April Fools Day

When I was little, my friends would not always believe that yesterday was my birthday because they thought it was an April Fools trick. Anyway....

April Fools Day. Why are we still mentioning it? How did it ever get on our calendar? I don't know the answers to these questions but I can give a short history lesson.

A long, long time ago, the beginning of the year was April 1 (something about the first day of spring and the year should start at spring because that is when you can start growing food again). But, some pope decided that new years should be Jan. 1 instead (not sure why). So, some countries started to change over but there were people who didn't want to change (imagine that). These people were given a hard time. The French were especially hard on their traditionalists. They called April 1st "April Fish Day" because as a joke they would draw pictures of fish and but them on people's back because that makes a lot of sense. They would also try to get the traditionalists to go on bogus errands and tell them things that weren't true to try to get them to believe them. Weird.

And here we are, with people talking about how it is April Fools day 500 years later. Awesome.


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