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- Take Our Daughters to Work Day
- Happenstance and Coincidence Evening (Fairy)
- Hostage Heroes Day
- Hug-A-Prom-Sponsor Day
- National Good Telephone Day! Call a few friends that you haven’t talked to in a while. - April 24
- National PC/Typing Contest begins
- National Pigs-in-a-Blanket Day
- National Puppetry Day
- National Remembrance of Man's Inhumanity To Man Day
- National Youth Service Days - April 24 - 26, 2009
- Native American Heritage Day
- Plumber's Day
- Professional Secretary's Day
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Christian holidays
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- Feast of the 3 Holy Marys
- Calendar of Saints - April 24
- Holy Thursday - Eastern Orthodox - April 24, 2003
- St. Mark's Eve - a young lady can divine her future husband on the eve of St. Mark's Day by eating a hard boiled dove's egg, sprinkled with salt, prior to retiring to bed for the night; she
should also place a Tulip, sacred to St. Mark, in a vase next to the bed; she would then dream of the man she would marry. Poor Robin's Almanack (1770):
On St. Mark's Eve, at twelve o'clock,
The fair maid will watch her smock,
To find her husband in the dark,
By praying unto good St. Mark.
Girls would also place nuts on the hearthstone on St. Mark's Eve, assigning each the name of a potential suitor and chanting the rhyme: "If you love me, pop and fly; If not lie there
silently."
Cowslip flowers, in bloom by St. Mark's Day, have long been used as an aid to beauty, and could even "...comfort the heart" (William Turner, Herbal, 1568).
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anniversaries
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- the IBM-PC introduced (1981)
- US Library of Congress established (1800)
- Pesach - First Day of Passover - Festival of Freedom
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directories
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April holidays & events by location
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- Constitution Day - in Gambia (1970)
- Victory Day - in Togo
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- Birthday of the Sun - in China
- Matsu Festival - in Taiwan; April 24, 2003
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- Israel - Independence Day (1948)
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- Children's Day - in Iceland
- Martyrs Day - in Armenia; Genocide Memorial Day (1915)
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- Native Son Day - in Alton, IL
- Rattlesnake Day - in Magnum, OK
- Scratch Ankle Heritage Festival - in historic downtown Milton, Florida; Milton was allegedly nicknamed “Scratch Ankle”
because at one time the only way to get there was by Blackwater River, and visitors leaving their boats would have brambles and blackberry briars scratch their ankles
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- Day 114, with 251 days remaining in the year
- 2001 A. D.: Tuesday
- 2002 A. D.: Wednesday
- 2003 A. D.: Thursday
- 2004 A. D.: Saturday
- 2005 A. D.: Sunday
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other calendars
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