LOL...I was only 45 minutes early, damn turning my calendar before I go to bed.
I doubt anyone would believe that headline anyway and it still is out there, to maybe catch a few who would.
Major April Fools stories are probably a lot harder to pull off with as tied into the internet as everyone now is.
My Dad was telling me that a local Madison Paper once ran a story about the Badger Basketball team signing a 7'6" player that de-commited from a major school and he was the best basketball player the world had ever seen. Turns out it was a 4/1 article, but didn't come right out and say "April fools", so the paper got a lot of calls. At that time, newspapers and nightly news were peoples only source of "breaking news".
I was hoping to maybe find the basketball player article, but only found this...in 1933, the Capital Times in Madison ran this picture front page on 4/1. With an article claiming that the Capital building in Madison had been blown up and collapsed. Run that article today and you probably get sued. Proves Photoshopping even existed back then!
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https://madison.com/april-fool-s-da...cle_f4097c56-638e-5f2a-ab23-d9c3686b292a.html