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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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Events 4.24 (before 1930)
1479 BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty).
1183 BC – Traditional reckoning of the Fall of Troy marking the end of the legendary Trojan War, given by chief librarian of the Library of Alexandria Eratosthenes, among others.
1547 – Battle of Mühlberg. Duke of Alba, commanding Spanish-Imperial forces of Charles I of Spain, defeats the troops of Schmalkaldic League.
1558 – Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.
1704 – The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, is published.
1793 – French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is acquitted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of charges brought by the Girondin in Paris.
1800 – The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress".
1837 – The great fire in Surat city of India caused more than 500 deaths and destruction of more than 9,000 houses.
1877 – Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
1885 – American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
1895 – Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
1913 – The Woolworth Building, a skyscraper in New York City, is opened.
1914 – The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
1915 – The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian genocide.
1916 – Easter Rising: Irish rebels, led by Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, launch an uprising in Dublin against British rule and proclaim an Irish Republic.
1916 – Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the crew of the sunken Endurance.
1918 – World War I: First tank-to-tank combat, during the second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux. Three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs.
1922 – The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.
1924 – Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark (first term).
1926 – The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.
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Birthdays 4.24
Beer Birthdays
George Muehlebach (1833)
Alan J. Wax (1949)
Bob Skilnik (1950)
Jeremy Cowan (1969)
Suzanne Woods (1978)
Five Favorite Birthdays
Cedric the Entertainer; comedian, actor (1964)
Willem de Kooning; artist (1924)
Richard Donner; film director (1930)
Michael O'Keefe; actor (1955)
Robert Bailey Thomas; Farmer's Almanac founder (1766)
Famous Birthdays
Aaron Bell; jazz bassist (1922)
David Blackwell; mathematician (1919)
Eric Bogosian; actor (1953)
Pierre Brassard, Canadian actor (1966)
Edmund Cartwright; power loom inventor (1743)
Doug Clifford; drummer (1945)
Jean Crotti; Swiss artist (1878)
Richard M. Daley; politician (1942)
Vincent de Paul; religious leader (1581)
Clement Freud; German-English politician (1924)
Jean-Paul Gaultier; fashion designer (1952)
John Gaunt; statistician, demographics founder (1620)
Sue Grafton; writer (1940)
Johnny Griffin; jazz saxophonist (1928)
Joe Henderson; saxophonist (1937)
Jill Ireland; actor (1936)
Chipper Jones; baseball player (1972)
Stanley Kauffmann; film director, critic (1916)
Shirley MacLaine; actor (1934)
Brian Marshall; musician (1973)
John Russell Pope; architect (1874)
Captain Sensible; pop singer (1955)
Barbra Streisand; singer, actor (1942)
Anthony Trollope; English writer (1815)
Tony Visconti; record producer (1944)
Robert Penn Warren; writer (1905)
William of Orange; Dutch politician (1533)
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Holidays 4.23
Holidays
Alfred G. “Alferd” Packer Day (Colorado)
Aragon Day (Spain)
Army Reserves Day (US)
Asian Corpsetwt Day [Every 23rd]
Boice Day (South Korea)
Book Day (Canada)
Book Day and Lover's Day (Spain)
Bulldogs Are Beautiful Day
Castile and León Day (Spain)
Children’s Day (Turkey)
Community Day (Spain)
Content Creator Day
Copyright Day
Day of Aragon (Spain)
Day of Books and Roses (Catalonia, Spain)
Drive It Day (UK)
Electric Mixer Day
English Language Day (UN)
Flag Day (England)
George Castriota Day (Albania)
Hawthorn Day (French Republic)
Impossible Astronaut Day (Dr. Who)
International Choro Day
International Creator Day
International Day of the Book
International Fibrodyysolasia Ossificans Progressive Awareness Day
International Nose Picking Day
International Pallas Cat Day
International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day
International Share a Secret Day
International Sing Out Day
Jurgi Day (Ancient Latvia)
Khongjom Day (Manipur, India)
La Diada de Sant Jordi (Catalonia, Spain)
Linnaeus Day (Sweden)
London Marathon Day (UK)
Lover's Day
Movie Theater Day
National Bryan Day
National Email Day
National Grief-in-Public Day
National Lost Dog Awareness Day
National Lover’s Day
National Lugaw Day (Philippines)
National Read Me Day
National Sovereignty and Children’s Day (Turkey, Northern Cyprus)
National Take a Hike with Nick Day
National Vagina Appreciation Day
Navy Day (China)
Penny Day
Pet Tech CPR Day
Psychologist Day (Ukraine)
Public School Day
Sigurd the Dragon Slayer's Day
Slay a Dragon Day
Spanish Language Day (UN)
Take a Chance Day
Talk Like Shakespeare Day
Teach Your Children To Save Day
Veterans Day (Estonia)
Visalia Priora
Wild Hyacinth Day
World Book Day (UN; except Ireland, UK)
World Book Night (Ireland, Germany, UK, US)
World Laboratory Day
World Table Tennis Day
YouTube Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Allagash Saison Day [original date]
Bavarian Beer Day
Biertag (Germany)
Cherry Cheesecake Day
German Beer Day
International Cava Day
