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Birthdays 4.27
Beer Birthdays
Adam Gettelman (1847)
John Maier (1955)
Gwen Conley (1966)
Latiesha Cook (2004)
Five Favorite Birthdays
Rogers Hornsby; St. Louis Cardinals 2B (1896)
Walter Lantz; animator, Woody Woodpecker creator (1900)
George Petty; artist, illustrator (1894)
Kate Pierson; rock keyboardist, singer (1948)
Sergei Prokofiev; Russian composer (1891)
Famous Birthdays
Frank Abagnale Jr.; security consultant & criminal (1948)
Philip Abelson; physicist (1913)
Irving Adler; mathematician 1913)
Anouk Aimee; actor (1932)
Earl Anthony; bowler (1938)
Ludwig Bemelmans; Italian-American author & illustrator (1898)
Judy Carne; comedian (1939)
Wallace Carothers; chemist & inventor of nylon (1896)
Jenna Coleman; English actress (1986)
Cecil Day-Lewis; Anglo-Irish poet & author (1904)
Sandy Dennis; actor (1937)
Sheena Easton; pop singer (1959)
Charles Emanuel I; king of Sardinia (1701)
Ace Frehley; rock musician (1951)
Edward Gibbon; historian, writer (1737)
Ruth Glick; author (1942)
Ulysses S. Grant; 18th U.S. President (1822)
Pete Ham; rock musician (1947)
Sally Hawkins; English actress (1976)
Casey Kasem; DJ (1932)
Jim Keltner; rock drummer (1942)
Theodor Kittelsen; Norwegian painter & illustrator (1857)
Jack Klugman; actor (1922)
Jules Lemaître; French playwright (1853)
Lizzo; singer and rapper (1988)
Samuel F.B. Morse; code inventor (1791)
Ann Peebles; soul singer-songwriter (1947)
Dave Peel; rock musician (1947)
Alan Reynolds; English painter (1926)
Enos Slaughter; St. Louis Cardinals RF (1916)
Herbert Spencer; English philosopher (1820)
James Samuel Stone; British historian (1852)
Yoshihiro Togashi; Japanese illustrator (1966)
Friedrich von Flotow; German composer (1812)
August Wilson; playwright (1945)
Mary Wollstonecraft; writer, feminist (1759)
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Beer Events 4.27
Events
Anton Landgrebe patented an Apparatus for Dispensing Beverages (1915)
Beer became legal in Michigan after Prohibition (1933)
Abraham Klein patented a Brewing Method Using Albedo in Wort (1948)
August A. Busch Jr. named CEO of Anheuser-Busch (1971)
Brewery Openings
Grizzly Paw Pub & Brewing (Canada; 1996)
Restaurant Bunarin (Japan; 1999)
Rockyard Brewing (Colorado; 1999)
Shimane Beer Co. (Japan; 1999)
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Events 4.27 (after 1970)
1974 – 109 people are killed in a plane crash near Pulkovo Airport.
1976 – Thirty-seven people are killed when American Airlines Flight 625 crashes at Cyril E. King Airport in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.
1978 – John Ehrlichman, a former aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon, is released from the Federal Correctional Institution, Safford, Arizona, after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
1978 – The Saur Revolution begins in Afghanistan, ending the following morning with the murder of Afghan President Mohammed Daoud Khan and the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
1978 – Willow Island disaster: In the deadliest construction accident in United States history, 51 construction workers are killed when a cooling tower under construction collapses at the Pleasants Power Station in Willow Island, West Virginia.
1986 – The city of Pripyat and surrounding areas are evacuated due to Chernobyl disaster.
1987 – The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (and his wife, Elisabeth, who had also been a Nazi) from entering the US, charging that he had aided in the deportations and executions of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
1989 – The April 27 demonstrations, student-led protests responding to the April 26 Editorial, during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
1992 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed.
1992 – Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
1992 – The Russian Federation and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
1993 – Most of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon en route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal.
1994 – South African general election: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force.
2005 – Airbus A380 aircraft has its maiden test flight.
2006 – Construction begins on the Freedom Tower (later renamed One World Trade Center) in New York City.
2007 – Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.
2007 – Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem.
2011 – The 2011 Super Outbreak devastates parts of the Southeastern United States, especially the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. Two hundred five tornadoes touched down on April 27 alone, killing more than 300 and injuring hundreds more.
2012 – At least four explosions hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk with at least 27 people injured.
2018 – The Panmunjom Declaration is signed between North and South Korea, officially declaring their intentions to end the Korean conflict.
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Events 4.27 (before 1970)
247 – Philip the Arab marks the millennium of Rome with a celebration of the ludi saeculares.
395 – Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of the more powerful Roman empresses of Late Antiquity.
711 – Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
1296 – First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.
1509 – Pope Julius II places the Italian state of Venice under interdict.
1521 – Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapulapu.
1539 – Official founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (nowadays Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.
1565 – Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
1595 – The relics of Saint Sava are incinerated in Belgrade on the Vračar plateau by Ottoman Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha; the site of the incineration is now the location of the Church of Saint Sava, one of the largest Orthodox churches in the world
1650 – The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army from Orkney invades mainland Scotland but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
1667 – Blind and impoverished, John Milton sells Paradise Lost to a printer for £10, so that it could be entered into the Stationers' Register.
1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" part of the Marines' Hymn).
1813 – War of 1812: American troops capture York, the capital of Upper Canada, in the Battle of York.
1861 – American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
1906 – The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.
1909 – Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
1911 – The Second Canton Uprising took place in Guangzhou, Qing China but was suppressed.
1927 – Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.
1936 – The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
1941 – World War II: German troops enter Athens.
1945 – World War II: The last German formations withdraw from Finland to Norway. The Lapland War and thus, World War II in Finland, comes to an end and the Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn photograph is taken.
1945 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.
1953 – Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defects with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
1967 – Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day.
