Aliza Chasan is a Digital Content Producer for "60 Minutes" and CBSNews.com. She has previously written for outlets including PIX11 News, The New York Daily News, Inside Edition and DNAinfo. Aliza ...

What is the origin of April Fools’ Day? Some credit the ancient Roman festival of Hilaria as the inspiration of April Fools' Day. Hilaria took place at the end of March and was a day of joy, merriment ...

Every year, on April 1, the world celebrates April Fools' Day with playful pranks and teasing. But have you stopped to wonder why people celebrate April Fools’ Day? The truth, like many things in ...

April is a month known for budding flowers, new beginnings, and humor, of course. That is why the first day of this calendar page is reserved for the antics of tricksters, goofballs, and the wily ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Back on April 1st of 1997 we were digging out and cleaning up after more than a foot of heavy wet snow fell across western Massachusetts. The snow started falling on March ...

The United States launched a massive invasion of the Japanese home island of Okinawa, with an initial landing of 60,000 soldiers and marines, on this day in history, April 1, 1945. The Battle of ...