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APRIL HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES
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Holiday posters index | March | April | May | search site |
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April Observances: |
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Holocaust Remembrance Month |
Holocaust posters |
Holocaust Martyrs' & Heroes
U.S. Holocaust Museum
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Mathematics Education Month |
• number posters
• famous mathematicians
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Mathematics Education |
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Poetry Month |
poetry posters |
Poets.org |
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Guitar Month |
music posters |
The History of the Guitar |
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Jazz Appreciation Month |
Golden Age of Jazz posters |
Smithsonian Jazz |
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Gardening Month |
botany posters |
National Gardening Association |
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Child Abuse Prevention Month |
peace posters |
PreventChildAbuse.org |
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Frog Month |
amphibians posters |
Types & Characteristics of Frogs |
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Welding Month |
vocational posters |
History of Welding |
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Alcohol Awareness Month |
dangers of alcohol poster |
US DHHS & SAMHSA Clearinghouse- Alcohol & Drug Information |
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Anxiety Month |
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Anxiety Disorders Assoc of America |
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Stress Awareness Month |
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Dept of Defense Stress Awareness |
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Autism Awareness Month |
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Autism Society of America |
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Counseling Awareness Month |
health practitioners poster |
American Counseling Association |
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Occupational Therapy Awareness Month |
vocational education posters |
American Occupational Therapy Association |
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STD Awareness Month |
STD poster |
American Social Health Association |
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Zoo & Aquarium Month also found proclaimed to be June by President Reagan in 1982 |
animals posters |
American Zoo & Aquarium Assoc. |
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First Week of April |
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National Public Health Week |
health posters |
American Public Health Assoc. |
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World Health Day |
health posters |
World Health Organization (WHO) |
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Week of the Young Child |
Montessori posters |
National Association for the Education of the Young Child |
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Second Week of April |
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Astronomy Week - between mid April & mid May near or before 1st quarter moon
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astronomy posters |
Astronomical League |
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Library Week |
literature posters |
American Library Association |
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Third Week of April |
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Animal Cruelty/Human Violence Awareness Week |
peace posters |
• ASPCA - American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
• Human Society of America
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Fourth Week of April |
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Administrative Professionals Week/Day
4th week of April / Wednesday |
• vocational posters
• women posters |
IAAP - International Association of Administrative Professionals |
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April Holidays |
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April 1- All Fool's Day |
Fool poster |
April Fool's Day Lesson Plan |
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April 1- Palm Sunday 2007 / Sunday before Easter |
Christianity posters |
Religion & Ethics BBC site |
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April 2, 2007 - Passover, which begins on the 15th day of Nisan in the Jewish calendar, commemorates the Exodus and freedom of the Israelites from ancient Egypt. |
Judaism posters |
Judaism 101 |
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b. Gautama Buddha celebrated eighth day of the fourth month in the Chinese calendar |
Buddhism posters |
Wesak Flower Festival- Celebration of Buddha's Birth & Enlightenment
wikipedia.org
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April 6- Good Friday 2007 (March 21, 2008) |
Christianity posters |
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April 7 - World Health Day |
health posters |
World Health Organization (WHO) |
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April 8, Easter Sunday 2007 (March 23, 2008) |
Christianity posters |
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April 13, 14, or 15- Baisakhi, Hindu Solar New Year |
Hinduism posters |
Baisakhi - Birth of the Khalsa |
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April 20-May 2 Ridvån, Bahåi Faith |
World's Religions posters |
The Bahåi World |
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Arbor Day
Proclaimed last Friday in April, local observances based on climate. |
trees posters |
National Arbor Day Foundation |
