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Philip Day

Philip R. Day, former Chancellor of City College of San Francisco


Age of Booty

Designer Max Hoberman admitted that inspiration for the game, came from Bungie Studios's long-running April Fools' Day gag Pimps at Sea.

All Saints' Day

In English-speaking countries, the festival is traditionally celebrated with the hymn "For All the Saints" by Walsham How.

Battle of Okinawa

The main landing was made by XXIV Corps and III Amphibious Corps on the Hagushi beaches on the western coast of Okinawa on L-Day, 1 April, which was both Easter Sunday and April Fools' Day in 1945.

Carbon dating the Dead Sea Scrolls

In 1991 Robert Eisenman and Philip R. Davies made a request to date a number of scrolls, which led to a series of tests carried out in Zurich on samples from fourteen scrolls.

Cold cut

It is eaten the first and second day of the month to celebrate "El día de Todos los Santos" (All Saints' Day) and "El día de Todos los Difuntos" (All Souls' Day).

Corporate foresight

To operationalize the need for "peripheral vision", a concept closely linked to corporate foresight George S. Day and Paul J. H. Schoemaker propose 24 questions.

David Day

David F. Day (1847–1914), Union Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

David A. Day (born 1963), American politician in the Missouri House of Representatives

Despoilers of the Golden Empire

Being published in March, the story was, in effect, an early April Fools' Day prank.

Donald Rooum

He was a founding member of the Malatesta Club, an anarchist social club and venue that opened in London on May Day 1954.

Donald S. Day

Following the annexation of the Baltic States by the Soviets, Day relocated to Sweden to continue reporting as the Tribunes Stockholm correspondent.

Dwayne A. Day

Currently he is a program officer at the Space Studies Board of the National Research Council in Washington, D.C. In that capacity he has served as a study director for several studies for NASA.

Electron User

Often the April-dated edition of the magazine included an April Fools' Day joke, generally consisting of a short machine code type-in listing which claimed to do something extremely useful and of wide interest but which in fact printed APRIL FOOL on the screen.

Forefathers' Day

Forefathers Day is celebrated every year by the Old Colony Club, established in 1769 "to honor the forefathers".

Fourmies, Nord

It was the first French and international celebration of International Workers' Day on May Day.

Francesco Cuccia

Cuccia has also been mentioned as one of the mafiosi behind the Portella della Ginestra massacre during a Labour Day manifestation on May 1, 1947, when 11 people were killed and 33 wounded by the bandit Salvatore Giuliano.

Frank Day

Frank R. Day (1853–1899), entrepreneur and politician in Los Angeles and Monterey, California

GameFront

This led some people to believe that the announcement had been a poorly executed April Fools' joke.

Gogebic Community College

Steven E. Day, Coast Guard Rear Admiral (Lower Half) currently serving as Deputy Commander for Mobilization and Reserve Affairs, Coast Guard Atlantic Area.

Heroes' Day

National Heroes Day is a national public holiday in the Philippines to honour and remember the country’s heroes, men and women in Philippine history whose acts of courage enabled the Philippines to grow as a nation.

Following certain criteria, they found a select group of people who, they believed, should be honoured for their deeds: Jose Rizal, Andres Bonifacio, Emilio Aguinaldo, Apolinario Mabini, Marcelo H. del Pilar, Sultan Dipatuan Kudarat, Juan Luna, Melchora Aquino, and Gabriela Silang.

Honor Glide

He was purchased for $31,000 at the 1995 Fasig-Tipton July yearling sale by Robert G. Schaedle III on the advice of 1968 Summer Olympics Equestrian Gold Medalist and Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame trainer, Jim Day.

Joseph A. Day

Day's wife, Georgie Day, was elected to the legislature, on her first attempt in electoral politics, in 1991, and was re-elected in 1995.

Killer of Sheep

On January 21, 2008 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day) Turner Classic Movies presented the world broadcast premiere of the movie as part of a night-long marathon of Burnett's movies.

