All Fools' Day

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Ever since All Fools' Day, 1949, when it was taken away from prison authority and given to the Ministry of Health, the big, grim hospital has been known officially as the Broadmoor Institution.

From Time Magazine Archive

According to custom, the strike began on the first minute of All Fools' Day, but affected no mine schedules until 24 hours later.

From Time Magazine Archive

All Fools' Day in other lands, was celebrated by a monarchist outbreak in Berlin.

From Time Magazine Archive

On All Fools' Day, he appointed one John Joseph Connors, a dapper, poker-faced ward heeler, as chairman of the Boston Board of Election Commissioners.

From Time Magazine Archive

But there was no ship on fire; and then we laughed, and remembered that it was All Fools' Day.

From A Boy's Voyage Round the World by Smiles, Samuel