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Holidays 4.23

Holidays

Alfred G. “Alferd” Packer Day (Colorado)

Aragon Day (Spain)

Army Reserves Day (US)

Asian Corpsetwt Day [Every 23rd]

Boice Day (South Korea)

Book Day (Canada)

Book Day and Lover's Day (Spain)

Bulldogs Are Beautiful Day

Castile and León Day (Spain)

Children’s Day (Turkey)

Community Day (Spain)

Content Creator Day

Copyright Day

Day of Aragon (Spain)

Day of Books and Roses (Catalonia, Spain)

Drive It Day (UK)

Electric Mixer Day

English Language Day (UN)

Flag Day (England)

George Castriota Day (Albania)

Hawthorn Day (French Republic)

Impossible Astronaut Day (Dr. Who)

International Choro Day

International Creator Day

International Day of the Book

International Fibrodyysolasia Ossificans Progressive Awareness Day

International Nose Picking Day

International Pallas Cat Day

International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day

International Share a Secret Day

International Sing Out Day

Jurgi Day (Ancient Latvia)

Khongjom Day (Manipur, India)

La Diada de Sant Jordi (Catalonia, Spain)

Linnaeus Day (Sweden)

London Marathon Day (UK)

Lover's Day

Movie Theater Day

National Bryan Day

National Email Day

National Grief-in-Public Day

National Lost Dog Awareness Day

National Lover’s Day

National Lugaw Day (Philippines)

National Read Me Day

National Sovereignty and Children’s Day (Turkey, Northern Cyprus)

National Take a Hike with Nick Day

National Vagina Appreciation Day

Navy Day (China)

Penny Day

Pet Tech CPR Day

Psychologist Day (Ukraine)

Public School Day

Sigurd the Dragon Slayer's Day

Slay a Dragon Day

Spanish Language Day (UN)

Take a Chance Day

Talk Like Shakespeare Day

Teach Your Children To Save Day

Veterans Day (Estonia)

Visalia Priora

Wild Hyacinth Day

World Book Day (UN; except Ireland, UK)

World Book Night (Ireland, Germany, UK, US)

World Laboratory Day

World Table Tennis Day

YouTube Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Allagash Saison Day [original date]

Bavarian Beer Day

Biertag (Germany)

Cherry Cheesecake Day

German Beer Day

International Cava Day

International Reinheitsgebot Day

National Asparagus Day (UK)

National English Muffin Day

National Licorice Day

National Picnic Day

National Taffy Day

New Coke Day

St. George's Day (traditional end of Bavarian lager brewing season)

4th Tuesday in April

National Library Day [Tuesday of Library Week]

National Library Workers Day [Tuesday of Library Week]

School Bus Driver’s Day [4th Tuesday]

Weekly Holidays beginning April 23 (4th Week)

Global Road Safety Week (UN) [thru 23-29]

National Princess Week (thru 4.29)

Independence & Related Days

Australland (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized)

Conch Republic (Declared; 1982) [unrecognized)

Israel (a.k.a. Yom Ha’atzmaut; Declared; 1948)

National Sovereignty Day, Day 2 (Turkey)

Festivals Beginning April 23, 2024

Les Printemps de Bourges (Bourges, France) [thru 4.28]

London Marathon (London, England)

Feast Days

Adalbert of Prague (Christian; Saint)

Antoine Vollon (Artology)

Cervantes (Writerism)

Chance Day (Shamanism)

Cynical Bastards Day (Pastafarian)

Day of the Glorious Fuckup (Church of the SubGenius)

Feast of Hephaestus (Greek Blacksmith God & Brewer)

Felix, Fortunatus, and Achilleus (Christian; Martyrs)

Festival of Saint Sarah the Egyptian (Sara Kali the Black Queen; Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France) begins [until 25th]

George [England, traditional end of Bavarian lager brewing season] *

Gerard, Bishop of Toul (Christian; Saint)

Giles of Assisi (Christian; Saint)

Gerard of Toul (Christian; Saint)

The Goddess is Alive Day (Everyday Wicca)

Ibar (a.k.a. Ivor) of Beggerin (or Meath; Christian; Saint)

Ji-Young (Muppetism)

J.M.W. Turner (Artology)

J.P. Donleavy (Writerism)

Miltiades (Positivist; Saint)

Shakespeare Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Snood Day (Celtic Book of Days)

Toyohiko Kagawa (Episcopal and Lutheran Church)

Vinalia Urbana (a.k.a. Vinalia Prima or Priora; Ancient Roman wine festival)

Vulcan's Day (Ancient Rome)

Walpurgisnacht, Day I (Pagan)

William Shakespeare (Writerism)

Lunar Calendar Holidays

Full Moon [4th of the Year] (a.k.a. ... 

Awakening Moon (Neo-Pagan)

Breaking Ice Moon (Traditional)

Budding Moon of Plants and Shrubs (Traditional)

Egg Moon (Alternate)

Fish Moon (Alternate)

Flower Moon (Cherokee)

Gold Star Spouses Day

Grass Moon (Alternate, North America)

Growing Moon (Celtic)

Hunter’s Moon (South Africa)

Moon When the Ducks Come Back (Traditional)

Peony Moon (China)

Pink Moon (Amer. Indian, Traditional)

Planter’s Moon (Colonial)

Seed Moon (England, Wicca)

Southern Hemisphere: Blood, Harvest, Hunter’s

Wildcat Moon (Choctaw)

God of Medicine Day (Taiwan) [15th Day, 3rd Month]

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Prime Number Day: 113 [30 of 72]

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Premieres

The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It, by Richard Hofstadter (Political Theory; 1948)

Benny & Joon (Film; 1993)

Black and Blue, by The Rolling Stones (Album; 1976)

The Black Marble, by Joseph Wambaugh (Novel; 1978)

Cherrybomb (Film; 2009)

Dogville (Film; 2003)

Election (Film; 1999)

The Excursions of Mr. Brouček to the Moon and to the 15th Century, by Leoš Janáček (Opera; 1920)

Fall Out - Fall In (Disney Cartoon; 1943)

Frog Jog (Tijuana Toads Cartoon; 1972)

Gregory’s Girl (Film; 1981)

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou (Autobiography; 1969)

Indian Summer (Film; 1993)

A Jolly Good Furlough (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1943)

Lemonade, by Beyoncé (Album; 2016)

Man on Fire (Film; 2004)

Merry Wives of Windsor, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1597)

Nexus, by Henry Miller (Novel; 1959) [Rosy Crucifixion #3]

The Penguin Parade (WB MM Cartoon; 1938)

Ramones, by Ramones (Album; 1976)

Return to Paradise, by James A. Michener (Novel; 1951)

Shadow and Bone (TV Series; 2021)

Sita Sings the Blues (Animated Film; 2010)

Snow Place Like Home (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1966)

Sticky Fingers, by The Rolling Stones (Album; 1971)

The Stories of John Cheever, by John Cheever (Short Story Collection; 1979)

Symphony No. 1 in C Major, by Mily Balakirev (Symphony; 1898)

Symphony No. 2 in D Minor, by Mily Balakirev (Symphony; 1909)

Teen Titans Go! (Animated Film; 2013)

There’s Good Boos To-Night (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1948)

13 Going on 30 (Film; 2004)

Touch of Evil (Film; 1958)

Two for the Record (Disney Cartoon; 1954)

When I Was Cruel, by Elvis Costello (Album; 2002)

Who Scent You? (WB LT Cartoon; 1960)

Today’s Name Days

Adalbert, Georg, Jörg, Jürgen (Austria)

Toma, Tomislav, Tomislava (Bulgaria)

Adalbert, Đurđica, Đuro, Juraj (Croatia)

Vojtěch (Czech Republic)

Georgius (Denmark)

Georg, Jürgen, Jürgo, Jüri, Jürjo, Jürnas, Jüts, Ürjo (Estonia)

Jiri, Jori, Jyri, Jyrki, Yrjänä, Yrjö (Finland)

Georges (France)

Georg, Gerhard, Jörg, Jürgen (Germany)

Georgios, Giorgos, Thomas, Yorgos (Greece)

Béla (Hungary)

Giorgio (Italy)

Georgs, Jorens, Jurģis, Juris (Latvia)

Adalbertas, Daugaudas, Jurgis, Vygailė (Lithuania)

Georg, Jørgen, Jørn (Norway)

Adalbert, Gerard, Gerarda, Gerhard, Helena, Jerzy, Wojciech (Poland)

Gheorghe (Romania)

Vojtech (Slovakia)

Jorge (Spain)

Georg, Göran (Sweden)

George (Ukraine)

Brayan, Breana, Breanna, Breanne, Brian, Briana, Brianna, Brianne, Brielle, Brien, Briona, Bryan, Bryana, Bryanna, Bryant, Brynn, Bryon, Shirlee, Shirleen, Shirley (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 114 of 2024; 252 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 17 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 10 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 15 (Ding-Si)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 15 Nisan 5784

Islamic: 14 Shawwal 1445

J Cal: 24 Cyan; Threesday [23 of 30]

Julian: 10 April 2024

Moon: 100%: Full Moon

Positivist: 2 Caesar (5th Month) [Leonidas]

Runic Half Month: Man (Human Being) [Day 14 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 36 of 92)

Week: 4th Week of April

Zodiac: Taurus (Day 4 of 31)

#cal #calendar #Holidays

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Holidays 4.22

Holidays

Ancestor’s Eve (Star Trek)

April Showers Day

Arbor Day (Nebraska)

Chemists Celebrate the Earth Day

Croatian Ustashi Genocide Remembrance Day (Croatia)

Day of Silence (a.k.a. GLSEN Day of Silence)

Discovery Day (Brazil)

Earth Day (UN)

Fern Day (French Republic)

Festival of Fabulous Androgynes

Fighter Aviation Day (Brazil)

Girl Scout Leader Appreciation Day

Global Selfie Earth Day (NASA)

Hari Raya Puasa (Singapore)

Hollow Earth Day

Holocaust Remembrance Day (Serbia)

Inanimate Object Day

”In God We Trust” Day

Instant Book Day

International Lubricant Day

International Marconi Day

International Mother Earth Day

International Narwhal Appreciation Day

International Organ Day (UK)

Kurdish Journalism Day

Love Your Hair Day

National Baseball Day

National Beagle Day

National Donate Life Blue & Green Day

National Fast-Pitch Coaches Association Day

National Girl Scout Leader’s Day

National IT Service Provider Day

National No Email Day

National Pinup Day

National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day

National Robe Day

National Send Your Man Nudes Day

National Terry Day

Oklahoma Day (Oklahoma)

Order of the Garter Day

Pat Tillman Day

Record Store Day

Rokjesdag 2024 (Skirt Day; Netherlands) [Varies, Early Spring]

Queen Isabella Day (Spain)

Sniff-the-Breeze Day (Egypt)

Stephen Lawrence Commemoration Day (UK)

Tesla Autonomy Day

Unofficial Programmers’ Day (Russia)

Ustashi Genocide Remembrance Day (Croatia)

Walpurgis celebrations begin (Germanic, Norse, Scandinavian) [thru 5.1]

Zhabdrung Kuchhoe (Bhutan)

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Jelly Bean Day

4th Monday in April

Confederate Memorial Day (AL, FL, GA) [4th Monday]

Public Library Day [Monday of Library Week]

School Librarian Day [Monday of Library Week]

Weekly Holidays beginning April 22 (4th Week)

Earth Week (thru 4.26)

Every Kid Healthy Week [M-F of Last Full Week]

Fibroid Awareness Week (thru 4.27)

National Environmental Education Week (thru 4.26)

National Playground Safety Week (thru 4.26) [Last Full Week M-F]

National Youth Violence Prevention Week (thru 4.24)

Independence & Related Days

Aethodia (f.k.a. Theodia; Declared; 2010) [unrecognized]

Chen Dynasty (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]

Frăția Blocurilor Unite (FBU or Brotherhood of the United Blocks; Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]

National Sovereignty Day (Turkey)

Pristinia (Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]

Festivals Beginning April 22, 2024

City Restaurant Week (Wilmington, Delaware) [thru 4.27]

Taste of Vernon (Vernon, New Jersey)

Feast Days

Acepsimas of Hnaita and companions (Catholic Church; Saints)

Agapitus I, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Arwald (Christian; Saint)

Azades, Tharba, and other, in Persia (Christian; Martyrs)

Berezozol (Lela's Holiday; Asatru/Slavic Pagan)

Bran the Blessed’s Head Day (Celtic Book of Days)

Caius, Pope (Christian; Martyr)

Day of Aradia (Pagan)

Earth Day (Pastafarian)

Epipodius and Alexander of Lyon (Christian; Martyrs)

Festival of Ishtar (Ancient Mesopotamia)

Festival of Jupiter and Juno (Ancient Rome)

Henry Fielding (Writerism)

Hudson Stuck (Episcopal Church)

Hunuman Jayanti (Hindu)

Joanie Jenkins (Muppetism)

John Muir (Episcopal Church)

Lela’s Holiday (Asatru/Slavic Pagan)

Leonides, Father of Origen (Christian; Saint)

Opportuna of Montreuil (Christian; Saint & Virgin)

Pliny the Elder (Positivist; Saint)

R. Crumb Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Richard Diebenkorn (Artology)

Rufus (a.k.a. Rufin) of Glendalough, Ireland (Christian; Saint)

Senorina (Christian; Saint)

Sham el-Nessim (First Day of Spring; Ancient Egypt)

Sidney Nolan (Artology)

Soter, Pope (Christian; Martyr)

Theodorus of Siceon (Christian; Saint)

Theravadin New Year (Buddhism)

Vladimir Nabokov (Writerism)

Yggdrasil Day (Asatru/Slavic Pagan)

Hebrew Calendar Holidays [Begins at Sundown Day Before]

Passover [14-15 Nisan] (a.k.a. ... 

Erev Pesach

Exodus

Pesach

Pessach (erster Tag)

Pésaj

חַג הַפֶּסַח

Ta’anit Bechorot (Feast of the Firstborn) [14 Nisan]

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

A Dangerous Day (Numerology) [#22 symbolized by a Good Man, blinded by the folly of others, with.a knapsack full of errors on his back.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [20 of 37]

Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because it’s Nixon’s birthday.)

Premieres

Around the World in a Day, by Prince (Album; 1985)

The Awakening, by Kate Chopin (Novel; 1899)

The Bad Guys (Animated Film; 2022)

Bagdad Cafe (Film; 1987)

Baker Street, by Gerry Rafferty (Song; 1978)

Barney Blake, Police Reporter (TV Series; 1948)

Batty Baseball (MGM Cartoon; 1944)

Big House Bunny (WB LT Cartoon; 1950)

The Birds, The Bees & The Monkeys, by The Monks (Album; 1968)

The Bride of Frankenstein (Film; 1935)

Casual Sex? (Film; 1988)

Concrete Island, by J.G. Ballard (Novel; 1974)

Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur (WB MM Cartoon; 1939)

D’ Fightin’ Ones (WB MM Cartoon; 1961)

Earth (Documentary Film; 2009)

Easy Come, Easy Go (Film; 1967)

Elvis & Nixon (Film; 2016)

It’s a Small World (Disney Ride at New York World’s Fair; 1964

Jane-Eyre (Film; 2011)

Jeeves & Wooster (UK TV Series; 1990)

Jerry and the Lion (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1950)

Kallocain, by Karin Boye (Novel; 1940)

King Tut, by Steve Martin (Song; 1978)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Film; 1962)

Momofuku, by Elvis Costello (Album; 2008)

The Northman (Film; 2022)

Oceans (Documentary Film; 2010)

Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning (Betty Boop Cartoon; 1932)

100 Pygmies and Any Panda (Andy Panda Cartoon; 1940)

The Passions of the Mind, by Irving Stone (Biography of Sigmund Freud; 1971)

peck of Trouble (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1968)

Plague Dogs, by Richard Adams (Novel; 1978)

Poland, by James A. Michener (Novel; 1984)

Seventeen Seconds, by The Cure (Album; 1980)

Something Rotten! (Broadway Musical; 2015)

Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, by Antonin Dvořák (Symphony; 1885)

Tommy (Broadway Play; 1993)

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (Film; 2022)

Veep (TV Series; 2012)

Water for Elephants (Film; 2011)

Wild Thing, by The Trigs (Song; 1966)

The Willoughby’s (Animated Film; 2020)

Today’s Name Days

Alfred, Kaj, Leonidas (Austria)

Kajo, Leonida, Soter, Vojmil (Croatia)

Evženie (Czech Republic)

Cajus (Denmark)

Meeri, Meri, Merike, Merje (Estonia)

Aida, Alina (Finland)

Alexandre (France)

Alfred, Kaj, Leonidas (Germany)

Nathanael, Nearhos (Greece)

Csilla, Noémi (Hungary)

Caio, Leonida, Sotero (Italy)

Armanda, Armands, Usins, Vitālijs (Latvia)

Leonas, Leonidas, Norvaidė, Visgailas (Lithuania)

Oddgeir, Oddny (Norway)

Heliodor, Kajus, Leonia, Leonid, Łukasz, Soter, Strzeżymir, Teodor (Poland)

Teodor (Romania)

Slavomír (Slovakia)

María, Sotero (Spain)

Allan, Glenn (Sweden)

Nathan, Nathaniel, Vitalia, Vitaliy (Ukraine)

Caia, Caissa, Kai, Kaila, Kaleigh, Kaley, Kay, Kayla, Kaylee, Kayleigh, Kayley, Kaylie, Kaylin, Kaylyn, Leonidas, Makayla, Mckayla (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 113 of 2024; 253 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of week 17 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 9 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 14 (Bing-Chen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 14 Nisan 5784

Islamic: 13 Shawwal 1445

J Cal: 23 Cyan; Twosday [22 of 30]

Julian: 9 April 2024

Moon: 99%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 1 Caesar (5th Month) [Miltiades]

Runic Half Month: Man (Human Being) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 35 of 92)

Week: 4th Week of April

Zodiac: Taurus (Day 3 of 31)

#calendar #Holidays

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Holidays 4.21

Holidays

Advisor Appreciation Day

A&M Day

Aggie Muster (Texas A&M)

AML World Awareness Day

Basava Jayanti (India)

Big Word Day

Birthday of Rome

Book Day (Vietnam)

Bulldogs are Beautiful Day

Civil Service Day (India)

Commemoration Day (Transdniestria)

Day of Secretaries (Belgium, Netherlands)

Day of the Educator (Mexico)

Feast of the Ramson (Wild Leek Festival; Richmond, West Virginia)

Garia Puja (Tripura, India)

Global Traction Day

Heroic Defense of Veracruz (Mexico)

Independence Heroes National Holiday (Parts of Brazil)

International Hemp Day

John Muir Day

Kang Pan-sok Day (North Korea)

Kartini Day (Indonesia)

Kawane-cha Day (Japan)

Keep Off the Grass Day

Kindergarten Day (Germany)

Kwane-cha Day (Japan)

Local Self Government Day (Russia)

Meliboea Asteroid Day

National Alex Day

National Cornstarch Day

National Day of Saadi (Iran)

National Dimple Day

National ICU Rehabilitation Day (UK)

National Javier Day

National Pet CBD Day

National Public Relations Day (India)

National Rendering Day

National Surprise Drug Test Day

National Tree Planting Day (Kenya)

National Vulva Awareness Day

National Yellow Bat Day

Oak Tree Day (French Republic)

