General events not linked to a day
National Florida Tomato Month
National BLT Sandwich Month
National Soft Pretzel Month
National Soyfoods Month
National Grilled Cheese Month
National Garlic Month
April 12-18: National Egg Salad Week
1 April
National Soylent Green Day
National Sourdough Bread Day
April Fool’s Day
1918 Royal Air force is Founded
1946 Hawaii Earthquake and Tsunami
1970 Cigarette Advertising Banned in US
1999 Eleven countries in the European Union adopted the Euro as a common currency
2003 Jessica Lynch is rescued in Iraq
2 April
National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day
International Children’s Book Day
1875 Hans Christian Andersen’s Birthday
1916 – 1918 World War I Battle Of The Somme
1932 Charles Lindbergh, whose son was kidnapped paid $50,000 ransom
1972 Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States
1977 Red Rum the diminutive horse with the heart of a champion wins the English Grand National for a record third time
1980 Windfall Act on Oil Industries High Profits
1982 Argentina invades Falklands Islands
1992 Mob boss John Gotti often referred to as “The Teflon Don” Convicted for first time
2005 Pope John Paul II Dies
2009 G20 Summit Over Global Financial Problems
3 April
National Chocolate Mousse Day
1860 Pony Express Service Starts
1934 Jane Goodall’s Birthday
1974 148 tornadoes hit North America from Georgia to Canada within 16 hours
1994 Civil War breaks out in Rwanda
2010 Apple Releases Ipad
4 April
National Cordon Bleu Day
International Carrot Day
1906 Mount Vesuvius erupts
1949 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is established
1964 The Beatles hold an unprecedented record of twelve positions on Billboard Hot 100 singles chart
1968 Martin Luther King Jr. Murdered
1973 New York’s World Trade Center Completed
2006 Saddam Hussein Charged With Genocide
5 April
Caramel Day
National Raisin & Spice Bar Day
1933 President Franklin Roosevelt signs “United States Executive Order 6102” Gold Compulsorily Purchased
1968 Race Riots Follow Assassination of Martin Luther King
1969 One of the greatest co-ordinated demonstrations in modern times starts on this weekend against US involvement in Vietnam with demonstrations in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and other major cities.
1976 American billionaire Howard Hughes dies at the age of 70.
1987 Fox Broadcasting Co. made its prime-time TV debut
1994 Kurt Cobain lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter for the rock band Nirvana commits suicide
2010 Explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in Montcoal, Raleigh County, West Virginia
2013 Read A Road Map Day
6 April
National Caramel Popcorn Day
International Carbonara Day
New Beer’s Eve
1483 Raphael’s Birthday (1483 – 1520)
1896 Modern Olympics Games Reborn
1909 North Pole discovered
1917 America enters World War I
1941 Germany invades Yugoslavia
7 April
National Coffee Cake Day
National Beer Day
No Housework Day
1739 Dick Turpin
1933 On April 7th 1933 beer goes on sale again in 19 of the 48 states and the District of Columbia .
1948 The World Health Organization (WHO) established
1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein debut their hit musical “South Pacific” on Broadway
2013 World Health Day
8 April
National Empanada Day
1460 Ponce de Leon (1460 – 1521)
1904 Long Acre Square in Manhattan, New York, was renamed Times Square
1958 10,000 protesters arrive in Trafalgar Square, London as part of the CND / Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
1974 Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hits his 715th career home run
1992 The satirical British magazine Punch publishes it’s final issue
2013 International Roma Day
9 April
National Chinese Almond Cookie Day
1865 Robert E. Lee surrenders
1940 Germany invades Norway and Denmark
1942 Philippines Surrender To Japanese
1942 The Japanese forced 75,000 captured American and Filipino soldiers on the Bataan Death March.
1959 America’s First Astronauts Introduced
10 April
National Cinnamon Crescent Day
1925 “The Great Gatsby” F. Scott Fitzgerald, is published
1970 Beatles Break Up
1971 US table tennis team begins a week long visit to the People’s Republic of China ( Ping Pong Diplomacy )
2013 National Sibling Day
11 April
National Cheese Fondue Day
1957 Singapore gains self rule from the British
1965 The Palm Sunday Tornadoes strike Indiana and the surrounding states
1968 President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968
1981 Brixton Riots London, England
12 April
National Licorice Day
National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day
1775 Paul Revere Day
1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt Dies Vice President Harry S. Truman becomes the President of The United States
1954 Bill Haley and the Comets, record “Rock Around the Clock”
1961 Yuri Gagarin Becomes First Man in Space
1981 First Space Shuttle Columbia Launched
1992 Euro Disney opened in Marne-La-Vallee, Paris, France
2001 Cincinnati Riots
13 April
National Peach Cobbler Day
1570 Guy Fawkes Birthday
1743 Thomas Jefferson’s Birthday (1743-1826)
1925 The Butler Act becomes law
1936 Work on the Boulder Dam is completed
1969 The Love Bug, a popular Disney movie, was released
1996 Dunblane Massacre in kindergarten in Scotland
14 April
National Pecan Day
1912 Titanic hit an Iceberg
1970 Apollo 13 Explosion
1997 Tiger Woods at 21 years old became the youngest ever golfer to win the Masters Tournament
1999 Jack Kervorkian ( Assisted Suicide Practitioner) was sentenced in Pontiac, Mich., to 10 to 25 years in prison
15 April
National Glazed Ham Day
1452 Leonardo Da Vinci’s Birthday (1452-1519)
1865 President Lincoln is shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth
1912 Titanic stikes an iceburg and sinks on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York
1935 Twenty of the worst “Black Blizzards” that occurred throughout the Dust Bowl years happen on a single day often referred to as “Black Sunday”
