This third week of April celebrates:

Organize Your Files Week

Medical Labs Week

Coin Week

(Photo credit: twincitygold.com)

Tonight celebrates a Full Pink Moon!

This name came from the herb moss pink, or wild ground phlox, which is one of the earliest widespread flowers of the spring. 

Other names for this month’s celestial body include the Full Sprouting Grass Moon, the Egg Moon, and among coastal tribes the Full Fish Moon, because this was the time that the shad swam upstream to spawn, or seed moon, waking moon. 

The Pink Moon is the early full moon of the Vernal Equinox, usually in April.

(Source: Wikipedia, farmersalmanac.com; photo credit: universetoday.com; phases of the moon, science.howstuffworks.com)

Today's celebrations

April 17th has a bunch of celebrations to consider:

National Cheeseball Day    

Blah, Blah, Blah Day

Bat Appreciation Day

Ellis Island Family History Day

Pet Owners Independence Day

Nothing Like a Dame Day

Perigean Spring Tides

Full Pink Moon

International Ford Mustang Day: Ford Mustang debuts at World’s Fair, 1964

Palm Sunday/Orthodox Palm Sunday

Christian Feast Day: Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha (Canada), Pope Anicetus

St. Stephen Harding's Day

Evacuation Day celebrates the recognition of the independence of Syria from France in 1946

Independence Day (Syrian Arab Republic)

FAO Day (Iraq)

Eidul Adha

Flag Day (American Samoa)

Women's Day (Gabon)

World Hemophilia Day (International, UN)

Verrazano Day

(Photo credits: Cheeseball, homebakedmemories.com; Full Moon in Bangalore, April 2007,  commons.wikimedia.org; mustang debut, motorcitymusclecars.com; palm leaf, earthflora.com)