Queen’s Birthday (Falkland Islands)

San Jacinto Day (Texas)

Sati Sadhani Divas (Assam, India)

Science Day (Tajikistan)

Thank You for Libraries Day

Tiradentes’ Day (Brazil)

Tuna Rights Day

World Creativity and Innovation Day

World Curlew Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

British National Tea Day (UK)

Chocolate-Covered Cashews Day

National Chickpea Day

National Tea Day (UK)

3rd Sunday in April

Go Fly a Kite Day [3rd Sunday]

Sechseläuten begins (Six Ringing Festival; Zurich, Switzerland) [3rd Sunday]

Sunday of the Paralytic [3rd Sunday]

Volunteer Sunday [3rd Sunday]

Weekly Holidays beginning April 21 (4th Week)

Administrative Professional’s Week [Last Full Week] (thru 4.27)

Animal Cruelty / Human Violence Awareness Week [3rd Full Week] (thru 4.27)

Bedbug Awareness Week [Last Week]

Canadian Immunization Awareness Week [Last Week]

Chemists Celebrate Earth Week (thru 4.27) [Weeks including 4.22]

Every Kid Healthy Week [Last Full Week]

Fibroid Awareness Week (thru 4.27) [4th Week]

National African Violet Week (thru 4.28)

National Coin Week (thru 4.27) [3rd Full Week]

National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (thru 4.27)

National Infants Immunization Week (thru 4.27) [4th Week]

National Infertility Awareness Week (thru 4.27) [4th Week]

National Karaoke Week (thru 4.27) [4th Week]

National Organ / Tissue Donor Awareness Week (thru 4.27) [Last Week]

National Paperboard Packaging Week (thru 4.27) [Week including 4.22]

National Princess Week (thru 4.27) [Last Full Week]

National Student Leadership Week (thru 4.27) [3rd Full Week]

National Volunteer Week (thru 4.27) [3rd Full Week]

Preservation Week [Last Week]

Sky Awareness Week (thru 4.27) [Last Full Week]

World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week (thru 4.27) [Week including 4.24]

Independence & Related Days

Baránok (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]

Calamba City (Philippines; 2001)

Dies Natalis Urbis Rome (Birthday of Rome; 753 BCE)

Orani Foundation Day (Philippines)

New Year’s Days

New Year Holidays (Myanmar)

Festivals Beginning April 21, 2024

Craft Brewers Conference (Las Vegas, Nevada) [thru 4.24]

Fallbrook Avocado Festival (Fallbrook, California)

Food Stroll & Pub Crawl (South Orange, New Jersey)

Heritage Fire (Tampa, Florida)

SC State Chili Cookoff & Kegs and Eggs Chili Cookoff (Belton, South Carolina) [thru 4.22]

Sechseläuten (Six Ringing Festival; Zurich, Switzerland) [3rd Sunday]

Wilmington VegFest (Wilmington, North Carolina)

Feast Days

Abdecalas (Christian; Saint)

Alistair Maclean (Writerism)

Anastasius the Younger of Antioch (Christian; Saint)

Anastasius Sinaita (Christian; Saint)

Anselm of Canterbury (Christian; Saint)

Beuno (a.k.a. Benno or Bueno Gasulysch; Christian; Saint) [Wales]

Boring People Baiting Day (Pastafarian)

Charlotte Bronte (Writerism)

Common Prayer Day (Denmark)

Conrad of Parzham (Christian; Saint)

Day of Pales (Pagan)

Dies Natalis Urbis Rome (Birthday of Rome; 753 BCE)

Eggnog Avoidance Day (Pastafarian)

Eingan or Enean, King of Scots (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Wadjet (Ancient Egypt)

Festival of Sacred Groves

Francesco de Mura (Artology)

Grounation Day (Rastafarian)

Holy Infant of Good Health (Christian)

Homecoming of Elves Singing (Shamanism)

Jean Hélion (Artology)

Lodovico Carracci (Artology)

Mairubius of Ireland (Christian; Saint)

Maurice (Muppetism)

Palia (Feast of Pales for Smaller Animals; God of the Herds; Ancient Rome) [also 7.7]

Plutarch (Positivist; Saint)

Ram Navami (Parts of India; Hindu)

Ridván, 1st Full Day (until May 2; Bahá'í)

Shemon Bar Sabbae (Christian; Saint)

Simeon Barsabae and His Companions (Christian; Martyrs)

Space Angel Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Visit Your Favorite Tree Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Wolbodo (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 19 of 60)

Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because it’s Black April.)

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [23 of 60]

Premieres

All Quiet on the Western Front (Film; 1930)

American Dreamz (Film; 2006)

The Basketball Diaries (Film; 1995)

Being There, by Jerzy Kosiński (Novel; 1971)

Cassandra at the Wedding Dorothy Baker (Novel; 1962)

Contrary Condor (Disney Cartoon; 1944)

Crows’ Feat (WB MM Cartoon; 1962)

Duck Hunt (Video Game; 1984)

Father Ted (UK TV Series; 1995)

Fiddling Around (Disney Cartoon; 1930)

Field of Dreams (Film; 1989)

Ghosted (Film; 2023)

Harry of Monmouth, by A.M. Maughan (Novel; 1956)

Inherit the Wind, by Jerome Lawrence (Broadway Play; 1955)

Keanu (Film; 2016)

The Last Bean (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1939)

The Lonesome Gods, by Louis L’Amour (Novel; 1983)

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, by Manning Marble (Historical Biography; 2011)

Misty, recorded by Johnny Mathis (Song; 1959)

The Mouse from H.U.N.G.E.R. (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1967)

Stage Hoax (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1952)

Waking Up in Vegas, by Katy Perry (Song; 2009)

Walker, Texas Ranger (TV Series; 1993)

We’re on Our Way to Rio (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1944)

While You Were Sleeping (Film; 1995)

Wish, by The Cure (Album; 1992)

Today’s Name Days

Anselm, Konrad (Austria)

Anzelmo, Konrad (Croatia)

Alexandra (Czech Republic)

Florentius (Denmark)

Aimar, Aimer, Aimo, Aimur (Estonia)

Anselmi, Anssi (Finland)

Anselme (France)

Alexandra, Anselm (Germany)

Alexandra, Faistos, Ianos, January, Pege, Pigi, Zoe, Zoi (Greece)

Konrád (Hungary)

Anselmo, Corrado, Silvio (Italy)

Anastasija, Marģers, Margonis, Nilola (Latvia)

Amalija, Anzelmas, Milgedas, Skalvė (Lithuania)

Jannike, Jeanette (Norway)

Addar, Anzelm, Bartosz, Drogomił, Feliks, Irydion, Konrad, Konrada, Selma (Poland)

Ianuarie (Romania)

Ervín (Slovakia)

Anselmo (Spain)

Anneli, Annika (Sweden)

Phillipa (Ukraine)

Ansel, Ansell, Anselma, Selma, Zelma (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 112 of 2024; 254 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 16 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 8 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 13 (Yi-Mao)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 13 Nisan 5784

Islamic: 12 Shawwal 1445

J Cal: 22 Cyan; Oneday [21 of 30]

Julian: 8 April 2024

Moon: 95%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 28 Archimedes (4th Month) [Pliny the Elder]

Runic Half Month: Man (Human Being) [Day 12 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 34 of 92)

Week: 4th Week of April

Zodiac: Taurus (Day 2 of 31)

#calendar #Holidays

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Holidays 4.20

Holidays

Anniversary of Something That Happened So Long Ago Everyone Has Forgotten What It Was Day

Chinese Language Day (UN)

Columbine Anniversary Day

Cuckoo Day (Medieval Europe)

Daffodil King Day

Day of Shame (Elder Scrolls)

Deepwater Horizon Anniversary Day

Doge Day

Dushanbe Day (Tajikistan)s

Environment Day (Ukraine)

420 [April 20] (a.k.a. ... 

Cannabis Culture Day

Four-Twenty

International Cannabis Day

Global CRSwNP Awareness Day

Go Around Humming "You Light Up My Life" Until Everybody Screams Day

Grain Rains Day (Chinese Farmer’s Calendar)

Indian Day (Brazil)

International Cli-Fi Day (a.k.a. Climate Fiction Day)

International Peter Tosh Day

Jose de Diego’s Birthday (Puerto Rico)

Justice Authorities Employees Day (Tajikistan)

Knife Day (French Republic)s

Look Alike Day

L. Ron Hubbard Exhibition Day (Scientology)

National Administrative Professional Day

National Alternative Fuel Vehicle Day

National Canadian Film Day (Canada)

National Consumer Day (Indonesia)

National Day of Action Against Gun Violence in Schools

National Death Doula Day

National Donor Day (Russia)

National Erection Day (South Africa)

National Foot Job Day

National Goal Buddies Day

National Oil Price Day

National Pot Smoking Day

National Seaweed Day

National Squat Day

National Stop Snoring Day

National Weed Day

Palindrome Day

Pastele Blajinilor (Memory/Parents’ Day; Moldova)

Post Office Day (Japan)

Radium Day

Robanukah begins (Futurama)

Rose Day (French Republic)

Sumardagurinn First (1st Day of Summer; Iceland)

Sylvester the Cat Day

Take a Break to Rest Your Mind Day

Volunteer Recognition Day

World Animal Vaccination Day

World Armwrestling Day

World Durood Day

World Orphans Day

Zipper Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

International Milk Tea Dumpling Day

Lima Bean Respect Day

National Cheddar Fries Day

National Cold Brew Day

National Cold IPA Day

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake Day

3rd Saturday in April

California Poppy Festival begins [3rd Saturday]

Hardware Freedom Day [3rd Saturday]

Husband Appreciation Day [3rd Saturday]

International Reconciliation Day [3rd Saturday]

National Auctioneers Day [3rd Saturday]

Record Store Day [3rd Saturday]

World Circus Day [3rd Saturday]

Weekly Holidays beginning April 20 (3rd Week)

International Wildlife Film Week [thru 4.25]

National Park Week [thru 4.28]

National Stop Snoring Week [thru 4.26]

Independence & Related Days

Arlandia (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Arnerea (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]

Flammancia (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]

Morland (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]

Rome (Founded by Romulus & Remus; 735 BCE; 3961 Julian Period; 4th Year of 6th Olympiad)

West Korea (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]

New Year’s Days

New Years Holidays (Myanmar)

Festivals Beginning April 20, 2024

Arkansas State Chili Championships (Eureka Springs, Arkansas)

BBQ & Blues Festival (Barnesville, Georgia)

Blacksburg Fork and Cork (Blacksburg, Virginia)

Blessing of Sonoita Vineyards (Elgin, Arizona)

Bluebird Music Festival (Boulder, Colorado)

Butter & Egg Days (Petaluma, California)

California Nut Festival (Chico, California)

Catersville BBQ & Brews Festival (Catersville, Georgia)

Columbus International Film & Animation Festival (Columbus, Ohio) [thru 4.21]

Connecticut Craft Beer Fest (Hartford, Connecticut)

Crawfish Cook-Off (Slidell, Louisiana)

Dessert Wars (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

East Coast She Crap Soup Classic (Virigina Beach, Virginia)

East Maui Taro Festival (Maui, Hawaii)

Ferguson Brewing 14th Anniversary Beer Festival (Ferguson, Missouri)

Fort Pierce Oyster Festival (Fort Pierce, Florida)

Glens Falls Briefest (Glens Falls, New York)

Great Plains Renaissance & Scottish Festival (Wichita, Kansas) [thru 4.21]

High Water Festival (North Charleston, South Carolina) [thru 4.21]

Massachusetts Craft Brewers Festival (Boston, Massachusetts)

Mile High 420 Festival (Denver, Colorado)

Moors and Christians of Alcoy Festival (Alcoy, Spain) [thru 4.22]

Pennsylvania Maple Festival (Meyersdale, Pennsylvania) [thru 4.21 & 4.24-28]

Ramp Festival (Sherman, Connecticut)

Scallop Festival in Brittany (Paimpol, France) [thru 4.21]

Schram Haus’ Goast Fest (Chaska, Minnesota)

Shad Fest (New Hope/Lambertville, New Jersey)

Stuttgart Spring Festival (Stuttgart, Germany) [thru 5.12]

SweetWater 420 Fest (Atlanta, Georgia) [thru 4.21]

Venice Art Biennale (Venice, Italy) [thru 11.24]

Weifang International Kite Festival (Weifang, China) [thru 4.22]

West End Beer Fest (Spokane, Washington)

Wine & Food Festival (Charlotte, North Carolina)

Wine Stroll (Westminster, Maryland)

World Class Crab Races & Crab Feed (Westport, Washington)

World’s Biggest Fish Fry (Paris, Tennessee)

Feast Days

Afanc Day (Giant Beaver; Celtic Book of Days)

Agnes of Monte Pulciano (Christian; Saint & Virgin)

Anicetus, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Anniversary of Something That Happened So Long Ago Everyone Has Forgotten What It Was (Shamanism)

Beuno (Christian; Saint)

Blodeuedd Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Caedwalla of Wales (Christian; Saint)

Daniel Chester French (Artology)

Eastre (Teutonic Goddess of Spring)

Franz Xaver Winterhalter (Artology)

Frontinus (Positivist; Saint)

Gabriel of Bialystok (Orthodox Christian; Poland)

Hildegund (Christian; Saint & Virgin)

Hugh of Anzy le Duc (Christian; Saint)

Intergalactic Alien Solidarity Day (Pastafarian)

James of Sclavonia (Christian; Saint)

Joan Miró (Artology)

Johannes Bugenhagen (Lutheran)

Marcellinus of Gaul (a.k.a. Embrun; Christian; Saint)

Marcian (a.k.a. Marian; Christian; Saint)

Oda of Brabant (Christian; Blessed)

Odilon Redon (Artology)

Peter S. Beagle (Writerism)

R. Bud Dwyer Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Ridván begins (until May 2; Bahá'í)

Sebastian Faulks (Writerism)

Serf or Servanus of Scotland (Christian; Saint)

Theotimos (Christian; Saint)

Tuktuki (Muppetism)

Hebrew Calendar Holidays [Begins at Sundown Day Before]

Shabbat HaGadol [12 Nisan]

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Dismal Day (Unlucky or Evil Day; Medieval Europe; 8 of 24)

Egyptian Day (Unlucky Day; Middle Ages Europe) [8 of 24]

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [16 of 53]

Historically Bad Day (Hitler born, Columbine massacre, Deepwater Horizon explosion & 7 other tragedies) [2 of 11]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because it’s Hitler's birthday. Plus, everyone's high.)

Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [22 of 60]

Premieres

African Diary (Disney Cartoon; 1945)

Aggretsuko (Anime TV Series; 2018)

Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell (Song; 1967)

American Idiot (Broadway Musical; 2010)

Annie Hall (Film; 1977)

The Barnyard Five (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1936)

Boyhood Daze (WB MM Cartoon; 1957)

Buccaneer Woodpecker (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1953)

Buddy in Africa (WB LT Cartoon; 1935)

Charming (Animated Film; 2018)

The Company of Women, by Mary Gordon (Novel; 1981)

Dawn of the Dead (Film; 1979)

The Diplomat (TV Series; 2023)

Disappointment, of the Force of Credulity, by Samuel Adler (Comic Ballad Opera; 1762) [1st American Opera; Performance canceled at last minute; wasn’t performed until 1976]

Duck Duck Goose (Animated Film; 2018)

Dummy (TV Series; 2020)

El Capitan, by John Philip Sousa (March; 1896)

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, recorded by Judy Garland (Song; 1944)

Hot Fuzz (Film; 2007)

Jazz Samba, by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd (Album; 1962)

Jumping’ Jack Flash, recorded by The Rolling Stones (Song; 1968)

Just a Clown (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1934)

The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle (Novel; 1968)

Macbeth, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1611)

Make Mine Music (Animated Disney Film; 1946)

The Man Who Lived Underground, by Richard Wright (Novel; 1942)

Mexican Cat Dance (WB LT Cartoon; 1963)

Miami Blues (Film; 1990)

My Boy Jack (Film; 2007)

Panhandle Scandal (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1959)

Puppy Love, by Dolly Parton (Song; 1959)

A Rainy Day (MGM Cartoon; 1940)

Rising Sun, by Michael Crichton (Novel; 1992)

The Robber Kitten (Disney Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1935)

Roman Punch (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1930)

Salem (TV Series; 2014)

The Spirit of St. Louis (Film; 1957)

Sunny South (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1931)

Thrill of Fair (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1951)

The Velveteen Rabbit (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Special; 1985)

When It’s Sleepy Time Down South, recorded by Louis Armstrong (Song; 1931)

Today’s Name Days

Hildegund, Odetta, Wilhelm (Austria)

Berta, Loen, Marta (Croatia)

Marcela (Czech Republic)

Sulpicius (Denmark)

Orvi, Urbe, Urva, Urve, Urvi (Estonia)

Lauha, Neela, Nella (Finland)

Odette, Théotime (France)

Hildegund, Odetta (Germany)

Zakhaios (Greece)

Tivadar (Hungary)

Adalgisa (Italy)

Amula, Armands, Mirta, Ziedīte (Latvia)

Agnė, Eisvydė, Gostautas, Marcijonas (Lithuania)

Kjellaug, Kjellrun (Norway)

Agnieszka, Amalia, Czech, Czechasz, Czechoń, Czesław, Florencjusz, Florenty, Nawoj, Sulpicjusz, Szymon, Teodor (Poland)

Teotim (Romania)

Marcel (Slovakia)

Inés (Spain)

Amalia, Amelie (Sweden)

Svyatoslav, Svyatoslava (Ukraine)

Ramsey, Rosco, Roscoe, Ross (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 111 of 2024; 255 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 16 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 7 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 12 (Jia-Yin)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 12 Nisan 5784

Islamic: 11 Shawwal 1445

J Cal: 21 Cyan; Sevenday [20 of 30]

Julian: 7 April 2024

Moon: 90%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 27 Archimedes (4th Month) [Plutarch]

Runic Half Month: Man (Human Being) [Day 11 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 33 of 92)

Week: 3rd Week of April

Zodiac: Taurus (Day 1 of 31)

Calendar Changes

Taurus (The Bull) begins [Zodiac Sign 2; thru 5.20]

#calendar #Holidays

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Holidays 4.19

Holidays

Americas’ Day (Honduras)

Army Day (Brazil)

Bicycle Day

Bitcoin Halving Day

Blue Jay Day

Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Action Day

Day of the Indian (Venezuela)

Dog Parent Appreciation Day

Dutch-American Friendship Day

Electrical Load Shedding Day (Ecuador)

419 Day

Global Day of Action Against Spyware

Hanging Out Day

Holocaust Remembrance Day (Poland)

Horseless Carriage Day

Humorous Day

Indian Day (Brazil)

International Day of Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness

International Spandex Day

John Parker Day

King Mswati III Day (Eswatini)

Landing of the 33 Patriots Day (Uruguay)

Leucothea Asteroid Day

Lexington & Concord Day

Lydia Asteroid Day

National Canadian Film Day (Canada)

National Cat Lady Day

National Day of Silence

National Dog Parent Appreciation Day

National Fingering Day

National Hanging Out Day

National Hayden Day

National Health Day (Kiribati)

National Indigenous People’s Day (Brazil)

National North Dakota Day

National Oklahoma City Bombing Commemoration Day

National Paw Parent Appreciation Day

National Poker Day

National Slow Down Day (Ireland)

National Spice Smoking Day

Night of Destiny (Bangladesh)

Navpad Oli (a.k.a. Ayambil Oli; Jain)

Oklahoma City Bombing Commemoration Day

Patriots’ Day (Florida)

Plastic Free Lunch Day

Primrose Day (UK)

Printing Industry Day (Russia)

Refresh Your Goals Day

Republic Day (Sierra Leone)

The Simpsons Day

Snakes Return to Ireland Day

Snowdrop Day

Stoner’s Eve (Orthodox Christian) [Day before 4.20] (a.k.a. ... 