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Holidays 4.26
Holidays
Activity Advisor Appreciation Day
Alien Day
Arbor Day (Germany)
Audubon Day
Australian Appreciation Day
Beatrix Asteroid Day
Cape Henry Day (Virginia)
Chuvash Language Day (Russia)
Common Columbine Day (French Republic)
Confederate Memorial Day (Florida)
Day of Remembrance of the Chernobyl Tragedy (Belarus)
Festival of Individual Sovereignty
Football Day (Kazakhstan)
426 Day
General Prayer Day (Denmark)
Get Organized Day
Help a Horse Day
High School Radio Day
Hug a Friend Day
Hug An Australian Day
Hug a Prom Sponsor
Huntingdonshire Day (England)
Internal Medicine Research Day
International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day (UN)
International Choerm Day
International Day of Humor
International Day of the Penis
International Flamingo Day
International Seeds Day
International Shared Parenting Day
Lesbian Visibility Day
Lily of the Valley Day (French Republic)
Memorial Day of Radiation Accidents and Catastrophes (Russia)
National Ai Day
National Audubon Day
National Dissertation Day
National Drug Take Back Day
National Gabriel Day
National Garage Day
National Hand Holding Day
National Help a Horse Day
National Hit It From the Back Day
National Jason Day
National Kids and Pets Day
National No Makeup Day
National Ranboo Day
National South Dakota Day
Old Permic Alphabet Day
Parental Alienation Awareness Day
Poetry and the Creative Mind Day
Prayer Day (Faroe Islands; Greenland)
Read Me Day
Regional Autonomy Day (Indonesia)
Remember Your First Kiss Day
Resistance Day (Day of the Uprising Against the Occupying Forces; Slovenia) [26th Unless a Sunday, then 27th]
Richter Scale Day
Secretaries’ Day (Colombia)
Self-Aware Universe Day
Shared Parenting Day (Kentucky)
Shuffleboard Day
Static Cling Day
Studio 54 Day
Sultan’s Day (Malaysia)
Tartar Language Day
Underground Nuclear Test Day
Union Day (Tanzania)
Vallenato Legend Festival begins (Colombia)
Venus Day
Visakhabousa Day (Laos)
Wallabee Day
World Burlesque Day
World Intellectual Freedom Day
World Intellectual Property Day (UN)
World Pilots’ Day
YMCA Healthy Kids Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Beer Autism Hope Day
International Macaroni Day
National Pretzel Day
4th & Last Friday in April
Arbor Day [Last Friday]
Arbrewday [Last Friday]
Childcare Professionals Day [Last Friday]
Children’s Memorial Flag Day [Last Friday]
Day of Dialogue [Last Friday]
Flashback Friday [Every Friday]
Friendship Friday [Last Friday]
Fry Day (Pastafarian; Fritism) [Every Friday]
Hairball Awareness Day [Last Friday]
Hooky Day (Argentina) [Last Friday]
International Viognier Day [Last Friday]
National Historic Marker Day [Last Friday]
National Skipping Day (UK) [4th Friday]
Swiss Beer Day (Switzerland) [Last Friday]
Undiagnosed Children’s Day (UK) [Last Friday]
World Meningitis Day [4th Friday]
World Women’s Wellness Day [Last Friday]
Weekly Holidays beginning April 26 (4th Week)
Global Youth Service Days [Last Weekend] (thru 4.28)
Interstate Mullet Toss [Last Weekend] (thru 4.28)
National Dream Hotline [Last Weekend] (thru 4.28)
National Pie Championships [Last Weekend] (thru 4.28)
Independence & Related Days
Aetosia (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]
Karisradd (Declared; 2013) [unrecognized]
Kotland (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]
Republic of Alba (Declared; 1796) [lasted 2 days]
Roskya (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]
Tanzania (Union Day; Created by Zanzibar and Tanganyika merger; 1964)
New Year’s Days
New Year’s Seed Sowing Ceremony (Goddess of Fertility; Sierra Leone)
Festivals Beginning April 26, 2024
Asheville Spring Herb Festival (Asheville, North Carolina) [thru 4.28]
Astoria-Warrenton Crab, Seafood & Wine Festival (Astoria, Oregon) [thru 4.28]
Big Island Chocolate Festival (Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel; Hawaii) [thru 4.27]
Brewgaloo (Raleigh, North Carolina)) [thru 4.27]
Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 4.28]
Chicken Fried Steak Festival (Lamesa, Texas) [thru 4.28]
Clinton-Hickman County Spring Chicken Festival (Clinton, Kentucky) [thru 4.27]
Colleton County Rice Festival (Walterboro, South Carolina) [thru 4.27]
Fiddler’s Frolic [thru 4.28]
Georgia State Fair, Spring (Metro Atlanta, Hampton, Georgia) [thru 5.5]
Glen Lake Restaurant Week (Glen Arbor Area, Michigan) [thru 5.4]
Interstate Mullet Toss and Gulf Coast’s Greatest Beach Party (Orange Beach, Alabama) [thru 4.27]
Pensacola Crawfish Festival (Pensacola, Florida) [thru 4.28]
Procession of the Species (Olympia, Washington) [thru 4.27]
Sacramento Beer Week (Sacramento, California) [thru 5.5]
Sacred Heart Garden City Festival (Augusta, Georgia) [thru 4.27]
Santa Barbara Restaurent Week (Santa Barbara, California) [thru 5.5]
Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival (Winchester, Virginia) [thru 5.5]
Striped Bass Festival (Manning, South Carolina) [thru 4.27]
Vermontville Maple Syrup Festival (St. Albans, Michigan) [thru 4.28]
Wakarusa Maple Syrup Festival (Wakarusa, Indiana) [thru 4.28]
Feast Days
Aldobrandesca (a.k.a. Alda; Christian; Saint)
Anacletus, Pope (a.k.a. Cletius) and Marcellinus (Christian; Martyrs)
Basil (Christian; Saint)
Bernard Malamud (Writerism)
The Birthday Cake (Muppetism)
Cimon (Positivist; Saint)
Cletus and Marcellinus (Christian; Martyrs)
Delphinia (Festival of Apollo; Ancient Greece)
Edward Charles Tarbell (Artology)
Eugène Delacroix (Artology)
Fairy Laughter Convention (Shamanism)
Festival of Renenutet (Ancient Egypt)
The Fixer, by Bernard Malamud (Novel; 1966)
Franca Visalta (Christian; Saint)
Get Organized Day (Pastafarian)
Giamonios (Celtic Book of Days)
Gian Paolo Lomazzo (Artology)
Hug An Australian Day (Pastafarian)
Jethro Tull Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
John James Audubon (Artology)
Lucidius of Verona (Christian; Saint)
Mayan Rain Festival (Ancient Mayan)
Memorial of Our Lady of Good Counsel (Christian)
Moon Magick Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Our Lady of Good Counsel (Christian; Saint)
Paschasius Radbertus (Christian; Saint)
Peter of Rates (or of Braga; Christian; Saint)
Rafael Arnaiz (Christian; Saint) [Diabetes]
Riquier (a.k.a. Ricardius; Christian; Saint)
Robert Hunt (Episcopal Church (USA))
Sacrifice to Zeus Epacrios (Ancient Greece)
Stephen of Perm (Christian; Saint)
Trudpert (Christian; Saint)
Visakh Bochea Day (Buddha Day; Cambodia)
Walpurgisnacht, Day IV (Pagan)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Lucky Day (Philippines) [22 of 71]
Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]
Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because the Chernobyl meltdown began.)