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April 30 - Walpurgis Night, the eve of May Day |
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Old pagan festival similar to Halloween (All Hallow's Eve)
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April Notable Dates |
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d. 4-1-1204 - Eleanor of Aquataine |
Eleanor of Aquataine portrait |
Eleanor of Aquataine Resource File |
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b. 4-1-1578 - Dr. William Harvey, scientist |
William Harvey print |
William Harvey Resource File |
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b. 4-1-1809 - Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, author |
Gogol print |
Gogol Resource File |
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b. 4-1-1866 - Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni, pianist |
Busoni print |
Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni Res. File |
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b. 4-1-1873 - Sergei Rachmaninov, composer |
Rachmaninov print |
Sergei Rachmaninov Resource File |
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4-2/8-1513, Ponce de Leon arrival in what is known as Florida |
explorer posters
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Florida Heritage Collection |
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b. 4-2-1647 - Anna Maria Sibylla Merian, botantist |
Anna Maria Sibylla Merian portrait |
Anna Maria Sibylla Merian Bio |
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b. 4-2-1805 - Hans Christian Andersen, author |
HC Andersen posters
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Hans Christian Andersen biography |
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b. 4-2-1840 - Emile Zola, author
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Emile Zola posters |
Emile Zola Resource File |
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4-3-2005, Daylight Savings Begins Northern Hemisphere - First Sunday in April to last Sunday in October. |
Persistence of Time, Salvador Dali |
World Time Zones |
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b. 4-3-1783 - Washington Irving, author |
Washington Irving poster |
Washington Irving Bio |
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b. 4-3-1798 - Charles Wilkes, explorer |
Charles Wilkes print |
Charles Wilkes Resources File |
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b. 4-3-1822 - Edward Everett Hale, author |
Edward Everett Hale print |
Edward Everett Hale Resource File |
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b. 4-3-1934 - Jane Goodall, scientist |
Jane Goodall poster |
Jane Goodall Resource File |
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b. 4-3-1863 - Henry van de Velde, architect |
van de Velde print |
Henry van de Velde Resource File |
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d. 4-4-1617 - John Napier, mathematician |
John Napier print |
John Napier Resource File |
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b. 4-4-1785 - Bettina von Arnim, author |
Bettina von Arnim print |
Bettina von Arnim Resource File |
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b. 4-4-1802 - Dorothea Dix, reformer |
Women Who Dared I poster |
Voice for the Mad:
The Life of Dorothea Dix |
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b. 4-4-1869 - Mary Colter, architect |
Desert View Watchtower print |
Mary Colter Resource File |
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b. 4-4-1928 - Maya Angelou, author |
Maya Angelou posters |
CP Links for Learning - Angelou |
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b. 4-5-1588 - Thomas Hobbes, philosopher |
Thomas Hobbes print |
Thomas Hobbes Resource File |
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b. 4-5-1827 - Dr. Joseph Lister, scientist |
Dr. Joseph Lister print |
Joseph Lister Resource File |
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b. 4-5-1856 - Booker T. Washington, educator |
Booker T. Washington posters |
CP Links for Learning - B. T. Washington |
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b. 4-5-1908 - Bette Davis, actress |
Bette Davis LIFE Magazine print |
Bette Davis Resource File |
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4-5-1930 - Salt March, India |
Gandhi posters |
CP Links for Learning - Gandhi |
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b. 4-6-1483 - Raphael, artist |
Raphael print |
Raphael Resource File |
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b. 4-16-1911 - Feodor Lynen, biologist |
Feodor Lynen print |
Feodor Lynen Resource File |
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d. 4-7-1614 - El Greco, artist |
El Greco print |
El Greco Resource File |
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b. 4-7-1770 - William Wordsworth, poet |
Wordsworth print |
Wm Wordsworth Bio |
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b. 4-7-1803 - Flora Tristan, suffragette |
Flora Tristan print |
Flora Tristan Resource File |
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b. 4-7-1884 - Bronislaw Malinowski, anthropologist |
Bronislaw Malinowski photo |
Bronislaw Malinowski Resource File |
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4-7-1805 - Lewis & Clark break winter camp with Mandans, continue west |
Lewis & Clark posters |
Lewis & Clark Resource File |
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b. 4-7-1889 - Gabriela Mistral, author |
Gabriela Mistral print |
Gabriela Mistral Resource File |
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b. 4-7-1915 - Billie Holliday, singer |
Billie Holliday poster |
Billie Holliday Resource File |
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b. 4-7-1915 - Yul Brynner, actor |
Yul Brynner photo |
Yul Brynner Resource File |
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4-7-1943 - First synthesis of LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide, by Albert Hoffman |