4/20 Eve

Got a Minute Day

Gotta Day

The Pre-Bake

Ursine Garlic Day

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Remembrance Day

World Day of Action in Solidarity with Venezuela

World IBS Day

World Liver Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Garlic Day

Espresso Italiano Day (Italy)

National Amaretto Day

National Chicken Parmesan Day

National Rice Ball Day

3rd Friday in April

Empire Day (Canada) [Weekday before 24th]

Friendship Friday [3rd Friday]

Fry Day (Pastafarian; Fritism) [Every Friday]

Make a Quilt Day [3rd Friday]

National Clean Out Your Medicine Cabinet Day [3rd Friday]

Weekly Holidays beginning April 19 (3rd Week)

Four-Twenty Weekend (Weekend Closest to 4.20]

National Dance Week [thru 4.28]

Independence & Related Days

Independence Declaration Day (Venezuela)

Kuban (Adoption into Russia; 2018)

Lexmark (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]

Taman (Adoption into Russia; 2018)

Zimbabwe (Independence Day Holiday)

New Year’s Days

New Years Holidays (Myanmar0

Festivals Beginning April 19, 2024

Baltimore Old Time Music Festival (Baltimore, Maryland) [thru 4.20]

Buds-A-Palooza (Phoenix, Arizona)

California Poppy Festival (Lancaster, California) [thru 4.21]

California Wine Festival (Dana Point, California) [thru 4.20]

Cider, Wine & Done Weekend (Henderson, North Carolina) [thru 4.21]

Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (India, California) [thru 4.21]

Crawfish Music Festival (Biloxi, Mississippi) [thru 4.21]

Dubai Food Festival Dubai, UAE) [thru 5.12]

East European Comic Con (Bucharest, Romania) [thru 4.21]

Jersey Shore Restaurant Week (Jersey Shore, New Jersey) [thru 4.28]

Kaunas Jazz (Kaunas, Lithuania) [thru 4.29]

La Fete Du Monde (Raceland, Louisiana) [thru 4.21]

Moscow International Film Festival (Moscow, Russia) [thru 4.26]

National Cannabis Festival (Washington, DC) [thru 4.20]

New England Folk Festival (Marlborough, Massachusetts) [thru 4.21]

Northwest Cherry Festival (The Dalles, Oregon) [thru 4.21]

Pompano Beach Seafood Festival (Pompano Beach, Florida) [thru 4.21]

River Falls Bluegrass, Bourbon & Brews Festival (River Falls, Wisconsin) [thru 4.21]

Schmeckfest (South Dakota) [3rd & 4th Fridays]

Texas SandFest (Port Aransas, Texas) [thru 4.21]

Hebrew Calendar Holidays [Begins at Sundown Day Before]

Education and Sharing Day [11 Nisan]

International Passover Joke Day [11 Nisan]

Feast Days

Ælfheah of Canterbury (Anglican, Catholic; Saint)

Alphege (Christian; Saint)

Amanda Sage (Artology)

Bandage and Lozenge-Sucking Competition (Shamanism)

Bendideia (Ancient Greece)

Cerealia (Roman Festival to Ceres, Goddess of Barley & Agriculture)

Conrad of Ascoli (Christian; Saint)

David Koresh Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Elphege, Archbishop of Canterbury (Christian; Saint)

Emma of Lesum (Christian; Saint)

Expeditus of Melintine (Christian; Saint) [Hoodoo; Nerds; Santerians]

Fernando Botero (Artology)

George of Antioch (Christian; Saint)

Geroldus (Christian; Saint)

Lager Day (Pastafarian)

Leo IX, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Ma Zu (Goddess of the Sea's Birthday; Taoism)

Olaus and Laurentius Petri (Lutheran; Saint)

Persephone’s Return (Pagan)

Pierre (Muppetism)

Strabo (Positivist; Saint)

Start of Pastover (Pastafarian)

Ursmar (Christian; Saint)

Veronese (Artology)

Willem Drost (Artology)

Zoot’s Day (Muppetism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Prime Number Day: 109 [29 of 72]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [19 of 37]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 18 of 60)

Premieres

Alvin’s Solo Flight (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1961)

Bob & Doug (Animated TV Series; 2009)

Cake Boss (TV Series; 2009)

Carousel (Broadway Musical; 1945)

Fast Color (Film; 2019)

Goodie the Gremlin (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1961)

The Harder They Come, by T. Coraghessan Boyle (Novel; 2015)

Hound About That (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1961)

Illmatic, by Las (Album; 1994)

Iphigenia in Aulis, by C.W. Glucks (Opera; 1774)

Just a Little Bull (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1940)

King of Jazz (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1930)

The Land of Fun (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1941)

The Last Battle, by Cornelius Ryan (Novel; 1966)

L.A. Woman, by The Doors (Album; 1971)

Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of …), by Lou Bega (Song; 1999)

Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics, by Erich Fromm (Philosophy Book; 1947)

Man Plus, by Frederik Pohl (Novel; 1976)

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (Film; 2024)

Money Doodles (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1960)

Moosylvania Saved, Part 1 (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 363; 1965)

Moosylvania Saved, Part 2 (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 364; 1965)

Mrs. Winterbourne (Film; 1996)

My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Film; 2002)

National Barn Dance (Radio Music Series; 1924)

Oblivion (Film; 2013)

Oxford English Dictionary, 1st Edition (Dictionary; 1928)

Peg Leg Pete, the Pirate (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1935)

Plenty Below Zero (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1943)

The Producers (Broadway Musical; 2001)

Ring of Fire, by Johnny Cash (Song; 1963)

The Scorpion King (Film; 2002)

The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man, by Peter Tompkins (Science Book; 1973)

Service with a Guile (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1946)

Sing, Sing Prison (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1931)

Sinkin’ in the Bathtub, featuring Bosko (Looney Tunes Cartoon; 1930) [1st Warner Bros. cartoon]

A Small Town in Germany, by John le Carre (Novel; 1969)

Stand Up & Cheer (Film; 1934) [1st Shirley Temple film]

Symphony No. 6, by Jean Sibelius (Symphony; 1923)

Ticket to Ride, by The Beatles (Song; 1965)

Timid Tabby (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1957)

Tortured Poets Department, by Taylor Swift (Album; 2024)

The Trip (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1967)

Triplet Trouble (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1952)

Water, Water Every Hare (WB LT Cartoon; 1952)

Wings (TV Series; 1990)

The Zürau Aphorisms Franz Kafka

Today’s Name Days

Gerold, Leo, Marcel (Austria)

Ema, Konrad, Rastislav (Croatia)

Rostislav (Czech Republic)

Daniel (Denmark)

Aalike, Aleksandra, Alli, Allo, Andra, Sandra (Estonia)

Pälvi, Pilvi (Finland)

Emma (France)

Emma, Gerold, Leo, Timo (Germany)

Haroula, Theoharis, Theoharoula (Greece)

Emma (Hungary)

Emma, Ermogene, Espedito (Italy)

Fanija, Liba, Vēsma (Latvia)

Aistė, Eirimas, Leonas, Leontina, Simonas (Lithuania)

Arnfinn, Arnstein (Norway)

Adolf, Adolfa, Adolfina, Alf, Cieszyrad, Czech, Czechasz, Czechoń, Czesław, Leon, Leontyna, Pafnucy, Tymon, Werner, Włodzimierz (Poland)

Ioan (Romania)

Jela (Slovakia)

Expedito, León (Spain)

Ola, Olaus (Sweden)

Garey, Garett, Garret, Garrett, Garvey, Garvin, Gary, Gerald, Geraldine, Geri, Gerry, Jared, Jarod, Jarred, Jarrett, Jarrod, Jerald,Jeri, Jerod, Jerri, Jerrod, Jerry (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 110 of 2024; 256 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of week 16 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 6 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 11 (Guy-Chou)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 11 Nisan 5784

Islamic: 10 Shawwal 1445

J Cal: 20 Cyan; Sixday [20 of 30]

Julian: 6 April 2024

Moon: 84%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 26 Archimedes (4th Month) [Frontinus]

Runic Half Month: Man (Human Being) [Day 10 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 32 of 92)

Week: 3rd Week of April

Zodiac: Aries (Day 30 of 31)

#calendar #Holidays

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Holidays 4.18

Holidays

Adult Autism Awareness Day

Anal Sex Day (Jim Jeffries)

Army Day (Iran)

Banyan Tree Birthday Party (Maui, Hawaii)

Battle of Dybbøl Day (Denmark)

Bilberry Day (French Republic)

Celebrate Ben Solo Day

Coggia’s Comet Day

Coma Patients’ Day (Poland)

Day of Historic and Cultural Monuments (Ukraine)

Day of Secretaries (Belgium, Netherlands)

89ers Day (Oklahoma)

Ernie Pyle Remembrance Day

Friend’s Day (Brazil)

I Love CSU Day (Colorado)

International Amateur Radio Day

International Day For Monuments and Sites (UNESCO)

International Erasure T-Shirt Day

International Juggler's Day

International No Declaw Day

Ianthe Asteroid Day

Invention Day (Japan)

Laundromat Day

National Columnists’ Day

National Exercise Day

National Financial Advisor Day

National Lineman Appreciation Day

National Lydia Day

National Poem in Your Pocket Day

National Send Nudes Day

National Sleep Apnea Awareness Day

National Transfer Money to Your Daughter’s Account Day

National Transgender HIV Testing Day

National Velociraptor Awareness Day

Newspaper Columnists' Day

Paul Revere Day

Pet Owners Independence Day (a.k.a. Pet Parents’ Day Off)

Piñata Day

Real People Day

Red Cross Society Day (Ukraine)

Respect Your Mother Day

Robanukah (Futurama)

Scouts’ Day (Armenia)

Sleep Apnea Awareness Day

Smile Big and Say Hi For No Particular Reason Day

Superman Day

Third World Day

Ushibuka Haiya Matsuri (Dance Festival; Japan)

Victory Over the Teutonic Knights in the Battle of the Ice (Russia)

World Amateur Radio Day

World Artisan Day

World Heritage Day

World Trifle Day

Youth Homelessness Matters Day

Zhabdrung Kuchhoe (Bhutan)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Animal Crackers Day

World Food Travel Day

3rd Thursday in April

Ask An Atheist Day [3rd Thursday; also 9.16]

Biomedical Research Awareness Day [3rd Thursday]

College Student Grief Awareness Day [3rd Thursday]

Get To Know Your Customers Day [3rd Thursday of each Quarter]

High Five Day [3rd Thursday]

International Pizza Cake Day [3rd Thursday]

National D.A.R.E. Day [3rd Thursday]

National High Five Day [3rd Thursday]

Sumardagurinn Fyrsti (1st Day of Summer; Iceland) [1st Thursday after 4.18]

Throwback Thursday [3rd Thursday]

Weekly Holidays beginning April 18 (3rd Week)

Cleaning for a Reason [thru 4.24]

Consumer Awareness Week [thru 4.23]

Health Information Professionals Week [thru 4.24]

National Osteopathic Medicine Week [thru 4.24]

Police Officers Who Gave Their Lives in the Line of Duty Week [thru 4.23]

Independence & Related Days

Earth’s Kingdom (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Pinang (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]

Republic of Eire (Formal Proclamation; 1949)

Zimbabwe (from UK, 1980)

New Year’s Days

Lao New Year Holiday (Laos)

Myanmar New Year Holidays (Myanmar)

Festivals Beginning April 18, 2024

Atlanta Wing Fest (Atlanta, Georgia)

Grape Day (Temecula, California)

Love the Burger Battle Contest (Luverne, Minnesota) [thru 5.25]

Roadburn Festival (Tilburg, Netherlands) [thru 4.20]

Taste of St. Croix (St. Croix, US Virgin Islands)

Feast Days

Agapitus (Christian; Saint)

Agia (Christian; Saint)

Apollonius the Apologist (Christian; Saint)

Bun-Bun Brothers’ Day (Muppetism)

Carista: Day of Peace in the Family (Pagan)

Corebus (Christian; Saint)

Cyril VI of Constantinople (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Eleutherius, Antia & His Companions (Christian; Martyrs)

Festival of Matsu (a.k.a. Mazu; Taoist Sea Goddess)

Festival of Rama-Navami (Hinduism; Everyday Wicca)

Fox Tail Burning Day (Ancient Rome)

Galdino della Sala (a.k.a. Galdin; Christian; Saint)

Gustave Moreau (Artology)

Idesbald (Christian; Saint)

Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet (Artology)

Lady Macbeth Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Laserian (a.k.a. Laisren or Molaisse; Christian; Saint)

Ludwig Meisner (Artology)

Make Faerie Rocks Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Laserim, Bishop of Laighlin, Ireland (Christian; Saint)

Max Weber (Artology)

Molaise of Leighlin (Christian; Saint)

Nihilism Day (Pastafarian)

Perfectus (Christian; Saint)

Plato of Sakkoudion (Christian; Saint)

Three Impossible Mixtures Day (Celtic Book of Days)

The Underlings (Muppetism)

Vitruvius (Positivist; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [18 of 37]

Unglückstage (Unlucky Day; Pennsylvania Dutch) [15 of 30]

Premieres

Absolute Beginners (Film; 1986)

Alice’s Circus Dance (Disney Cartoon; 1927)

Apes of Wrath (WB MM Cartoon; 1959)

Baggage Buster (Disney Cartoon; 1941)

Barnyard Olympics (Disney Cartoon; 1932)

Beyond This Horizon, by Robert A. Heinlein (Novel; 1948)

Chess-Nuts (Betty Boop Cartoon; 1932)

Dog Trouble (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1942)

Fancy Free, by Leonard Bernstein (Ballet; 1944)

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Film; 2008)

Four Quartets, by T.S. Eliot (Poetry; 1943)

Gorky Park, by Martin Cruz Smith (Novel; 1981)

Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln (Disneyland Animatronic Exhibit; 1964)

Holes (Film; 2003)

Kongo-Roo (Phantasies Cartoon; 1946)

Legend (Film; 1986)

Little Johnny Jet (MGM Cartoon; 1953)

Mare of Easttown (TV Series; 2021)

Manifestoes of Surrealism, by André Breton (Book; 1924)

Master and Commander, by Patrick O'Brian (Novel; 1969)

Muscle Tussle (WB MM Cartoon; 1953)

The Razor’s Edge, by W. Somerset Maugham (Novel; 1944)

The Saint in Trouble, by Graham Weaver (Short Stories; 1978) [Saint #47]

Sheikh of Araby, recorded by Sidney Bechet (Song; 1941)

The Simple Things (Disney Cartoon; 1953)

Speaking of Animals Down on the Farm (Animated Antics Cartoon; 1941)

Straight Shooters (Disney Cartoon; 1947)

Teen Titans: The Judas Contract (WB Animated Film; 2017)

Three Little Wolves (Disney Silly Symphonies Cartoon; 1936)

Uncle Joey (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1941)

Winged Migration (Documentary Film; 2003)

Today’s Name Days

Werner, Wigbert (Austria)

Viktor, Viktoriya (Bulgaria)

Atanazija, Eusebije, Hermogen, Roman (Croatia)

Valérie (Czech Republic)

Eleutherius (Denmark)

Valdek, Valdeko, Valdemar, Valdo, Valdu, Valdur, Valmar, Valmer, Voldemar, Volli, Volmer (Estonia)

Valdemar, Valto (Finland)

Parfait (France)

Werner, Wigbert (Germany)

Eirene, Eirini, Irene, Irini, Nikolaos, Nikoleta, Nikos, Nicholas, Nicolas, Nick, Rafael, Rene, Rena, Renia, Rhenia (Greece)

Andrea, Ilma (Hungary)

Galdino (Italy)

Dana, Hildegarde, Jadviga, Laura, Nameisis (Latvia)

Apolonijus, Eitvilas, Girmantė, Undinė (Lithuania)

Eilen, Eilert (Norway)

Apoloniusz, Bogusław, Bogusława, Flawiusz, Gościsław (Poland)

Ioan (Romania)

Valér (Slovakia)

Perfecto (Spain)

Valdemar, Volmar (Sweden)

Anthea, Ayana, Ayanna, Warner, Werner (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 109 of 2024; 257 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 16 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 5 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 10 (Ren-Zi)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 10 Nisan 5784

Islamic: 9 Shawwal 1445

J Cal: 19 Cyan; Fryday [19 of 30]

Julian: 5 April 2024

Moon: 76%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 25 Archimedes (4th Month) [Strabo]

Runic Half Month: Man (Human Being) [Day 9 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 31 of 92)

Week: 3rd Week of April

Zodiac: Aries (Day 29 of 31)

#calendar #Holidays

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Holidays 4.17

Holidays

American Academy of Arts and Letters Charter Day

Asia Asteroid Day

Bat Appreciation Day

Bay of Pigs Anniversary Day

Day of the Great Victory (Kampuchea)

Blah Blah Blah Day (a.k.a. Blah Blah Blah Memes Day)

Book Day (British Columbia, Canada)

Canterbury Tales Day

Children’s Protection Day (Japan)

Drunken Marathon Day

Ellis Island Family History Day

Emancipation Day (D.C.)