Premieres
American Recordings, by Johnny Cash (Album; 1994)
Avengers: Endgame (Film; 2019)
Bear De Guerre (The Inspector Cartoon; 1968)
Belfagor, by Ottorino Respighi (Opera; 1923)
The Bridge at Andau, by James A. Michener (History Book; 1957)
The Cat Concerto (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1947)
Devils & Dust, by Bruce Springsteen (Album; 2005)
Dogtown and Z-Boys (Documentary Film; 2002)
Dragon Ball Z (Anime TV Series; 1989)
The Enchanted Wood, by Enid Blyton (Children’s Book; 1939)
Farewell, My Lovely, by Raymond Chandler (Novel; 1940)
4th Symphony, by Charles Ives (Symphony; 1965)
The Goose Goes South (MGM Cartoon; 1941)
Gunsmoke (Radio Series; 1952)
The Handmaid’s Tale (TV Series; 2017)
The Hip-Nut-Tist (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1935)
Just One of the Guys (Film; 1985)
The Last Waltz, by The Band (Live Album & Concert Film; 1978)
Moosylvania Wish Mash or A State of Confusion (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 366; 1965)
Moosylvania Saved, Part 3 (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 365; 1965)
The Muppet Musicians of Bremen (Muppet TV Special; 1972)
Neverland, by Jim Steinman (Musical Play; 1977)
Pink Posies (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1967)
The Reluctant Recruit (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1971)
Seven Samurai (Film; 1954)
The Ship Who Sang, by Anne McCaffrey (Novel; 1969)
Swing Your Partner (Swing Symphony Cartoon; 1943)
Those Were Wonderful Days (WB MM Cartoon; 1934)
Throwing Copper, by Live (Album; 1994)
The Trial, by Franz Kafka (Novel; 1925)
The Truth About Cats & Dogs (Film; 1996)
Tugboat Mickey (Disney Cartoon; 1940)
Ups ’n Downs (WB LT Cartoon; 1931)
A Waggily Tale (WB LT Cartoon; 1958)
”Weird Al” Yankovic, by Weird Al Yankovic (Album; 1983)
Today’s Name Days
Helene, Trudpert (Austria)
Kleto, Maksima, Montan, Stanislav, Višnja (Croatia)
Oto (Czech Republic)
Cletus (Denmark)
Eesi, Reesi, Teesi, Teisi, Tereese (Estonia)
Teresa, Terttu, Tessa (Finland)
Alida (France)
Consuela, Helene (Germany)
Glafyra (Greece)
Ervin (Hungary)
Alida, Bianca, Cleto, Marcellino (Italy)
Alīna, Geraldine, Rusins, Sandris (Latvia)
Dargailė, Gailenis, Klaudijus (Lithuania)
Tea, Terese (Norway)
Artemon, Klaudiusz, Klet, Marcelin, Marcelina, Maria, Marzena, Spycimir (Poland)
Chindeu, Chiril, Tasie, Vasile (Romania)
Jaroslava (Slovakia)
Isidoro (Spain)
Terese, Teresia (Sweden)
Clarence, DeMarco, Demarcus, Demario (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 117 of 2024; 249 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 5 of week 17 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 13 of 28]
Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 18 (Geng-Shen)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]
Hebrew: 18 Nisan 5784
Islamic: 17 Shawwal 1445
J Cal: 27 Cyan; Sixday [27 of 30]
Julian: 13 April 2024
Moon: 92%: Waning Gibbous
Positivist: 5 Caesar (5th Month) [Xenophon]
Runic Half Month: Lagu (Flowing Water) [Day 2 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 39 of 92)
Week: 4th Week of April
Zodiac: Taurus (Day 7 of 31)
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Beer Events 4.26
Events
Peter Gaynor patented a Beer-Drawing Apparatus (1892)
Samuel Hurst and Harrie Keck patented a Can Filling Machine (1938)
William Ross patented an Automatic Barrel Stacker and Dispenser (1938)
Leslie Peake patented a Beer Dispenser (1966)
William Youngers' Holyrood Brewery closed (Scotland; 1986)
Coors Field opened (Denver, Colorado; 1995)
Boston Beer Co. patented a Preparation of Beer (2000)
Griffin Groups buys Anchor Brewery (2010)
Brewery Openings
Independence Brewing (Pennsylvania; 1995)
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Events 4.26 (after 1950)
1954 – The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
1954 – The first clinical trials of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine begin in Fairfax County, Virginia.
1956 – SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas.
1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
1960 – Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after 12 years of dictatorial rule.
1962 – NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
1962 – The British space programme launches its first satellite, the Ariel 1.
1963 – In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allows for female participation in elections.
1964 – Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form the United Republic of Tanzania.
1966 – The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.
1966 – A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
1970 – The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force.
1981 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.
1986 – The Chernobyl disaster occurs in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
1989 – The deadliest known tornado strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.
1989 – People's Daily publishes the April 26 Editorial which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests.
