April Fool's Day - April 1
Fool Me Once Learning
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
April Fool's Day, Fun at Work Day, Jump in Muddy Puddles Day, Sourdough Bread Day, Trombone Players Day, and Air Force Academy Day.
* Indicates a poet or poetry resource in celebration of National Poetry Month.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: April Fools' Day
ON THIS DATE
- 1789 - The U.S. House of Representatives holds its first full meeting in New York City.
- 1945 - American forces invade Okinawa.
- 1954 - President Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.
- 1970 - President Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring the Surgeon General's warnings on tobacco products and banning cigarette advertising on television and radio.
- 1976 - Apple Inc. is formed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne.
- 1979 - Nickelodeon is launched.
- 1999 - Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory.
- 1578 - English physician William Harvey
- 1647 - English poet John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester *
- 1776 - French mathematician and physicist Sophie Germain
- 1852 - Painter and illustrator Edwin Austin Abbey
- 1873 - Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff
- 1883 - Actor Lon Chaney
- 1884 - U.S. Army Colonel Florence Blanchfield
- 1932 - Actor Debbie Reynolds
- 1950 - Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito
- 1953 - Director Barry Sonnenfeld
- 1973 - Journalist Rachel Maddow
Beatles - Fool On the Hill - LISTEN- Aretha Franklin - Chain of Fools - LISTEN
Doobie Brothers - What a Fool Believes - LISTEN- Steve Perry - Foolish Heart - LISTEN
- The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again - LISTEN
Sergei Rachmaninoff - Prelude in C Sharp Minor - LISTEN - Singing in the Rain - Good Morning (ft. Debbie Reynolds) - LISTEN
POEMS OF THE DAY
John Donne - The Triple Fool
John Wilmot Earl of Rochester - Constancy
- Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Elmo Spreads Kindness by Sharing a Joke (0:59) - VIEW and DO
- Grades PreK-2 - PBS Kids- Martha Speaks - April Fools' Day Joke (0:49) - VIEW
- Grades 2-6 - PBS LearningMedia - All About the Holidays - April Fools' Day (1:00) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia- NOVA scienceNOW - Hippocampus Humor: Comic Science (1:16) - VIEW
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video- Braincraft - Why Are Some People So Easily Fooled (2:43) - VIEW
- Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - American Masters - George Plimpton's Famous April Fool's Day Joke (3:11) - VIEW
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