but in 1582 a new calendar was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII that moved the first day of the new year to Jan. 1. The 1580s being what they were, news ...

Another popular theory links the tradition to the 16th-century calendar reforms. Pope Gregory XIII ordered Christian nations to adopt the Gregorian calendar in 1582, officially shifting New Year ...