April 19th has a bunch of celebrations to consider:
National Garlic Day
National Amaretto Day
National Hanging Out Day
Humorous Day
Bicycle Day- Albert Hofmann (Swiss chemist who first synthesized the psychedelic drug/entheogen LSD) performed a self-experiment to determine the true effects of LSD (1943) and had to ride home on a bicycle since the use of motor vehicles was prohibited because of wartime restrictions (1943)
After a 51 day siege in Waco, Texas, the Branch Dividian compound goes up in flames, killing the cult members (1993)
Timothy McVeigh bombs the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, and injuring hundreds more (1995)
First day of Passover / Pesach (Jewish): begins at sundown the day before, lasts 8 days
Sierra Leone Republic Day
St. Alphege's Day
St. Leo IX's Day
John Parker Day
Dutch-American Friendship Day (United States)
Patriots' Day (Fla)
Beginning of the Independence Movement (Venezuela)
Christian Feast Day: Ælfheah of Canterbury, Emma of Lesum, Expeditus, George of Antioch, Pope Leo IX
King Mswati III's birthday (Swaziland)
Landing of the 33 (Uruguay)
National Health Day (Kiribati)
Primrose Day (United Kingdom): Primrose Day began in England on this date, 1881 with the death of British statesman Benjamin Disraeli. Queen Victoria sent two floral wreaths to be placed on his coffin, his favorite flower. England's Primrose Day sprang from this simple gesture and people celebrate by decorating their homes with the flower and gentlemen wore the petals on their lapels.
(Sources: Wikipedia, Suite101.com; photo credit: garlic, bellybytes.com; wooden shoes, freewebs.com; Passover Seder Plate showing (clockwise, beginning from top): maror (romaine lettuce), z'roa (roasted shankbone), charoset, maror (chrein), karpas (celery sticks), beitzah (roasted egg). Photographed on April 12, 2006 by Yoninah; primrose, Primula vulgaris, Wikipedia)
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