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Mikoyan CF-121 Redhawk: an April Fools' prank detailing the RCAF purchase of thirty MiG-21s for Squadron 441 in 1960. [17] MiG-28: a fictional aircraft flown by the antagonists in the 1986 film Top Gun. The real aircraft used to portray the MiG-28 was a Northrop F-5. [18]
Almost every April Fools' Day (1 April) since 1989, the Internet RFC Editor has published one or more humorous Request for Comments (RFC) documents, following in the path blazed by the June 1973 RFC 527 called ARPAWOCKY, a parody of Lewis Carroll 's nonsense poem "Jabberwocky". The following list also includes humorous RFCs published on other ...
Richard Charles Nicholas Branson was born on 18 July 1950 [12] [13] in Blackheath, Royal Borough of Greenwich, London, the son of Edward James Branson (1918–2011), a barrister, and his wife Evette Huntley Branson (née Flindt; 1924–2021), a former ballet dancer and air hostess.
April Fools' pranks in the military. Reports of military humor go back to the earliest days of organized warfare. The British Museum has a lead bullet launched from a sling in ancient Greece which ...
A similar feature was brought back for April Fools' Day 2017, allowing users to play a version of Ms. Pac-Man upon clicking the icon on the Google Maps webpage or mobile app. [155] On Mario Day (March 10 [156]) 2018, Google and Nintendo had partnered up to bring Mario into Google Maps mobile app worldwide for a week. A yellow icon with a ...
The game was initially launched on April 13, 2022 [146] as a paid beta game, costing 50 Robux to access, and officially released as free-to-play three days later. [145] Reaching 70 million plays [ 147 ] and 275,000 concurrent players in the first week of its release, it broke the record for the largest launch on Roblox, and it would reach 500 ...
The awards and decorations of the United States Armed Forces include various medals, service ribbons, ribbon devices, and specific badges which recognize military service and personal accomplishments of members of the U.S. Armed Forces. Such awards are a means to outwardly display the highlights of a service member's career.
The result was Prohibit. Carolina Parakeet was nominated for deletion for being extinct. Julian Calendar was nominated for deletion, as the last country to use it (Soviet Union) stopped. The result was Skip 13 days. Fourteen Points was nominated for deletion per WP:POINT. Table was nominated for deletion because "table" is an antonym of "notable".