Thursday's celebrations

April 28th has a bunch of celebrations to consider:

Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work Day (always the last Thursday in April) - The Take Our Daughters To Work program was founded by Gloria Steinem and the Ms. Foundation for Women in 1993. It was an educational opportunity for girls to learn about the work world and feel better about themselves and their future. Then, 10 years later, in 2003, the program was expanded to include boys.

Cubicle Day 
Costume Day  
National Blueberry Pie Day

Fireman's Fun Festival  
Santa Fe Trail Day  
Texas Wildflower Day

National Kiss-Your-Mate Day
Great Poetry Reading Day
Poem in Your Pocket DayInternational Guide Dog Day

The execution of Facist dictator of Italy (aka "Il Duce") Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, at the close of WWII, 1945, as they attempted to flee to Switzerland
Chickasaw and Choctaw abandon communal lands, 1897
President James Monroe (5th President) was born, 1758
International Congress of Women opens at The Hague, 1915
Space Shuttle Discovery 12 launched (1991)

Christian Feast Day: Honoring saints
St. Peter Chanel's Day
St. Vitalis and Valeria's Day
Feast of Jamál ("Beauty"), the first day of the third month of the Bahá'í calendar (Bahá'í Faith)
International Workers' Memorial Day
World Day for Safety and Health at Work (International)

Flag Day - in Aland Islands (1954)
National Day of Mourning (Canada) to commemorate workers killed, injured, or suffering illness from occupational hazards and accidents
National Heroes Day (Barbados)
Carnival Day (U.S. Virgin Islands)
Ratification Day - in Maryland (1788)
The first day of the Floralia, in honor of Flora, Goddess of flowers and plants and the season of spring (Roman Empire)

(Photo credits: Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day logo, the white house.org; take your daughter to work, hroutsourcingconnection.com; blueberry pie, myrecipes.com; Oak Trees in a Field of Bluebonnet and Indian Paintbrush, Central Texas, wildnatureimages.com; Guide Dogs of america logo, goiam.org; Space Shuttle Discovery, hotslive.com; Flag Day in Aland Islands, crwflags.com; Flora, paintinghere.com; poetry wordle, readwritepoem.org) 

Wednesday's celebrations

April 27th has a bunch of celebrations to consider:

Write An Old Friend Today Day
National Tell A Story Day  
National D.J. Day

National Prime Rib Day
New Beginning Festival  
Sleep Day
Soupstock 

Administrative Professionals Day (aka, National Secretary's Day, 1955) (always the Wednesday of the last full week of April/on the Wednesday before the last Saturday in April)
Babe Ruth Day

Morse Code Day - birthday of Samuel Morse, inventor (1791)
There is a Morse code list of letters and numerals (dashes and dots) and a telegraph key to send the code: A typical "straight key." This U.S. model, known as the J-38, was manufactured in huge quantities during World War II, and remains in widespread use today. In a straight key, the signal is "on" when the knob is pressed, and "off" when it is released. Length and timing of the dots and dashes are entirely controlled by the operator.

World Graphic Design Day (Communication design discipline)
Festival of Art Sabotage
The universe is created (On this day in 4977 B.C.), according to German mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler, considered a founder of modern science. Kepler is best known for his theories explaining the motion of planets.

The first Social Security checks were distributed on this day in 1937
Matanzas Mule Day, 1898 - first naval actions of the Spanish-American War, US naval forces bombarded the Cuban village of Matanzas and the only casualty of the bombardment was one mule
Birthday - President Ulysses S. Grant (18th President) 1822
Christian Feast Day: honoring saints   
St. Zita's Day (patron of housemaids, finding lost keys)
St. Liberalis Day
Internet Evangelism Day
Freedom Day (South Africa) It celebrates freedom and commemorates the first post-apartheid elections held on this day in 1994

UnFreedom Day (South Africa) day of mourning, annual celebration of South Africa's first non-racial democratic elections of 1994 Independence Day (Sierra Leone) independence from United Kingdom in 1961
Independence Day (Togo) independence from France in 1960
National Day of Resistance (World War II) Day of the Uprising Against the Occupying Forces (Slovenia)
National War Veterans' Day (Finland)
2nd Republic Day (Austria)
Crown Prince William Alexander Day (Netherlands)
Constitution Day - in Yugoslavia (1992)

Kidsproj - VHASAKI / Culture Day in India
Meenakshi Kalyanam - in India; Hindus celebrate the marriage of the goddess Meenakshi and Lord Sundereswarar (also known as Lord Shiva) and commemorate their own marriages; celebrated as part of the Hindu Chitrai Festival, with a huge procession to the Meenaskshi Temple
Panguni Uttiram (Malaysia and Singapore) celebrated with free food, Malaysia & fire walking ceremony at the Sri Mariamman Temple, Singapore
Saur Revolution Day (Afghanistan) 1978
Dan We Zo, alias St Louis Cleimeille (Haiti)
Montserrat's Day (Catalonia)
Battle of Flowers Fiesta Event (San Antonio, TX)
Horse Day (Turkmenistan) (last Sunday of April since 1991) celebrate their "heavenly horses" which they inherited from their ancestors