Equality Day (Canada)

Evacuation Day (Syria)

FAO Day (Iraq)

Feast of Random Walks

Fire Service Day (Kazakhstan)

Flag Day (American Samoa)

Ford Mustang Day

417 Day (Missouri)

Hex Sign Day

Horse Day

Hug a Cactus Day

International Day of Mastering Conversations That Matter

International Day of Peasants Struggle

International Ford Mustang Day

International Haiku Poetry Day

International Refrigeration Day

IU Day (Indiana)

Migration Service Employees Day (Turkmenistan)

National Day of Action for Higher Education

National Ellis Island Family History Day

National Go Orange Day

National Hickey Day

National Kickball Day

National 2A Day

No Limits For Deaf Children Day

Nosy Neighbor Appreciation Day

Nothing Like A Dame Day

Palestinian Prisoners’ Day

Pansy Day (French Republic)

Poetry and the Creative Mind Day

Roadway Worker Appreciation Day

Saint Grotus’s Day (Malcolm in the Middle)

Thank An Herbalist Day

Thetis Asteroid Day

Toothbrush Appreciation Day

Tortoiseshell Cat Appreciation Day

Verrazano Day (New York)

Veterans’ Day of Internal Affairs Bodies and Internal Troops (Russia)

Women’s Day (Gabon)

World Drum & Bass Day

World Hemophilia Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

International Malbec Day (a.k.a. Malbec World Day)

National Cheese Ball Day

National Crawfish Day

Pineapple Cheese Day

3rd Wednesday in April

National Banana Day [3rd Wednesday]

National Canadian Film Day (Canada) [3rd Wednesday]

National Early Years Teacher Day (UK) [3rd Wednesday]

National Officials Day (Canada) [3rd Wednesday]

Purple Up for Military Kids Day [3rd Wednesday]

Transplant Nurses Day [3rd Wednesday]

Youth Homelessness Matters Day (Australia) [3rd Wednesday]

Weekly Holidays beginning April 17 (3rd Week)

National Pet ID Week [thru 4.23]

Independence & Related Days

Charter Day (Canada)

Mayursia (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]

Syria (End of the French Mandate, 1946)

Virginia (Secedes from U.S.; 1861)

New Year’s Days

Lao New Year Holiday

Myanmar New Year

Festivals Beginning April 17, 2024

Bogota International Book Fair (Bogota, Colombia) [thru 5.2]

Brisket King NYC (Pig Beach, Queens, New York)

Flower Parade of the Bollenstreek (Haarlem, Netherlands) [thru 4.21]

International Istanbul Film Festival Istanbul, Turkey) [thru 4.28]

PEAK 2024 (Minneapolis, Minnesota) [thru 4.19]

Feast Days

Aleksandr Golovin (Artology)

Anicetus, Pope (Christian; Martyr)

Bean Bunny’s Day (Muppetism)

Bernat Klein (Artology)

Chariot Festival of the Rain God (Nepal; Everyday Wicca)

Columella (Positivist; Saint)

Cormac Instructions Day (Celtic Book of Days)

Donnan and His Companions (Christian; Martyrs)

Feralia: Day of Purification (Pagan)

Haiku Day (Pastafarian)

Innocent (Christian; Martyr)

Kateri Tekakwitha (Canada; Christian; Saint)

Mappalicus and His Companions (Christian; Martyrs)

Money Spell Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Nick Hornby (Writerism)

Nimble Fairies’ Scattering (Shamanism)

Regina Ghazaryan (Artology)

Robert of Chaise-Dieu (Christian; Saint)

Sherlock Hemlock (Muppetism)

Simeon, Bishop of Ctesiphon (Christian; Saint)

Simeon Barsabae and Companions (Greek Orthodox; Martyrs)

Stephen, Abbot of Citeaux (Christian; Saint)

Stephen Harding (Christian; Saint)

Thornton Wilder (Writerism)

Tinkerbell Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Tom Twinkletoes (Muppetism)

Yom HaShoah (יוֹם הַשּׁוֹאָה; Holocaust Remembrance Day; Judaism) [27 Nisan]

Lunar Calendar Holidays

Rama Navami (Hinduism) [9th Day of Chaitra]

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Prime Number Day: 107 [28 of 72]

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [17 of 37]

Unglückstage (Unlucky Day; Pennsylvania Dutch) [14 of 30]

Premieres

Bell Hoppy (WB MM Cartoon; 1954)

Blue Exorcist (Anime TV Series; 2011)

Box Top Robbery (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 41; 1960)

Bright Road (Film; 1953)

Bugs Bunny’s Overtures to Disaster (WB Cartoon TV Special; 1991)

By Love Possessed, by James Gould Cozzens (Novel; 1958)

Caveman (Film; 1981)

Concerto for Piano, by Emánuel Moór (Piano Concerto; 1908)

Crank: High Voltage (Film; 2009)

Den of Thieves, by James B. Stewart (Book; 1992)

Desperado, by The Eagles (Album; 1973)

A Fault in the Vault or Banks a Million (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 42; 1960)

Fetch the Bolt Cutters, by Fiona Apple (Album; 2020)

Game of Thrones (TV Series; 2011)

The Great American Melting Pot (America Rock Cartoon; Schoolhouse Rock; 1976)

Heart & Soul, R&B version by The Cleftones (Song; 1961)

Hic-cup Pup (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1954)

Imitation of Life (Film; 1959)

Let’s Go (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1937)

Light’s Out (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1942)

McCartney, by Paul McCartney (Album; 1970)

Mickey’s Amateurs (Disney Cartoon; 1937)

Mother Goose Melodies (Disney Cartoon; 1931)

Out of Africa, by Karen Blixen (Memoir; 1937)

The Peregrine, by J.A. Baker (Novel; 1967)

Planet Rock, by Africa Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force (Album; 1982)

Porky’s Duck Hunt (WB LT Cartoon; 1937)

Radio Girl (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1932)

Rocket Man, by Elton John (Song; 1973)

State of Play (Film; 2009)

Tina: The Musical (West End Musical; 2018)

The Watcher in the Woods (Film; 1980)

The White Mountains, by John Christopher (Novel; 1967) [Tripods #1]

Winner by a Hare (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1953)

A Wolf in Cheap Clothing (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1936)

Today’s Name Days

Eberhard, Rudolph (Austria)

Ilija, Inocent, Šimun (Croatia)

Rudolf (Czech Republic)

Anicetus (Denmark)

Ege, Eike, Hiie (Estonia)

Otto (Finland)

Anicet (France)

Eberhard, Isadora, Max, Wanda (Germany)

Rudolf (Hungary)

Anicet, Arcangelo, Roberto, Rondolfo (Italy)

Rūdis, Rūdolfs, Viviāna (Latvia)

Anicetas, Dravenis, Giedrius, Robertas, Skaidra (Lithuania)

Elise, Elsa (Norway)

Anicet, Innocenta, Innocenty, Jakub, Józef, Klara, Radociech, Robert, Roberta, Rudolf, Rudolfa, Rudolfina, Stefan (Poland)

Simeon (Romania)

Rudolf (Slovakia)

Aniceto (Spain)

Elias, Elis (Sweden)

Harding, Hardy, Holden, Raleigh (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 108 of 2024; 258 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 3 of week 16 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 4 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 9 (Xin-Hai)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 9 Nisan 5784

Islamic: 8 Shawwal 1445

J Cal: 18 Cyan; Foursday [18 of 30]

Julian: 4 April 2024

Moon: 68%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 24 Archimedes (4th Month) [Vitruvius]

Runic Half Month: Man (Human Being) [Day 8 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 30 of 92)

Week: 3rd Week of April

Zodiac: Aries (Day 28 of 31)

#calendar #Holidays

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Holidays 4.16

Holidays

Anemone Day (French Republic)

Battle of Culloden Day (UK)

Charlie Chaplin Day

Day of the Badger (Wisconsin)

Dronningens Fodelsdag (Denmark)

Emancipation Day (DC)

Flat Stomach Appreciation Day

Foursquare Day

Frühjahrsbierfest begins (modern festival) [thru 5.8]

Good Deeds Day

International 4p-/Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome Awareness Day

Jimmy Buffet Day (Florida)

Jim Thorpe Day

Jose de Diego Day (Puerto Rico)

Lawyers’ Day (Bulgaria)

Liberating the Rainbow Lost in White Light Festival

Memorial Day for the Victims of the Holocaust (Hungary)

Militiamen Day (Cuba)

National Advance Care Planning Day (Canada)

National Angel Day

National Auctioneers Day

National Bean Counters’ Day

National Cash Day

National Clean Out Your Medicine Cabinet Day

National CPA's Goof-Off Day [Day after Tax Day]

National Healthcare Decisions Day

National Horny Day

National Joseph Day

National Librarian Day

National OK Day

National Orchid Day

National Reveal the Genius Within Day

National Selena Day

National Slip-On Shoes Day

National Stress Awareness Day

National Wear Your Pajamas To Work Day

Orkney Day

Police Day (Armenia)

Queen Margrethe II Day (Denmark)

Remembrance of the Chemical Attack on Balisan and Sheikh Was (Iraqi Kurdistan)

Royalty Day

Save the Elephant Day

Teach Your Daughter to Volunteer Day

Totoro Day

Vadai Day (India)

World Day of Entrepreneurship

World Entrepreneurship Day

World Semicolon Day

World Shoes by Flora Day (Nigeria)

World Voice Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Brown Sugar Day

Dagwood Sandwich Day

Day of Mushroom Encouragement (a.k.a. Day of the Mushroom)

Eggs Benedict Day

Mushroom Day

National Baked Ham with Pineapple Day

National Eggs Benedict Day

Raw-Milk Cheese Appreciation Day

3rd Tuesday in April

Transportation Tuesday [3rd Tuesday]

Weekly Holidays beginning April 16 (3rd Week)

National Oral, Head, and Neck Cancer Awareness Week [thru 4.22]

Independence & Related Days

Cyrillic Federal Republic (Declared; 2022) [unrecognized]

Festivals Beginning April 16, 2024

Cartagena Film Festival (Cartagena, Colombia) [thru 4.21]

Charlotte Wine and Food Week (Charlotte, North Carolina) [thru 4.21]

Cheese Expo (Madison, Wisconsin) [thru 4.18]

Food + Beverage Environmental Conference (Miramar, Florida) [thru 4.19]

Grifton Shad Festival (Grafton, North Carolina) [thru 4.20]

South Bohemian International Beer Festival (Zlatá Pivni Pečet; České Budějovice, Czech Republic) [thru 4.20]

Feast Days

All Hookers’ Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Anatole France (Writerism)

Baby Natasha (Muppetism)

Benedict Joseph Labre (Christian; Saint)

Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes (Christian; Saint)

Bundling Day (Celtic Book of Days)

Contardo (Christian; Saint)

Days of Mushroom Encouragement (Shamanism)

Dimon (Christian; Saint)

Drogo (Christian; Saint)

Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun (Artology)

Encratis (Christian; Martyr & Virgin)

Feast of the Divine Mercy

Ford Madox Brown (Artology)

Fructuosus of Braga (Christian; Saint)

Hiketeria (Festival to Apollo; Ancient Greece; Everyday Wicca)

Holiday of Ra (Ancient Egypt)

Iduna’s Blot (Pagan)

Isabella Gilmore (Church of England)

Joachim of Sienna (Christian; Saint)

Joseph Labre (Christian; Saint)

Kingsley Amis (Writerism)

Magnus of Orkney (Christian; Saint)

Martyrs of Zaragoza (a.k.a. 18 Martyrs of Saragossa; Christian)

Messalina Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Miss Corner (Muppetism)

Molly Brant (Konwatsijayenni) (Anglican Church of Canada, Episcopal Church)

Offering to Demeter Khloe (Goddess of Green Shoots; Ancient Greece)

Optatos and Companions (Christian; Martyrs)

Padarn (Christian; Saint)

Paternus (Christian; Saint)

Ridvan begins (Baha’i)

Sapho, by Charles Gounod (Opera; 1851)

Sea Monkey Soup Day (Pastafarian)

Spring Cleaning Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Turibius of Astorga (Christian; Saint)

Varro (Positivist; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [15 of 53]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [16 of 37]

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [21 of 60]

Premieres

Antboy (Film; 2014)

Benny & Joon (Film; 1993)

The Best and the Brightest, by David Halberstam (Book; 1973)

Book of the Month Club (Bookselling Subscription; 1926)

Brown Sugar, by The Rolling Stones (Song; 1971)

Bug Carnival (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1937)

Bulletproof Monk (Film; 2003)

Daddy Duck (Disney Cartoon; 1948)

Death at a Funeral (Film; 2010)

Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet (Anime Film; 2021)

Everybody Loves Somebody, recorded by Dean Martin (Song; 1964)

Everything Is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safron Foer (Novel; 2002)

Fibber McGee and Molly (Radio Series; 1935)

The Foolish Bunny (Color Rhapsody; 1938)

The Ginger Bread Boy (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1934)

Goopy Geer (WB MM Cartoon; 1932)

Hair Today Gone Tomorrow (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1959)

The Hole Idea (WB LT Cartoon; 1955)

Horrible Histories (TV Series; 2009)

Hospitaliky (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1937)

The House That Jack Built (Color Rhapsody; 1939)

It Don’t Come Easy, by Ringo Starr (Song; 1971)

James Paul McCartney, by Paul McCartney (TV Special; 1973)

Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (Film; 2004)

Kiss-Ass (Film; 2010)

Le Prophète, by Giacomo Meyerbeer (Opera; 1849)

Life During Wartime (Film; 1998)

Love & Basketball (Film; 2000)

A Mighty Wind (Film; 2003)

Mother Goose Melodies (Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1931)

The Music Box (Short Film; 1932)

My Neighbor Totoro (Studio Ghibli Animated Film; 1988)

The Organization Man, by William H. Whyte Jr. (Book; 1957)

Porky’s Five & Ten (WB LT Cartoon; 1938)

Poultry Pirates (MGM Cartoon; 1938)

The Punisher (Film; 2004)

The Rolling Stones, by The Rolling Stones (Album; 1964)

Romeo and Juliet (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1933)

The Sound of the Mountain, by Yasunari Kawabata (Novel; 1954)

The Spy Who Loved Me, by Ian Fleming (Novel; 1959) [James Bond #10]

Spy x Family (Anime TV Series; 2022)

The Sunlight Dialogues, by John Gardner (Novel; 1973)

Temple of the Dog, by Temple of the Dog (Album; 1991)

This Land is Your Land, recorded by Woody Guthrie (Song; 1944)

The White Princess (TV Series; 2017)

Wide Sargasso Sea (Film; 1993)

Zooey, by J.D. Salinger (Novella; 1957) [Collected in Franny & Zooey in 1961]

Today’s Name Days

Bernadette, Magnus (Austria)

Velichka, Velichko, Velin, Velina (Bulgaria)

Bernardica, Leonida (Croatia)

Irena (Czech Republic)

Mariane (Denmark)

Olivia, Olve, Olvi (Estonia)

Jalo, Patrik (Finland)

Benoît-Joseph, Rameaux (France)

Bernadette, Joachim, Magnus (Germany)

Anastasios, Calis, Galini, Galinos, Hionia, Lambros, Niki, Paschalis (Greece)

Csongor (Hungary)

Bernadette, Giuditta, Grazia, Lamberto, Maria (Italy)

Alfs, Mindaugs, Mintauts (Latvia)

Algedė, Gražvydas, Kalikstas (Lithuania)

Magnus, Mons (Norway)

Benedykt, Bernadetta, Cecyl, Cecylian, Charyzjusz, Erwin, Erwina, Julia, Ksenia, Lambert, Lamberta, Nikita, Nosisław, Patrycy, Urban (Poland)

Agapi, Hionia, Irina (Romania)

Dana, Danica (Slovakia)

Engracia, Fructuoso, Toribio (Spain)

Patricia, Patrik (Sweden)

Irene, Oryna, Orysia (Ukraine)

Kareem, Magnus, Malvin, Malvina, Melva, Melvin, Melvina (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 107 of 2024; 259 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 16 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 3 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 8 (Getg-Xu)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 7 Nisan 5784

Islamic: 7 Shawwal 1445

J Cal: 17 Cyan; Threesday [17 of 30]

Julian: 3 April 2024

Moon: 58%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 23 Archimedes (4th Month) [Columella]

Runic Half Month: Man (Human Being) [Day 7 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 29 of 92)

Week: 3rd Week of April

Zodiac: Aries (Day 27 of 31)

#calendar #Holidays

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Holidays 4.15

Holidays

Anime Day

Anniversary of Tarija (Bolivia)

AR-15 Day

Ariadne Asteroid Day

ASL Day (American Sign Language Day)

Banyan Tree Day (Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii)

Bija Mangala (Field Cultivation Festival)

Buck Rogers Day

Children’s Day (Spain)

Criminal Investigation Department Employees Day (Ukraine)

Da Vinci Day

Day of Love (Georgia)

Day of People (Aysellant)

Day of Radio-Electronic Fight Troops (Russia)

Day of the Sun (North Korea)

Father Damien Day (Hawaii)

Fluff Appreciation Day

415 Day

Freak Out Day

Gallaudet Day

Good Roads Day (Illinois)

Great Stichwort

Hardware Freedom Day

Hillsborough Disaster Memorial Day (Liverpool, UK)

Himachal Day (India)

Historical City Day (Malacca)

Hug Your Boiler Day

Income Tax Pay Day

International Biomedical Laboratory Science Day

International Pompe Day

Ivory Soap Day

Jackie Robinson Day

Kim Il Sung Day (North Korea)

Lilac Day (French Republic)

Lover’s Day (Kazakhstan)

Mariah Carey Day (California)

Melaka UNESCO Heritage Day (Malaysia)

Microvolunteering Day

National Anime Day

National ASL Day

National Collegiate Recovery Day

National Griper’s Day

National Hookup Day

National Keaton Day

National Laundry Day

National Poet Day (Peru)

National Rubber Eraser Day

National Security Education Day (Hong Kong)

National That Sucks Day

National Titanic Remembrance Day

One Boston Day

Purple Up Day

Quantum Teleportation Day

Rubber Eraser Day

Swallow Day (UK)

Take a Wild Guess Day

Tax Day (US)

Tax Resistor's Day

That Sucks Day

Tipsa Diena (Traditional start of plowing; Ancient Latvia)

Titanic Remembrance Day

Type 1 Diabetes Day

Universal Day of Culture

World Art Day

World Tiny Art Gallery Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Fast Food Day

McDonald’s Day

National Glazed Spiral Ham Day

National Takeout Day (Canada)

3rd Monday in April

Boston Marathon Day [3rd Monday]

National Stress Awareness Day [3rd Monday]

Landing of the 33 Patriots Day observed (Uruguay) [3rd Monday]

Patriots' Day (Maine, Massachusetts, Wisconsin) [3rd Monday]

Sechseläuten ends (Six Ringing Festival; Zurich, Switzerland) [3rd Monday]

Weekly Holidays beginning April 15 (3rd Week)

National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week [thru 4.19]

Undergraduate Research Week [thru 4.19]

Week of the Young Child [thru 4.19]

Independence & Related Days

Independence Day Holiday (Israel)

Unitedlands (Declared; 2022) [unrecognized]

Vishwamitra (f.k.a. Children’s Group; Declared; 2007) [unrecognized]

New Year’s Days

Day after Sidereal New Year (South and Southeast Asian) (a.k.a. …

Bengali New Year (India)

Bohag Bihu (Parts of India)

Himachl Day (Parts of India)

Lao New Yar (Laos)

Masadi (Parts of India)

Nababarsha (Parts of India)

New Year Holidays (Myanmar)

Sarhul (Parts of India)

Songkran (Thailand)

Water-Sprinkling Festival continues (Yunnan, China)

Poila Boishakh (Bengali New Year)

Festivals Beginning April 15, 2024

Boston Marathon (Boston, Massachusetts) [3rd Monday]

Coquina Beach Seafood & Music Festival (Coquina Beach, Florida) [thru 4.17]

Singing in the Sun (Myrtle Beach, South Carolina) [thru 4.20]

TED Conference (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) [thru 4.19]

Feast Days

Abbo II of Metz (Christian; Saint)

Arshile Gorky (Artology)

Bananas with Everything Day (a.k.a. Banana Day; Pastafarian)

Basilissa and Anastasia (Christian; Martyrs)

Day of Tellus Mater (Pagan)

Elizabeth Catlett Mora (Artology)

Father Damien (The Episcopal Church)

Festival of Hero/Bast (Ancient Egypt)

Festival of Matsu/Mazu (Goddess of the Sea; Taoism)

Fordicidia (Old Roman Festival of Fertility to honor Ceres)

Henry James (Writerism)

Hippachus (Positivist; Saint)

Hunna (Christian; Saint)

Jeffrey Archer (Writerism)

Kanamara Matsuri (Iron Phallus Festival; Japan)

Leonardo da Vinci (Artology)

Munde (Christian; Saint)

Padarn (Christian; Saint)

Pammy (Muppetism)

Paternus of Avranches (Christian; Saint)

Peter Gonzales (Christian; Saint)

Ruadan of Lothra (Christian; Saint)

Rusalja (Celebration of River Spirts Rusalki of the Lemko People of Carpathia; Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Tellus Mater (Old Roman Mother Earth Festival)

Vlad Tepes Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [14 of 53]

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because the Titanic Sank and it’s also Tax Day.)

