April Fools' Day
A licensed day for pranks that dates back to at least the 1500s. Corporate PR teams have ruined it, but you can still tape the kitchen sprayer.
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Full history →Notable · 2001
Same-sex marriage in the Netherlands was legalized, making it the first country to do so.- 2026The Artemis II lunar flyby mission launches, marking the first crewed flight above low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972.
- 2016The 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict begins along the Nagorno-Karabakh Line of Contact.
- 2011After protests against the burning of the Quran turn violent, a mob attacks a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of fourteen people, including seven UN workers.