International Reinheitsgebot Day
National Asparagus Day (UK)
National English Muffin Day
National Licorice Day
National Picnic Day
National Taffy Day
New Coke Day
St. George's Day (traditional end of Bavarian lager brewing season)
4th Tuesday in April
National Library Day [Tuesday of Library Week]
National Library Workers Day [Tuesday of Library Week]
School Bus Driver’s Day [4th Tuesday]
Weekly Holidays beginning April 23 (4th Week)
Global Road Safety Week (UN) [thru 23-29]
National Princess Week (thru 4.29)
Independence & Related Days
Australland (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized)
Conch Republic (Declared; 1982) [unrecognized)
Israel (a.k.a. Yom Ha’atzmaut; Declared; 1948)
National Sovereignty Day, Day 2 (Turkey)
Festivals Beginning April 23, 2024
Les Printemps de Bourges (Bourges, France) [thru 4.28]
London Marathon (London, England)
Feast Days
Adalbert of Prague (Christian; Saint)
Antoine Vollon (Artology)
Cervantes (Writerism)
Chance Day (Shamanism)
Cynical Bastards Day (Pastafarian)
Day of the Glorious Fuckup (Church of the SubGenius)
Feast of Hephaestus (Greek Blacksmith God & Brewer)
Felix, Fortunatus, and Achilleus (Christian; Martyrs)
Festival of Saint Sarah the Egyptian (Sara Kali the Black Queen; Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France) begins [until 25th]
George [England, traditional end of Bavarian lager brewing season] *
Gerard, Bishop of Toul (Christian; Saint)
Giles of Assisi (Christian; Saint)
Gerard of Toul (Christian; Saint)
The Goddess is Alive Day (Everyday Wicca)
Ibar (a.k.a. Ivor) of Beggerin (or Meath; Christian; Saint)
Ji-Young (Muppetism)
J.M.W. Turner (Artology)
J.P. Donleavy (Writerism)
Miltiades (Positivist; Saint)
Shakespeare Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Snood Day (Celtic Book of Days)
Toyohiko Kagawa (Episcopal and Lutheran Church)
Vinalia Urbana (a.k.a. Vinalia Prima or Priora; Ancient Roman wine festival)
Vulcan's Day (Ancient Rome)
Walpurgisnacht, Day I (Pagan)
William Shakespeare (Writerism)
Lunar Calendar Holidays
Full Moon [4th of the Year] (a.k.a. ...
Awakening Moon (Neo-Pagan)
Breaking Ice Moon (Traditional)
Budding Moon of Plants and Shrubs (Traditional)
Egg Moon (Alternate)
Fish Moon (Alternate)
Flower Moon (Cherokee)
Gold Star Spouses Day
Grass Moon (Alternate, North America)
Growing Moon (Celtic)
Hunter’s Moon (South Africa)
Moon When the Ducks Come Back (Traditional)
Peony Moon (China)
Pink Moon (Amer. Indian, Traditional)
Planter’s Moon (Colonial)
Seed Moon (England, Wicca)
Southern Hemisphere: Blood, Harvest, Hunter’s
Wildcat Moon (Choctaw)
God of Medicine Day (Taiwan) [15th Day, 3rd Month]
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Prime Number Day: 113 [30 of 72]
Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]
Premieres
The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It, by Richard Hofstadter (Political Theory; 1948)
Benny & Joon (Film; 1993)
Black and Blue, by The Rolling Stones (Album; 1976)
The Black Marble, by Joseph Wambaugh (Novel; 1978)
Cherrybomb (Film; 2009)
Dogville (Film; 2003)
Election (Film; 1999)
The Excursions of Mr. Brouček to the Moon and to the 15th Century, by Leoš Janáček (Opera; 1920)
Fall Out - Fall In (Disney Cartoon; 1943)
Frog Jog (Tijuana Toads Cartoon; 1972)
Gregory’s Girl (Film; 1981)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou (Autobiography; 1969)
Indian Summer (Film; 1993)
A Jolly Good Furlough (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1943)
Lemonade, by Beyoncé (Album; 2016)
Man on Fire (Film; 2004)
Merry Wives of Windsor, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1597)
Nexus, by Henry Miller (Novel; 1959) [Rosy Crucifixion #3]
The Penguin Parade (WB MM Cartoon; 1938)
Ramones, by Ramones (Album; 1976)
Return to Paradise, by James A. Michener (Novel; 1951)
Shadow and Bone (TV Series; 2021)
Sita Sings the Blues (Animated Film; 2010)
Snow Place Like Home (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1966)
Sticky Fingers, by The Rolling Stones (Album; 1971)
The Stories of John Cheever, by John Cheever (Short Story Collection; 1979)
Symphony No. 1 in C Major, by Mily Balakirev (Symphony; 1898)
Symphony No. 2 in D Minor, by Mily Balakirev (Symphony; 1909)
Teen Titans Go! (Animated Film; 2013)
There’s Good Boos To-Night (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1948)
13 Going on 30 (Film; 2004)
Touch of Evil (Film; 1958)
Two for the Record (Disney Cartoon; 1954)
When I Was Cruel, by Elvis Costello (Album; 2002)
Who Scent You? (WB LT Cartoon; 1960)
Today’s Name Days
Adalbert, Georg, Jörg, Jürgen (Austria)
Toma, Tomislav, Tomislava (Bulgaria)
Adalbert, Đurđica, Đuro, Juraj (Croatia)
Vojtěch (Czech Republic)
Georgius (Denmark)
Georg, Jürgen, Jürgo, Jüri, Jürjo, Jürnas, Jüts, Ürjo (Estonia)
Jiri, Jori, Jyri, Jyrki, Yrjänä, Yrjö (Finland)
Georges (France)
Georg, Gerhard, Jörg, Jürgen (Germany)
Georgios, Giorgos, Thomas, Yorgos (Greece)
Béla (Hungary)
Giorgio (Italy)
Georgs, Jorens, Jurģis, Juris (Latvia)
Adalbertas, Daugaudas, Jurgis, Vygailė (Lithuania)
Georg, Jørgen, Jørn (Norway)
Adalbert, Gerard, Gerarda, Gerhard, Helena, Jerzy, Wojciech (Poland)
Gheorghe (Romania)
Vojtech (Slovakia)
Jorge (Spain)
Georg, Göran (Sweden)
George (Ukraine)
Brayan, Breana, Breanna, Breanne, Brian, Briana, Brianna, Brianne, Brielle, Brien, Briona, Bryan, Bryana, Bryanna, Bryant, Brynn, Bryon, Shirlee, Shirleen, Shirley (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 114 of 2024; 252 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 2 of week 17 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 10 of 28]
Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 15 (Ding-Si)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]
Hebrew: 15 Nisan 5784
Islamic: 14 Shawwal 1445
J Cal: 24 Cyan; Threesday [23 of 30]
Julian: 10 April 2024
Moon: 100%: Full Moon
Positivist: 2 Caesar (5th Month) [Leonidas]
Runic Half Month: Man (Human Being) [Day 14 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 36 of 92)
Week: 4th Week of April
Zodiac: Taurus (Day 4 of 31)
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Beer Events 4.23
Events
Reinheitsgebot beer purity law adopted in Bavaria (Germany; 1516)
Alfred Blackie patented an Apparatus for Drying Hops (1901)
Albert Lieber and August Meimberg patented a Device for Hoisting and Transferring Bottled Beer in Bottling Establishments (1901)
David Zurit patented an Apparatus for Filtering Air or Gas That Enters beer Keg (1957)
Anchor Steam Beer 1st bottled in modern times (200 cases; 1971)
Abraham Martin III patented a System for Cooling Beer for Remote Dispensing (1991)
Glen Falconer died (2002)
Nicholas Angel arrived in Sandford, England, and makes his first arrest, a group of underage teens drinking beer (“Hot Fuzz;” 2006)
Brewery Openings
Bootlegger Brewing & Steakery (Florida; 1999)
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Events 4.23 (after 1950)
1951 – Cold War: American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
1961 – Algiers putsch by French generals.
1966 – Aeroflot Flight 2723 crashes into the Caspian Sea off the Absheron Peninsula, killing 33 people.
1967 – Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) a crewed spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov is launched into orbit.
1968 – Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army and Razakars massacre approximately 3,000 Hindu emigrants in the Jathibhanga area of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
1979 – SAETA Flight 011 crashes in Pastaza Province, Ecuador, killing all 57 people on board. The wreckage was not discovered until 1984.
1985 – Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.
1990 – Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
1993 – Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum.
1993 – Sri Lankan politician Lalith Athulathmudali is assassinated while addressing a gathering, approximately four weeks ahead of the Provincial Council elections for the Western Province.
1999 – NATO bombs the headquarters of Radio Television of Serbia, as part of their aerial campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
2005 – The first YouTube video, titled "Me at the zoo", was published by co-founder Jawed Karim.
2013 – At least 111 people are killed and 233 injured as violence breaks out in Hawija, Iraq.
2018 – A vehicle-ramming attack kills 11 people and injures 15 in Toronto. A 25-year-old suspect, Alek Minassian, is arrested.
2019 – The April 2019 Hpakant jade mine collapse in Myanmar kills four miners and two rescuers, with at least 50 others missing and presumed dead.
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Events 4.23 (before 1950)
215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico, defeating queen Yohl Ik'nal and sacking the city.
711 – Dagobert III succeeds his father King Childebert III as King of the Franks.
1014 – Battle of Clontarf: High King of Ireland Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle.
1016 – Edmund Ironside succeeds his father Æthelred the Unready as King of England.
1343 – St. George's Night Uprising commences in the Duchy of Estonia.
1348 – The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III is announced on St. George's Day.
1500 – Portuguese explorer Pedro Alvarez Cabral reaches new coastline (Brazil).
1516 – The Munich Reinheitsgebot (regarding the ingredients of beer) takes effect in all of Bavaria.
1521 – Battle of Villalar: King Charles I of Spain defeats the Comuneros.
1635 – The first public school in the United States, the Boston Latin School, is founded.
1655 – The Siege of Santo Domingo begins during the Anglo-Spanish War, and fails seven days later.
1660 – Treaty of Oliva is established between Sweden and Poland.
1661 – King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1724 – Johann Sebastian Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Du Hirte Israel, höre, BWV 104, illustrating the topic of the Good Shepherd in pastoral music.
1815 – The Second Serbian Uprising: A second phase of the national revolution of the Serbs against the Ottoman Empire, erupts shortly after the annexation of the country to the Ottoman Empire.
1879 – Fire burns down the second main building and dome of the University of Notre Dame, which prompts the construction of the third, and current, Main Building with its golden dome.
1891 – Chilean Civil War: The ironclad Blanco Encalada is sunk at Caldera Bay by torpedo boats.
1918 – World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.
1919 – The Estonian Constituent Assembly is held in Estonia, which marks the birth of the Estonian Parliament, the Riigikogu.
1920 – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) is founded in Ankara. The assembly denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces the preparation of a temporary constitution.
1927 – Cardiff City defeat Arsenal in the FA Cup Final, the only time it has been won by a team not based in England.
1935 – The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
1940 – The Rhythm Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.
1941 – World War II: The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht.
1942 – World War II: Baedeker Blitz: German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck.