Premieres

The Adventures off Marco Polo (Film; 1938)

Aftermath, by The Rolling Stones (Album; 1966)

The Art of Real Happiness, by Norman Vincent Peale (Book; 1950)

The Black Island, by Hergé (Graphic Novel; 1938) [Tintin #7]

Catalogue d’Oiseaux, by Olivier Messiaen (Pieno Pieces; 1959)

Colors (Film; 1988)

Dark Command (Film; 1940)

Donald’s Nephews (Disney Cartoon; 1938)

Don’t Speak, by No Doubt (Song; 1996)

84, Charing Cross Road, by Helene Hanff (Novel; 1970)

El Amor Bruno (Love, the Magician), by Manuel de Falla (Ballet; 1915)

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (Film; 2022)

Fargo (TV Series; 2014)

The Fitzgeralds and The Kennedys, by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Book; 1987)

Flashdance (Film; 1983)

Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes (Short Story; 1959)

Genghis Khan (Film; 1965)

Girls (TV Series; 2012)

The Hypo-Chondri-Cat (WB MM Cartoon; 1950)

The Little Goldfish (MGM Cartoon; 1939)

Little Red School Mouse (Noveltoons; 1949)

In Living Color (TV Series; 1990)

The Last Emperor (Film; 1988)

The Lumberjack (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit; 1929)

The Moon and Sixpence, by W. Somerset Maugham (Novel; 1919)

Mouse Come Home (Andy Panda Cartoon; 1946)

Outer Banks (TV Series; 2020)

Outer Range (TV Series; 2022)

Rattus Norvegicus, by The Stranglers (Album; 1977)

Ride ‘Em Plowboy (Oswald the Luck Rabbit Disney Cartoon; 1928)

Rio (Animated Film; 2011)

Robinson Crusoe’s Broadcast (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1938)

Rock & Rule (Animated Film; 1983)

Rock for Light, by The Bad Brains (Album; 1983)

Stage Fright (Film; 1950)

St. Matthew’s Passion, by Johann Sebastian Bach (Oratorio; 1729)

Think, recorded by Aretha Franklin (Song; 1968)

To the Finland Station, by Edmund Wilson (Novel; 1940)

The Twenty-One Balloons, by William Pène du Bois (Novel; 1947)

Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On, by Jerry Lee Lewis (Song; 1957)

Wild, by Cheryl Strayed (Memoir; 2012)

Today’s Name Days

Anastasia, Damian, Una (Austria)

Rastislav, Teodor (Croatia)

Anastázie (Czech Republic)

Olympia (Denmark)

Uljas, Uljo, Verner, Verni (Estonia)

Linda, Tuomi (Finland)

César, Paterne (France)

Anastasia, Damian, Una (Germany)

Leonidas (Greece)

Anasztázia, Tas (Hungary)

Anastasio, Annibale (Italy)

Aelita, Agita, Balvis, Gastons (Latvia)

Anastazijus, Liudvina, Modestas, Vaidotė, Vilnius (Lithuania)

Oda, Odd, Odin (Norway)

Anastazja, Bazyli, Leonid, Ludwina, Modest, Olimpia, Tytus, Wacław, Wacława, Wiktoryn, Wszegniew (Poland)

Aristarh, Pud, Trofim (Romania)

Fedor (Slovakia)

Telmo (Spain)

Oliver, Olivia (Sweden)

Mstyslav, Mstyslava (Ukraine)

Kenya, Octavia, Tavia, Tucker (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 106 of 2024; 260 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of week 16 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 2 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 7 (Ji-You)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 7 Nisan 5784

Islamic: 66 Shawwal 1445

J Cal: 16 Cyan; Twosday [16 of 30]

Julian: 2 April 2024

Moon: 50%: 1st Quarter

Positivist: 22 Archimedes (4th Month) [Varro]

Runic Half Month: Man (Human Being) [Day 6 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 28 of 92)

Week: 3rd Week of April

Zodiac: Aries (Day 26 of 31)

#calendar #Holidays

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Holidays 4.14

Holidays

Air Force Reserve Day

American Dictionary Day

Americas Day (Honduras, Mexico)

Anfal Genocide Memorial Day

Black Day (South Korea)

Blessing of the Salmon Nets (Northumbria)

Bon Jovi Day (New Jersey)

Cake and Cunnilingus Day

Children’s Day (Peru)

Children with Alopecia Day

Commemoration of Anfal Genocide Against the Kurds (Iraqi Kurdistan)

Cuckoo Day (Old England)

Day of Mologa (Russia)

Day of (No) Silence (GLSEN)

Day of the Georgian Language

Day of the Skater

Dhivehi Language Day (Maldives)

Dictionary Day

Donate Life Blue & Green Day

Draw MegaMan Day

Dreams of Reason Feast Day

Ex-Spouse's Day

414 Day

Global Roller Day

Grand National Ladies Day (UK)

Gujarat (Fire Service Day; India)

International Goalkeeper Day

International Moment of Laughter Day

International Silambam Day

Kids’ Yoga Day

Kinetoscope Day

Look Up at the Sky Day

Lundkommardagen (Puffin Arrival Day; Norway) 

Meme Appreciation Day

Milwaukee Day (414)

Moirang Day (a.k.a. Victory Day; India)

National Bracelet Day

National Dolphin Day

National Donate a Book Day

National Gardening Day

National Kick Balls Day

National Love Our Children Day

National Not Ashamed of Jesus Day

National Perfume Day

National Reach as High as You Can Day

N'Ko Alphabet Day (Mande)

Orange Day (Japan)

Pan American Day

Pathologists’ Assistant Day

Peregrine Falcon Appreciation Day

Peter Capaldi Day

Pigeon Day (French Republic)

Reach As High As You Can Day

Samjinnal (Arrival of Spring; Korea)

Secret Service Day

Spring Hula Hooping Day

Tempting Fate Day

Takayama Spring Festival (Japan)

Thingyan begins (Water Festival; Burma)

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Day of Service (South Africa)

World Chagas Day

World Quantum Day

Youth Day (Angola)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Espresso Italiano Day (Italy)

International Laverbread Day

Laverbread Day

National Grits Day

National Pecan Day

Oreo Cookie Cheesecake Day

Saison Day

Tannat Day (Uruguay)

2nd Sunday in April

Air Defense Forces Day (Belarus, Russia) [2nd Sunda

Global Day to End Sexual Abuse [2nd Sunday]

Weekly Holidays beginning April 14 (3rd Week)

Animal Control Appreciation Week [2nd Full Week in April]

Animal Cruelty/Human Violence Awareness Week Week [3rd Week in April]

Astronomy Week — Spring [thru 4.20]

Cleaning For A Reason Week [begins 2nd Sunday]

National Coin Week [3rd Week in April]

National Dog Bite Prevention Week [3rd Week in April]

National Public Safety Telecommunications Week [2nd Full Week in April]

National Student Employment Week [2nd Full Week in April]

National Volunteer Week Week [3rd Week in April]

Neurodiagnostic Week [3rd Week in April]

Organize Your Files Week Week [3rd Week in April]

Pan American Week [Week of 4.14]

Independence & Related Days

Jonja Island (Declared; 2022) [unrecognized]

Lawfords (a.k.a. Kingdom of Lawfords; Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]

New Year’s Days

Hindi New Year (a.k.a. …

Assamese New Year

Baisakhi (Parts of India)

Bisket Jatra (Nepali New Year)

Bohag Bihu (Assam Valley)

Cambodian New Year

Chetti Chand (Parts of India)

Guḍhī Pāḍavā [1st Day of Chaitra]

Hari Raya Yep Tahun Baru (Indonesia)

Malayali New Year (Kerala)

Nyepi Day (a.k.a. Day of Silence; Bali)

Ougadi (Mauritius)

Pi Mai (Laotian New Year)

Ramayana begins

Sajibu Nongmapanba (Cheiraoba, Manipur, India)

Telgu New Year

Thingyan begins (Burma)

Ugadi (Parts of India)

Vaisakhi (Parts of India)

Kerala New Yea (India)

New Year's Day (Assamese, Bengali, Burmese, Sikh, Khmer, Lao, Nepali, Oriya, Sinhalese, Tamil, Thai, Tuluva; Southeast Asia) [Sidereal Vernal Equinox]

Sidereal New Year (South and Southeast Asian) (a.k.a. …

Aluth Avurudda (Sri Lanka)

Biju Festival (Parts of India)

Bisu (Tulu Nadu region of Karnataka and Kerala, India)

Bizhu (Chakmas in Mizoram, Tripura and Bangladesh)

Bohag Bihu (Assam, India)

Buisu (Tripura, India)

Bwisagu (Bodoland region of Assam, India)

Cheiraoba (Parts of India)

Choul Chnam Thmey (Cambodia)

Jur Sital (Mithila region of Bihar, India and Nepal)

Khmer New Year (Cambodia)

Maha Vusubha Sankranti (Parts of India)

Oriya New Year (Parts of India)

Pahela Baishakh (Bangladesh and West Bengal, India)

Pana Sankranti (Odisha, India)

Pi Mai (Laos)

Puthandu (Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, India and Northern and Eastern regions of Sri Lanka)

Rongali Bihu (Parts of India)

Samjinnal (Korea)

Sangken (Khamti, Singpho, Khamyang, Tangsa in Arunachal Pradesh and Tai Phake, Tai Aiton, and Turung in Assam, India)

Sinhala (Sri Lanka)

Songkran (Thailand)

Tamil New Year (Parts of India)

Thingyan (Myanmar)

Tuluva New Year (Parts of India)

Vaisakhi (Punjab, North and Central India, Nepalese New Year in Nepal)

Varusha Pirruppa (Tamil New Year; Mauritius)

Vishu (Kerala, India)

Water-Sprinkling Festival (Yunnan, China)

Festivals Beginning April 14, 2024

Alphretta Wine Festival (Alpharetta, Georgia)

The Chocolate Expo (Long Island, New York)

International Rose & Wine Festival (Shreveport, Louisiana)

New Haven Restaurant Week (New Haven, Connecticut) [thru 4.19]

Ocean City Restaurant Week (Ocean City, Maryland) [thru 4.19]

Seville Fair (Seville, Spain) [thru 4.20]

Vinitaly (Verona, Italy) [thru 4.17]

ZagreDox (Zagreb, Croatia) [thru 4.21]

Zilker Kite Festival (Austin, Texas)

Feast Days

Abushibarei (Ryukyuan)

Adolph Hitler Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Albategnius (Positivist; Saint)

Ambedkar Jayanti (India)

Ardalion (Christian; Martyrs)

Bénézet (Christian; Saint)

Bernard of iron (Christian; Saint)

Caradoc, Benezet, John, Antony and Eustace (Christian; Martyrs)

Carpus of Thyatira (Christian; Saint)

Domnina of Terni (Christian; Saint)

Elfin Choirs Congress (Shamanism)

The Extremes (Muppetism)

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin (Artology)

Galungan (Celebrating Victory of Dharma over Adharma; Bali)

Henry Beard Delany (Episcopal Church (USA))

Justin (Christian; Martyr)

Lambert of Lyons (Christian; Saint)

Lidwina (a.k.a. B. Lidwina of Schiedam or Lydwina; Christian; Saint)

Look Up at the Sky Day (Pastafarian)

Marianne’s Day (Pagan)

Maryamma (Goddess of the Sea; Hinduism; Everyday Wicca)

Peter González (Christian; Saint)

Sommarsblot (Norse)

Three Smiles Day (Celtic Book of Days)

Tiburtius, Valerian, and Maximus (Christian; Martyrs)

Victor Borisov-Musatov (Artology)

Islamic Moveable Calendar Holidays

Eid al-Fitr celebrations continue (Islam)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Historically Bad Day (Lincoln shot, Titanic hit an iceberg & 9 other tragedies) [1 of 11]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 17 of 60)

Premieres

About Damn Time, by Lizzo (Song; 2022)

American Psycho (Film; 2000)

Batman vs. Robin (WB Animated Film; 2015)

Beach Blanket Bingo (Film; 1965)

Beauty and the Beast (WB MM Cartoon; 1934)

The Big Bad Wolf (Disney Silly Symphonies Cartoon; 1934)

British Steel, by Judas Priest (Album; 1980)

Buddy’s Garage (WB LT Cartoon; 1934)

Bye Bye Birdie (Broadway Musical; 1960)

The Candle in the Wind, by T.H. White (Novel; 1958) [Once and Future King #4]

Cannery Roden (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1967)

Diver Down, by Van Halen (Album; 1982)

Execution Dock, by Anne Perry (Novel; 2009)

The Fair-Haired Hare (WB LT Cartoon; 1951)

Farewell Waltz, by Milan Kundera (Novel; 1972)

The Fate of the Furious [F&F #8]

Girl Happy (Film; 1965)

Grape Nutty (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1949)

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Novel; 1939)

The Hash Shop (Oswald he Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1930)

The History of Sexuality, by Michel Foucault (Philosophy Book; 1976)

Iceland's Bell, by Halldór Laxness (Novel; 1943)

Insulin’ the Sultan (Ub Iwerks Cartoon; 1934)

The Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison (Novel; 1952)

Iron Maiden, by Iron Maiden (Album; 1980)

It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, by Public Enemy (Album; 1988)

Keeping the Faith (Film; 2000)

The King of Torts, by John Grisham (Novel; 2003)

Kinky Boots (Film; 2006)

The Legend of Korea (Animated TV Series; 2012)

Let’s Dance, by David Bowie (Album; 1983)

The Missing Piece Shel Silverstein (Children’s Book; 1976)

Mixed Master (WB LT Cartoon; 1956)

Much Ado About Mousing (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1964)

The Notorious Bettie Page (Film; 2006)

Off the Deep End, by Weird Al Yankovic (Album; 1992)

The Pebble and the Penguin (Animated Film; 1995)

Put Me in the Zoo, by Robert Lopshire (Children’s Book; 1960)

Put-Put, Pink (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1968)

Renfield (Film; 2023)

Ripley’s Believe It or Not! (Radio Series; 1930)

Rocket Man, by Elton John (Song; 1972)

Say Anything (Film; 1989)

Shift: First Shift — Legacy, by Hugh Howey (Novel; 2012)

Spark (Animated Film; 2017)

Thank You For Smoking (Film; 2006)

Ultra, by Depeche Mode (Album; 1997)

Webster’s American Dictionary (Book; 1818)

The Wild (Animated Film; 2006)

Today’s Name Days

Elmo, Erna, Ernestine (Austria)

Maksim, Valerijan, Zdravko (Croatia)

Vincenc (Czech Republic)

Tiburtius (Denmark)

Lehe, Lehte, Lehti (Estonia)

Taito (Finland)

Ludivine, Maxime (France)

Elmo, Erna, Ernestine (Germany)

Aristarhos, Thomais (Greece)

Tibor (Hungary)

Abbondio, Ignazio, Lamberto (Italy)

Agape, Gudrite, Strauja (Latvia)

Justinas, Vaišvydė, Vaiva, Valerijonas, Visvaldas (Lithuania)

Ellinor, Nora (Norway)

Berenike, Julianna, Justyn, Maria, Myślimir, Tyburcjusz, Walerian, Waleriana (Poland)

Pahomie (Romania)

Maria (Russia)

Justína (Slovakia)

Lidia, Tiburcio, Valeriano (Spain)

Tiburtius (Sweden)

Martin (Ukraine)

Caradoc, Carey, Cary, Hudson (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 105 of 2024; 261 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 15 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 1 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 6 (Wu-Shen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 6 Nisan 5784

Islamic: 5 Shawwal 1445

J Cal: 15 Cyan; Oneday [15 of 30]

Julian: 1 April 2024

Moon: 38%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 21 Archimedes (4th Month) [Hippachus]

Runic Half Month: Man (Human Being) [Day 5 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 27 of 92)

Week: 3rd Week of April

Zodiac: Aries (Day 25 of 31)

Calendar Changes

April (a.k.a. Aprilis; Julian Calendar) [Month 4 of 12]

Saille (Willow) [Celtic Tree Calendar; Month 4 of 13]

#calendar #Holidays

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Holidays 4.13

Holidays

Aerosmith Day (Massachusetts)

American Elephant Day

American Sikh Day

Arugula o Rocket Day (French Republic)

Auslan Day (Australia)

Beauty Peace Day

Celebrate Teen Literature Day

Day of Patrons and Philanthropists (Russia)

Day of the Dead (Elder Scrolls)

Environmental Protection Day

Feast of Rotten Endings

413 Day (Arkansas)

Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) International Awareness Day

Homestuck Day

Huguenot Day (France)

Ides of April (Ancient Rome)

International Campus & Community Day

International Creativity & Innovation Day

International Day of the Kiss

International Functional Neurological Disorder Awareness Day

International Imposter Syndrome Awareness Day

International Jaat Day (India)

International Plant Appreciation Day

International Rock & Roll Day

International Special Librarian’s Day

International Turban Day

John Hanson Day (Maryland)

Katyn Memorial Day (Poland)

Military-Industrial Complex Employee Day (Ukraine)

National Boot Day

National Borinqueneers Day

National Hippy Day

National Hockey Card Day

National Japanese Spitz Day

National Kiss Your Homies Day

National Pathology Day (India)

National PhiliShui Day

National Silly Earring Day

National Sticker Day

National Theresa Day

Neil Banging Out the Tunes Day

Religious Freedom Day (England; France)

Scrabble Day

Silent Spring Day

Sinhala & Tamil New Year’s Eve (Sri Lanka)

Sterile Packaging Day

Swiftie Day

Teacher’s Day (Ecuador)

Thomas Jefferson Day

Unfairly Prosecuted Persons Day (Slovakia)

Western Mass Day (Massachusetts)

World Microscope Day

World Sarcoidosis Day

World’s Day of Remembrance for Victims of Katyn Massacre

Food & Drink Celebrations

Day to Give Thanks for Fish and Seafood

Hopocalypse Day (Drake’s Brewing)

National Make Lunch Count Day

National Peach Cobbler Day

2nd Saturday in April

Baby Massage Day [2nd Saturday]

Global Day to End Child Sexual Abuse [2nd Saturday]

National Catch & Release Day [2nd Saturday]

Slow Art Day [2nd Saturday]

World Circus Day [2nd Saturday]

Weekly Holidays beginning April 13 (2nd Week)

California Native Plant Week [thru 4.20]

Independence & Related Days

Adammia (Declared; 2013) [unrecognized]

Mensa Ann (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]

Sicily (from Naples; 1848)

Varnland (Declared; 1991) [unrecognized]

Winterspell (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

New Year’s Days

Songkran (Thailand) (a.k.a. …

Bangla New Year

Bisket Jatra (Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand)

Chiang Mai Songkran

Tamil New Year

Thai New Year

Festivals Beginning April 13, 2024

Armageddon Expo Christchurch, New Zealand) [thru 4.14]

Baldwin County Strawberry Festival (Loxley, Alabama) [thru 4.14]

Bar K Beer Fest (St. Louis, Missouri)

Cherry Blossom Festival of Greater Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) [thru 4.14]

CNY Maple Festival (Marathon, New York) [thru 4.14]

Crawfish & Zydeco Festival (Kemah, Texas) [thru 4.14]

