1st of April

Create a whimsical illustration depicting various April Fools' Day pranks being played, with people laughing and engaged in playful activities, balloons, and a festive atmosphere. Include elements that symbolize the holiday like an April fish and humorous signs.

April Fools' Day Quiz

Test your knowledge about April Fools' Day with our engaging quiz! Dive into the world of pranks, notable figures born or dying on this infamous day, and memorable events that took place on April 1st.

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Famous scientists and their connections to April 1st
Historical events associated with this quirky day
The culture of pranking across different countries

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Who of the listed famous scientists was NOT born on 1st of April?

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji: French physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997 for developing methods using laser light to cool gases to the micro-kelvin temperature range

Joseph E. Murray: American surgeon who shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1990 for discoveries concerning organ and cell. Murray was the first to successfully perform a human organ transplant.

Dame Kathleen Lonsdale: British crystallographer who developed several X-ray techniques for the study of crystal structure.

Abraham Harold Maslow: American psychologist famous for his “Hierarchy of needs”

Richard Zsigmondy: Austro-German chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1925 for “his demonstration of the heterogenous nature of colloid…”

Sophie Germain: French mathematician known for her work in number theory and contributions to the applied mathematics of acoustics and elasticity.

Who of the listed famous scientists did NOT die on 1st of April?

Lev Davidovich Landau: Soviet physicist awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for his theory to explain the peculiar superfluid behavior of liquid helium at very low temperature (2.18 K).

Pyotr Nikolayevich Lebedev: Russian physicist who, in experiments proved that light exerts a minute pressure on bodies…

François-Marie Raoult: French chemist who formulated a law on solutions (called Raoult's law)

St. George Jackson Mivart: English biologist who was a leading critic of Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection.

Jakob Steiner: Swiss mathematician who was one of the greatest contributors to projective geometry.

Norman Abramson: American computer scientist who created ALOHANET

Which of listed events happened on 1st of April?

In 1960, the first weather observation satellite, Tiros I, was launched from Cape Kennedy and made the first television picture from space.

In 33, according to one historian's account, Jesus Christ's Last Supper is held.

1889, the first commercial dishwashing machine was marketed in Chicago, designed over a number of years by Josephine Cochrane.

In 2001, laws that permit marriage for same-sex couples and grant same-sex couples adoption rights in the Netherlands come into effect.

In 1953 – James Watson and Francis Crick formally announce that they have determined the chemical structure of following publication in April's Nature

In 2004, Google announces Gmail to the public

In 2003 a 14-year old boy created a fake article imitating the newspaper Ming Paos in Hong Kong that spread fear among citizens. The government held a press conference to deny the statement in the article. What created the fear?

On April 1, 1915, in the midst of World War I, a British plane appeared over a German camp and dropped a bomb. The Germans rushed in all directions, but there was no explosion. When they picked up the bomb, they found a note stated “April Fool — ….!”

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