1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler's designated successor, Hermann Göring, sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of Nazi Germany. Martin Bormann and Joseph Goebbels advise Hitler that the telegram is treasonous.
1946 – Manuel Roxas is elected the last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
1949 – Chinese Civil War: Establishment of the People's Liberation Army Navy.
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Birthdays 4.23
Beer Birthdays
Anton Schwartz (1853)
Christian Kazakoff (1971)
Five Favorite Birthdays
Valerie Bertinelli; actor (1960)
John Oliver; comedian (1977)
Max Planck; German physicist (1858)
Sergei Prokofiev; composer (1891)
William Shakespeare; writer, playwright (1564)
Johann Adam Stamm; wagonmaker (1702)
Famous Birthdays
David Birney; actor (1939)
Shirley Temple Black; actor, ambassador (1928)
Blair Brown; actor (1949)
James Buchanan; 15th U.S. President (1791)
Steve Clark; rock musician (1960)
Cow Cow Davenport; jazz pianist (1894)
Sandra Dee; actor (1942)
Joyce DeWitt; actor (1949)
J.P. Donleavy; writer (1926)
Stephen Douglas; politician (1813)
Tony Esposito; Chicago Blackhawks G (1943)
Jim Fixx; jogger, writer (1932)
Boris Godunov; tsar of Muscovy (1598)
Virgil "Gus" Grissom; astronaut (1926)
Halston; fashion designer (1932)
Estelle Harris; actor (1936)
Art Hoppe; writer, columnist (1925)
Jaime King; model, actor (1979)
Joanna Krupa; model (1979)
Lee Majors; actor (1939)
Edwin Markham; writer (1852)
Ngaio Marsh; writer (1899)
Michael Moore; documentary filmmaker (1954)
Roy Orbison; pop singer (1936)
Kal Penn; actor (1977)
Warren Spahn; Boston/Milwaukee Braves P (1921)
J.M.W. Turner; artist (1775)
Herve Villechaize; actor (1943)
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Holidays 4.22
Holidays
Ancestor’s Eve (Star Trek)
April Showers Day
Arbor Day (Nebraska)
Chemists Celebrate the Earth Day
Croatian Ustashi Genocide Remembrance Day (Croatia)
Day of Silence (a.k.a. GLSEN Day of Silence)
Discovery Day (Brazil)
Earth Day (UN)
Fern Day (French Republic)
Festival of Fabulous Androgynes
Fighter Aviation Day (Brazil)
Girl Scout Leader Appreciation Day
Global Selfie Earth Day (NASA)
Hari Raya Puasa (Singapore)
Hollow Earth Day
Holocaust Remembrance Day (Serbia)
Inanimate Object Day
”In God We Trust” Day
Instant Book Day
International Lubricant Day
International Marconi Day
International Mother Earth Day
International Narwhal Appreciation Day
International Organ Day (UK)
Kurdish Journalism Day
Love Your Hair Day
National Baseball Day
National Beagle Day
National Donate Life Blue & Green Day
National Fast-Pitch Coaches Association Day
National Girl Scout Leader’s Day
National IT Service Provider Day
National No Email Day
National Pinup Day
National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day
National Robe Day
National Send Your Man Nudes Day
National Terry Day
Oklahoma Day (Oklahoma)
Order of the Garter Day
Pat Tillman Day
Record Store Day
Rokjesdag 2024 (Skirt Day; Netherlands) [Varies, Early Spring]
Queen Isabella Day (Spain)
Sniff-the-Breeze Day (Egypt)
Stephen Lawrence Commemoration Day (UK)
Tesla Autonomy Day
Unofficial Programmers’ Day (Russia)
Ustashi Genocide Remembrance Day (Croatia)
Walpurgis celebrations begin (Germanic, Norse, Scandinavian) [thru 5.1]
Zhabdrung Kuchhoe (Bhutan)
Food & Drink Celebrations
National Jelly Bean Day
4th Monday in April
Confederate Memorial Day (AL, FL, GA) [4th Monday]
Public Library Day [Monday of Library Week]
School Librarian Day [Monday of Library Week]
Weekly Holidays beginning April 22 (4th Week)
Earth Week (thru 4.26)
Every Kid Healthy Week [M-F of Last Full Week]
Fibroid Awareness Week (thru 4.27)
National Environmental Education Week (thru 4.26)
National Playground Safety Week (thru 4.26) [Last Full Week M-F]
National Youth Violence Prevention Week (thru 4.24)
Independence & Related Days
Aethodia (f.k.a. Theodia; Declared; 2010) [unrecognized]
Chen Dynasty (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]
Frăția Blocurilor Unite (FBU or Brotherhood of the United Blocks; Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]
National Sovereignty Day (Turkey)
Pristinia (Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]
Festivals Beginning April 22, 2024
City Restaurant Week (Wilmington, Delaware) [thru 4.27]
Taste of Vernon (Vernon, New Jersey)
Feast Days
Acepsimas of Hnaita and companions (Catholic Church; Saints)
Agapitus I, Pope (Christian; Saint)
Arwald (Christian; Saint)
Azades, Tharba, and other, in Persia (Christian; Martyrs)
Berezozol (Lela's Holiday; Asatru/Slavic Pagan)
Bran the Blessed’s Head Day (Celtic Book of Days)
Caius, Pope (Christian; Martyr)
Day of Aradia (Pagan)
Earth Day (Pastafarian)
Epipodius and Alexander of Lyon (Christian; Martyrs)
Festival of Ishtar (Ancient Mesopotamia)
Festival of Jupiter and Juno (Ancient Rome)
Henry Fielding (Writerism)
Hudson Stuck (Episcopal Church)
Hunuman Jayanti (Hindu)
Joanie Jenkins (Muppetism)
John Muir (Episcopal Church)
Lela’s Holiday (Asatru/Slavic Pagan)
Leonides, Father of Origen (Christian; Saint)
Opportuna of Montreuil (Christian; Saint & Virgin)
Pliny the Elder (Positivist; Saint)
R. Crumb Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Richard Diebenkorn (Artology)
Rufus (a.k.a. Rufin) of Glendalough, Ireland (Christian; Saint)
Senorina (Christian; Saint)
Sham el-Nessim (First Day of Spring; Ancient Egypt)
Sidney Nolan (Artology)
Soter, Pope (Christian; Martyr)
Theodorus of Siceon (Christian; Saint)
Theravadin New Year (Buddhism)
Vladimir Nabokov (Writerism)
Yggdrasil Day (Asatru/Slavic Pagan)
Hebrew Calendar Holidays [Begins at Sundown Day Before]
Passover [14-15 Nisan] (a.k.a. ...