Dairy State Cheese & Beer Festival (Kenosha, Wisconsin)

Dessert Wars (Baltimore, Maryland)

Georgia Renaissance Festival (Fairburn, Georgia) [thru 6.2]

Hall Cabernet Cookout (St. Helena, California)

Hudson Mac & Cheese Fest (Washingtonville, New York)

International Orange Blossom Carnival (Adana, Turkey) [thru 4.21]

Lost Colony Wine & Culinary Festival (Manteo, North Carolina)

Mobile Chocolate Festival (Mobile, Alabama)

National Grits Festival (Warwick, Georgia)

Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival (San Francisco, California) [thru 4.14 & 4.20-21]

Polish Festival (Phoenix, Arizona) [thru 4.14]

Spring Cheese and Chocolate Weekend (Stillwater, Minnesota) [thru 4.14]

Supernova Pop Culture Expo Gold Coast, Australia) [thru 4.14]

Taste of Hillcrest (San Diego, California)

Feast Days

Alfarbot: Alfheim Day (Pagan)

Believe in Fairies Day (Pastafarian)

Bill Hicks Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Caradoc (Christian; Saint)

Carpus, Papyrus, and Agathonic (Christian; Martyrs)

Elizablecccch Arden (Muppetism)

Eudora Welty (Writerism)

Festival of Jupiter Victor (Ancient Rome)

Festival of Libertas (Ancient Roman personification of freedom and political liberty)

Grounding Meditation Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Guinoch of Scotland (Christian; Saint)

Hermenegild (Christian; Martyr)

Ida of Louvain (Christian; Saint)

James Ensor (Artology)

Libertas (Old Roman Goddess of Liberty)

Martin I, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Martius (a.k.a. Mars; Christian; Saint)

Poshui Jie begins (Water Splashing Festival; China)

Ptolemy (Positivist; Saint)

Purification Festival (Thailand; Everyday Wicca)

Samuel Beckett (Writerism)

Seamus Heaney (Writerism)

Squashing of Moonhopper Day (Shamanism)

Thomas Lawrence (Artology)

Vaisakhi (Sikh spring grain harvest festival)

Vishnu (Pondicherry, India; Hindu)

Yayoi Matsuri (Nikko, Japan; 5-Day Spring Festival)

Islamic Moveable Calendar Holidays

Eid al-Fitr celebrations continue (Islam)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Prime Number Day: 103 [27 of 72]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

Aladdin Sane, by David Bowie (Album; 1973)

An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures, by Clarice Lispector (Novel; 1969)

Bedeviled Rabbit (WB Cartoon; 1957)

The Big Bad Wolf (Disney Cartoon; 1934)

Black Rose, by Thin Lizzy (Album; 1979)

Bridget Jones’s Diary (Film; 2001)

Brown Sugar, by The Rolling Stones (Song; 1971)

Bulldog Drummond (Radio Series; 1941)

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, by Elizabeth Smart (Novel; 1945)

Casino Royale, by Ian Fleming (Novel; 1953) [James Bond #1]

Catch a Fire, by Bob Marley (Album; 1973)

Critic’s Choice (Film; 1963)

Dane, by Heinrich Schütz Opera; 1627)

Daltrey, by Roger Daltrey (Album; 1973)

Echo, by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (Album; 1999)

El Capitan, by John Philip Soul (Operetta; 1896)

Good Little Monkeys (Happy Harmonies; 1935)

The Greyhound and the Rabbit (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1940)

Hold the Lion Please (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1951)

The Kilkenny Cats (Mighty Mouse Cartoon; 1945)

Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here Grammar Rock Cartoon; Schoolhouse Rock; 1974)

Messiah, by George Frederic Handel (Oratorio; 1742)

Mickey’s Kangaroo (Disney Cartoon; 1935)

Mouse Into Space (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1962)

The One Minute Manager, by Kennth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson (Book; 1983)

Rampage (Film; 2018)

Rising Sun, by Michael Crichton (Novel; 1992)

Safe at Home! (Film; 1962)

Swing Shift (Film; 1984)

Tango in the Night, by Fleetwood Mac (Album; 1987)

Tintin and the Picaros, by Hergé (Graphic Novel; 1976) [Tintin #23]

12 Angry Men (Film; 1957)

Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand (Historic Novel; 2012)

Today’s Name Days

Hermenegild, Ida, Martin (Austria)

Ida, Martin (Croatia)

Aleš (Czech Republic)

Justinus (Denmark)

Tarvi, Tarvo (Estonia)

Tellervo (Finland)

Ida (France)

Hermenegil, Ida, Gilda, Martin (Germany)

Gerontios (Greece)

Ida (Hungary)

Ermenegildo, Martino (Italy)

Egils, Jagailis, Justins, Justs, Nauris (Latvia)

Algaudė, Ida, Mingaudas (Lithuania)

Asta, Astrid (Norway)

Hermenegild, Hermenegilda, Ida, Jan, Justyn, Małgorzata, Przemysł, Przemysław (Poland)

Artemon (Romania)

Aleš (Slovakia)

Hermenegildo, Martín (Spain)

Artur, Douglas (Sweden)

Slavka, Yaroslava (Ukraine)

Thom, Thomas, Thomasina, Thompson, Tom, Tomas, Tommie, Tommy, Twain (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 104 of 2024; 262 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 15 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 28 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 5 (Ding-Wei)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 5 Nisan 5784

Islamic: 34 Shawwal 1445

J Cal: 14 Cyan; Sevenday [14 of 30]

Julian: 31 March 2024

Moon: 28%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 20 Archimedes (4th Month) [Albategnius]

Runic Half Month: Man (Human Being) [Day 4 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 26 of 92)

Week: 2nd Week of April

Zodiac: Aries (Day 24 of 31)

#calendar #Holidays

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Holidays 4.12

Holidays

Anniversary of the Big Wind

Big Wind Day

Children’s Day (Bolivia, Haiti)

Cosmonaut Day (a.k.a. Cosmonautics Day; Russia)

Day of Science (Kazakhstan)

Day of Silence

Day of Space and Rocket Industry Workers (Ukraine)

D.E.A.R. Day (a.k.a. Drop Everything And Read Day)

Eat All Your Snacks Before the Movie Even Starts Day

Education and Sharing Day [11 Nissan]

Festival to Preserve Corn (Cochumatan Indians; Guatemala)

412 Day

Global Day to End Child Sexual Abuse

Halifax Day (North Carolina)

Hell is a Democracy Day

Horse Chestnut Day (French Republic)

Human Spaceflight Day

International Day for Street Children

International Day of Human Space Flight

Jersey Day (Canada)

Kamakura Matsuri (Japan)

Lakritsdagen (Sweden)

Lucid Dreaming Day

National Boob Touch Day

National Colorado Day

National Deskfast

National Dolores Day

National Donate Life Blue & Green Day

National Elbow Day

National For Twelves Day

National Gavin Day

National Hanging Out Day

National Health Day (Kiribati)

National Julia Day

National Mac Day

National Maya Day

National Only Child Day

National Radiologic & Imaging Nurses Day

National Redemption Day (Liberia)

National Shagging Day

National Silvia Day

Nicki Day

Pan Day (Japan)

Portable Typewriter Day 

Reach As High As You Can Day

Russian Cosmonaut Day

Selena Day (Texas)

Single Mother Appreciation Day

Songkran begins (Thailand) [Extra day added in 2018]

Teak Awareness Day

Walk On Your Wild Side Day

Wear a Star Day

World Hamster Day

Yuri's Night (International)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Colorado Pint Day

National Buy a Loaf of Bread Day

National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day

National Licorice Day

2nd Friday in April

Audubon Day [2nd Friday]

Fast and Prayer Day (Liberia) [2nd Friday]

Fry Day (Pastafarian; Fritism) [Every Friday]

National Dive Bar Day [2nd Friday] (Also 7.7)

Teal Day [2nd Friday]

Independence & Related Days

Halifax Independence Day (North Carolina)

Nye (a.k.a. Republic of Nye, f.k.a. Nye County; Declared; 2022) [unrecognized]

Tuposian Empire (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]

New Year’s Days

Sinhala New Year’s Day (Sri Lanka)

Festivals Beginning April 12, 2024

Atlanta Dogwood Festival (Atlanta, Georgia) [thru 4.14]

Atlantic City Beer & Music Fest (Atlantic City, New Jersey) [thru 4.13]

Bone Sucking’ Sauce Peak City Pig Fest (Apex, North Carolina) [thru 4.13]

Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (Indio, California) [thru 4.14]

Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) [thru 4.13]

Moo, Brew & ‘Que Music Fest (Charlotte, North Carolina) [thru 4.14]

Orange Bowl Food and Wine Celebration (Fort Lauderdale, Florida)

Paris Book Festival (Paris, France) [thru 4.14]

Pear Blossom Festival (Medford, Oregon) [thru 4.13]

Ponchatoula Strawberry Festival (Ponchatoula, Louisiana) [thru 4.14]

Potent Strawberry Festival (Potent, Texas) [thru 4.14]

Rhododendron Festival (Hiawassee, Georgia) [thru 5.12]

St. Elias Food & Cultural Festival (Birmingham, Alabama) [thru 4.13]

San Joaquin Asparagus festival (Stockton, California) [thru 4.14]

South Carolina Strawberry Festival (Fort Mill, South Carolina) [thru 5.4]

World grits Festival (St. George, South Carolina) [thru 4.13]

Feast Days

Adoniram Judson (Episcopal Church)

Alferius (Christian; Saint)

A. Ligator (Muppetism)

Angelo Carletti di Chivasso (Christian; Saint)

Beverly Cleary (Writerism)

Cerealia (Old Roman Goddess of Grain, Ceres)

Chu-Si-Niu (Birth Goddess; Taiwan; Everyday Wicca)

Ekādaśī Tithi (Hunduism)

Eratosthenes (Positivist; Saint)

Erkembode (Christian; Saint)

Hygeia Asteroid Day

International Day of Human Space Flight (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Jord’s Day (Pagan)

Julius I, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Naughty Noodle Day (Pastafarian)

Print Olive Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Robert Delaunay (Artology)

Saba (a.k.a. Sabas the Goth; Christian; Saint)

Teresa of the Andes (Christian; Saint)

Tom Clancy (Writerism)

Transmigration of the Soul (Celtic Book of Days)

Victor of Braga (Christian; Martyr)

William Pellicone (Artology)

Zeno of Verona (Christian; Saint)

Islamic Moveable Calendar Holidays

Eid al-Fitr celebrations continue (Islam)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because it’s Zombie Jesus Day.)

Premieres

Bend it Like Beckham (Film; 2002)

The Birds, by Tarjei Vesaas (Novel; 1957)

Bullwinkle Buys a Fence or Pickets Charge (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 361; 1965)

The Coup, by John Updike (Novel; 1979)

Desperately Seeking Susan (Film; 1985)

Detective Conan: The Fist of the Blue Sapphire (Anime Film; 2019)

The Emancipation of Mimi, by Mariah Carey (Album; 2005)

42 (Film; 2013)

Fritz the Cat (Animated Film; 1972)

Garth Brooks, by Garth Brooks (Album; 1989)

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (Film; 2024)

Grace Under Pressure, by Rush (Album; 1984)

Grand Hotel (Film; 1932)

The Hamlet, by William Faulkner (Novel; 1940)

The Hay Ride (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1937)

Hound Hunters (MGM Cartoon; 1947)

Impromptu (Film; 1991)

It’s All in the Stars (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1946)

It Would Be So nice, by Pink Floyd (Song; 1968)

I Want It That Way, by The Backstreet Boys (Song; 1999)

James and the Giant Peach (Animated Film; 1996)

Justice League vs. Teen Titans (WB Animated Film; 2016)

Lake Wobegon Days, by Garrison Keillor (Novel; 1985)

Little Toot, by Hardie Gramatky (Children’s Book; 1939)

Live Through This, by Hole (Album; 1994)

Mad Max (Film; 1979)

Missing Link (Animated Film; 2019)

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Film; 1936)

Mr. Tambourine Man, by The Byrds (Song; 1965)

Murmur, by R.E.M. (Album; 1983)

Oberon, by Carl Maria von Weber (Opera; 1826)

The Pebble and the Penguin (Animated Film; 1995)

Penguin Highway (Anime Film; 2019)

The Pink Pro (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1976)

Pluto’s Kid Brother (Disney Cartoon; 1946)

Rebecca (Film; 1940)

Rock Around the Clock, recorded by Bill Haley (Song; 1954)

A Rock for Rock or To Each His Stone (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 362; 1965)

Save Rock and Roll, by Fall Out Boy (Album; 2013)

Shake, Rattle and Roll, by Big Joe Turner (Song; 1954)

The Shadow of a Gunman, by Sean O’Casey (Play; 1923)

Sink Pink (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1965)

Smitten Kitten (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1952)

Strange Lady in Town (Film; 1955)

String Along in Pink (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1979)

The Sweetest Thing (Film; 2002)

Tender Is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Novel; 1934)

The Terminal Man, by Michael Crichton (Novel; 1972)

21 Jump Street (TV Series; 1987)

Wasting Light, by the Foo Fighters (Album; 2011)

Whoa, Be Gone! (WB MM Cartoon; 1958)

Woodchopper’s Baby, recorded by Woody Herman (Song; 1939)

Yertle the Turtle, by Dr. Seuss (Children’s Book; 1958)

The Zen of Seeing, by Frederick Franck (Philosophy Book; 1973)

Today’s Name Days

Herta, Julius, Zeno (Austria)

Davorka, Julije, Sofija, Viktor (Croatia)

Julius (Czech Republic)

Julius (Denmark)

Julius, Udo, Ullo, Ulrik, Uudo (Estonia)

Janna, Janni, Julia, Juliaana, Julius, Juuli (Finland)

Jules (France)

Herta, Julius, Zeno (Germany)

Akakios, Anthe, Anthi (Greece)

Gyula (Hungary)

Giulio, Zenone (Italy)

Ainis, Jūlijs (Latvia)

Damijonas, Galkantas, Julijus, Jūratė (Lithuania)

Julie, Julius (Norway)

Andrzej, Iwan, Juliusz, Siemiodrog, Wiktor, Wiktoriusz, Zenon, Zenona (Poland)

Sava (Romania)

Estera (Slovakia)

Constantino, Julio (Spain)

Julius, Liv (Sweden)

Destin, Destinee, Destiny, Dulce, Walker (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 103 of 2024; 263 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of week 15 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 27 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 4 (Bing-Wu)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 4 Nisan 5784

Islamic: 3 Shawwal 1445

J Cal: 13 Cyan; Sixday [13 of 30]

Julian: 30 March 2024

Moon: 18%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 19 Archimedes (4th Month) [Ptolemy]

Runic Half Month: Man (Human Being) [Day 3 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 25 of 92)

Week: 2nd Week of April

Zodiac: Aries (Day 23 of 31)

#calendar #Holidays

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Holidays 4.11

Holidays

Aliyah Day (Israel)

Barbershop Quartet Day

Battle of Rivas Anniversary Day (Costa Rica)

Buchenwald Liberation Day

Celebrate Teen Literature Day

Cigarettes are Hazardous to Your Health Day

Dandelion Day

Dina Ali Day

Dog Therapy Appreciation Day

Donkey Kong Day

8-Track Tape Day [also 9.15]

Ex-Muslim Day of Visibility

Festival of Unmediated Play

411 Day

Ghodejatra (Kathmandu Valley, Nepal)

Global Meetings industry Day

Global Youth Service Day begins (until 13th)

Good Deeds Day

International Day for Maternal Health & Rights

International Day of Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps

International Louie Louie Day

Juan Santamaria Day (Costa Rica)

Kiss Your Best Friend Day

Laotian New Year

Liberation Day (Uganda)

Love My School Day Margaret River Pro (Australia)

M&M Crisis in Space Day

Milk Day

Most Boring Day

National Board Game Day

National Bone Cancer Day (Indonesia)

National Clean Up Your Pantry Day

National Day of the Sea (Italy)

National Hit Your Friends Day

National James Day

National Living Donor Day

National Marketing Operations Appreciation Day

National Pet Day

National Portfolio Day

National Safe Motherhood Day (India)

Romaine Lettuce Day (French Republic)

Safe Motherhood Day (India)

Submarine Day [also 3.17]

Take Action for Libraries Day

Teach Your Children To Save Day

World Breathing Day

World Parkinson's Disease Day

Write Your Memoirs Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Cheese Fondue Day

King Gambrinus Day

National Poutine Day (Canada)

National Ranch Water Day

2nd Thursday in April

Global Remanufacturing Day [2nd Thursday]

World Civility Day [2nd Thursday]

Independence & Related Days

Quixotica (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Slitronia (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Uganda (Declared British Protectorate; 1894)

Festivals Beginning April 11, 2024

FIBO (Cologne, Germany) [thru 4.14]

French Quarter Festival (New Orleans, Louisiana) [thru 4.14]

Grand National (Liverpool, England) [thru 4.13]

The Joy of Sake (New York, New York)

London Coffee Festival (London, England) [thru 4.14]

The Masters Tournament (Augusta, Georgia) [thru 4.14]

Sandestin Wine Festival (Sandestin, Florida) [thru 4.14]

Sustainable One Dinner Series (Los Angeles, California)

Taste! (Chattanooga, Tennessee)

West Virginia Beef Expo (Weston, West Virginia) [thru 4.13]

Feast Days

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (Artology)

Aequinoctium Vernum XI (Pagan)

Aid, Abbot in Ireland (Christian; Saint)

Anahit (Goddess of Love & Lunar Power; Ancient Armenia)

Annual $30 Donation Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Antipas of Pergamum (Greek Orthodox Church)

Aristarchus (Positivist; Saint)

Barsanuphius (Christian; Saint)

Bartholomeus Strobel (Artology)

Breadmaking Day for Diana (Ancient Rome)

Cashier Anal Sex Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Cheese Fondue Day (Pastafarian)

Gambrinus (Christian; Saint) [beer, brewers] *

Gemma Galgani (Christian; Saint)

Godeberta (Christian; Saint)

Guthlac of Crowland (or Croyland; Christian; Saint)

George Selwyn (Anglicanism)

James-Baptiste Isabey (Artology)

John Nash (Artology)

Leo the Great, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Maccai (Christian; Saint)

Myrtle Day (Everyday Wicca)

Nehelenia (Matron of Sea-Farers; Celtic Book of Days)

Paul Henry (Artology)

Phoebe Furchester-Fuzz (Muppetism)

Stanislaus of Szczepanów (Christian; Saint)

Terribly Sensible Day (Pastafarian)

Islamic Moveable Calendar Holidays

Eid al-Fitr celebrations continue (Islam)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Fatal Day (Pagan) [8 of 24]

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [15 of 32]

Prime Number Day: 101 [26 of 72]

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Premieres

Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, by Piers Paul Read (True Story; 1974)

Anger Management (Film; 2003)

Archduke Trio, Piano Trio in B-flat Major, by Ludwig van Beethoven (Piano Trio; 1814)

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, by Mordecai Richler (Novel; 1959)

Be-Bop-a-Lula, recorded by Gene Vincent (Song; 1956)

Cat Trouble (Heckle & Jeckle Cartoon; 1947)

Don’t Trust the B—— in Apartment 23 (TV Series; 2012)

Edens Zero (Anime TV Series; 2021)

Factotum, by Charles Bukowski (Novel; 1975)

