Historical Pranks That Hoaxed the World

April Fools Day is not just for common people to play around with friends even the magazines give prank news which looks so original that later gets announced as a Fool's day special. Even BBC did this... Read on...

1 The origin of April Fools' Day may be lost to history. One theory centers on people confused by the transition to the Gregorian calendar, but even before that time, there were April Fools'-like hoaxes. In 1983, Boston University professor Joseph Boskin said the practice began when court jesters and fools told the Roman emperor Constantine that they could do a better job than he does, and Constantine made one of them king for a day. Many newspapers picked up Boskin's story -- which was an April Fools' Day joke.