Erev Pesach
Exodus
Pesach
Pessach (erster Tag)
Pésaj
חַג הַפֶּסַח
Ta’anit Bechorot (Feast of the Firstborn) [14 Nisan]
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]
A Dangerous Day (Numerology) [#22 symbolized by a Good Man, blinded by the folly of others, with.a knapsack full of errors on his back.]
Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [20 of 37]
Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because it’s Nixon’s birthday.)
Premieres
Around the World in a Day, by Prince (Album; 1985)
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin (Novel; 1899)
The Bad Guys (Animated Film; 2022)
Bagdad Cafe (Film; 1987)
Baker Street, by Gerry Rafferty (Song; 1978)
Barney Blake, Police Reporter (TV Series; 1948)
Batty Baseball (MGM Cartoon; 1944)
Big House Bunny (WB LT Cartoon; 1950)
The Birds, The Bees & The Monkeys, by The Monks (Album; 1968)
The Bride of Frankenstein (Film; 1935)
Casual Sex? (Film; 1988)
Concrete Island, by J.G. Ballard (Novel; 1974)
Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur (WB MM Cartoon; 1939)
D’ Fightin’ Ones (WB MM Cartoon; 1961)
Earth (Documentary Film; 2009)
Easy Come, Easy Go (Film; 1967)
Elvis & Nixon (Film; 2016)
It’s a Small World (Disney Ride at New York World’s Fair; 1964
Jane-Eyre (Film; 2011)
Jeeves & Wooster (UK TV Series; 1990)
Jerry and the Lion (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1950)
Kallocain, by Karin Boye (Novel; 1940)
King Tut, by Steve Martin (Song; 1978)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Film; 1962)
Momofuku, by Elvis Costello (Album; 2008)
The Northman (Film; 2022)
Oceans (Documentary Film; 2010)
Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning (Betty Boop Cartoon; 1932)
100 Pygmies and Any Panda (Andy Panda Cartoon; 1940)
The Passions of the Mind, by Irving Stone (Biography of Sigmund Freud; 1971)
peck of Trouble (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1968)
Plague Dogs, by Richard Adams (Novel; 1978)
Poland, by James A. Michener (Novel; 1984)
Seventeen Seconds, by The Cure (Album; 1980)
Something Rotten! (Broadway Musical; 2015)
Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, by Antonin Dvořák (Symphony; 1885)
Tommy (Broadway Play; 1993)
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (Film; 2022)
Veep (TV Series; 2012)
Water for Elephants (Film; 2011)
Wild Thing, by The Trigs (Song; 1966)
The Willoughby’s (Animated Film; 2020)
Today’s Name Days
Alfred, Kaj, Leonidas (Austria)
Kajo, Leonida, Soter, Vojmil (Croatia)
Evženie (Czech Republic)
Cajus (Denmark)
Meeri, Meri, Merike, Merje (Estonia)
Aida, Alina (Finland)
Alexandre (France)
Alfred, Kaj, Leonidas (Germany)
Nathanael, Nearhos (Greece)
Csilla, Noémi (Hungary)
Caio, Leonida, Sotero (Italy)
Armanda, Armands, Usins, Vitālijs (Latvia)
Leonas, Leonidas, Norvaidė, Visgailas (Lithuania)
Oddgeir, Oddny (Norway)
Heliodor, Kajus, Leonia, Leonid, Łukasz, Soter, Strzeżymir, Teodor (Poland)
Teodor (Romania)
Slavomír (Slovakia)
María, Sotero (Spain)
Allan, Glenn (Sweden)
Nathan, Nathaniel, Vitalia, Vitaliy (Ukraine)
Caia, Caissa, Kai, Kaila, Kaleigh, Kaley, Kay, Kayla, Kaylee, Kayleigh, Kayley, Kaylie, Kaylin, Kaylyn, Leonidas, Makayla, Mckayla (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 113 of 2024; 253 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 1 of week 17 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 9 of 28]
Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 14 (Bing-Chen)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]
Hebrew: 14 Nisan 5784
Islamic: 13 Shawwal 1445
J Cal: 23 Cyan; Twosday [22 of 30]
Julian: 9 April 2024
Moon: 99%: Waxing Gibbous
Positivist: 1 Caesar (5th Month) [Miltiades]
Runic Half Month: Man (Human Being) [Day 13 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 35 of 92)
Week: 4th Week of April
Zodiac: Taurus (Day 3 of 31)
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Beer Events 4.22
Events
Westmalle became a Trappist Abbey (1836)
James Duffy patented a Method of Refining, Aging, Mellowing, and Purifying Alcoholic Liquors (1902)
Jacob Dettling died (1921)
Klaus Boetzkes patented a Beer Barrel Bung and Seal (1976)
Grace & Co. patented a Beer Clarification Aid Based on Siloca Xerogel with High Filterability (2009)
Brewery Openings
Southend Brewery & Smokehouse (North Carolina; 1995)
Salem Beer Works / Slesar Brothers Brewing (Massachusetts; 1996)
Upland Brewing (Indianapolis; 1998)
The Veil Brewing (Virginia; 2015)
Moonraker Brewing (California; 2016)
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Events 4.22
1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil (discovery of Brazil).