Follow That Dream (Film; 1962)

For Your Eyes Only, by Ian Fleming (Short Stories; 1959) [James Bond #8]

From Me to You, by The Beatles (Song; 1963)

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Novel; 1965)

Grosse Point Blank (Film; 1997)

I’m a Big Shot Now (WB MM Cartoon; 1936)

Jailbird, by Kurt Vonnegut (Novel; 1980)

Josie and the Pussycats (Film; 2001)

Joey Street, by Frances Parkinson Keyes (Novel; 1951)

Making Good (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1932)

Marty (Film; 1955)

My Friend Irma (Radio Series; 1947)

The Nevers (TV Series; 2021)

Nick Carter, Master Detective (Radio Series; 1943)

Off Beat (Film; 1986)

Oops!… I Did It Again, by Britney Spears (Song; 2000)

The Pink Panther (Film; 1964)

Rio 2 (Animated Film; 2014)

Riscio (a.k.a. The Double Take), by Ian Fleming (James Bond Short Story; 1960)

The Salzburg Connection, by Helen MacInnes (Novel; 1969)

Singin’ in the Rain (Film; 1952)

St. Matthew Passion, by Johann Sebastian Bach (Oratorio; 1727)

Strangers in the Night, recorded by Frank Sinatra (Song; 1966)

Supersonic, by Oasis (Song; 1994)

This Note’s For You, by Neil Young (Album; 1988)

Thomas Harris (Writerism)

Tokyo Revengers (Anime TV Series; 2021)

The Wall, by Marlen Haushofer (Novel; 1963)

Witch Crafty (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1955)

Today’s Name Days

Hildebrand, Stanislaus (Austria)

Filip, Izak, Stana, Stanislav (Croatia)

Izabela (Czech Republic)

Leo (Denmark)

Hurme, Hurmi, Urmi (Estonia)

Minea, Minka, Verna (Finland)

Stanislas (France)

Hildebrand, Reiner, Stanislaus (Germany)

Antipas (Greece)

Leó, Szaniszló (Hungary)

Gemma, Isacco, Stanislao (Italy)

Hermanis, Ira, Irida, Vilmars (Latvia)

Daugailė, Leonas, Vykintas (Lithuania)

Ulf, Ylva (Norway)

Filip, Herman, Jaromir, Leon, Marek (Poland)

Antipa, Calinic, Farmutie (Romania)

Július (Slovakia)

Estanislao, Gema, Gemma, Isaac (Spain)

Ulf, Ylva (Sweden)

Yaromyr (Ukraine)

Alger, Algernon, Ari, Ariel, Arielle, Arion, Leo, Leon, Leonel, Leona, Leontine, Lionel (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 102 of 2024; 264 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 15 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 26 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 3 (Yi-Si)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 3 Nisan 5784

Islamic: 2 Shawwal 1445

J Cal: 12 Cyan; Fryday [12 of 30]

Julian: 29 March 2024

Moon: 11%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 18 Archimedes (4th Month) [Eratosthenes]

Runic Half Month: Man (Human Being) [Day 2 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 24 of 92)

Week: 2nd Week of April

Zodiac: Aries (Day 22 of 31)

#calendar #Holidays

[brookston]

Holidays 4.10

Holidays

ASPCA Day

Black Hole Day

Commodore Perry Day

Day of the Builder (Azerbaijan)

Dust the Ceiling Fan Day

Encourage a Young Writer Day

Every Day Is Earth Day

410 Day

Frances Perkins Day

Global Work From Home Day

Godfather of Soul Day (South Carolina)

Golfer's Day

Humane Day

Hung Kings Festival (Vietnam)

Internal Troops Day (Tajikistan)

International Day of Sterilization Sciences

International Safety Pin Day

International Spy Day

Juan Santamaria Day (Costa Rica)

Judas Tree Day (French Republic

Lachesis Asteroid Day

Larry the Lobster Day (SNL)

National Biomechanics Day

National Bookmobile Day

National Calvin Day

National Erase Your Self-Negativity Day

National Farm Animals Day

National Femboy Day

National Hug Your Dog Day

National Library Outreach Day

National Love Our Children Day

National Nana Day

National Report IRS Tax Fraud Day

National Rubber Day (Thailand)

National Siblings Day

National Sprint Car Day

National Tamara Day

National Transplant Financial Coordinator Day

National Youth HIV and AIDS Awareness Day

Ram Navami (India, Nepal)

Safety Pin Day

Salvation Army Founder's Day

Semana Santa (Nicaragua)

Siblings Day

Son-in-Law Day

World Baton Twirling Day

World Day of West Syndrome

World Homeopathy Day

World Jaguar Day

World Sindhi Language Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Cinnamon Crescent Roll Day

Tipopils Day (Italy)

2nd Wednesday in April

International Day of Pink [2nd Wednesday]

International Provenance Research Day [2nd Wednesday]

National Bookmobile Day [Wednesday of 2nd Full Week]

Festivals Beginning April 10, 2024

Wisconsin Association of Meat Processors Conventtion (Middleton, Wisconsin) [thru 4.14]

Feast Days

Aequinoctium Vernum X (Pagan)

Alfredo Sauce Day (Pastafarian)

April 10th Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Bademus (Christian; Saint)

Ben Nicholson (Artology)

Chocolate Overindulgence Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Clicksnizz (Muppetism)

Cybelle's Day (Ancient Roman Great Mother Goddess)

Day of Bau (Goddess Mother of Ea; Ancient Babylonia)

Feast of Bau (Ancient Babylonia)

Feast of Rivers and Seas (Ancient Sumerian)

Feast of the Third Day of the Writing of the Book of the Law (Thelema)

Fulbert of Chartres (Christian; Saint)

Holy Mother Earth Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

James, Azadanus and Abdicius (Christian; Saints)

Jean-Baptiste Isabey (Artology)

Kenneth Noland (Artology)

Macarius of Ghent (Christian; Saint)

The Martyrs under the Danes (Christian; Martyrs)

Mechtildes (Christian; Saint)

Michael de Sanctis (Christian; Saint)

Mikael Agricola (Lutheran)

Paternus of Abdinghof (Christian; Saint)

Paul Theroux (Writerism)

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (Episcopal Church)

Pytheas (Positivist; Saint)

Sun Dances Day (Everyday Wicca)

William of Ockham (Anglicanism)

William Law (Anglicanism)

Islamic Moveable Calendar Holidays

Eid al-Fitr (Islam; 1 Shawwal) (a.k.a. …

Aïd al Fitr (Morocco)

Aid-El-Fithr (Burundi, Ivory Coast, Tunisia)

Aïd el-Fitr (Gabon, Mauritania)

Aïd el Fitre (Djibouti)

Aïd el Segheir (Burkina Faso, Mauritania)

Djouldé Soumaé (Cameroon)

Eid

Eid Al-Fater (Eritrea)

Eid Al Fetir (Ethiopia)

Eid al Fitr (Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates, Yemen)

Eid al-Fitr (Kosovo)

Eid-e-Fitr (Iran)

Eid’l Fitr (Philippines)

Eid-ul-Fiter (Bangladesh)

Eid-Ul-Fitr (Sierra Leone)

Eid ul-Fitr (Maldives)

Eidul Fitr (Pakistan)

Festival of Breaking the Fast

Hari Raya Aidil Fitri (Brunei)

Hari Raya Idul Fitri 1442 Hijriyah (Indonesia)

Hari Raya Puasa (Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, Malaysia, Singapore)

Idd el-Fitre (Uganda)

Iddi El Fitry (Tanzania)

Ide el Fitr (Comoros, Mayotte)

Id el Fitri (Nigeria)

idi Ramazon (Tajikistan)

Idulfitri (East timor)

Id-ul-Fitr (Parts of India)

Ied-Ul-Fitre (Suriname)

Iyd ul Fitr (Uzbekistan)

Korité (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo)

Kuthba-e-Ramzan (India)

Lesser Bajram (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina)

Lesser Eid

Ozara Baramy (Turkmenistan)

Orozo Ait (Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan)

Ramadan Bairam (Suda)

Ramazan (India)

Ramazan Bajram (Macedonia)

Ramazan Bayram (Azerbaijan, Cyprus)

Ramazan Bayramy (Turkey)

Ramazan Hayit (Uzbekistan)

Sugar Feast

Sweet Eid

Uraza-bairam (Kosovo)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Dismal Day (Unlucky or Evil Day; Medieval Europe; 7 of 24)

Egyptian Day (Unlucky Day; Middle Ages Europe) [7 of 24]

Fatal Day (Pagan) [7 of 24]

Unglückstage (Unlucky Day; Pennsylvania Dutch) [13 of 30]

Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [20 of 60]

Premieres

Th Baby Seal (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1941)

The Barber of Seville (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1944)

Birds of a Feather (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1965)

The Boundary Bounders or Some Like it Show (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 39; 1960)

The Carpet People, by Terry Pratchett (Novel; 1971)

City of Angels (Film; 1998)

Come On In! The Water’s Pink (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1968)

Daredevil (TV Series; 2015)

Deep Freeze Squeeze (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1964)

Donald’s Snow Fight (Disney Cartoon; 1942)

East of Eden (Film; 1955)

Elton John, by Elton John (Album; 1970)

Even in the Quietest Moments…, by Supertramp (Album; 1977)

Excalibur (Film; 1981)

Ex Machina (Film; 2015)

Fear of a Black Planet, by Public Enemy (Album; 1990)

Ferngully: The Last Rainforest (Animated Film; 1992)

For the Stars, by Elvis Costello with Anne Sofie Von Otter (Album; 2001)

A German Requiem, by Johannes Brahms (Choral & Orchestral Work; 1868)

Going to Blazes (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1933)

The Great Gatsby (Novel; 1925)

Hannah Montana: The Movie (Film; 2009)

Hound About (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1959)

House of Wax (Film; 1953) [1st Color 3-D Film]

The Infernal Machine, by Jean Cocteau (Play; 1934)

Kubla Khan (Poem; 1816)

Newsies (Film; 1992)

Observe and Report (Film; 2009)

People Are Funny (Radio Game Show; 1942)

People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, by A Tribe Called Quest (Album; 1990)

Pipeye, Pupeye, Poopeye, and Peepeye (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1942)

The Player (Film; 1992)

Psycho, by Robert Bloch (Novel; 1959)

Saint Louis Blues, by W.C. Handy (Song; 1925)

The Secret of My Success (Film; 1987)

She Was the Acrobat’s Daughter (WB MM Cartoon; 1937)

Sonic Temple, by The Cult (Album; 1989)

Titanic Requiem, by Robin Gibb (Orchestral Piece; 2012)

12 Angry Men (Film; 1957)

The Two Ronnies (UK TV Series; 1971)

Under the Volcano, by Malcolm Lowry (Novel; 1947)

The Washington Whirl or Rocky Off the Record (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 40; 1960)

Today’s Name Days

Ezechiel, Gernot, Holda (Austria)

Bonifacije, Ezekijel, Magdalena, Sunčica (Croatia)

Darja (Czech Republic)

Ezechiel (Denmark)

Hindrek, Imre, Indrek, Ints (Estonia)

Tero (Finland)

Fulbert (France)

Engelbert, Ezechiel, Gernot, Holda (Germany)

Anaksimenis, Dimosthenes, Dionisis, Epaminondas, Eteoklis, Fokion, Hercules, Herakles, Homer, Ifestion, Isocrates, Maximos, Miltiadis, Parmenion, Pelopidas, Pericles, Philopimin, Pindaros, Polyvios, Promitheas, Socrates, Sofocles, Themistoklis, Theofrastos, Thiseas, Timothy, Xenofon, Zinon (Greece)

Zsolt (Hungary)

Terenzio (Italy)

Anita, Anitra, Turaida, Zīle, Zilite (Latvia)

Agna, Apolonijus, Margarita, Mintautas (Lithuania)

Ingvald, Ingveig (Norway)

Antoni, Apoloniusz, Daniel, Ezechiel, Grodzisław, Henryk, Makary, Małgorzata, Michał, Pompejusz (Poland)

African, Maxim, Pompie, Terentie (Romania)

Igor (Slovakia)

Ezequiel, Miguel (Spain)

Ingvar, Ingvor (Sweden)

Caley, Callie, Cayla, Cayley, Ezechiel, Ezekiel, Ezequiel, Torey, Tori, Torrance, Torrence, Torrey, Tory (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 101 of 2024; 265 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 3 of week 15 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 25 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 2 (Jia-Chen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 2 Nisan 5784

Islamic: 1 Shawwal 1445

J Cal: 11 Cyan; Foursday [11 of 30]

Julian: 28 March 2024

Moon: 5%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 17 Archimedes (4th Month) [Aristarchus]

Runic Half Month: Man (Human Being) [Day 1 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 23 of 92)

Week: 2nd Week of April

Zodiac: Aries (Day 21 of 31)

Calendar Changes

Man (Human Being) [Half-Month 8 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 4.24)

Shawwāl [شَوَّال] (Islamic Calendar) [Month 10 of 12] (Raised)

#calendar #Holidays

[brookston]

Holidays 4.9

Holidays

Air Force Day (Indonesia)

All Over Again Day

A-ma Festival (a.k.a. Matsu; Pagan Macau) [Fishers, Sailors]

Anniversary of the German Invasion of Denmark (Denmark)

Appomattox Day

Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valor; Philippines)

Astronauts' Day

Baghdad Liberation Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)

Bataan Day (Araw ng Kagitingan a.k.a. Day of Valour; Philippines)

CSS Naked Day

Day of the Finnish Language (Finland)

Day of National Unity (Georgia)

Dry Milk Day

Easter Rising Anniversary Day (Ireland)

Free Cone Day

Hive Day (French Republic)

International Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) Day

International Songwriters Day

International Twitter Men’s Day

Jenkins' Ear Day

Jumbo Day

Liberation Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)

Listening Day

Maha Thingyan (Water Festival; Myanmar)

Maia Asteroid Day

Martyr’s Day (Tunisia)

Mikael Agricola (Finland)

Name Yourself Day

National Bodhi Day

National Cherish An Antique Day

National Chicken Little Awareness Day

National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day

National Health Day (Kiribati)

National Library Workers Day

National Mature Women’s Day

National Nuclear Technology Day (Iran)

National Unicorn Day

Observational of Nazi Occupation (Denmark)

Play True Day

Polling Day (Samoa)

Riot Grrl Day (Boston, Massachusetts)

Royal Thai Air Force Day (Thailand)

Seersucker Day

Sourdough Sam Day (San Francisco 49ers)

Special Forces Day

3-D Movie Day

Vimy Ridge Day (Canada)

Winston Churchill Day

World IoT Day

World Konkani Day (Goa)

Youth Homelessness Matters Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Black Beans and Rice Day

National Chinese Almond Cookie Day

National Gin & Tonic Day

National Pancit Day

National Pimento Cheese Day

2nd Tuesday in April

Be Kind to Lawyers Day [2nd Tuesday]

Identity Management Day [2nd Tuesday]

Independence & Related Days

Dita e Kushtetutes (Constitution Day; Kosovo)

Georgia (a.k.a. Independence Restoration Day; from USSR, 1991)

Mëcklewmburg-Wladir (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]

New Year’s Days

Hindu New Year (Indonesia)

Ougadi (Mauritius)

Telugu New Year (Puducherry, Tamil Nadu; India)

Ugadi (a.k.a. Yugadi or Samvatsarādi (Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Goa; India)

Festivals Beginning April 9, 2024

Brussels International Fantasy, Fantastic, Thriller and Science Fiction Film Festival (Brussels, Belgium) [thru 4.21]

Edinburgh Science Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland) [thru 4.24]

Food Northwest (Portland, Oregon) [thru 4.10]

Ice Cream Technology Conference (Clearwater, Florida) [thru 4.10]

Yogurt & Cultured Innovation Conference (Clearwater, Florida) [thru 4.10]

Feast Days

Amazon Goddess Day (Everyday Wicca)

Cereal Festival begins (Ancient Rome)

Charles Baudelaire (Writerism)

Charles E. Burchfield (Artology)

Cook Couscous Day (Pastafarian)

Day of the Amazon (Pagan)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Anglicanism, Lutheranism)

Dotto, Abbot of Orkney (Christian; Saint)

Eudoxus (Positivist; Saint)

Eupsychius (Christian; Saint)

Feast of A-Ma (Ancient Portuguese Goddess of Fisherman)

Feast of Jalal (Glory; Baha’i)

Feast of the Second Day of the Writing of the Book of the Law (Thelema)

Gaucherius (a.k.a. Gautier; Christian; Saint)

Hocktide (Ancient Saxons)

Hugh of Rouen (Christian; Saint)

Madrun (Celtic Book of Days)

Materiana (Christian; Saint)

Mary of Egypt (a.k.a. Mary of Cleophas; Christian; Saint)

Remembrance for Haakon Sigurdsson (Asatru/Norse/The Troth)

Tommy Georgiarides Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Uramar (Christian; Saint)

Verruca Day (Goblins Again; Shamanism)

Victor Vasarely (Artology)

Waltrude (Christian; Saint)

The Woodsman (Muppetism)

Yasurai Matsuri (Festival to Prevent Ill Health; Japan; Shinto)

Islamic Moveable Calendar Holidays

Eid al-Fitr (End of Ramadan; Islam; 30 Ramadan) (a.k.a. …

Eid al Fitr Holiday (Jordan, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, West Bank and Gaza, Yemen)

End of Ramadan Holiday (Egypt)

Ide el Fitr (Comoros)

id el Fitri (Nigeria)

Korité (Mali)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Nēmontēmi, Day 5 (of 5) [Aztec unlucky or fasting days, taking place between 4.5-4.18]

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [15 of 37]

Premieres

All the President’s Men (Film; 1976)

Au Clair de la Lune, recorded by inventor Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville (Song; 1860) [1st known recording of human voice]

Batman: Strange Days (WB Animated Film; 2014)

The Big Clock (Film; 1948)

Bodies, Rest & Motion (Film; 1993)

The Bored Cuckoo (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1948)

Date Night (Film; 2010)

The Day Lincoln Was Shot, by Jim Bishop (Book; 1955)

Ella Enchanted (Film; 2004)

Family Plot (Film; 1976)

Far Beyond Driven, by Pantera (Album; 1994)

Field and Scream (MGM Cartoon; 1955)

Fosse/Verdon (TV Mini-Series; 2019)

The Girl Next Door (Film; 2004)

Go (Film; 1999)

Happiness Is A Warm Puppy, by Charles M. Schulz (Cartoon Book; 1963)

How Do You Live?, by Genzaburo Yoshino (Novel; 1937)

Nashville Skyline, by Bob Dylan (Album; 1969)

Never Been Kissed (Film; 1999)

Nights in the Garden of Spain, by Manuel de Falla (Orchestral Work; 1916)

Parks and Recreation (TV Series; 2009)

Patriotic Pooches (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1943)

Reckoning, by R.E.M. (Album; 1984)

The Sandlot (Film; 1993)

Scarface (Film; 1932)

Single & Single, by John le Carré (Novel; 1999)

Time (West End Musical; 1986)

Voltaire in Love, by Nancy Mitford (Novel; 1958)

Today’s Name Days

Casilda, Waltraud (Austria)

Bozhan, Bozhana, Violeta, Vurban, Vurbana, Yasen, Yasna, Yavor, Zdravka, Zdravko (Bulgaria)

Celestina, Demetrije, Marija, Zdenko (Croatia)