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LSD Resource File |
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b. 4-7-1969 - The Internet's symbolic birth - publication of RFC 1. |
Internet posters |
Internet History Resource File |
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4-7-1983 - 1st Space Shuttle Space Walk |
astronauts posters |
STS-6 Resource File |
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b. 4-8-563 BC - Gautama Buddha |
Buddhism posters |
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b. 4-8-1886 - Lily Elsie, actress |
Lily Elsie print |
Lily Elsie Resource File |
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4-8-1913, 17th Amendment- Direct Election of Senators |
Bill of Rights posters |
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4-8-2005, Hybrid Solar Eclipse, S. Pacific |
astronomy posters |
NASA Eclipse Home Page |
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b. 4-9-1806 - Isambard Kingdom Burnel, engineer |
Isambard Kingdom Burnel |
Isambard Kingdom Brunel Resource File |
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4-9-1821 - Charles Baudelaire, author |
Charles Baudelaire print |
Charles Baudelaire Resource File |
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b. 4-9-1830 - Eadweard Muybridge, photographer |
Animals in Motion prints |
Eadweard Muybridge Resource File |
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4-9-1865 - Lee Surrenders to Grant at Appomattox, VA |
Civil War posters |
Heritage Preservation Services |
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b. 4-9-1898 - Paul Robeson - actor & singer
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Paul Robeson poster |
Paul Robeson Resource File |
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b. 4-9-1906 - Victor Vasarely, artist |
Victor Vasarely print |
Victor Vasarely Resource File |
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4-10-1794 - Matthew C. Perry, US Navy |
Matthew C. Perry print |
Matthew C. Perry Resource File |
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4-10-1806 - Juliette Drouet, actress |
Juliette Drouet print |
Juliette Drouet Resource File |
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4-10-1815 - Mount Tambora, Indonesia, most violent eruption in recorded history |
volcano posters |
Mount Tambora Resource File |
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4-10-1882 - Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor |
Frances Perkins photo |
Frances Perkins Resources File |
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b. 4-11-1749 - Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, artist |
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard print |
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard Resource File |
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b. 4-11-1777 - Henry Clay, politician |
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Henry Clay Resource File |
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4-11-1947 - Jackie Robinson is the first African American to play in a modern-day Major League Baseball game. |
Jackie Robinson posters |
CP Links for Learning : Robinson |
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4-11-1968 - Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing. |
civil rights posters |
Lyndon B. Johnson Library, Civil Rights Timeline |
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4-12-1861 - Confederate batteries opened fire on Ft. Sumter, Charleston, SC |
Civil War posters
South Carolina posters |
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b. 4-12-1884 - Otto Fritz Meyerhof, biologist |
Otto Fritz Meyerhof print |
Otto Fritz Meyerhof Resource File |
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b. 4-12-1898 - Lily Pons, opera singer |
Lily Pons print |
Lily Pons Resource File |
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4-12-1961 - First human space flight mission, Vostok 1, sent Yuri Gagarin to Earth orbit and returned him safely to Earth. |
astronauts posters |
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4-12-1981 - First Space Shuttle launch, Columbia, STS-1 with John W. Young and Robert Crippin (returns 4-14) |
astronauts posters |
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b. 4-13-1743 - Thomas Jefferson, US President |
Thomas Jefferson print |
Monticello |
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b. 4-13-1909 - Eudora Welty, author |
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Eudora Welty - Library of America |
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b. 4-13-1933 - Ben Nighthorse Campbell, politician |
Ben Nighthorse Campbell poster |
Ben Nighthorse Campbell Resource File |
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4-14-1629 - Christiaan Huygens, astronomer |
Christiaan Huygens print |
Christiaan Huygens Resource File |
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4-14-1865 - Abraham Lincoln Assassinated |
Lincoln posters |
CP Links for Learning : Lincoln |
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b. 4-14-1889 - Arnold J. Toynbee, historian |
Arnold J. Toynbee TIME cover |
Arnold J. Toynbee Resource File |
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4-14/15-1912 - RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg on its maiden voyage - it finishes sinking at about 2:20 am the next day. |
Titanic Art Print |
Titanic Resource File |
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d. 4-15-1446 - Filippo Brunelleschi |
Brunelleschi print |
Filippo Brunelleschi Resource File |
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b. 4-15-1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, artist |
Leonardo da Vinci posters |
CP Links for Learning : Da Vinci |
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b. 4-15-1707 - Leonard Euler, mathematician |