1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico.
1529 – Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues (1,250 kilometres (780 mi)) east of the Moluccas.
1809 – The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: The Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.
1836 – Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto, forces under Texas General Sam Houston identify Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna among the captives of the battle when some of his fellow soldiers mistakenly give away his identity.
1864 – The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that permitted the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
1876 – The first National League baseball game is played at the Jefferson Street Grounds in Philadelphia.
1889 – At noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Rush of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10,000.
1898 – Spanish–American War: President William McKinley calls for 125,000 volunteers to join the National Guard and fight in Cuba, while Congress more than doubles regular Army forces to 65,000.
1906 – The 1906 Intercalated Games open in Athens.
1915 – World War I: The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
1930 – The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
1944 – The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters stage the first use of helicopters in combat with combat search and rescue operations in the China Burma India Theater.
1944 – World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated: Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea.
1944 – World War II: In Greenland, the Allied Sledge Patrol attack the German Bassgeiger weather station.
1945 – World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt. Five hundred twenty are killed and around eighty escape.
1945 – World War II: Sachsenhausen concentration camp is liberated by soldiers of the Red Army and Polish First Army.
1948 – Arab–Israeli War: The port city of Haifa is captured by Jewish forces.
1951 – Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army begin assaulting positions defended by the Royal Australian Regiment and the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry at the Battle of Kapyong.
1954 – Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army–McCarthy hearings begins.
1969 – British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston wins the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race and completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world.
1969 – The formation of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) is announced at a mass rally in Calcutta.
1970 – The first Earth Day is celebrated.
1974 – Pan Am Flight 812 crashes on approach to Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, killing all 107 people on board.
1977 – Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.
1992 – A series of gas explosions rip through the streets in Guadalajara, Mexico, killing 206.
1993 – Eighteen-year-old Stephen Lawrence is murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Well Hall, Eltham.
2005 – Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan's war record.
2016 – The Paris Agreement is signed, an agreement to help fight global warming.
2020 – Four police officers are killed after being struck by a truck on the Eastern Freeway in Melbourne while speaking to a speeding driver, marking the largest loss of police lives in Victoria Police history.
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Birthdays 4.22
Beer Birthdays
Amy Dalton (1968)
Five Favorite Birthdays
Immanuel Kant; German philosopher (1724)
Charls Mingus; jazz bassist (1922)
Vladimir Nabokov; Russian writer (1899)
Jack Nicholson; actor (1937)
Bettie Page; model (1923)
Famous Birthdays
Eddie Albert; actor (1906)
Joseph Bottoms; actor (1954)
Candido Camero; jazz percussionist (1921)
Glen Campbell; country singer (1936)
Marilyn Chambers; porn actor (1952)
Henry Clay; politician (1777)
Janet Evanovich; writer (1943)
Anna Falchi; actor (1972)
Henry Fielding; English writer (1707)
Peter Frampton; rock guitarist (1950)
Amber Heard; actor, model (1986)
Isabella I; queen of Spain (1451)
Sheryl Lee; actor (1967)
Vladimir Ilich Lenin; Russian dictator (1870)
Chris Makepeace; actor (1964)
Yehudi Menuhin; violinist (1916)
Jason Miller; playwright (1939)
J. Robert Oppenheimer; physicist (1904)
Nicola Sacco; anarchist (1891)
Ryan Stiles; comedian, actor (1959)
Giuseppe Torelli; Italian composer (1658)
John Waters; film director (1946)
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Holidays 4.21
Holidays
Advisor Appreciation Day
A&M Day
Aggie Muster (Texas A&M)
AML World Awareness Day
Basava Jayanti (India)
Big Word Day
Birthday of Rome
Book Day (Vietnam)
Bulldogs are Beautiful Day
Civil Service Day (India)
Commemoration Day (Transdniestria)
