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Events In April 2025
Database of events, awareness days, holidays, and promotions occurring in April of this year.
April Events
Poet in a Cupcake Day: April 11
Daily
Poet in a Cupcake Day is a simple end to Take a Poet to School Week. Just cut out your poems, color them, and put them on popsicle sticks. Insert into your favorite cupcake! Of course, you should read a l...
April
Shabbat HaGadol (J): April 11/12
Daily
Shabbat HaGadol, or the "Great Shabbat," is the Saturday celebrated immediately after Passover. Shabbat is "Sabbath" or "Saturday" in Hebrew. A Haftarah from the Book of Malachi is read on this day, a l...
April
Submarine Day, Ntl. (1900): March 11
Daily
National Submarine Day in the United States marks the anniversary of the US Navy’s acquisition of its first modern submarine, the Holland VI, on April 11, 1900. The Holland VI is not the first submarine...
April
Youth Services Month, Global: April 11 - M...
Monthly
ALL HANDS ON DECK FOR GLOBAL YOUTH SERVICE MONTH Global Youth Service Month straddles April and May. The global initiative celebrates and mobilizes young people to engage in community service and social...
April
Big Wind Day (1934): April 12
Daily
Today is the anniversary of the highest recorded wind gust felt by man in history, a record that stood for 62 years until 1996. It was in Mount Washington, New Hampshire, on April 12, 1934, that a wind...
April
Catch and Release Day, Ntl.: April 12
Daily
National Catch and Release Day is an event or occasion to promote and celebrate the practice of catch and release fishing, a technique used in recreational fishing to promote fisheries conservation. Cele...
April
Cheese Sandwich Day, Ntl. Grilled: April 1...
Daily
National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day celebrates an American classic circa the 1920s, the grilled cheese sandwich. National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day is an unofficial event with no sponsor.
April
DEAR Day, Ntl. (1916): April 12
Daily
DEAR Day marks the anniversary of the birthday of scholastic author Beverly Cleary on April 12, 1916. She was the first person to write about the concept of DEAR, that is, Drop Everything And Read, in her...
April
Hanuman Jayanti (H): April 12
Daily
Hanuman Jayanti is an important Hindu holiday celebrated throughout India to commemorate the birth of Hanuman, the son of the wind god, and the princess Anjana on the 15th day of the Shukla Paksha during...
April
Human Space Flight, Intl. Day of (1961): A...
Daily
International Human Space Flight Day celebrates the day humanity's dreams of space travel finally came true. On April 12, 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to fly into space and r...
April
Licorice Day, Ntl.: April 12
Daily
The licorice plant (technically a weed) and its roots go back thousands of years as a drug, spice, and remedy. Ancient Egyptians included large quantities of the herb in King Tut’s tomb, often in medicine...
April
NAB (US-NV): April 5-9
Weekly
Organized by Conference Specialty, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show Conference is the television and entertainment industries' gold standard. The trade show and conference provide six d...
April
Passover (Pesach)(J): April 12-20
Weekly
Passover, or Pesach, falls on the Hebrew calendar dates of Nissan 23-30 and is a week-long celebration. In the Gregorian calendar, the dates vary from year-to-year. Passover is an important Jewish hol...
April
Saint Lazarus' Day (BG)(C)(33AD): April 12
Daily
Girls and young women in Bulgaria mark the emergence of spring and a time for love with Saint Lazarus' Day each year. It commemorates the anniversary of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead four days after...
April
Street Children's Day, Intl.: April 12
Daily
The Consortium for Street Children champions International Street Children's Day with a fresh focus each year. Millions of street-connected children suffer multiple and repeated violations of their righ...
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