The April Fool Archive

Olof Toreen    (April Fool's Day - 1750)

The Swedish explorer Olof Toreen wrote in his account of his "Voyage to China" that his ship set sail on April 1, 1750, but that "the wind made April fools of us," and they were forced to take shelter in the Danish port of Skagen.


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