APRIL

April - 4th month of the year

Thought about writing a blog for this month and started looking for details about this month; found it interesting and end up with brief message below.

April's birthstone is diamond, which symbolizes innocence.
Birth flower is Daisy and sweet pea

  • April Fools' Day - April 1
  • Easter - two days after Good Friday [long weekend after a while]
  • National Poetry Month - in United States
  • National Arab American Heritage Month - in United States
  • Jazz Appreciation Month
  • April 1 is the first day of Japanese fiscal year. Major Japanese companies usually have Nyushashiki (entry ceremony for companies) for new employees those who newly hired after their graduation from schools, on this day.
  • Japanese school calendar also starts from April 1, although Nyugakushiki (entry ceremony for schools) are usually held later, around second week of April.
  • World Autism Awareness Day - April 2
  • Arbor Day- in Korea - April 5
  • End of Tax Year (UK) - April 5
  • World Health Day- April 7
  • Buddha's Birthday - Traditional Date - April 8
  • Araw ng Kagitingan, also known as "Bataan Day" (Philippines) - April 9
  • Thai New Year in Thailand - April 13
  • Khmer New Year in Cambodia - April 13
  • Tamil New Year's Day in Tamilnadu - April 14
  • Tax Day - April 15 (in US)
  • Boston Marathon - Third Monday
  • Passover begins on the fifteenth day of Nisan, which in 2008 begins at sunset on April 19
  • 4:20- April 20
  • Patriots' Day- April 21
  • Earth Day - April 22
  • Conch Republic Independence Celebration (Key West, Florida) - April 23
  • St George's Day Patron Saint Celebration (England, Europe) - April 23
  • Birthday of Sgt. Jacob Caldwell, Journalist, U.S. Army - April 24
  • ANZAC Day (Australia and New Zealand) - April 25
  • Carnation Revolution (Portugal) - April 25
  • Freedom Day (South Africa) - April 27
  • April 29 is a Japanese national holiday, as Shōwa Day since 2007. It has been celebrated as The Emperor's Birthday from 1927 to 1988, then renamed as Greenery Day after Hirohito's death in 1989.
  • Koninginnedag (Kingdom of the Netherlands) - April 30
  • Arbor Day - last Friday of April in United States
  • Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work Day, usually fourth Thursday (United States)
  • London Marathon - usually fourth Sunday

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