April Special Days Calendar

Subject: April Special Days Calendar Tue Nov 04, 2008 8:02 pm

April

Birthstone - Diamond
Flower - Sweet Pea, Daisy

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
		1 April Fools Day One Cent Day	2 Hans Christian Anderson's Birthday International Children's Book Day	3 Find A Rainbow Day	4 1st Home Phone Installed in 1877 NATO Established in 1949	5 National Read a Road Map Day
6 North Pole Discovered in 1898	7 No Housework Day World Health Day	8 Ponce de Leon Day born in 1460, he discoverd Florida and searched for the Fountain of Youth	9 1st Public Library Opened in 1833, in Peterborough, NH	10 Encourage a Young Writer Day National Sibling Day	11 Jackie Robinson Day, on this day in 1947 Jackie Robinson became the 1st African American in modern major-league baseball US Navy acquires its 1st Submarine, in 1900 it was a 53 foot craft designed by Irish immigrant John P. Holland	12 Space Shuttle Columbia First Launched crewed by John young and Robert Crippen 1981
13 Thomas Jefferson's Birthday born in 1743	14 Titanic struck the Iceberg, shortly before midnight on April 14, the ship collided with an iceberg causing the ship to sink at 2:20AM on April 15	15 First McDonald's Opens by Ray Kroc in Des Plaines, Il, 1955 Income Tax Day Leonardo Da Vinci birthday born in 1452	16 National Egg's Benedict Day Slavery Abolished in D.C. by Lincoln in 1862	17 Daffy Duck's birthday he debuted in a Warner Brothers Cartoonin 1937 Sherlock Hemlock's birthday sesame Street character	18 first Laundromat opens in Fort Worth Texas in 1934 Great San Francisco Earthquake in 1906 Paul Revere day rides to alert patriots that the British are coming in 1775 Pet Owner's Day	19 Humorous Day Passover begins at Sundown
20 Cuckoo Day National Pineapple Upside Down Cake Day	21 Kindergarten Day the first Kindergarten was founded by Friedrich Froebel in Germany in 1837	22 Earth Day Girl Scout Leader Appreciation Day	23 Administrative Professional's Day Home Rum Day Hank Aaron hits his first home run in 1954 International Sing Out Day William Shakespeare's Birthday born in 1564	24 Pigs-in-a Blanket Day Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day	25 Anzac Day, Australia, New Zealand Arbor day	26 Hug a Friend Day National Pretzel Day
27 Tell a Story Day Walter Lantz's Birthday the crator of Woody Woodpecker	28 Poetry Reading Day	29 Zipper Day, the modern zipper invented by Gideon Sindback in 1917	30 National Honesty Day, George Washington inaugurated as first US president in 1789

Month Long Observances
Autism Awareness Month
International Guitar Month
Keep America Beautiful Month
National Child Abuse Prevention Month
National Frog Month
National Garden Month
National humor Month
National Mathematics Education Month
National Poetry Month
Stress Awareness Month
Week Long Observances
3rd Week - Week of the Younger Child

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