Important Dates: April 2014 |
Days
1st April Fool’s Day
2nd International Children’s Book Day Link
2nd World Autism Awareness Day (Onesie Wednesday) Link
4th International Carrot Day Link
6th 160th Boat Race Link
5th International Pillow Fight Day Link
7th World Health Day Link
13th London Marathon Link
16th World Voice Day Link
21st Birthday of Queen Elizabeth II
22nd Earth Day Link
23rd World Book Night Link
25th World Malaria Day Link
25th Undiagnosed Children’s Day Link
26th International Marconi Day Link
27th Drive It Day Link
29th International Dance Day Link
Weeks
5th-20th Edinburgh International Science Festival Link
7th-13th Orchid Male Cancer Awareness Week Link
7th-13th Parkinson’s Awareness Week Link
10th-16th World Homeopathy Awareness Week Link
14th-20th National Gardening Week Link
28th-3rd May National Stop Snoring Week Link
28th-4th May Allergy Awareness Week Link
28th-4th May MS Awareness Week Link
29th-3rd May Save the Children Week Link
Months
Bowel Cancer Awareness Month Link
Jazz Appreciation Month Link
National Pet Month Link
April Religious Dates
8th Swaminarayan Jayanti (Hindu)
13th Palm Sunday (Christian)
13th Vaisakhi (Sikh)
14th Birthday of Guru Nanak (Nanakshahi calendar) (Sikh)
14th Hola Mohalla (Nanakshahi calendar) (Sikh)
14th Fast of the Firstborn (Jewish)
15th Passover – first day (Jewish)
15th Theravda New Year (Buddhist)
17th Maundy Thursday (Christian)
18th Good Friday (Christian)
18th Birthday of Guru Tegh (Nanakshahi calendar) (Sikh)
18th Birthday of Guru Angad Dev (Nanakshahi calendar) (Sikh)
20th Easter Sunday (Christian)
21st Ridvan – 1st day (Bahai)
21st Anniversary of Haile Selassie’s visit to Jamaica (Rastafari)
21st Easter Monday (Christian)
23rd Passover – final day (Jewish)
23rd St George’s Day (Christian)
27th Yom Hashoah (Jewish)
29th Ridvan – 9th day (Bahai)
April National Days
1st Iran
1st Assyria
4th Senegal
17th Syria
18th Zimbabwe
23rd England
25th Anzac Day
26th Tanzania
27th Sierra Leone
27th South Africa
30th Netherlands
This Day in History
1st First Aldermaston march for nuclear disarmament (1958)
2nd Argentina invades the Faulklands (1982)
3rd Robert Walpole becomes first British Prime Minister (1721)
3rd Haile Selassie becomes Emperor of Ethiopia (1930)
4th NATO founded (1949)
4th Martin Luther King shot (1968)
4th Microsoft founded (1975)
4th Civil war starts in Cyprus between Greek and Turkish (1964)
4th First cats eyes laid on road near Bradford (1934)
5th First launch of NASA Challenger (1982)
6th First Modern Olympics in Athens (1896)
7th WHO – World Health Organisation founded (1948)
9th Prince Charles married Camilla (2005)
9th American Civil War brought to close (1865)
9th Captain Cook discovers Australia (1770)
12th Union Flag created (1606)
12th Russian Yuri Gagarin becomes first man in space (1961)
13th Sidney Poitier the first black actor to win an Oscar (1964)
13th Formation of Royal Flying Core (1912)
13th John Dryden becomes first Poet Laureate (1668)
14th Abraham Lincoln shot (1865)
14th Spain becomes a republic (1931)
15th Titanic sinks (1912)
15th British liberate Belsen (1945)
15th Hillsborough disaster (1989)
16th Battle of Culloden (1746)
17th London bomb blast (1999)
18th Eire becomes a republic (1949)
23rd Shakespeare’s birthday (1564) He died on this day in 1616.
26th Explosion at Chernobyl nuclear reactor (1986)
26th First US rocket lands on moon (1962)
30th Official end of Vietnamese War (1975)
30th Adolf Hitler commits suicide (1945)
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