(Sources: Wikipedia & Google; photo credits: prime rib, blogs.babble.com; old envelope, archives.gov.on.ca; multitasker, snellingnj.com; Chart of the Morse code letters and numerals, Wikipedia; telegraph key, Wikipedia; Social Security check in the mail, lifeaftersixty.wordpress.com; Day of Freedom, S. Africa, artaidsart.blogspot.com; Odissi performer from Odisha, Wikipedia; Horse Day, Dragon Head with rider, news.chinaa2z.com)

Happy "Administrative Professionals Day / Secretaries Day"!

Administrative Professionals Day (also known as Secretaries Day) is observed in the US on the Wednesday of the last full week of April to recognize the work of secretaries, administrative assistants, receptionists, and other administrative support professionals.

National Secretaries Week was created in 1952 through the efforts of Harry F. Klemfuss, a New York publicist. Working in conjunction with the National Secretaries Association, later known as the International Association of Administrative Professionals (IAAP), Klemfuss wanted to encourage more people to consider careers in the secretarial/administrative support field.

First "Secretary Day": June 4, 1952
The official period of celebration was first proclaimed by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer as "National Secretaries Week," which was held June 1–7 in 1952, with Wednesday, June 4, 1952 designated National Secretaries Day. The first Secretaries Day was sponsored by the National Secretaries Association with the support of corporate groups.

Moved to April in 1955
In 1955, the observance date of National Secretaries Week was moved to the last full week of April. The name was changed to Professional Secretaries Week in 1981, and became Administrative Professionals Week in 2000 to encompass the expanding responsibilities and wide-ranging job titles of administrative support staff.

Over the years, Administrative Professionals Week has become one of the largest workplace observances. It is celebrated by giving one's assistant gifts such as flowers, candy, food, trinkets, lunch at a restaurant, or time off. Take time today and this week to show your appreciation to the administrative professionals that you work with because they do so much for you!

(Source: Wikipedia; photo credit: telephone operator, sunbonnetcottage.blogspot.com; multitasker, snellingnj.com; calendar, fancifullgiftbaskets.com; day without the secretary, emains.wordpress.com; gift basket, wow-gift-baskets.com)

Tuesday's celebrations

April 26^th has a bunch of celebrations to consider:

National Pretzel Day
National Kids and Pets Day
Remember Your First Kiss Day

 

Hug A Friend Day
Shuffleboard Day
Static Cling Day
Secretary's Tea Day

Hug an Australian DayBuccaneer Days Festival begins (Corpus Christi , TX, 1938) - annual 24-day celebration with a pirate theme as a celebration based on the history and legend of the days of long ago when pirate ships sailed the waters of the Gulf and preyed on merchantmen
Read Me Day

International Azalea Festival
National Richter Scale Day: the Richter scale (from 1 to 10) is the creation of Charles Richter and Beno Gutenberg, both of the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) as an earthquake magnitude rating scale,1935

World Intellectual Property Day (UN, 1970): to increase people’s awareness and understanding of intellectual property (IP)

Birthday of John James Audubon (Jean-Jacques Audubon) (1785-1851), a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, hunter, and painter and namesake of the Audubon Society. In 1905, the National Audubon Society was incorporated and named in his honor. Its mission "is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity."

International Day of Chernobyl, April 1986, was a nuclear accident that occurred on this date in 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine). An explosion and fire released large quantities of radioactive contamination into the atmosphere, which spread over much of Western Russia and Europe. It is considered the worst nuclear power plant accident in history, and is one of only two classified as a level 7 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale.

The Salk polio vaccine field trials, involving 1.8 million children, began on this date in 1954, at the Franklin Sherman Elementary School in McLean, Virginia. By April 12, 1955, researchers announced the vaccine was safe and effective and it quickly became a standard part of childhood immunizations in America and helped wipe out the highly contagious disease in the Western Hemisphere.
Easter Tuesday (Australia)
Christian Feast Day honoring various saints
St. Marcellinus' Day
Last day of Passover/Pesach
The Day of Ashura/Tenth Day (عاشوراء‎), which means tenth in Arabic, is on the 10th day of Muharram in the Islamic calendar and marks the climax of the Remembrance of Muharram.