1991 – Fifty-five tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado.
1993 – The Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on mission STS-55 to conduct experiments aboard the Spacelab module.
1994 – China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
1994 – South Africa begins its first multiracial election, which is won by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress.
2002 – Robert Steinhäuser kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before committing suicide.
2005 – Cedar Revolution: Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).
2015 – Nursultan Nazarbayev is re-elected President of Kazakhstan with 97.7% of the vote, one of the biggest vote shares in Kazakhstan's history.
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Events 4.26 (before 1950)
1336 – Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux.
1478 – The Pazzi family attack on Lorenzo de' Medici in order to displace the ruling Medici family kills his brother Giuliano during High Mass in Florence Cathedral.
1564 – Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of birth is unknown).
1607 – The Virginia Company colonists make landfall at Cape Henry.
1721 – A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz.
1777 – Sybil Ludington, aged 16, allegedly rode 40 miles (64 km) to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British regular forces
1794 – Battle of Beaumont during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France.
1803 – Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European scientists that meteors exist.
1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia.
1900 – Fires destroy Canadian cities Ottawa and Hull, reducing them to ashes in 12 hours. Twelve thousand people are left without a home.
1903 – Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded
1915 – World War I: Italy secretly signs the Treaty of London pledging to join the Allied Powers.
1916 – Easter Rising: Battle of Mount Street Bridge.
1920 – Ice hockey makes its Olympic debut at the Antwerp Games with center Frank Fredrickson scoring seven goals in Canada's 12–1 drubbing of Sweden in the gold medal match.
1923 – The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
1925 – Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established by Hermann Göring.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
1942 – Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead.
1943 – The Easter Riots break out in Uppsala, Sweden.
1944 – Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
1944 – Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete.
1945 – World War II: Battle of Bautzen: Last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army liberate Baguio as they fight against the Japanese forces under General Tomoyuki Yamashita.
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Birthdays 4.26
Beer Birthdays
John Toohey (1839)
Henry Hoerl (1854)
Five Favorite Birthdays
John James Audubon; ornithologist, artist (1785)
Count Basie; jazz bandleader, pianist (1904)
Carol Burnett; comedian, actor (1933)
Bruce Jay Friedman; writer (1930)
Ludwig Wittgenstein; Austrian/English philosopher (1889)
Famous Birthdays
Gracie Allen; comedian (1906)
Marcus Aurelius; Roman emperor (121 C.E.)
Joan Chen; actor (1961)
Eugene Delacroix; French artist (1798)
Duane Eddy; rock guitarist (1938)
Teddy Edwards; jazz saxophonist (1924)
Giancarlo Esposito; actor (1958)
Jimmy Giuffre; jazz clarinetist (1921)
Kevin James; actor (1965)
Kimber James; porn actor (1988)
Stana Katic; actor (1978)
Jet Li; actor, martial artist (1963)
Anita Loos; writer (1893)
Bernard Malamud; writer (1914)
Edward Shepherd Mead; writer (1914)
Muhammad; religious leader (571 C.E.)
Frederick Law Olmstead; architect (1822)
I.M. Pei; architect (1917)
Ma Rainey; blues singer (1886)
Thomas Reid; English philosopher (1710)
Charles Richter; geologist (1900)
Bobby Rydell; pop singer (1942)
Douglas Sirk; film director (1897)
Michael Smith; English chemist (1932)
Koo Stark; actor (1956)
Edmund Tarbell; artist (1862)
Channing Tatum; actor (1980)
Roger Taylor; rock drummer (1960)
Artemus Ward; writer (1834)
Morris West; writer (1916)
Maurice Williams; pop singer (1938)
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Holidays 4.25
Holidays
Anti-Nuclear Day
ANZAC Day (Australia, New Zealand)
Carnation Day (Portugal)
Dandelion Day
Day of the Circassian Flag
DNA Day
Duck Appreciation Society Day
East Meets West Day (a.k.a. Elbe Day)
Flag Day (Faroe Islands, Eswatini, f.k.a. Swaziland)
Freedom Day (Portugal)
Free Love Day
Get On Board Day
Hairstylist Appreciation Day
Hayek Day
Hostile Aggressive Parenting Awareness Day
Hubble Telescope Day
Hug A Plumber Day
International Amigurumi Day
International Delegate’s Day
International Financial Independence Awareness Day
Liberation Day (Italy, Portugal, South Georgia)
License Plate Day
Mahavir Jayanti (Parts of India)
Malaria Awareness Day
Military Foundation Day (North Korea)
National Airhorn Day
National Amigurumi Day
National Christian College Day
National Crayola Day
National Darts Day
National Financial Awareness Day
National Lingerie Day
National Mani-Pedi Day
National Plumber’s Day
National Quote Day
National Telephone Day
Parental Alienation Awareness Day
Perfect Date Day (Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold; in film “Miss Congeniality”)
People’s Army Foundation Day (North Korea)
Plastic Grocery Bag Day
Poetry Day (Ireland)
Portugal Day (Portugal)
Radunitsa (Ancestors Veneration Day; Belarus)
Red Hat Society Day
Revolution Day (Timor-Leste)
Secotorial Government Holiday (Jordan)
Sinai Liberation Day (Egypt)
Tag des Baumes (Arbor Day; Germany)
20-Something Service Day
Whip-Poor-Will Day (Pennsylvania)
World DNA Day
World Malaria Day (UN)
World Penguin Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
National Crotilla Day
National Zucchini Bread Day
4th & Last Thursday in April
Dining Out For Life [Last Thursday]
Gathering of Nations (Native American Pow Wow) [begins 4th Thursday thru Saturday]
International Girls in ICT Day (4th Thursday]
Love Your Thighs Day [4th Thursday]
Pay It Forward Day [Last Thursday]
Poem in Your Pocket Day [Last Thursday]
Sumardagurinn Fyrsti (1st Day of Summer; Iceland) [Thursday after 4.18]
Support Teen Literature Day [Thursday of Library Week]
Take Action for Libraries Day [Thursday of Library Week]
Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work Day [4th Thursday]
Teach Your Children to Save Day [4th Thursday]
Thank You Thursday [6 Days Before 1st Wednesday in May]
Throwback Thursday [Every Thursday]
Weekly Holidays beginning April 25 (4th Week)
Gathering of Nations Pow Wow [thru 4.27]
National Write Your Book in a Weekend Weekends [thru 4.28] (also in Feb, Sep & Nov)
Independence & Related Days
Copan (Declared; 2011) [unrecognized]
Novaland (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]
Principality of Martin Presidia (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]
Yom HaAtzma’ut [יוֹם הָעַצְמָאוּת] (Israeli Independence Day observed) [5 Iyar]
Festivals Beginning April 25, 2024
Atlanta Film Festival (Atlanta, Georgia) [thru 5.5]
Bern Geranium Market [Bärner Graniummärit] (Bern, Switzerland)
Beaufort Wine & Food (Beaufort, North Carolina) [thru 4.28]
Buenos Aires International Book Fair (Buenos Aires, Argentina) [thru 5.13]
Busch Gardens Food & Wine Festival (Williamsburg, Virginia) [thru 6.13]
Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo (Calgary, Canada) [thru 4.28]
Gathering of Nations (Albuquerque, New Mexico) [thru 4.27]
Gauge County Maple Festival (Chardon, Ohio) [thru 4.28]
Missouri Cherry Blossom Festival (Marshfield, Missouri) [thru 4.27]
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (New Orleans, Louisiana) [thru 5.5]
San Francisco International Film Festival (San Francisco, California) [thru 4.28]
Shepherd Maple Syrup Festival (Shepherd, Michigan) [thru 4.28]
Vidalia Onion Festival (Vidalie, Oregon) [thru 4.28]
Washington State Apple Blossom Festival (Wenatchee, Washington) [thru 5.5]
World Dog Show (Zagreb, Croatia) [thru 4.28]
Feast Days
Adonia (Greek women's festival)
Anianus of Alexandria (Christian; Saint)
Aristides (Positivist; Saint)
Blessing of the Wheat (Ancient Hungary)
Canadanaigua (festival of lights, ritual of harvest and thanksgiving; Native American)
Cy Twombly (Artology)
Festival of Robigalia (Ancient Rome)
Giovanni Battista Piamarta (Christian; Saint)
Heribald (Christian; Saint)
Ivo (Christian; Saint)
Karel Appel (Artology)
Kebius of Cornwall (Christian; Saint)
Major Rogation (Western Christianity)
Mark the Evangelist (Christian; Saint)
Maughold of Isle of Man (Christian; Saint)
Mr. Hooper (Muppetism)
Mr. T Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Phaebadius, Bishop of Agen (Christian; Saint)
Philo and Agathopodes (Christian; Saint)
Quarks (Muppetism)
The Robigalia (Ancient Roman Grain & Corn Festival)
Walpurgisnacht, Day III (Pagan)
World Penguin Day (Pastafarian)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Lucky Day (Philippines) [21 of 71]
Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]
Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [24 of 57]
Premieres
Abusement Park (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1947)
Baby Mama (Film; 2009)
Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1938)
Big River (Broadway Musical; 1985)
The Big Short, by Michael Lewis (Book; 2010)
Drooler’s Delight (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1949)
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (Film; 2008)
Homage to Catalonia, by George Orwell (Memoir; 1938)
Infest, by Papa Roach (Album; 2000)
Let’s Eat (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1932)
Let’s Stick Together (Disney Cartoon; 1952)
Manhattan (Film; 1979)
Nuts and Volts (WB LT Cartoon; 1964)
The Old Curiosity Shop, by Charles Dickens (Novel; 1840)
The Other Woman (Film; 2014)
Piére li Houyeû (Peter the Miner), by Eugène Ysaÿe (Opera; 1931)
Polar Playmates (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1946)
Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe (Novel; 1719)
Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion (Film; 1997)
The Sky is Falling (Mighty Mouse Cartoon; 1947)
The Stupidstitious Cat (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1947)
That’s My Pup (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1953)
Turandot, by Giacomo Puccini (Opera; 1926)
Valse Trust, by Jean Sibelius (Orchestral Work; 1904)
We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, by Bruce Springsteen (Album; 2006)
Westward Whoa (WB LT Cartoon; 1936)
Where the Buffalo Roam (Film; 1980)
Today’s Name Days
Erwin, Markus (Austria)
Marko (Bulgaria)
Franka, Marko, Maroje (Croatia)
Marek (Czech Republic)
Markus (Denmark)
Marek, Margo, Margus, Mark, Marko, Markus (Estonia)
Markku, Marko, Markus (Finland)
Marc (France)
Erwin, Markus (Germany)
Markela, Markos, Nike, Niki (Greece)
Márk (Hungary)
Franco, Marco (Italy)
Barbala, Līksma, Liksme, Marks, Markus (Latvia)
Gražvyda, Gražvydė, Morkus, Tolmantas, Žadmantė (Lithuania)
Mark, Markus (Norway)
Jarosław, Marek, Wasyl (Poland)
Marcu, Vasile (Romania)
Marek (Slovakia)
Marcos (Spain)
Markus (Sweden)
Mark, Marko (Ukraine)
Marc, Marcel, Marcella, Marcia, Marcila, Marco, Marcos, Marcus, Marcy, Maricela, Mario, Marisol, Mark, Markus, Marsha (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 116 of 2024; 250 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 4 of week 17 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 12 of 28]
Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 17 (Ji-Wei)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]
Hebrew: 17 Nisan 5784
Islamic: 16 Shawwal 1445
J Cal: 26 Cyan; Fryday [25 of 30]
Julian: 12 April 2024
Moon: 97%: Waning Gibbous
Positivist: 4 Caesar (5th Month) [Cimon]
Runic Half Month: Lagu (Flowing Water) [Day 1 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 38 of 92)
Week: 4th Week of April
Zodiac: Taurus (Day 6 of 31)
Calendar Changes
Lagu (Flowing Water) [Half-Month 9 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 5.12)
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Beer Events 4.25
Events
Theodore Low patented a Bottle Opener (1939)
Where the Buffalo Roam premiered (1980)
Fred Eckhardt’s 1st piece about beer published (1984)
Roger Briess died (2001)
Beer Muscles premiered (2004)
Brewery Openings
Kingston Brewing (Ontario, Canada; 1986)
Compass Rose Brewpub (NM; 1996)
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Events 4.25 (after 1940)
1944 – The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
1945 – World War II: United States and Soviet reconnaissance troops meet in Torgau and Strehla along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two. This would be later known as Elbe Day.
