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)
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