April's Special Days

April Is Autism Awareness Month

April Is International Guitar  Month

• April Is Keep America Beautiful Month
• April Is National Child Abuse Prevention Month
• April Is National Frog Month   
• April Is National Garden Month
•   April Is National Humor Month
• National Volunteer Month
• April Is National Mathematics Education Month
• April Is National Poetry Month
• April Is Stress Awareness Month

Week Long Observances

• 3rd Week - Week of the Young Child

April 1st

• April Fool's Day
• One Cent Day

April 2nd

• Hans Christian Anderson's Birthday
• International Children's Book Day

April 3rd

• Find-A-Rainbow Day

April 4th

• 1st Home Phone Installed In 1877.
• Easter
  
• NATO Established In 1949.

April 5th

• National Read a Road Map Day

April 6th

• North Pole Discovered In 1898.

April 7th

• No Housework Day
• World Health Day

April 8th

• Ponce de Leon Day
  Born in 1460. He discovered Florida and searched for the Fountain of Youth.

April 9th

• 1st Public Library Opened In 1833, in Peterborough, NH.

April 10th

• Encourage a Young Writer Day
• National Sibling Day

April 11th

• Jackie Robinson Day
  On this day in 1947, Jackie Robinson became the 1st african-american in modern major-league baseball.
• U.S. Navy Acquires its 1st Submarine
  In 1900. It was a 53-foot craft designed by Irish immigrant John P. Holland.

April 12th

• Holocaust Remembrance Day
  Called Yom Hashoah.
• Space Shuttle Columbia First Launched
  Crewed by John Young and Robert Crippen - 1981

April 13th

• Thomas Jefferson's Birthday Born in 1743.

April 14th

• Titanic Struck The Iceberg
  Shortly before midnight on April 14, the ship collided with an iceberg causing the ship to sink at 2:20 AM on April 15.

April 15th

• First McDonalds Opens
  By Ray Kroc in Des Plaines, IL, 1955.
• Income Tax Day
• Leonardo Da Vinci Birthday
  Born in 1452.

April 16th

• National Eggs Benedict Day
• Slavery Abolished in D.C. By Lincoln in 1862.

April 17th

• Daffy Duck's Birthday
  He debuted in a Warner Brothers cartoon in 1937.
• Sherlock Hemlock's Birthday
  Sesame Street character.

April 18th

• First Laundromat Opens
  In Fort Worth Texas - 1934.
• Great San Francisco Earthquake
  In 1906.
• Paul Revere Day
  Paul Revere rides to alert patriots that "The British are coming..." - in 1775.
• Pet Owner's Day
  

April 19th

• Humorous Day

April 20th

• Cuckoo Day
• National Pineapple Upside-Down Cake Day

April 21st

• Kindergarten Day
  The first kindergarten was founded by Friedrich Froebel in Germany in 1837.

April 22nd

• Earth Day
• Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day
  The fourth Thursday of April.

April 23rd

• Home Run Day
  Hank Aaron hits his first home run in 1954.
• International Sing Out Day
• William Shakespeare's Birthday
  Born in 1564.

April 24th

• Pigs-in-a-Blanket Day

April 25th

• Anzac Day
  Australia, New Zealand
• National Telephone Day

April 26th

• Hug a Friend Day
• National Pretzel Day

April 27th

• Tell a Story Day
• Walter Lantz's Birthday
  The creator of Woody Woodpecker.

April 28th

• Administrative Professional's Day
  The fourth Wednesday of April.
• Poetry Reading Day

April 29th

• Zipper Day
  Modern zipper invented by Gideon Sindback in 1917.

April 30th

• Arbor Day
  Usually the last Friday of April. Celebration dates may vary from state to state.
• National Honesty Day