“April 1st: This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three-hundred and sixty-four.”
-Mark Twain
Basically no one knows exactly where, when, or why the celebration began. What we do know is that references to ‘All Fool’s Day’ (what April Fool’s Day was first called) began to appear in Europe during the late Middle Ages. All Fool’s Day was a folk celebration and elite participation in it was minimal (which is why it’s so difficult to trace the exact origin of the day, because the people celebrating it back then weren’t the kind of people who kept records of what they did). But what is clear is that the tradition of a day devoted to foolery has ancient roots
See what google does on this very day:
Google Hoaxes
Google Search for April Fools
Njoi being a Fool !!!