1945 – World War II: Liberation Day (Italy): The National Liberation Committee for Northern Italy calls for a general uprising against the German occupation and the Italian Social Republic.
1945 – United Nations Conference on International Organization: Founding negotiations for the United Nations begin in San Francisco.
1945 – World War II: The last German troops retreat from Finnish soil in Lapland, ending the Lapland War. Military actions of the Second World War end in Finland.
1951 – Korean War: Assaulting Chinese forces are forced to withdraw after heavy fighting with UN forces, primarily made up of Australian and Canadian troops, at the Battle of Kapyong.
1953 – Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
1954 – The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
1959 – The Saint Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
1960 – The United States Navy submarine USS Triton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
1961 – Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
1972 – Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive: The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum.
1974 – Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the authoritarian-conservative Estado Novo regime and establishes a democratic government.
1980 – One hundred forty-six people are killed when Dan-Air Flight 1008 crashes near Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, Canary Islands.
1981 – More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of at the Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant in Japan.
1982 – Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
1983 – Cold War: American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
1983 – Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
1990 – Violeta Chamorro takes office as the President of Nicaragua, the first woman to hold the position.
2001 – President George W. Bush pledges U.S. military support in the event of a Chinese attack on Taiwan.
2004 – The March for Women's Lives brings between 500,000 and 800,000 protesters, mostly pro-choice, to Washington D.C. to protest the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, and other restrictions on abortion.
2005 – The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
2005 – A seven-car commuter train derails and crashes into an apartment building near Amagasaki Station in Japan, killing 107, including the driver.
2005 – Bulgaria and Romania sign the Treaty of Accession 2005 to join the European Union.
2007 – Boris Yeltsin's funeral: The first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.
2014 – The Flint water crisis begins when officials at Flint, Michigan switch the city's water supply to the Flint River, leading to lead and bacteria contamination.
2015 – Nearly 9,100 are killed after a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake strikes Nepal.
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Events 4.25 (before 1940)
404 BC – Admiral Lysander and King Pausanias of Sparta blockade Athens and bring the Peloponnesian War to a successful conclusion.
775 – The Battle of Bagrevand puts an end to an Armenian rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate. Muslim control over the South Caucasus is solidified and its Islamization begins, while several major Armenian nakharar families lose power and their remnants flee to the Byzantine Empire.
799 – After mistreatment and disfigurement by the citizens of Rome, Pope Leo III flees to the Frankish court of king Charlemagne at Paderborn for protection.
1134 – The name Zagreb was mentioned for the first time in the Felician Charter relating to the establishment of the Zagreb Bishopric around 1094.
1607 – Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
1644 – Transition from Ming to Qing: The Chongzhen Emperor, the last Emperor of Ming China, commits suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng.
1707 – A coalition of Britain, the Netherlands and Portugal is defeated by a Franco-Spanish army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
1792 – Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
1792 – "La Marseillaise" (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
1808 – Dano-Swedish War of 1808–1809: The Battle of Trangen took place at Trangen in Flisa, Hedemarkens Amt, between Swedish and Norwegian troops.
1829 – Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the British Empire.
1846 – Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican–American War.
1849 – The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
1859 – British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
1862 – American Civil War: Forces under U.S. Admiral David Farragut demand the surrender of the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
1864 – American Civil War: In the Battle of Marks' Mills, a force of 8,000 Confederate soldiers attacks 1,800 Union soldiers and a large number of wagon teamsters, killing or wounding 1,500 Union combatants.
1882 – French and Vietnamese troops clashed in Tonkin, when Commandant Henri Rivière seized the citadel of Hanoi with a small force of marine infantry.
1898 – Spanish–American War: The United States Congress declares that a state of war between the U.S. and Spain has existed since April 21, when an American naval blockade of the Spanish colony of Cuba began.
1901 – New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
1915 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins: The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by British, French, Indian, Newfoundland, Australian and New Zealand troops, begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
1916 – Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at ANZAC Cove.
1920 – At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class "A" League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East.
1933 – Nazi Germany issues the Law Against Overcrowding in Schools and Universities limiting the number of Jewish students able to attend public schools and universities.