Leonard Euler print |
Leonard Euler Resource File |
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b. 4-15-1786 - Sir John Franklin, explorer |
John Franklin print |
John Franklin Resource File |
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b. 4-15-1800 - James Clark Ross, explorer |
James Clark Ross print |
James Clark Ross Resource File |
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b. 4-15-1812 - Théodore Rousseau, artist |
Théodore Rousseau print |
Théodore Rousseau Resource File |
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b. 4-15-1843 - Henry James, author |
Henry James print |
Henry James Resource File |
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b. 4-15-1889 - Thomas Hart Benton, artist |
Thomas Hart Benton TIME Magazine cover |
Thomas Hart Benton Resource File |
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b. 4-15-1894 - Bessie Smith, singer |
Bessie Smith print |
The Essential Bessie Smith, CD |
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b. 4-15-1899 - A. Philip Randolph, civil rights activist |
A. Philip Randolph posters |
CP Links for Learning : Randolph |
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b. 4-15-1904 - Arshile Gorky, artist |
Arshile Gorky art print |
Arshile Gorky Resource File |
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b. 4-15-1907 - Nikolaas Tinbergen, zoologist |
Nikolaas Tinbergen print |
Nikolaas Tinbergen Resource File |
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4-15 U.S. Personal Income Tax Deadline |
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IRS |
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b. 4-16-1755 - Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, artist |
Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun print |
Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun Resource File |
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b. 4-16-1821 - Mary Baker Eddy |
Mary Baker Eddy print |
Mary Baker Eddy Resource File |
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b. 4-16-1844 - Anatole France, author |
Anatole France print |
Anatole France Resource File |
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b. 4-16-1867 - Wilber Wright, aviator |
Wright Bros posters |
Wright Brothers Bio |
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b. 4-16-1886 - Margaret Woodrow Wilson |
Margaret Woodrow Wilson photo |
Margaret Woodrow Wilson Resource File |
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b. 4-16-1947 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball player |
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar photo |
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Resource File |
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b. 4-17-1879 - Agnes Borgo, opera singer |
Agnes Borgo print |
Agnes Borgo Bio |
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b. 4-17-1897 - Thornton Wilder, author |
Thornton Wilder poster |
Thornton Wilder Society |
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b. 4-17-1921 - Graciela Rivera, opera singer |
Graciela Rivera photo |
Graciela Rivera Resource File |
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4-17-1970 - Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely. |
astronauts posters |
Apollo 13 article |
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b. 4-18-1480 - Lucrezia Borgia |
Lucrezia Borgia poster |
Lucrezia Borgia Resource File |
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4-18-1775 - Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott ride to warn of impending arrests of Samuel Adams and John Hancock and seizure of weapons. Only Prescott finishes the ride. |
Paul Revere poster |
Paul Revere Resource File
text The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere |
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4-18-1906- San Francisco Earthquake |
Earth Process posters |
San Francisco Earthquake article |
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d. 4-18-1955 - Albert Einstein, physicist |
Albert Einstein posters |
CP Links for Learning - Einstein |
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4-19-1775 - Battle of Lexington & Concord /Patriots Day (obs. 3rd Monday of April) |
American Revolution posters |
Minute Man National Historic Park |
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b. 4-19-1849 - Eva Gonzales, artist |
Eva Gonzales print |
Eva Gonzales Resource File |
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b. 4-19-1868 - Max von Schillings, composer |
Max von Schillings print |
Max von Schillings Resource File |
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4-19-1995 - Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is bombed, killing 168. |
The Face of Terror, TIME Magazine Cover, 5-1-1995 |
Oklahoma City bombing |
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b. 4-20-571 - Muhammad (likely date) |
Islam posters |
Muhammed Resource File |
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b. 4-20-1840 - Odilon Redon, painter |
Odilon Redon print |
Odilon Redon Resource File |
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b. 4-20-1889 - Adolf Hilter, Austria-Hungary |
Adolph Hitler prints |
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b. 4-20-1893 - Joan Miró, painter |
Joan Miró poster |
Joan Miró Resource File |
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4-20-1999 - Columbine HS Massacre |
Bowling for Columbine movie poster |
No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine |
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d. 4-21-1109 - Saint Anselm, theologian |
Saint Anselm print |
Saint Anselm Resource File |
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d. 4-21-1782 - Friedrich Froebel, educator |
Friedrich Froebel print |
Friedrich Froebel Resource File |