Day of Secretaries (Belgium, Netherlands)
Day of the Educator (Mexico)
Feast of the Ramson (Wild Leek Festival; Richmond, West Virginia)
Garia Puja (Tripura, India)
Global Traction Day
Heroic Defense of Veracruz (Mexico)
Independence Heroes National Holiday (Parts of Brazil)
International Hemp Day
John Muir Day
Kang Pan-sok Day (North Korea)
Kartini Day (Indonesia)
Kawane-cha Day (Japan)
Keep Off the Grass Day
Kindergarten Day (Germany)
Kwane-cha Day (Japan)
Local Self Government Day (Russia)
Meliboea Asteroid Day
National Alex Day
National Cornstarch Day
National Day of Saadi (Iran)
National Dimple Day
National ICU Rehabilitation Day (UK)
National Javier Day
National Pet CBD Day
National Public Relations Day (India)
National Rendering Day
National Surprise Drug Test Day
National Tree Planting Day (Kenya)
National Vulva Awareness Day
National Yellow Bat Day
Oak Tree Day (French Republic)
Queen’s Birthday (Falkland Islands)
San Jacinto Day (Texas)
Sati Sadhani Divas (Assam, India)
Science Day (Tajikistan)
Thank You for Libraries Day
Tiradentes’ Day (Brazil)
Tuna Rights Day
World Creativity and Innovation Day
World Curlew Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
British National Tea Day (UK)
Chocolate-Covered Cashews Day
National Chickpea Day
National Tea Day (UK)
3rd Sunday in April
Go Fly a Kite Day [3rd Sunday]
Sechseläuten begins (Six Ringing Festival; Zurich, Switzerland) [3rd Sunday]
Sunday of the Paralytic [3rd Sunday]
Volunteer Sunday [3rd Sunday]
Weekly Holidays beginning April 21 (4th Week)
Administrative Professional’s Week [Last Full Week] (thru 4.27)
Animal Cruelty / Human Violence Awareness Week [3rd Full Week] (thru 4.27)
Bedbug Awareness Week [Last Week]
Canadian Immunization Awareness Week [Last Week]
Chemists Celebrate Earth Week (thru 4.27) [Weeks including 4.22]
Every Kid Healthy Week [Last Full Week]
Fibroid Awareness Week (thru 4.27) [4th Week]
National African Violet Week (thru 4.28)
National Coin Week (thru 4.27) [3rd Full Week]
National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (thru 4.27)
National Infants Immunization Week (thru 4.27) [4th Week]
National Infertility Awareness Week (thru 4.27) [4th Week]
National Karaoke Week (thru 4.27) [4th Week]
National Organ / Tissue Donor Awareness Week (thru 4.27) [Last Week]
National Paperboard Packaging Week (thru 4.27) [Week including 4.22]
National Princess Week (thru 4.27) [Last Full Week]
National Student Leadership Week (thru 4.27) [3rd Full Week]
National Volunteer Week (thru 4.27) [3rd Full Week]
Preservation Week [Last Week]
Sky Awareness Week (thru 4.27) [Last Full Week]
World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week (thru 4.27) [Week including 4.24]
Independence & Related Days
Baránok (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]
Calamba City (Philippines; 2001)
Dies Natalis Urbis Rome (Birthday of Rome; 753 BCE)
Orani Foundation Day (Philippines)
New Year’s Days
New Year Holidays (Myanmar)
Festivals Beginning April 21, 2024
Craft Brewers Conference (Las Vegas, Nevada) [thru 4.24]
Fallbrook Avocado Festival (Fallbrook, California)
Food Stroll & Pub Crawl (South Orange, New Jersey)
Heritage Fire (Tampa, Florida)
SC State Chili Cookoff & Kegs and Eggs Chili Cookoff (Belton, South Carolina) [thru 4.22]
Sechseläuten (Six Ringing Festival; Zurich, Switzerland) [3rd Sunday]
Wilmington VegFest (Wilmington, North Carolina)
Feast Days
Abdecalas (Christian; Saint)
Alistair Maclean (Writerism)
Anastasius the Younger of Antioch (Christian; Saint)
Anastasius Sinaita (Christian; Saint)
Anselm of Canterbury (Christian; Saint)
Beuno (a.k.a. Benno or Bueno Gasulysch; Christian; Saint) [Wales]
Boring People Baiting Day (Pastafarian)
Charlotte Bronte (Writerism)
Common Prayer Day (Denmark)
Conrad of Parzham (Christian; Saint)
Day of Pales (Pagan)
Dies Natalis Urbis Rome (Birthday of Rome; 753 BCE)
Eggnog Avoidance Day (Pastafarian)
Eingan or Enean, King of Scots (Christian; Saint)
Feast of Wadjet (Ancient Egypt)
Festival of Sacred Groves
Francesco de Mura (Artology)
Grounation Day (Rastafarian)
Holy Infant of Good Health (Christian)
Homecoming of Elves Singing (Shamanism)
Jean Hélion (Artology)
Lodovico Carracci (Artology)
Mairubius of Ireland (Christian; Saint)
Maurice (Muppetism)
Palia (Feast of Pales for Smaller Animals; God of the Herds; Ancient Rome) [also 7.7]
Plutarch (Positivist; Saint)
Ram Navami (Parts of India; Hindu)
Ridván, 1st Full Day (until May 2; Bahá'í)
Shemon Bar Sabbae (Christian; Saint)
Simeon Barsabae and His Companions (Christian; Martyrs)
Space Angel Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Visit Your Favorite Tree Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Wolbodo (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]
Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 19 of 60)
Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because it’s Black April.)
Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [23 of 60]
Premieres
All Quiet on the Western Front (Film; 1930)
American Dreamz (Film; 2006)
The Basketball Diaries (Film; 1995)
Being There, by Jerzy Kosiński (Novel; 1971)
Cassandra at the Wedding Dorothy Baker (Novel; 1962)
Contrary Condor (Disney Cartoon; 1944)
Crows’ Feat (WB MM Cartoon; 1962)
Duck Hunt (Video Game; 1984)
Father Ted (UK TV Series; 1995)
Fiddling Around (Disney Cartoon; 1930)
Field of Dreams (Film; 1989)
Ghosted (Film; 2023)
Harry of Monmouth, by A.M. Maughan (Novel; 1956)
Inherit the Wind, by Jerome Lawrence (Broadway Play; 1955)
Keanu (Film; 2016)
The Last Bean (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1939)
The Lonesome Gods, by Louis L’Amour (Novel; 1983)
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, by Manning Marble (Historical Biography; 2011)
Misty, recorded by Johnny Mathis (Song; 1959)
The Mouse from H.U.N.G.E.R. (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1967)
Stage Hoax (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1952)
Waking Up in Vegas, by Katy Perry (Song; 2009)
Walker, Texas Ranger (TV Series; 1993)
We’re on Our Way to Rio (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1944)
While You Were Sleeping (Film; 1995)
Wish, by The Cure (Album; 1992)
Today’s Name Days
Anselm, Konrad (Austria)
Anzelmo, Konrad (Croatia)
Alexandra (Czech Republic)
Florentius (Denmark)
Aimar, Aimer, Aimo, Aimur (Estonia)
Anselmi, Anssi (Finland)
Anselme (France)
Alexandra, Anselm (Germany)
Alexandra, Faistos, Ianos, January, Pege, Pigi, Zoe, Zoi (Greece)
Konrád (Hungary)
Anselmo, Corrado, Silvio (Italy)
Anastasija, Marģers, Margonis, Nilola (Latvia)
Amalija, Anzelmas, Milgedas, Skalvė (Lithuania)
Jannike, Jeanette (Norway)
Addar, Anzelm, Bartosz, Drogomił, Feliks, Irydion, Konrad, Konrada, Selma (Poland)
Ianuarie (Romania)
Ervín (Slovakia)
Anselmo (Spain)
Anneli, Annika (Sweden)
Phillipa (Ukraine)
Ansel, Ansell, Anselma, Selma, Zelma (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 112 of 2024; 254 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 7 of week 16 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 8 of 28]
Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 13 (Yi-Mao)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]
Hebrew: 13 Nisan 5784
Islamic: 12 Shawwal 1445
J Cal: 22 Cyan; Oneday [21 of 30]
Julian: 8 April 2024
Moon: 95%: Waxing Gibbous
Positivist: 28 Archimedes (4th Month) [Pliny the Elder]
Runic Half Month: Man (Human Being) [Day 12 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 34 of 92)
Week: 4th Week of April
Zodiac: Taurus (Day 2 of 31)
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Beer Events 4.21
Events
Rome founded (753 BCE)
Herman Lackman immigrated to America (1847)
Chicago Lager Beer Riot (1855)
Charles McManus patented a Design for a Metal Beer Can (1936)
Herman Maihack patented a Protector for Beer Can Openers (1942)
John Simon patented a Taping System for Liquid Container (1964)
J.E. Siebel Sons’ patented a Batch Fermentation Process (1987)
American Beer documentary premiered (2004)
Tom Robbins' B Is for Beer published (2009)
Rehrig Pacific patented a Keg Pallet (2015)
Brewery Openings
Kleines Freiburger Brauhaus (Germany; 1990)
Pacific Hop Exchange (California; 1993)
Library Restaurant Brewing (Wyoming; 1995)
Tommyknocker Brewery & Pub (Colorado; 1995)
Copper Canyon Brewing (Arizona; 1996)
Beelong's Beer (Japan; 1997)
Ise Kadoya Bakusyu; 1997)
Mad Fox Brewing (Virginia; 2008)
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Events 4.21 (after 1950)
1950 – The Nainital wedding massacre occurs, killing 22 members of the Harijan caste.
1952 – Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.
1958 – United Air Lines Flight 736 collides with a United States Air Force fighter jet near Arden, Nevada in what is now Enterprise, Nevada.
1960 – Brasília, Brazil's capital, is officially inaugurated. At 09:30, the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro.
1962 – The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
1963 – The first election of the Universal House of Justice is held, marking its establishment as the supreme governing institution of the Baháʼí Faith.
1964 – A Transit-5bn satellite fails to reach orbit after launch; as it re-enters the atmosphere, 2.1 pounds (0.95 kg) of radioactive plutonium in its SNAP RTG power source is widely dispersed.
1965 – The 1964–1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.
1966 – Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
1967 – A few days before the general election in Greece, Colonel George Papadopoulos leads a coup d'état, establishing a military regime that lasts for seven years.
1972 – Astronauts John Young and Charles Duke fly Apollo 16's Apollo Lunar Module to the Moon's surface, the fifth NASA Apollo Program crewed lunar landing.
1975 – Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyễn Văn Thiệu flees Saigon, as Xuân Lộc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.
1977 – Annie opens on Broadway.
1982 – Baseball: Rollie Fingers of the Milwaukee Brewers becomes the first pitcher to record 300 saves.
1985 – The compound of the militant group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord surrenders to federal authorities in Arkansas after a two-day government siege.
1987 – The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that detonates in the Sri Lankan capital city of Colombo, killing 106 people.
1989 – Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang.
1993 – The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis García Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.
2004 – Five suicide car bombers target police stations in and around Basra, killing 74 people and wounding 160.
2010 – The controversial Kharkiv Pact (Russian Ukrainian Naval Base for Gas Treaty) is signed in Kharkiv, Ukraine, by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev; it was unilaterally terminated by Russia on March 31, 2014.
2012 – Two trains are involved in a head-on collision near Sloterdijk, Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, killing one person and injuring 116 others.
2014 – The American city of Flint, Michigan switches its water source to the Flint River, beginning the ongoing Flint water crisis which has caused lead poisoning in up to 12,000 people, and at least 12 deaths from Legionnaires' disease, ultimately leading to criminal indictments against 15 people, five of whom have been charged with involuntary manslaughter.
2019 – Eight bombs explode at churches, hotels, and other locations in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, killing at least 269.
2021 – Indonesian Navy submarine KRI Nanggala (402) sinks in the Bali Sea during a military drill, killing all 53 on board.
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