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April 3, 2019
C alendar
April 2019
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April Fool’s Day
One Cent Day
MP3 audio format
first patented, 1989
Author Hans Chris-
tian Andersen born,
1805
International Chil-
dren’s Book Day
Find-A-Rainbow
Day
Pony Express estab-
lished (1860)
1st iPad in U.S., 2010
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Trina Schart Hyman
born, 1939
Robert E. Lee sur-
rendered to Ulysses
S. Grant (1865)
Margaret Peterson
Haddix born, 1964
Encourage a Young
Writer Day
National Sibling Day
U.S. Patent System
established (1790)
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First U.S. flag ap-
proved (1818)
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President Johnson
signs the Civil
Rights Act, 1964
(1964)
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National Read a
Road Map Day
Booker T. Washing-
ton born, 1856
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Author Beverly
Cleary born, 1916
Space Shuttle
Columbia First
Launched, 1981
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No Housework Day
World Health Day,
established 1948
North Pole Discov-
ered In 1898
U.S. entered World
War I (1917)
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3rd President Thom-
as Jefferson born,
1743
Lee Bennett Hopkins
born, 1938
Palm Sunday
Webster’s Dictionary
Published, 1828
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