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b. 4-21-1816 - Charlotte Brontë, author |
Charlotte Brontë posters |
Brontë Links for Learning |
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b. 4-21-1838 - John Muir, environmentalist |
John Muir poster |
John Muir Resource File |
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b. 4-21-1926 - Queen Elizabeth II |
Queen Elizabeth II print |
Queen Elizabeth II Resource File |
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b. 4-21-1931 - Bridget Riley, artist |
Bridget Riley print |
Bridget Riley Resource File |
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b. 4-22-1451 - Queen Isabella of Castile |
Queen Isabella print |
Queen Isabella of Castile Resource File |
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b. 4-22-1707 - Henry Fielding, author |
Henry Fielding portait |
Henry Fielding : A Literary Life |
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b. 4-22-1724 - Immanuel Kant, philosopher |
Immanuel Kant print |
• Immanuel Kant Resource File
• Kant: A Very Short Introduction |
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b. 4-22-1766 - Anne-Louise de Stael, author |
Anne-Louise de Stael print |
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël Resource File |
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d. 4-22-1778 - James Hargreaves, inventor |
spinning jenny print |
James Hargreaves Resource File |
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b. 4-22-1840 - Odilon Redon, artist |
Odilon Redon print |
Odilon Redon Resource File |
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b. 4-22-1891 - Nicola Sacco, Italy |
Nicola Sacco Images of Labor poster |
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b. 4-22-1899 - Vladimir Nabokov, author |
Vladimir Nabokov print |
Vladimir Nabokov Resource File |
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b. 4-22-1904 - J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist |
J. Robert Oppenheimer photo |
J. Robert Oppenheimer Resource File |
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b. 4-22-1922 - Charles Mingus, musician |
Jazz posters |
Charles Mingus Resource File |
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d. 4-22-1994 - Richard Nixon (b. 1913) |
Nixon print |
White House Bio - Nixon |
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4-22-1970 - First Earth Day celebrated |
ecology posters |
• Earth Day: Keeping Our Planet Clean |
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b. 4-23-1564 - William Shakespeare, author |
Shakespeare posters |
CP Links for Learning - Shakespeare |
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b. 4-23-1775 - Joseph M. W. Turner, artist |
J. M. W. Turner print |
J. M. W. Turner Resource File |
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b. 4-23-1791 - James Buchanan, US President |
James Buchanan print |
White House Bio- Buchanan |
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b. 4-23-1857 - Reggero Leoncavello, composer |
Reggero Leoncavello print |
Reggero Leoncavello Resource File |
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b. 4-23-1897 - Lester B. Pearson, statesman |
Lester B. Pearson TIME Magazine cover |
Lester B. Pearson Resource File |
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b. 4-23-1902 - Halldor Laxness, author |
Halldor Laxness print |
Halldor Laxness Resource File |
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b. 4-23-1928 - Shirley Temple, actress |
Shirley Temple movie poster |
Shirley Temple Resource File |
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d. 4-24-1731 - Daniel Defoe, author |
Daniel Defoe print |
Daniel Defoe Resource File |
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4-24-1800 - Library of Congress founded |
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The Library of Congress |
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b. 4-24-1904 - Willem de Kooning, artist |
Willem de Kooning art print |
Willem de Kooning Resource File |
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b. 4-24-1934 - Shirley MacLaine, actress |
Shirley MacLaine TIME cover |
Shirley MacLaine Resource File |
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4-24-1942 - Barbra Streisand, actress |
Barbra Streisand photo |
Barbra Streisand Resource File |
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4-24-1990 - The Hubble Space Telescope is launched by Space Shuttle Discovery. |
Hubble posters |
Hubble Resource File |
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b. 4-25-1769 - Marc Isambard Brunel, engineer |
Thames Tunnel print |
Marc Isambard Brunel Resource File |
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b. 4-25-1840 (o.s.)- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
Tchaikovsky posters |
Tchaikovsky Resource File |
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b. 4-25-1874 - Guglielmo Marconi, scientist & inventor |
Guglielmo Marconi print |
Guglielmo Marconi Resource File |
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b. 4-25-1900 - Wolfgang Pauli |
Wolfgang Pauli print |
Wolfgang Pauli Resource File |
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b. 4-25-1909 - William L. Pereira, architect |
William L. Pereira, TIME |
William L. Pereira Resource File |
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b. 4-25-1917 - Ella Fitzgerald, singer |
Ella Fitzgerald posters |
CP Links for Learning - Fitzgerald |
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b. 4-25-1928 - Cy Twombly, artist |
abstract expressionist posters |
Cy Twombly Resource File |
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4-25-1945 - The United Nations is organized in San Francisco, California, by 50 nations. |
peace posters |
United Nations: The First Fifty Years |
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4-25-1953 - Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish description of the double helix structure of DNA. |
