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1991 Death - Jacques Aubuchon, actor (Hoax, Thunder Road), dies of heart failure

1989 Event - 6 claim to survive in rubble, 35 days after Armenian quake (hoax)

1983 Event - Stern mag announces major historical find-discovery of 60 volume personal diaries written by Adolph Hitler (turned out to be a hoax)

1981 Event - Washington Post Janet Cooke wins Pulitzer Prize (later admits story a hoax)

1981 Event - CNN airs a videotape that shows that Tamara Rand predicted that Reagan is in danger from someone named Jack Humley (a hoax)

1970 Event - John and Yoko release hoax they are having dual sex change operations

1953 Event - "Pitdown Man," discovered in 1912 proved to be a hoax

1945 Event - Clandestine Radio 1212, used to hoax Nazi Germany's final transmission

1942 Birthday - Frank Bonner, Little Rock AR, actor, WKRP, Hoax, You Can't Hurry Love

1835 Event - N.Y. Sun publishes Moon hoax story about John Herschel









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