Dušan (Czech Republic)

Otto, Procopius (Denmark)

Iiris, Kaira, Kaire, Kairi (Estonia)

Eeli, Eelis, Elia, Elias, Eliel, Eljas (Finland)

Gautier (France)

Casilda, Hugo, Waltraud (Germany)

Iosif, Sifis, Vaia, Vaios (Greece)

Erhard (Hungary)

Demetrio (Italy)

Valērija, Valtrauta, Varpa, Zubite (Latvia)

Aurimas, Dalia, Kleopas, Rasa (Lithuania)

Rannveig, Rønnaug (Norway)

Dobrosława, Dymitr, Maja, Marceli, Matron (Poland)

Eupsihie (Romania)

Milena (Slovakia)

Casilda, Demetrio (Spain)

Ottilia, Otto (Sweden)

Cortney, Courtney, Kortney, Kourtney (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 100 of 2024; 266 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 15 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 24 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 1 (Guy-Mao)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 1 Nisan 5784

Islamic: 30 Ramadan 1445

J Cal: 10 Cyan; Threesday [10 of 30]

Julian: 27 March 2024

Moon: 1%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 16 Archimedes (4th Month) [Pytheas]

Runic Half Month: Ehwaz (Horse) [Day 14 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 22 of 92)

Week: 2nd Week of April

Zodiac: Aries (Day 20 of 31)

Calendar Changes

Nīsān (a.k.a. Abib) [נִיסָן‎] (Hebrew Calendar) [Month 1 of 12]

桃月 [Táoyuè] (Chinese Lunisolar Calendar) [Month 3 of 12] (Peach Month) [Earthly Branch: Dragon Month] (Sānyuè; Third Month)

#calendar #Holidays

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Holidays 4.8

Holidays

Aerosol Day

All is Ours Day

Baghdad Liberation Day (Kurdistan)

Bloating Prevention Day

Colorism Awareness Day

Counter Stool Memorial Day

Cushing’s Disease Awareness Day

Cuti Bersama (Indonesia)

DAB Day (Draw A Bird Day)

Day of Military Commissariat Employees (Belarus)

Day of Silence

Day of Valor (Araw ng Kagtingan; Philippines) 

Dog Farting Awareness Day

Draw a Picture of a Bird Day

Drug Control Authority Workers’ Day (Kyrgyzstan)

Economist Day (Tajikistan)

Geranium Day (England)

Ghodejatra (Nepal)

Grand Ivy Day

Grand National Ladies Day (UK)

Ground Ivy Day

Hammerin’ Hank Day

International Bird Day

International Day of Pink

International Feng Shui Awareness Day

International Pageant Day

International Romani Day (a.k.a. International Day of the Roma)

Ja Morant Day (South Carolina)

Martyrs’ Day (Tunisia)

Ministry of Defense Day (Thailand)

More Cowbell Day

Mule Day

National Animation Day (Russia)

National Arcade Day

National Banjo Day

National Best in the World Day

National Catch and Release Day

National Dog Fighting Awareness Day

National Idiot Day

National Plitvice Lakes Day (Croatia)

Peanuts-Kids-Baseball Day

Polling Day Eve (Samoa)

Pygmy Hippo Day

Radish Day (French Republic)

Rex Manning Day (in “Empire Records”)

Right to Read Day

Rumenians’ Independence Day (Sweden)

Sealing the Frost (Cuchumatan Indians; Guatemala)

Shiatsu Day

Shiba Inu Day (Japan)

Step into the Spotlight! Day

Trading Cards for Grown-Ups Day

Tutor Appreciation Day

Twin Peaks Day

World Mixed Martial Arts Day

World Neurosurgeon’s Day

Zoo Lovers' Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Milk in Glass Bottles Day

National Empañada Day

2nd Monday in April

Global Day of Action on Military Spending [2nd Monday]

National Lineman Appreciation Day [2nd Monday]

Weekly Holidays beginning April 8 (2nd Week)

Ora;, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week [thru 4.14]

Take Your Poet to School Week [thru 4.12 from 1st Monday]

Independence & Related Days

Australis (a.k.a. Grand Duchy of Australis; Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Rumenians' Independence Day (Romernas Nationaldag; Sweden)

Festivals Beginning April 8, 2024

Children’ Book Fair (Bologna, Italy) [thru 4.11]

Electric Mountain Festival (Solden, Austria) [thru 4.12]

NFRA Executive Conference (Tempe, Arizona) [thru 4.10]

Seatrade Cruise Global (Miami, Florida) [thru 4.11]

Feast Days

Ædesius (Christian; Martyr)

Allen Butler Talcott (Artology)

Anne Ayres (Episcopal Church (USA))

Apollonius (Positivist; Saint)

B. Albert, Patriarch of Jerusalem (Christian; Saint)

Barbara Kingsolver (Writerism)

Buddha's Birthday (Mahāyāna Buddhists; Japan)

Constantina (Christian; Saint)

Cornelius de Heem (Artology)

Day of Amon-Ra (Pagan)

Dionysius of Corinth (Christian; Saint)

Feast of the Hummingbird (Aztec)

Feast of the Three Days of the Writing of the Book of the Law begins (Thelema)

Freedom of Religion Day (Everyday Wicca)

Geronimo Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Hana Matsuri (Flower Festival on Buddha’s Birthday; Japan)

Juan van der Hamen (Artology)

Julie Billiart of Namur (Christian; Saint)

Kanbutsu-e (Buddha’s Birthday; Japan)

Kiki the Rattlesnake (Muppetism)

Lazarus Saturday (Orthodox Christian)

Nuzzle Quran (Malaysia)

Odd Nerdrum (Artology)

Our Lady of Good Counsel (Christian)

Perpetuus of Tours (Christian; Saint)

Prayer for Clarity Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Red Wine Day (Pastafarian)

Walter of Pontoise (Christian; Saint)

William Augustus Muhlenberg (Episcopal Church (USA))

Zoo Day (Pastafarian)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Nēmontēmi, Day 4 (of 5) [Aztec unlucky or fasting days, taking place between 4.5-4.18]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [19 of 60]

Premieres

All the Old Knives (Film; 2022)

American: The Bill Hicks Story (Documentary Film; 2011)

The Apocrypha (Religious Text received as Canonical by Catholic Church; 1546)

Bars and Stripes Forever (WB MM Cartoon; 1939)

The Boss (Film; 2016)

Box Car Bandit (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1957)

The Century, by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster (Book; 1999)

The Clash, by The Clash (Album; 1977)

David and Goliath, by Malcolm Gladwell (Book; 2014)

Destitively Bonnaroo, by Dr. John (Album; 1974)

Father Noah’s Ark (Disney Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1933)

Fever Pitch (Film; 2005)

The Fireman (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1931)

From Russia, with Love, by Ian Fleming (Novel; 1957) [James Bond #5]

The Gambler (TV movie; 1980)

Hanna (Film; 2011)

Have Gun, Can’t Travel (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1967)

Inspector George Gently (UK TV Series; 2007)

Jerry the Lion (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1950)

Just Dance, by Lady Gaga (Song; 2008)

Killing Eve (TV Series; 2018)

Kingdom (BBC TV Series; 2007)

La Gioconda, by Amiliare Ponchielli (Opera; 1876)

The Little Engine That Could, by Watty Piper (Children’s Book; 1930)

Lucky Star (Anime TV Series; 2007)

The Mansion Cat (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 2001)

Miss Lonelyhearts, by Nathanael West (Novella; 1933)

Mr. Right (Film; 2016)

On the Heights of Despair, by Emil M. Cioran (Philosophical Book; 1934)

The Organ Grinder (WB MM Cartoon; 1933)

Sea Salts (Disney Cartoon; 1949)

The $64,000 Question (Radio Quiz Show; 1955)

Smash by The Offspring (Album; 1994)

The Smurfs Springtime Special (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Special; 1982)

Soul Surfer (Film; 2011)

Toys in the Attic, by Aerosmith (Album; 1975)

The Trouble With Being Born, by Emil M. Cioran (Philosophy Book; 1973)

Twin Peaks (TV Series; 1990)

The Unusuals (TV Series; 2009)

Von Drake in Spain (Disney Animated TV Special; 1962)

Where Did Our Love Go, recorded by The Supremes (Song; 1964)

Ye Olden Days (Disney Cartoon; 1933)

Today’s Name Days

Beate, Rose-Marie, Walter (Austria)

Lazar, Lazo (Bulgaria)

Diogen, Dionizije, Klement, Timotej (Croatia)

Ema, Emanuel (Czech Republic)

Janus (Denmark)

Julia, Juuli, Juulika, Lia, Liana, Liane (Estonia)

Suoma, Suometar (Finland)

Julie (France)

Beate, Rose-Marie, Walter (Germany)

Lazaros (Greece)

Dénes (Hungary)

Alberto, Dionigi, Walter (Italy)

Dana, Danute, Dziedra, Edgars, Žanete (Latvia)

Dionizas, Girtautas, Julija, Skirgailė (Lithuania)

Asle, Atle (Norway)

Apolinary, Cezary, Cezaryna, Dionizy, Gawryła, January, Radosław, Sieciesława (Poland)

Agav, Irodion, Lazar, Ruf (Romania)

Alla, Anna (Russia)

Albert (Slovakia)

Amancio, Dionisio, Julia (Spain)

Hemming, Nadja, Tanja (Sweden)

Gillian, Jill, Jillian, Jolyon, Julia, Julian, Juliana, Julianna, Julianne, Julie, Julien, Juliet, Juliette, Julio, Julissa, Julius (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 99 of 2024; 267 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of week 15 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 23 of 28]

Chinese: Month 2 (Ding-Mao), Day 30 (Ren-Yin)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 29 Adair II 5784

Islamic: 29 Ramadan 1445

J Cal: 9 Cyan; Twosday [9 of 30]

Julian: 26 March 2024

Moon: 0%: New Moon

Positivist: 15 Archimedes (4th Month) [Eudoxus]

Runic Half Month: Ehwaz (Horse) [Day 14 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 21 of 92)

Week: 2nd Week of April

Zodiac: Aries (Day 19 of 31)

#calendar #Holidays

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Holidays 4.7

Holidays

Billie Holiday Day

Deceased Submariners Remembrance Day (Russia)

Empowered Women Entrepreneurs Day

Festival of Commodity Fetishism

Flag Day (Slovenia)

Freedom of Speech Day (Taiwan)

Genocide Memorial Day (Rwanda)

Global Stroke Survivors Day

Green Shirt Day (Canada)

Hemlock Day (French Republic)

Holocaust Remembrance Day

Homage to the Belgian Soldiers Deceased During Peace-Keeping Missions (Belgium)

International Beaver Day

International Bird Migration Day (Costa Rica)

International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Rwanda Genocide (UN)

International Snailpaper Day

International Tiny Day

Internet’s Symbolic Birthday

Jet Pack Day

Journalist’s Day (Brazil)

Karume Day (Tanzania/Zimbabwe)

Let Someone Else Clean Day

Metric System Day

Motherhood and Beauty Day (Armenia)

National Childhelp Day of Hope

National Girl Me Too Day

National Making the First Move Day

National Nico Day

National No Housework Day

National Pet Health Insurance Day

National Schwa Day

National Slap Ass Day

No Housework Day

Press Day (Brazil)

Runet Day

Public Television Day

Seattle Rock Day

South Pacific Day

Tutsi Genocide Memorial Day (Rwanda)

Veteran’s Day (Belgium)

William Wordsworth Day

Women’s Day (Mozambique)

Wood Anemone Day

World CBT Day

World Health Day (UN)

World Health Organization Day (UN)

World Marbles Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Beer is Back Day (a.k.a. Legal Beer Day)

Brew Year's Day

Coffee Cake Day

National Beer Day

New Beer's Day

Session Beer Day

1st Sunday in April

A Drop of Water is a Grain of Gold (Turkmenistan) [1st Sunday]

English Breakfast Day (UK) [1st Sunday]

Geologists Day (Russia) [1st Sunday]

Mule Day (Columbia, Tennessee) [1st Sunday]

Parents & Children’s Day (Florida) [1st Sunday]

White Orchid Day [1st Sunday]

World Meditation Day [1st Sunday of Every Month]

World Transformation Day [1st Sunday]

Weekly Holidays beginning April 7 (2nd Week)

Bat Appreciation Week [1st Full Week]

Be Kind to Spiders Week [1st Full Week]

Community Garden Week (UK) [1st Full Week]

Explore Your Career Options Week [1st Full Week]

International Trombone Week [thru 4.14]

National Blue-Ribbon Week [1st Full Week]

National Dog Bite Prevention Week [thru 4.13]

National Integrated Respiratory Care Week

National Library Week [thru 4.13]

National Medic Alert Week [1st Full Week]

National Public Health Week [1st Full Week]

National Wildlife Week [thru 4.13]

National Window Safety Week [1st Full Week]

Independence & Related Days

Day of the People’s April Revolution (Kyrgyzstan)

Pasargada (Declared; 2001) [unrecognized]

Republika Srpska (Proclaimed; 1992)

Rhodesia (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]

Festivals Beginning April 7, 2024

Feira de Abril (April Fair; Latin America)

Kanamara Matsuri (Kawasaki, Japan)

San Francisco International Chocolate Salon (San Francisco, California)

ShalomFest (Greenville, South Carolina)

Southland Bluegrass Music Festival (Immokalee, Florida)

Feast Days

Aequinoctium Vernum IX (Pagan)

Aibert of Crespin (Christian; Saint)

Alexander Rawlins (Christian; Saint)

Aphraates (Christian; Saint)

Aybert (Christian; Saint)

Blajini (a.k.a. Kindly Ones; Rumania; Everyday Wicca)

Brett Whiteley (Artology)

Brynach (Christian; Saint)

Celsus (a.k.a. Ceallach; Christian; Saint)

Columbus Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Diophantus (Positivist; Saint)

Edward Oldcorne and Ralph Ashley (Christian; Saint)

Find Your Inner Wombat Day (Pastafarian)

Finian of Ireland (Christian; Saint)

Frederick Carl Frieseke (Artology)

Galahad (Muppetism)

George the Younger of Mitylene (Christian; Saint)

Gerrit Dou (Artology)

Gino Severini (Artology)

Goddess Karna's Day (Asatru/Slavic Pagan)

Hegesippus (Christian; Saint)

Henry Walpole (Christian; Saint)

Hermann Joseph (Christian; Saint)

Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (a.k.a. John Baptist de la Salle; Christian; Saint)

Notker the Stammerer (Christian; Blessed)

Pandia (Festival of Zeus; Ancient Greece)

Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow (Eastern Orthodox Church, Episcopal Church (USA))

Spring Lessons Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

The Viaticum of Llefoed Wynebglawr (Celtic Book of Days)

Christian Liturgical Holidays

Feast Day of the Divine Mercy (a.k.a. Divine Mercy Sunday) [2nd Sunday of Easter]

Low Sunday [Sunday after Easter]

Octave of Easter [2nd Sunday of Easter]

Orthodox Christian Liturgical Calendar Holidays

Annunciation (Orthodox Christianity)

Evangelismos (Greek Orthodox)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Nēmontēmi, Day 3 (of 5) [Aztec unlucky or fasting days, taking place between 4.5-4.18]

Prime Number Day: 97 [25 of 72]

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 16 of 60)

Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [18 of 60]

Premieres

Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1938)

All the President’s Men (Film; 1976)

Bad Boys (Film; 1995)

Bad News Bears (Film; 1976)

A Beer Tale (Film; 2012)

A Bone for a Bone (WB LT Cartoon; 1951)

The Brave Tin Soldier (Ub Iwerks ComicColor Cartoon; 1934)

Bugs Bunny’s Easter Special (DePatie-Freleng Animated TV Special; 1977)

Come & Get It, by Selena Gomez (Song; 2013)

The Conversation (Film; 1974)

The Cuckoo Bird (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1939)

Dead Calm (Film; 1989(

The Dream Team (Film; 1989)

For You, by Prince (Album; 1978)

Freaky Friday Mary Rodgers (YA Novel; 1972)

The Frog and the Princess (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1944)

Giddy-Yapping (Phantasies Cartoon; 1944)

A Goofy Movie (Animated Film; 1995)

I’m Just Wild About Jerry (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1965)

Indecent Proposal (Film; 1993)

Jerky Turkey (MGM Cartoon; 1945)

Jerry-Go-Round (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1966)

Jerry’s Cousin (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1951)

King Kong (Film; 1933)

The Little Mermaid, by Hans Christian Andersen (Fairy Tale; 1837)

The Lone Chipmunks (Disney Cartoon; 1954)

Look Sharp!, by Joe Jackson (Album; 1979)

Major League (Film; 1989)

Popular Melodies (Betty Boop Cartoon; 1933)

Prime Suspect (UK TV Series; 1991)

Project Reject (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1969)

Rock ’n’ Rodent (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1967)

Rock & Roll Dance Party with Alan Freed (Music TV Series; 1956)

Roxanne, by the Police (Song; 1978)

The Sandlot (Film; 1993)

Scooby-Doo! And the Seven Samurai (WB Animated Film; 2009)

The Snow Goose, by Paul Gallico (Novel; 1941)

South Pacific (Broadway Musical; 1949)

St. John Passion, by Johann Sebastian Bach (Oratorio; 1724)

St. Louis Blues (Film; 1958)

Street Songs, by Rick James (Album; 1981)

Symphony No. 1, by Oliver Knudsen (Symphony; 1968)

Symphony No. 3, “Eroica,” by Ludwig Van Beethoven (Symphony; 1805)

Thrills, by Andrew Bird with Bowl of Fire (Album; 1998)

The Ugly Duckling (Disney Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1939)

Whitesnake, by Whitesnake (Album; 1987)

Wonder Dog (Disney Cartoon; 1950)

Wuthering Heights (Film; 1939)

Your Name (Anime Film; 2017)

The Yum Yums: The Day Things Went Sour (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Special; 1990)

Today’s Name Days

Johann (Austria)

Herman, Ivan, Teodor (Croatia)

Herman, Hermína (Czech Republic)

Egesippus (Denmark)

Allan, Allo (Estonia)

Ahvo, Allan (Finland)

Clotaire, Jean-Baptiste (France)

Johann Baptist, Ralph (Germany)

Herman (Hungary)

Cristiano, Ermanno, Giovanni Battista (Italy)

Helmuts, Zina, Zinaīda (Latvia)

Donata, Hermanas, Kantautė, Minvydas (Lithuania)

Oddveig, Oddvin (Norway)

Donat, Donata, Epifaniusz, Hegezyp, Herman, Przecław, Rufin (Poland)

Caliopie (Romania)

Larissa (Russia)

Zoltán (Slovakia)

Juan (Spain)

Irma, Irmelin (Sweden)

Armand, Armanda, Armando, Armin, Armon, Erma, Herman, Herminia, Hermione, Irma (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 98 of 2024; 268 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 14 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 22 of 28]

Chinese: Month 2 (Ding-Mao), Day 29 (Xin-Chou)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)

Hebrew: 28 Adair II 5784

Islamic: 28 Ramadan 1445

J Cal: 8 Cyan; Oneday [8 of 30]

Julian: 25 March 2024

Moon: 2%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 14 Archimedes (4th Month) [Apollonius]

Runic Half Month: Ehwaz (Horse) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 20 of 92)

Week: 2nd Week of April

Zodiac: Aries (Day 18 of 31)

#calendar #Holidays