DNA poster |
DNA: The Secret of Life |
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4-25-1959 - The first person now known to have AIDS enters a hospital. |
HIV/AIDs poster |
The River: A Journey to the Source of HIV & AIDS |
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b. 4-26-121 AD. - Marcus Aurelius |
Marcus Aurelius print |
Marcus Aurelius Resource File |
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b. 4-26-1711 - David Hume, philosopher |
David Hume print |
David Hume Resource File |
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b. 4-26-1785 - John James Audubon, ornithologist & artist |
John James Audubon portrait |
John James Audubon Resource File |
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b. 4-26-1798 - Eugène Delacroix, artist |
Delacroix prints |
• Eugène Delacroix Resource File
• Eugène Delacroix- Getting to Know the World's Great Artistis |
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b. 4-26-1917 - I. M. Pei, architect |
I. M. Pei poster |
architecture posters |
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4-26-1986 - The Chernobyl, Ukraine nuclear plant explodes, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster. |
Chernobyl TIME cover |
• Chernobyl Resource File
• Voices from Chernobyl |
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b. 4-27-1521 - Ferdinand Magellan, explorer |
Ferdinand Magellan poster |
Ferdinand Magellan Resource File |
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b. 4-27-1737 - Edward Gibbon, author & historian |
Edward Gibbon portrait |
Edward Gibbon Resource File |
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b. 4-27-1759 - Mary Wollstonecraft, author & feminist |
Mary Wollstonecraft poster |
CP Links for Learning - Wollstonecraft |
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b. 4-27-1822 - Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President |
U. S. Grant print |
White House Bio- Grant |
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b. 4-27-1891 - Sergei Prokofiev, composer |
Sergei Prokofiev print |
Sergei Prokofiev Resource File |
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b. 4-28-1758 - James Monroe, 5th President |
James Monroe print |
White House Bio- Monroe |
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4-28-1788 - Maryland Admission Day, 7th |
Maryland posters |
Maryland History & Culture |
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4-28-1788 - Harper Lee, author |
To Kill a Mockingbird movie poster |
Harper Lee Resource File |
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4-28-1947 - Thor Heyerdahl and five crewmates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia. |
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b. 4-29-1899 - Duke Ellington, composer |
Duke Ellington posters |
CP Links for Learning - Ellington |
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b. 4-30-1870 - Franz Lehar, composer |
Franz Lehar print |
Franz Lehar Resource File |
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b. 4-30-1777 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician |
Carl Friedrich Gauss portrait |
Carl Friedrich Gauss Resource File |
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4-30-1803 - Louisiana Purchase
4-30-1812 - Louisiana Admission Day |
Louisiana posters |
Louisiana History |
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b. 4-30-1833 - Hortense Schneider, opera singer |
Hortense Schneider print |
Hortense Schneider Resource File |
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April Facts & Tidbits |
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April, the fourth month of the year, has the old adage "April showers bring May flowers." Follow up with the March weather observations through May.
The name April possibly derives from the Latin aperire which means "to open" (aperture), probably referring to growing plants in spring, or from the Etruscan name Apru for Aphrodite.
Do you remember the nursery rhyme "Hey diddle diddle"? It may refer to the month of April when the constellations Leo (cat), Taurus (cattle) and Lyre (fiddle), are visible in the night sky, along with Crater (dish) and the Ursa Major - Big Dipper (spoon). Look at other possible origins.
• “Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.” ~ Charles Lamb
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Astrological Signs |
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Astrology |
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• Aries: March 19 - April 20 |
• Aries poster
• Aries, the Ram Ecard
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cardinal, fire, personal; "I want," action oriented, pioneering, assertive, "me" first, enthusiasm, leader, competitive, selfish, head/brain; assertive, impulsive, head down; imaginative, sensitive, distracted. |
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• Taurus: April 21 - May 21
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• Taurus poster
• Taurus, the Bull Ecard
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fixed, earth, personal; "I have," sensual, cautious, acquisitive, musical, traditional, stubborn, throat/neck; resourceful, thorough, devoted, indulgent. |
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Birthstone |
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• Diamond - the hardest known natural material to humans is "a transparent crystal of tetrahedrally bonded carbon atoms". |
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• Birthstone (U of Washington)
• Diamonds Resource File |
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Flower |
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• Sweet Pea: Good-Bye, Departure, Blissful Pleasure
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• flower posters |
• Sweet Pea Resource File |
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