Important Dates: April 2018

Important Dates: April 2018

Days

1^st April Fool’s Day

2^nd International Children’s Book Day  Link

2^nd World Autism Awareness Day  Link

4^th International Carrot Day  Link

7^th World Health Day  Link

7^th  International Pillow Fight Day Link

11^th World Parkinson’s Day Link

16^th World Voice Day  Link

21^st Birthday of Queen Elizabeth II

21^st  International Marconi Day  Link

22^nd  London Marathon  Link

22^nd  Drive It Day   Link

22^nd Earth Day  Link

23^rd World Book Night  Link

25^th World Malaria Day  Link

27^th Undiagnosed Children’s Day  Link

29^th International Dance Day  Link

30^th International Jazz Day  Link

Weeks

31^stMar-15^th Edinburgh International Science Festival  Link

9^th-15^th Orchid Male Cancer Awareness Week  Link

10^th-16^th World Homeopathy Awareness Week  Link

23^rd-29^th Allergy Awareness Week  Link

23^rd – 27^th National Stop Snoring Week  Link

23^rd -29^th MS Awareness Week  Link

23^rd -29^th National Stationery Week  Link

30^th-6^thMay National Gardening Week  Link

Months

Bowel Cancer Awareness Month  Link

National Pet Month  Link

World Autism Awareness Month  Link

April Religious Dates

1^st Easter Sunday

2^nd Easter Monday (Christian)

3^rd  Mahavir Jayanti (Jain)

12^th Yom HaShoah (Jewish)

13^th Lailat al Miraj (Islam)

14^th Baisakhi (Sikh New Year)

19^th Yom Ha’Atzmaut

21^st First Day of Ridvan (Baha’i)

23^rd St George’s Day (Christian)

29^th Ninth Day of Rivdan (Baha’i)

29^th Visakha Puja – Buddha Day  (Buddhist)

30^th-2^nd May  Therevadin New Year (Buddhist)

April National Days

1^st Iran

1^st Assyria

4^th Senegal

17^th Syria

18^th Zimbabwe

23^rd England

25^th Anzac Day

26^th Tanzania

27^th Sierra Leone

27^th South Africa

30^th Netherlands

This Day in History

1^st First Aldermaston march for nuclear disarmament (1958)

2^nd Argentina invades the Faulklands (1982)

3^rd Robert Walpole becomes first British Prime Minister (1721)

3^rd Haile Selassie becomes Emperor of Ethiopia (1930)

4^th NATO founded (1949)

4^th Martin Luther King shot (1968)

4^th Microsoft founded (1975)

4^th Civil war starts in Cyprus between Greek and Turkish (1964)

4^th First cats eyes laid on road near Bradford (1934)

5^th First launch of NASA Challenger (1982)

6^th First Modern Olympics in Athens (1896)

7^th WHO – World Health Organisation founded (1948)

9^th Prince Charles married Camilla (2005)

9^th American Civil War brought to close (1865)

9^th Captain Cook discovers Australia (1770)

12^th Union Flag created (1606)

12^th Russian Yuri Gagarin becomes first man in space (1961)

13^th Sidney Poitier the first black actor to win an Oscar (1964)

13^th Formation of Royal Flying Core (1912)

13^th John Dryden becomes first Poet Laureate (1668)

14^th Abraham Lincoln shot (1865)

14^th Spain becomes a republic (1931)

15^th Titanic sinks (1912)

15^th British liberate Belsen (1945)

15^th Hillsborough disaster (1989)

16^th Battle of Culloden (1746)

17^th London bomb blast (1999)

18^th Eire becomes a republic (1949)

23^rd Shakespeare’s birthday (1564) He died on this day in 1616.

26^th Explosion at Chernobyl nuclear reactor (1986)

26^th First US rocket lands on moon (1962)

30^th Official end of Vietnamese War (1975)

30^th Adolf Hitler commits suicide (1945)

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