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Events In April 2025
Database of events, awareness days, holidays, and promotions occurring in April of this year.
April Events
Golden Week (JP): April 29 - May 5
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Golden Week in Japan is a unique period from April 29 through the beginning of May, including several public holidays. Most Japanese companies will be closed, and people typically take vacations during th...
April
International Day for the Foundation of th...
Daily
International Day for the Foundation of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, or #OPCWDay, marks April 29, 1997, the establishment of articles prohibiting chemical weapons in war. Ac...
April
Parshuram Jayanti (H): April 29
Daily
Parshuram Jayanti is considered the sixth avatar of Lord Vishnu. Parashurama is Mool Purush—the founder of the world, and he lived during the last Dvapara Yuga and is one of the seven immortals of the H...
April
Peace Rose Day: April 29
Daily
French horticulturist Francis Meilland in the late 1930s, created the Peace Rose, a soft yellow hybrid tea rose with pink-tinged outer petals. France shared it with other countries during the year leading...
April
Showa Day (JP)(1901): April 29
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Japanese emperor Michinomiya Hirohito was born on April 29, 1901, at the Akasaka Palace in Tokyo, Japan. He presided over Japan as an empire and then state until he died in 1989. Showa Day in Japan honors...
April
Shrimp Scampi Day, Ntl.: April 29
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National Shrimp Scampi Day in the United States celebrates the cuisine known as shrimp scampi. Shrimp scampi is cooked with butter, garlic, lemon juice, and white wine and served over rice or greens.
April
World Wish Day (1980): April 29
Daily
On April 29, 1980, seven-year-old leukemia patient Christopher James Greicius made a wish. He wished to be a police officer. Family and friends of Greicius worked together to grant his desire ‘to be a pol...
April
Yom HaZikaron (IL): April 29/30
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Yom HaZikaron is Israel’s Memorial Day honoring all members of its military who have given their lives for the state. Today is a national holiday.
April
Zipper Day, Ntl. (1913): April 29
Daily
On April 29, 1913, Gideon Sunbach received a patent for his zipper invention. It was not an immediate success. Rather, his new technology would take 20 years to find its fans and become ubiquitous in the...
April
Adopt a Shelter Pet Day: April 30
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National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day is an initiative spirited by animal lovers. Falling on April 30 each year, the objective is to put the national spotlight on homeless animals and get them into the caring...
April
Akshaya Tritiya (H): April 30
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Akshaya Tritiya (Akha Teej) is one of the Hindu faith’s most auspicious and anticipated festivals. The holiday marks the birth of Lord Parasurama, the sixth incarnation of Lord Vishnu. Prosperity, luck,...
April
Animal Advocacy Day, Ntl.: April 30
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Each year the ASPCA sponsors Animal Advocacy Day to champion the rights of animals. The latest initiative is getting the HEART Act passed through congress. ASPCA explains: "The Help Extract Animals from...
April
Beltane (UK): April 30
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Beltane (Bealtaine, May Eve, Walpurgis Night, Cyntefyn, Roodmass, and Cethsamhain) is a Wiccan and Celtic neopagans celebration that falls between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. Considered on...
April
Bugs Bunny Day (1938): April 30
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Bugs Bunny Day marks the anniversary of the creation of the cartoon character "Bugs Bunny," which first appeared in the animated cartoon "Porky's Hare Hunt" on April 30, 1938. Bugs Bunny is the joint cre...
April
Dia de los Libros (US) (1925): April 30
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Public and school libraries celebrate Día de los Libros. Children's Day/Book Day, also known as El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Día). It is an annual observance on April 30 and a year-round comm...
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