April starts right off with a holiday, April Fool's Day, so stay on your toes lest you be taken in by a prank. Easter and Passover frequently, but not always, occur in April as well, and Earth Day occurs on the 22nd. Although it isn't the official start of Spring, it's often when the weather stops blustering long enough to feel springlike, although Robert Frost said "April is the cruelest month" for its extremely changeable weather. But even though "April showers bring May flowers", there are plenty of interesting things to know about the month of April besides the fact that it's rainy!
Monthly Observances
April is National Card and Letter Writing Month, so make sure to keep in touch with your loved ones via snail mail (this is the time to use up all those free notecards the charities having been sending you!) Wouldn't you love to get something in your mailbox besides bills and junk? So would your friends and relatives!
April is also the National Month for decorating; DNA, genomics, and stem-cell education and awareness; gardening; humor; kites; landscape architecture; occupational therapy (I've had jobs that made me want to see a shrink, too); Parkinson's awareness; pecans; poetry; sexually transmitted diseases and sexual assault awareness. April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, Youth Sports Safety Month, and it is also National Knuckles Down Month, although I do not know what that is (sounds kind of painful).
April is also the International Month for Caesarean awareness, customer loyalty, and pet first aid. Also the International Twit Award is presented in April. I know all of you have some strong contenders in mind...
Weirdest Holiday: International "Louie Louie" Day, on the 11th, because it's not just Americans who can appreciate a badly-enunciated song with a seven-word chorus you can sing whilst incredibly drunk.
April Traditions
Flower: sweet pea - blissful pleasure
Birthstone: diamond - innocence, success, faith Aries's gem: diamond
Zodiac sign: Aries (1-20) and Taurus (21-30; see April for details). Aries the Ram is known as the baby of the zodiac, being the first sign and representing the first several years of life. As a result of this, Aries fire-sign characteristics of excitability, adventurousness and experimentation are multiplied, as children share these same characteristics. Aries people are loads of fun to be with, but can be, as you may expect, immature and careless. Best friends: Leo and Sagittarius. Best love matches: Libra, Gemini and Aquarius.
Famous Birthdays: Debbie Reynolds (1st), Hans Christian Andersen (2nd), Marlon Brando (3rd), Robert Downey Jr. (4th), Gregory Peck (5th), Harry Houdini (6th), Billie Holiday (7th), Patricia Arquette (8th), Hugh Hefner (9th), Omar Sharif (10th), Joss Stone (11th), Beverly Cleary (12th), Thomas Jefferson (13th), Pete Rose (14th), Leonardo da Vinci (15th), Martin Lawrence (16th), Victoria Beckham (17th), David Tennant (18th), Dudley Moore (19th), George Takei (20th), Queen Elizabeth II (21st), Jack Nicholson (22nd), Roy Orbison (23rd), Kelly Clarkson (24th), Al Pacino (25th), Carol Burnette (26th), Coretta Scott King (27th), Jessica Alba (28th), Duke Ellington (29th), Kirsten Dunst (30th).
Catholic Feast Days
1-Feast of St Hugh of Grenoble
2 - Feast of St Francis of Paola, Ste Mary of Egypt, St Urban of Langres
3- Feast of Ste Irene, St Richard of Chichester
4 - Feast of St Benedict the Black, St Isidore of Seville
5 - Feast of St Vincent Ferrer, St Derfel Gadarn
6 - Feast of St Notker Balbulbus
7 - Feast of St Herman Joseph, St John Baptist de la Salle
8 - Feast of St Walter of Pontoise
9- Feast of Ste Casilda, Ste Mary Cleophas, St Waldetrudis
10- Feast of St Macarius of Ghent, St Ezekiel, St Fulbert of Chartres, the Blessed Madelena of Canossa
11-Feast of Ste Gemma Galgani, Ste Godeberta, St Stanislaus
12-Feast of St Zeno
13-Feast of St Hermenegild, Ste Margaret of Castell, St Ursus
14-Feast of St Bénezet, the Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, the Blessed Lydwina, St Peter Gonzales
15-Feast of the Venerable Father Damien, Ste Hunna
16-Feast of St Benedict Labre, Ste Bernadette, St Drago, St Magnus of Orkney
17-Feast of St James Duckett
18-Feast of Ste Aya
19-Feast of St Expeditus, St Alphege, Ste Emma
20-Feast of St Peter Martyr, St Uriel the Archangel
21-Feast of St Beuno, St Conrad of Parzham, St Anselm
22-Feast of St Epidosius, St Theodore of Sykeon, Ste Opportunata
23-Feast of St Adalbert of Prague, St George
24-Feast of St William Firmatus, Stes Bova & Doda, St Ivo
25-Feast of St Mark
26-Feast of The Mother of Good Counsel, St Joseph the Hymnographer
27- Feast of Ste Zita, St Maughold
28- Feast of St Peter Mary Chanel, St Aphrodisius, Ste Theodora, St Didymus
29- Feast of Ste Catherine of Siena, St Hugh of Cluny
30- Feast of St Adjutor, St Wolfhard, Ste Hildegard, St Pius V
Check out the funky stuff in these other months:
January - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2017/01/your-january-birthday-january-holidays.html
February - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2016/02/your-february-birthday-february.html
March - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2016/03/your-march-birthday-march-holidays.html
April - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2016/03/your-april-birthday-april-holidays.html
May - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2016/05/your-may-birthday-may-holidays.html
June - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2017/05/your-june-birthday-holidays-traditions.html
July - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2017/07/your-july-birthday-july-holidays.html
August - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2016/07/your-august-birthday-august-holidays.html
September - https://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2019/08/your-september-birthday-september.html
October - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2016/09/your-october-birthday-october-holidays.html
November - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2017/10/your-november-birthday-november.html
December - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2016/12/your-december-birthday-december.html
Image from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/en/sweet-pea-wild-flower-sweet-pea-796916/
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