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jape \JAYP\, noun, verb:
- A joke or jest.
- A trick or prank.
transitive verb: 1. To make fun of; to mock.
april baby
- A term coined by lil wayne, meaning a fool.
Holiday
- April Fools' Day: is celebrated in many countries on April 1 every year. Sometimes referred to as All Fools' Day, April 1 is not a national holiday, but is widely recognized and celebrated as a day when people play practical jokes and hoaxes on each other.
History
- US House of Representatives: achieved a quorum for the first time and elected its first Speaker, Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania (1789)
- Royal Air Force: branch of the British Armed Forces was formed (1918)
- TIROS-1: the first weather satellite was launched; it took off from Cape Canaveral and was operational for 78 days (1960)
- Apple Inc.: was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (1976)
- Gmail: Google's web-based email service was launched (2004)
Birthdays
- William Harvey England 1578
- Otto Von Bismarck 1815
- Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873 - Composer, musician
Lon Chaney 1883 - Actor ("The Phantom of the Opera")- Wallace (Fitzgerald) Beery 1885 - Actor ("The Champ", "The Last of the Mohicans")
- Jagjivan Ram 1908
- Abraham Maslow 1908
- Art Lund 1920 - Singer
- Toshiro Mifune 1920 - Actor ("Midway", "Paper Tiger")
- William Manchester 1922 - Writer
- Anne McCaffrey 1926
- George Grizzard 1928 - Actor ("Bachelor Party", "False Witness")
- Jane Powell (Suzanne Burce) 1929 - Actress
- Grace Lee Whitney 1930 - Actress, singer
- Gordon Jump 1932 - Actor ("WKRP in Cincinnati")
- Debbie Reynolds (Mary Frances Reynolds) 1932 - Singer, Actress, mother of actress Carrie Fisher
- Don Hastings 1934 - Actor ("As The World Turns")
- James Edward Brown 1934 - Singer (The Browns)
- Ron (Ronald Peter) Perranoski 1936 - Baseball player, coach
- Eddie King 1938 - Blues singer
- Ali MacGraw 1938 - Actress
- Rudolf Isley 1939 - Singer (Isley Brothers)
- Phil (Philip Henry) Niekro 1939 - Baseball pitcher
- Guy Trottier 1941 - Hockey player
- Phil Margo 1942 - Singer (The Tokens)
- Alan Blakley 1942 - Musician (Brian Poole and The Tremeloes)
- Carol White 1944
- Rusty Staub 1944 - Baseball player
- Heather Young 1945
- John Barbata 1945 - Drummer (The Turtles)
- Ronnie Lane (Small Faces) 1946
- Norm Van Lier 1947 - Basketball player
- Jimmy Cliff 1948 - Reggae singer
- Doug Southerland 1948 - Football player
- Wilie (Guillermo Naranjo) Montanez 1948 - Baseball player
- Gil Scott-Heron 1949 - Jazz musician
- Samuel Alito 1950 - U.S. Supreme Court justice
- Billy Currie 1952 - Musician (Ultravox)
- Annette O'Toole 1953 - Actress
- Jeff Porcaro (Toto) 1954
- Stan Ridgway (Wall of Voodoo) 1955
- Libby Riddles 1956 - First woman to win the Iditarod dogsled race
- Mark White 1961 - Musician (ABC)
Woody Lee 1968 - Country singer- Sung-Hi Lee 1970 - actress, model
- Method Man 1971 - Rapper
- Rachel Maddow 1973 - Broadcast journalist
- Maradalena Maleeva 1975 - Tennis player
- Bijou Phillips 1980 - Singer
- Sam Huntington 1982 - Actor
- Hillary Scott (Lady Antebellum) 1984 - Country singer
- Josh Zuckerman 1985 - Actor
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