1938 – U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
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Birthdays 4.25
Beer Birthdays
Al Levy (1860)
Cassio Piccolo (1960)
Stephen Beaumont (1964)
Five Favorite Birthdays
Batman; comic book character (1940)
Ella Fitzgerald; jazz singer (1917)
Jason Lee; actor (1970)
Meadowlark Lemon; Harlem Globetroters basketball player (1932)
Edward R. Murrow; broadcast journalist (1908)
Famous Birthdays
Karel Appel; Dutch painter (1921)
Hank Azaria; actor (1964)
Andy Bell; pop singer (1964)
Earl Bostic; saxophonist (1913)
William J. Brennan Jr.; U.S. Supreme Court justice (1906)
Joe Buck; sportscaster (1969)
Ron Clements; animator (1953)
Oliver Cromwell; English politician (1599)
Willis "Gator" Jackson; saxophonnist (1932)
Albert King; blues singer (1923)
Jerry Leiber; pop songwriter (1933)
Guglielmo Marconi; physicist, radio inventor (1874)
Paul Mazursky; film director (1930)
Flannery O'Connor; writer (1925)
Al Pacino; actor (1940)
Eugene “Gene Gene the Dancing Machine” Patton; stagehand, dancer (1932)
Wolfgang Pauli; physicist (1900)
Talia Shire; actor (1946)
John Frank Stevens; Panama Canal engineer (1853)
Renee Zellweger; actor (1969)
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Holidays 4.24
Holidays
Action Day for Tolerance and Respect between People (Argentina)
All Souls’ Day (Transdniestra)
Ambivalence Day
Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (Armenia)
Blackthorn Day
California Day of Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide (California)
Concord Day (Niger)
Day for the Naming of Rocks and Planets
Day of Silence (anti-bullying student protest)
Fashion Revolution Day
Firefly Day
Gathering of Nations Pow Wow (New Mexico)
Genocide Remembrance Day (Armenia)
Help Animals Day (UK)
High School Radio Day
International Day of Feminist Solidarity Against Transnational Corporations
International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace
International Sculpture Day
International Watch Firefly Day
International Youth Solidarity Day
Kapyong Day (Australia, Canada)
Labour Safety Day (Bangladesh)
Library of Congress Day
Loktantra Diwas (Democracy Day; Nepal)
National Brandon Day
National Bucket List Day
National Dog Day (Finland)
National Kiss of Hope Day
National Lingerie Day
National Panchayati Raj Day (India)
National Pet Care for All Day
National Physics Day
National Pool Opening Day
National Rape Day
National Remembrance of Man's Inhumanity To Man Day
National Report Medicare Advantage Fraud Day
National Scream Day
National Skipping Day
New Kids on the Block Day
Nightingale Day (French Republic)
Oil in the Middle East Day
Pastele Blajinilor (Moldova)
Remembrance Day of Deportees (France)
Republic Day (The Gambia)
Right to Read Day
Space Day (China)
Spring Cat Cleaning Day
St. Mark’s Eve (UK)
Trojan Horse Day
World Anti-Colonialism Day
World Blind Sports Day
World Corrosion Awareness Day
World Cricket Day
World Day for Laboratory Animals (UN)
World Immunization Day
World Swimzi Day
World YWCA Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
National Pigs-in-a-Blanket Day
Newman’s Day (A Challenge to Drink 24 Beers in 24 Hours; “”)
Sauvignon Blanc Day
Soda Fountain Day
4th & Last Wednesday in April
Administrative Professional's Day [Wednesday of Last Full Week]
Arbor Day (US) [4th Wednesday]
Denim Day [Last Wednesday]
International Guide Dog Day [Last Wednesday]
International Noise Awareness Day [Last Wednesday]
Library Giving Day [Wednesday of Library Week]
National Bookmobile Day [Wednesday of Library Week]
National Drug Endangered Children Awareness Day [4th Wednesday]
National Financial Educators Day [Last Wednesday]
National Library Outreach Day [Wednesday of Library Week]
National Walk at Lunch Day [Last Wednesday]
No Elevators Day [Last Wednesday]
Peppercorn Day (Bermuda) [Wednesday closest to 23rd]
Secretary Day [Last Wednesday]
Stop Food Waste Day [Last Wednesday]
True Colors Day [Last Wednesday]
World Plone Day [Last Wednesday]
World Stationery Day [Last Wednesday]
Weekly Holidays beginning April 24 (4th Week)
American Quilters Society Week [thru 4.27]
Medical Laboratory Professionals Week [thru 4.30]
National Scoop the Poop Week [thru 4.30]
World Immunization Week [thru 4.30]
Independence & Related Days
Gambia (Republic Proclaimed; 1970)
Ireland (a.k.a. Easter Rising; from UK, 1916)
Shireroth (Declared; 2000) [unrecognized]
New Year’s Days
Theravada New Year (Buddhism)
Festivals Beginning April 24, 2024
Baja Wonder Grass (El Sargento, Mexico) [thru 4.26]
Hospice du Rhône (Walla Walla, Washington) [thru 4.27]
National Trout Festival (Kalkaska, Michigan) [thru 4.28]
Seabreeze Jazz Festival (Panama City Beach, Florida) [thru 4.28]
Taste of Key West (Key West, Florid)
Feast Days
Anthony Trollope (Writerism)
Benedict Menni (Christian; Saint)
Beuve of Rheims (Christian; Saint)
Bridget Riley (Artology)
Commodus Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Dermot of Armagh (Christian; Saint)
Doda of Rheims (Christian; Saint)
Dyfnan of Anglesey (Christian; Saint)
Ecgberht of Ripon (a.k.a. Egbert; Christian; Saint)
Feast of Eros (Ancient Greece)
Feast of Hermes Trismegistus (patron of alchemy)
Fidelis of Sigmaringen (Christian; Saint)
Gregory of Elvira (Christian; Saint)
Hairball Awareness Day (Pastafarian)
Happenstance and Coincidence Evening (Shamanism)
International Sculpture Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Ivo of Ramsey (Christian; Saint)
Johann Walter (Lutheran)
Kuningan (Purification Ritual at Tirta Empul, Bali)
Leonidas (Positivist; Saint)
Life-Span Day (Celtic Book of Days)
Ljubov Popova (Artology)
Mary of Clopas (Christian; Saint)
Mary Euphrasia Pelletier (Christian; Saint & Virgin)
Mellitus (Christian; Saint)
Mick the Stick (Muppetism)
The Mothers (Celtic Prosperity Festival)
Nathaniel Hone (Artology)
Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur (Christian; Saint)
Robert of Chase-Dies, Auvergne (Christian; Saint)
Robert Penn Warren (Writerism)
Saint Mark’s Eve (Everyday Wicca)
Salome (Christian; Disciple)
Sue Grafton (Writerism)
Susan DeLucci Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Walpurgisnacht, Day I (Pagan)
Wilfrid (Church of England)
William Firmatus (Christian; Saint)
Willem de Kooning (Artology)
Yom HaZikaron (a.k.a. Yom HaZikaron LeHalalei Ma’arakhot Yisrael ul’Nifge’ei Pe’ulot HaEivah or Memorial Day for the Fallen Soldiers of the Wars of Israel and Victims of Actions of Terrorism or יוֹם הזִּכָּרוֹן לְחַלְלֵי מַעֲרָכוֹת יִשְׂרָאֵל וּלְנִפְגְעֵי פְּעֻלּוֹת הָאֵיבָה) [4 Iyar]