Vallenato Legend Festival  (Valledupar, Colombia) is one of the most important musical festivals in Colombia since 1968
National Union Day (United Republic of Tanzania, 1964)
Day of Remembrance of the Chernobyl tragedy (Belarus)
Cape Henry Day (Virginia)
Confederate Memorial Day (FL & GA) 

(Source: history.com & Wikipedia; photo credit: pretzel, weblogs.sun-sentinel.com; kiss, musiciansatlas.com; teacup, dandonnelly.wordpress.com; azaleas, art.com; Indonesia quake, Richter Scale, esrf.eu; Audubon bird painting of an eagle, antiqueprintsblog.blogspot.com; The nuclear reactor after the disaster. Reactor 4 (center). Turbine building (lower left). Reactor 3 (center right), Wikipedia; Jonas Salk with vaccine, americaninvetors.blogspot.com; Vallenato musicians, vivatravelguides.com; IP Day, wipo.int)

Monday's celebrations

April 25^th has a bunch of celebrations to consider:

National Zucchini Bread Day

Running of the RodentsWorld YMCA Day
March of Dimes WalkAmerica
Dove Awards

World Penguin Day
Cuckoo Day
Industry Day

National Good Telephone Day
National Youth Service Days
Plumber's Day
Anti-Nuclear Day

Red Hat Society Day (1998) - largest women’s social group in the world (70,000 registered members) for women approaching the age of 50 and beyond and its primary purpose is social interaction among women, and to encourage fun, friendship, freedom, fulfillment, and fitness. The goal is for members to bond as they travel through life together. "When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, With a red hat that doesn't go and doesn't suit me."

White House Easter Egg Roll
Canadanaigua (festival of lights, ritual of harvest and thanksgiving; Native American)
Robigalia (Old Roman Wheat Festival/God of Mildew)(Roman Empire)

Hubble Space Telescope deployed (1990)
Patent is granted to Robert Noyce for the integrated circuit (1961)
First Seeing Eye Dog became a reality (1928) 

State License Plate Day: License plates first required, in New York (1901)
Nicolas J. Pelletier is the first person executed by guillotine (1792)
Robinson Crusoe is published, 1719

Malaria Awareness Day - Presidential Proclamation, 2008
World Malaria Day (WHO, 1997)
Russian leader Yuri Andropov (Soviet Union, 1983) wrote to Samantha Smith, an American fifth-grader from Maine, inviting her to visit his country. Andropov's letter came in response to a note Smith had sent him in December 1982, asking if the Soviets were planning to start a nuclear war. (At the time, the United States and Soviet Union were Cold War enemies.)

Delegates from 45 countries meet in San Fransisco to organize the United Nations. (1945)
Easter Monday/Orthodox Easter Monday (AU, CA, UK, US)
Dyngus Day (Always the Monday after Easter) Smigus Dyngus/Wet Monday
Christian Feast Day: Saint Mark,Saints Philo and Agathopodes, Saint Anianus
Christian Feast Day: Mark the Evangelist, Philo and Agathopodes, Pope Anianus of Alexandria
St George’s Day (Canada)

Tag des Baumes, or Arbor Day (Germany) encouraged to plant and care for trees
Adonia (Greece) (women's festival)
Dia da Liberdade, or Freedom Day /Liberty Day (Portugal) celebrates the 1974 Carnation Revolution that ended the Dictatorship and started Democracy 
Anniversario della Liberazione/Liberation Day (Italy) celebrates the end of WWII (1945) and the fall of Mussolini's Italian Social Republic
 
Sinai's Liberation Day (Egypt) 1982,  celebrates the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Sinai Peninsula 
Family Day (South Africa)
National Flag Day (Swaziland)
National Flag Day (Faroe Islands, Denmark) 1948

East meets West DayArmy Day/Military Foundation Day (North Korea) commemorates the establishment by Kim Il-sung of the anti-Japanese guerrilla army in 1932

ANZAC Day (Australia, New Zealand, Cook Islands, Niue, and Tonga) honours members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who fought in Turkey during WWI 
Remembrance Day (New Guinea) 
Confederate Memorial Day (AL, FL, GA, MS)

(Source: ; photo credit: Zucchini Bread, wholefoodsmarket.com; penguins, zmescience.com; telephone, dandelionmama.wordpress.com; Red Hat Society Women of Victoria, BC Canada, 2004, Wikipedia; White House Easter Egg Roll, bittenandbound.com; Hubble Space Telescope, sevensidedcube.net; NY license plate, plateshack.com; Robinson Crusoe, jahsonic.com; United Nations, 9nine9.wordpress.com; Tag des Baumes (Arbor Day) April 2007, Michael Panse, Flickr; Eye of Horus, Egypt, Wikipedia;
ANZAC Day, aussiesinphilly.com; Confederate Memorial cemetery, mdscv.org)

This fourth week of April celebrates:

Administrative Professionals Week/Administrative Assistants Week
National Karaoke Week

 

The Tulip Festival
Consumer Protection Week
Forest Week

Jewish Heritage Week
Keep America Beautiful Week
Reading Is Fun Week
National TV-Free Week

Teacher Appreciation Week (begins Last Monday)
Royal Wedding Week (Prince William and Kate wedding on Friday in UK)

(Photo credits: tulips at Garvan Gardens, atu.edu; forest, arkansas.com; no tv, philosophy of science portal.blogspot.com; pending wedding, telegraph.co.uk)