April
The month of April celebrates these events:
Pets Are Wonderful Month National Garden Month
Keep America Beautiful Month National Humor Month
Mathematics Education Month Month of the Young Child
First week is National Reading a Road Map Week
First week is National Straw Hat Week
First week is Egg Salad Week
Second week is National Library Week
Second week is National Garden Week
Second Week is National Guitar Week
Second week is Be Kind to Animals Week
Third week is National Police Week
Third week is Astronomy Week
Third week is National Volunteer Week
Third week is National Coin Week
Third week is Bike Safety Week
Fourth week is Forest Week
Fourth week is National TV-Free Week
Fourth week is Teacher Appreciation Week
1st April Fool's Day
1st National Sleep Day
1st Sorry Charlie Day (Day to honor Charlie the Tuna)
2nd International Children's Book day
2nd American Daylight Saving Time begins
2nd Green Day
2nd National Peanut & Butter Day
3rd American Circus Day
4th NATO established (in 1949)
3rd National Find-A-Rainbow Day
5th German-Americans Day
6th Twinkies Birthday (introduction of "the cake" in 1930)
6th Jump Over Things Day
6th Army Day
7th No Housework Day
7th Museum Day
7th World Health Day
7th National Teacher Appreciation Day
8th International Bird Day
9th U.S. Civil War ends on this date - April 9, 1865
9th Winston Churchill Day
10th Anniversary of the Safety Pin (patented in 1849)
10th National Sibling Day
10th Golfer's Day
11th Thomas Jefferson's Birthday (born in 1743)
12th Look Up At The Sky Day
12th Thank You School Librarian Day
13th National Peach Cobbler Day
13th Birth Anniversary of Thomas Jefferson (1743)
13th Blame Someone Else Day
14th National Pecan Day & Abraham Lincoln assassinated (1865)
15th U.S. Income Tax Pay Day
15th Remembrance Day
15th Rubber Eraser Day
15th Anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic (1912)
16th National Karaoke Week
17th Ford Mustang's Birthday (1964)
18th Third World Day
18th National Animal Crackers Day
19th Garlic Day
19th Revolutionary War began (1775)
20th Astronomy Day
20th Passover
21st Good Friday
21st National Secretaries Day
21st Kindergarten Day (founded in 1837)
22nd Earth Day (first observed in 1970)
22nd National Jellybean Day
23rd National Picnic Day
23rd Blue Day
25th World YMCA Day
24th National Puppetry Day
26th Read Me Day
26th Richter Scale Day
26th National Pretzel Day
27th Tell a Story Day
27th National D.J. Day
28th Costume Day
28th Great Poetry Reading Day
28th Texas Wildflower Day
30th National Arbor Day
30th National Honesty Day
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