16 April
National Eggs Benedict Day
National Baked Ham with Pineapple Day
Day of the Mushroom
1867 Wilbur Wright’s Birthday
1953 The Queen launches the Royal Yacht Britannia
1974 Israeli and Syrian troops continue fighting along the Golan Heights
2007 Killing spree at Virginia Tech
17 April
National Cheeseball Day
World Malbec Day
1961 1,500 Cuban exiles supported by the US government invade the Bay of Pigs
1964 The Ford Motor Co. unveiled its new Mustang model at the New York World’s Fair
18 April
National Animal Crackers Day
1906 Earthquake, measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale, shook the town of San Francisco
1923 first baseball game is played at Yankee Stadium in New York City
1956 Grace Kelly Marries Prince Rainier of Monaco
1983 Car Bomb US Embassy Lebanon
2003 Scott Peterson Arrested
19 April
National Rice Ball Day
1897 The Worlds oldest annual marathon run in Boston, Massachusetts, United States races for the first time.
1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
1993 Waco Cult Assault
1995 Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building Bombing in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
20 April
National Pineapple Upside-down Cake Day
1972 Antiwar demonstrations draw 100,000 demonstrators in cities across America
1999 Columbine High School Shooting
2010 Deepwater Horizon explodes in the Gulf of Mexico
21 April
National Chocolate-Covered Cashews Day
1509 Henry VIII became King of England
1926 Queen Elizabeth’s Birthday
1955 Fleet Street Newspaper Worker Strike
1989 Student Protest Tiananmen Square
22 April
National Jelly Bean Day
1889 Oklahoma Land Rush
1970 Earth Day was observed for the first time
23 April
National Cherry Cheesecake Day
National Picnic Day
St. Georges Day
1564 Shakespeare’s Birthday (1564 – 1616)
1932 The New Royal Shakespeare Theatre opens in Shakespears’s birthplace of Stratford-upon-Avon
1968 Decimal coins introduced in UK as part of decimalisation
1979 Oil Company Windfall Profits Tax
1984 Singer Marvin Gaye Shot by his father
1985 The Coca-Cola Company announced it has changed its formula for Coke and will known as New Coke
2003 US troops rescue Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch from a hospital in Nasiriyah, Iraq
24 April
National Pigs-in-a-Blanket Day
1954 Mau Mau Rebels Rounded Up By British Troops in Kenya
1968 Student Occupation Columbia University
1980 US Embassy Hostage Crisis in Iran Rescue Attempt Failure
1990 Space Shuttle Discovery launched the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit
25 April
National Crotilla Day
National Zucchini Bread Day
World Penguin Day
World Malaria Day
1666 Great Fire of London
1956 Elvis Presley has his first number one hit with “Heartbreak Hotel”
1953 Two Cambridge University scientists “James D Watson and Francis Crick” publish an article in Nature Magazine explaining the structure of DNA
1955 The St. Lawrence Seaway opened to ocean vessels seeking passage from Montreal to ports in the USA on the Great Lakes .
1956 Elvis Presley has his first number one on the Billboard Pop Singles Chart with “Heartbreak Hotel”
2003 The Human Genome Project to determine the sequence of chemical base pairs which make up DNA of the human genome consisting of 20,000-25,000 genes started in 1990 is published
2013 Anzac Day
26 April
National Pretzel Day
Save the Frogs Day
1785 John James Audobon’s Birthday (1785 – 1851)
1927 The Mississippi makes over 150,000 homeless
1986 An explosion and fire at the No. 4 reactor of Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine resulted in a nuclear meltdown
2009 The U.S. declares a public health emergency ( Swine Flu )
27 April
National Prime Rib Day
Freedom Day, South Africa
1571 Johannes Kepler’s Birthday (1571 – 1630)
1791 Samuel F.B. Morse (1791 – 1872)
1953 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed Executive Order 10450: Hiring and Firing rules for Government Employment. Homosexuality, moral perversion, and communism were categorized as national security threats
1994 Nelson Mandela voted as South Africa President
2014 Holocaust Remembrance Day
28 April
National Blueberry Pie Day
International Astronomy Day
1947 Kon-Tiki Expedition Starts (Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon Tiki)
2004 Abu Ghraib Prisoner Abuse Scandal breaks on CBS’ “60 Minutes II.”
29 April
National Shrimp Scampi Day
1842 Zipper Patented
1922 Lower Louisiana Floods
1945 Dachau concentration camp was liberated
1970 US Troops Invade Cambodia
30 April
National Oatmeal Cookie Day
National Raisin Day
1952 Diary of Anne Frank Published
1789 George Washington Inaugurated as the First President of the United States
1939 New York World’s Fair
1945 Hitler Commits Suicide
1975 South Vietnam Surrenders
1980 Terrorist group takes Iran embassy hostages in London
SOURCES
- Enchanted Learning
- Scholastic
- Crayola
- Days of the Year
- The Crafty Crow
- Cute Calendar
- Foodimentary
- The People History
- Rob Marsh’s Africa Crime Mysteries
- SAHO South African History Online
- Kate from America Comes Alive
- Brittanica
- Se7en’s Almanac
- World Wide Weird Holidays
- A Year of Holidays
- CalendarLabs
- When Is…
- National Day Calendar
- Holiday Insights
- National Today
- Holidays Calendar
- BT On this Day
- Odd Loves Company
And growin…