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April 2016
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
4
First U.S. flag
approved (1818)
11
President Johnson
signs the Civil
Rights Act, 1964
(1964)
18
Paul Revere’s
Famous Ride (1775)
Great San Francisco
Earthquake In 1906.
Pet Owner’s Day
5
National Read a
Road Map Day
Educator Booker T.
Washington born,
1856
12
Space Shuttle
Columbia First
Launched Crewed
by John Young and
Robert Crippen -
1981
19
Humorous Day
Revolutionary War
began (1775)
25
26
Anzac Day (Australia,
New Zealand)
Hubble Telescope
launched, 1990
World Penguin Day
Hug a Friend Day
National Pretzel Day
Seismologist Charles
Richter born, 1900
6
North Pole
Discovered In
1898.
U.S. entered World
War I (1917)
No Housework Day
World Health Day,
established 1948
14
3rd President
Thomas Jefferson
born, 1743
Lee Bennett Hopkins
born, 1938
Webster’s Dictionary
Published, 1828
Titanic Struck sank
at 2:20 AM on
April 15.
20
21
27
Administrative
Professionals/
Secretaries Day
Tell a Story Day
Kindergarten Day
Barbara Park born,
1947
28
Take Our Daughters
and Sons to
Work Day
Take your Daughter
to Work Day
SUNDAY
3
Jan Wahl born, 1933
April Fool’s Day
One Cent Day
Author Hans
Christian Andersen
born, 1805
International
Children’s Book
Day
Find-A-Rainbow Day
Pony Express
established (1860)
First iPad sold in the
U.S. in 2010
8
9
10
7
13
Scientists Marie &
Pierre Curie isolate
radium (1902)
FRIDAY SATURDAY
1
2
Trina Schart Hyman
born, 1939
15
Income Tax Day
Artist/Inventor
Leonardo Da Vinci
born, 1452
22
Earth Day
established 1970
Girl Scout Leader
Appreciation Day
29
Arbor Day
Zipper Day
(patented by
Gideon Sundback
in 1913)
Robert E. Lee
surrendered to
Ulysses S. Grant
(1865)
16
Garth Williams
born, 1912
Aviator Wilbur
Wright born, 1867
23
Passover Begins
at Sundown
William Shakespeare
born, 1564
30
National Honesty
Day
Anniversary
Louisiana Purchase
completed (1803)
Encourage a Young
Writer Day
National Sibling Day
U.S. Patent System
established (1790)
17
Sherlock Hemlock’s
Birthday (Sesame
Street character)
24
Library of Congress
established (1800)
Pigs-in-a-Blanket
Day