Check out some of the most interesting holidays and events in April:
April 1st = April Fool's Day
April 2nd = Hans Christian Anderson's Birthday
April 3rd = Find-A-Rainbow Day
April 4th = The first Home Phone was installed in 1877
April 5th = National Read a Road Map Day
April 6th = North Pole discovered in 1898
April 7th = No Housework Day
April 8th = Ponce de Leon Day- born in 1460, he discovered Florida and searched for the Fountain of Youth
April 9th = The first Public Library was opened in 1833 at Peterborough, NH.
April 10th = National Sibling Day
April 11th = Jackie Robinson Day- on this day in 1947, he became the first Aftrican-American in modern Major League Baseball
April 12th = Holocaust Remembrance Day, called Yom Hashoah
April 13th = Thomas Jefferson's Birthday, born in 1743
April 14th = Titanic Stuck the iceberg, causing the ship to sink at 2:20 AM on April 15.
April 15th = The First McDonalds Opens by Ray Kroc in Des Plaines, IL 1955
April 16th = National Eggs Benedict Day
April 17th = Daffy Duck's Birthday, debuted in a Warner Brothers cartoon in 1937.
April 18th = First Laundromat Opens in Fort Worth, TX in 1934
April 19th = Humorous Day
April 20th = National Pineapple Upside Down Cake Day
April 21st = Kindergarten Day - First kindergarten was founded by Friedrich Froebel in Germany on 1837
April 22nd = Earth Day
April 23rd = William Shakespeare's Birthday, born in 1564
April 24th = Pigs-in-a-Blanket Day
April 25th = National Telephone Day
April 26th = National Pretzel Day
April 27th = Tell a Story Day
April 28th = Administrative Professional's Day - it's the fourth Wednesday of April
April 29th = Zipper Day, invented by Gideon Sindback in 1917
April 30th = Arbor Day
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