Levens

At the end of the 14th century, the destiny of Levens was linked to the whole County of Nice, which parted with Provence to form an alliance with Savoy on the initiative of the powerful John All Saints' Day, baron of Beuil, whose eldest son later became lord of Levens.

Lochner v. New York

Justice John Marshall Harlan wrote a dissenting opinion, which was joined by Justices White and Day.

MANual Enterprises v. Day

Justice William Brennan, joined by Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justice William O. Douglas, concurred but would have decided the case on much narrower technical rather than First Amendment grounds.

Matthias W. Day

John Denny and Second Lieutenant Robert Temple Emmet, who like Day had graduated from West Point in 1877, also received the Medal of Honor for their actions at Las Animas Canyon.

Assisted by Sergeant John Denny, who helped support one man, Day carried the other on his back through "a hail of bullets so thick it seemed 'no one could pass this open rocky space alive'" to safety.

Mildred Gillars

She was then held by the Counterintelligence Corps at Camp King, Oberursel, along with fellow-collaborators Herbert John Burgman and Donald S. Day until she was conditionally released from custody on December 24, 1946.

National Doctors' Day

A year later Finlay identified a mosquito of the genus Aedes as the organism transmitting yellow fever.

National Voters' Day

On the fourth National Voters Day, a disability activist Satendra Singh's RTI caught Election Commission of India off-guard when they were found violating Supreme Court orders to enfranchise voters with disability.

Philip R. Craig

While at BU, he studied poetry with Robert Lowell, who quickly persuaded him that he had no future in that field, and turned to studying prose with Gerald Warner Brace, who encouraged him to write fiction.

Philip R. Goode

He led a project to build the world’s most capable solar telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) at Big Bear Lake.

Regal Classic

Regal Classic was trained by Olympic Games equestrian Gold Medalist and Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Jim Day.

Richard Day

Richard J. F. Day (born c. 1964), professor of sociology and cultural studies at Queen's University, Canada, scholar-activist

Roland B. Day

From 1957 to 1958, he served as legal counsel to Senator William Proxmire in Washington, D.C.

Samuel Day

Samuel T. Day (1838–1877), American physician, plantation owner and politician

Samuel S. Day (1808–1871), Canadian-born American Baptist missionary

Sarteneja

The majority of the villagers prepare to welcome the "Finados" or "Día de los Muertos" or "All Souls' Day" which begins on November 1.

Stephen A. Day

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress.

Stephen Day

Stephen A. Day (1882–1950), US lawyer and member of the House of Representatives, 1941–1945

Timothy Brinton

The programme had been due to be broadcast on April Fools' Day, 1977, but industrial action meant that it was broadcast in June.

UberStudent

In a 2011 April Fools' Day satire, he announced an "UberStudent Dumbed Down Edition" featuring the GNOME 3 Shell.

Uniform Monday Holiday Act

Though the holiday was not in existence at the time, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (established 1983) is celebrated on the third Monday in January, instead of King's actual birth date, January 15, for the same reasons.

Veteranz' Day

Although it managed to earn a distribution deal with Mercury Records by way of Joan Jett's and Kenny Laguna's Blackheart Records, which was acting as a boutique distribution outlet for independent labels from 1998 to 2000, The Label folded almost shortly after the release of Veteranz' Day.

Veterinary Record

The April 1972 issue of the Veterinary Record included a paper on the diseases of Brunus edwardii: a description of lost limbs and thinning hair suffered by an animal whose Latin name means "brown" and "Edward".

WCOA-FM

In 1993, WJLQ shifted to Urban Adult Contemporary as "Magic 100.7", which lasted only about a year before the station became "Arrow 100.7" with a classic rock format on April Fools' Day 1994, with the WWRO call letters being assigned on April 22, 1994.

WDZN

On the afternoon of April 2, it was announced that the smooth jazz format and the man named "Stu" were part of an April Fools' Day joke and that the station would in fact, be carrying a country music format.

William Day

William R. Day (1849–1923), American diplomat and Supreme Court Justice


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