28th December, Holy Innocents´ Day

On December 28th people in the Spanish-speaking world celebrate the Feast of the Holy Innocents, a religious festival commemorating  the New Testament story of the massacre of the "Innocents", by playing practical jokes, or inocentadas, on one another.The classical inocentada is to hang paper dolls on someone´s back without their knowing. Spoof news stories also appear in newspapers and the media. 

This feast is the equivalent of April Fool´s Day, celebrated in UK and other countries around the world on April 1st every year. Sometimes referred to as All Fool´s Day, although  April 1st is not a national holiday, it is widely recognized and celebrated as a day when many people play all kind of jokes and foolishness.The day is marked by the comission of good-humoured or otherwise funny jokes, hoaxes, and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends, family members, teachers, neighbours,work associates and so on. 

For a powerpoint presentation on April Fool´s Day link at:

                          http://holidays.mrdonn.org/powerpoints/aprilfools.html