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Historically Bad Day (Greeks enter Troy, Armenian genocide, Iran hostage rescue fails & 3 other tragedies) [3 of 11]
Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]
Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [23 of 57]
Premieres
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (UK TV Series; 1984)
The Age of Adaline (Film; 2015)
All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren (Novel; 1946)
Assault and Peppered (WB MM Cartoon; 1965)
Border Song, by Elton John (Song; 1970)
The Boy and the Wolf (MGM Cartoon; 1943)
The Brethren, by John Grisham (Novel; 2000)
A Bright Shining Lie, by Neil Sheehan (Historical Book; 1989)
Calaboose Moose or The Crime of Your Life (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 43; 1960)
The Daily Express (London Daily Newspaper; 1900)
Diamond Dogs, by David Bowie (Album; 1974)
Eduardo e Cristina, by Gioachino Rossini (Opera; 1819)
The Ego and the Id, by Sigmund Freud (Science Book; 1923)
Ex Machina (Film; 2015)
Extraction (Film; 2020)
First Blood, by David Morrell (Novel; 1972)
Full Moon Fever, by Tom Petty (Album; 1989)
Gabby’s Diner (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1961)
The Golden Man, by Philip K. Dick (Novella; 1954)
Green Dolphin Street, by Elizabeth Goudge (Novel; 1944)
I Wonder Why, by Dion & The Belmonts (Song; 1958)
La Marseillaise, composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (Song; 1792) [French national anthem]
The Magnetic Telescope (Fleischer Cartoon; 1942) [#6]
The Man Who Fell To Earth (TV Series; 2022)
The Matlock Paper, by Robert Ludlum (Novel; 1973)
News-Letter (Boston Newspaper; 1704) [1st U.S. continuous newspaper]
The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton (Novel; 1967)
Piano Sonata in B Minor, Op. 1, by Alban Berg (Piano Sonata; 1911)
Sliding Doors (Film; 1998)
Space, by James A. Michener (Novel; 1983)
Sting Quartet, Op. 3, by Alban Berg (String Quartet; 1911)
There Goes My Baby, by The Drifters (Song; 1959)
Tom Thumb, by Henry Fielding (Play; 1730)
Valse Triste, by Jean Sibelius (Orchestral Work; 1904)
Waitress (Broadway Musical; 2016)
When a Felon Needs a Friend or Pantomime Quisling (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 44; 1960)
Woman is the N****r of the World, by John Lennon (Song; 1972)
Year of the Comet (Film; 1992)
Today’s Name Days
Egbert, Fidelis, Wilfried (Austria)
Fidel, Vjera, Vjeran (Croatia)
Jiří, Jiřina (Czech Republic)
Albertus (Denmark)
Aada, Iida, Vaida, Vanda (Estonia)
Albert, Altti, Pertti (Finland)
Fidèle (France)
Egbert, Marion, Virginia, Wilfried (Germany)
Achilles, Doukas, Elisavet, Elizabeth, Thavmastos (Greece)
György (Hungary)
Fedele (Italy)
Nameda, Varis, Visvaldis, Visvaris (Latvia)
Ervina, Fidelis, Kantrimas (Lithuania)
Albert, Olaug (Norway)
Aleksander, Aleksy, Egbert, Erwin, Erwina, Fidelis, Grzegorz, Horacjusz, Horacy (Poland)
Ilie, Iosif, Pasicrat, Sava, Valentin (Romania)
Juraj (Slovakia)
Fidel (Spain)
Vega (Sweden)
Isabel, Isabella (Ukraine)
Fidel, Fidelia, Marques, Marquez, Marquis, Marquise, Wilfred, Wilfredo (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 115 of 2024; 251 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 3 of week 17 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 11 of 28]
Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 16 (Wu-Wu)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]
Hebrew: 16 Nisan 5784
Islamic: 15 Shawwal 1445
J Cal: 25 Cyan; Foursday [24 of 30]
Julian: 11 April 2024
Moon: 99%: Waning Gibbous
Positivist: 3 Caesar (5th Month) [Aristides]
Runic Half Month: Man (Human Being) [Day 15 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 37 of 92)
Week: 4th Week of April
Zodiac: Taurus (Day 5 of 31)
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Beer Events 4.24
Events
German Trade Statutes place brewing kettles under seal to prohibit brewing beginning 4/24 until 9/29 (1539)
Miller Brewing opened a new beer hall on Milwaukee's East Water Street (1857)
Anheuser-Busch acquired the rights to bottle and sell Budweiser (1883)
Central Brewing sold in foreclosure sale (Missouri; 1931)
Crown Cork & Seal patented a Capping Head (1934)
Rainier Brewing patented a Preparation of Beer (1973)
The Brotherhood of the Pink Elephant founded (Belgium; 1992)
Mason McMullin, et al., patented a Beerbrella (2003)
Thomas Bates, et al., patented a Reusable Beer Keg (2013)
Brewery Openings
Sical (Spain; 1924)
Calwer Eck Brau / Dinkelacker-Schwaben Brau (Germany; 1987)
Circle V Brewing (Indianapolis; 1996)
Gentlemen Jim's Bistro & Brewery (New York; 1996)
Ji-Beer Restaurant / Asahi Brewery (Japan; 1998)
Maritime Beer (Canada; 1998)
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Events 4.24 (after 1930)
1932 – Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom.
1933 – Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg.
1944 – World War II: The SBS launches a raid against the garrison of Santorini in Greece.
1953 – Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
1955 – The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
1957 – Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.
1963 – Marriage of Princess Alexandra of Kent to Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.
1965 – Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d'état against Juan Bosch.
1967 – Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.
1967 – Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily".
1970 – China launches Dong Fang Hong I, becoming the fifth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster.
1970 – The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as its first President.
1980 – Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis.
1990 – STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
1990 – Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
1993 – An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.
1994 – A Douglas DC-3 ditches in Botany Bay after takeoff from Sydney Airport. All 25 people on board survive.
1996 – In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.
2004 – The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.
2006 – Bombings in the Egyptian resort city of Dahab kill 23 people and injure 80.
2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
2011 – WikiLeaks starts publishing the Guantanamo Bay files leak.
2013 – A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,500 others.
2013 – Violence in Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, of China's Xinjiang results in death of 21 people.
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