Creative Process April Holidays, Observances / Links


APRIL HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES
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April Observances:		poster links	resource links
	Holocaust Remembrance Month	Holocaust posters	Holocaust Martyrs' & Heroes U.S. Holocaust Museum
	Mathematics Education Month	• number posters • famous mathematicians	Mathematics Education
	Poetry Month	poetry posters	Poets.org
	Guitar Month	guitar posters	The History of the Guitar
	Jazz Appreciation Month	Golden Age of Jazz posters	Smithsonian Jazz
	Gardening Month	botany posters	National Gardening Association
	Child Abuse Prevention Month	peace posters	PreventChildAbuse.org
	Frog Month	amphibians posters	Types & Characteristics of Frogs
	Welding Month	vocational posters	History of Welding
	Alcohol Awareness Month	dangers of alcohol poster	Alcohol & Drug Information
	Anxiety Month	health practitioners poster	Anxiety Disorders Assoc of America
	Stress Awareness Month	"	Dept of Defense Stress Awareness
	Autism Awareness Month	"	Autism Society of America
	Counseling Awareness Month	"	American Counseling Association
	Occupational Therapy Awareness Month	vocational education posters	American Occupational Therapy Association
	STD Awareness Month	STD poster	American Social Health Association
	Zoo & Aquarium Month also found proclaimed to be June by President Reagan in 1982	animals posters	American Zoo & Aquarium Assoc.

	First Week of April
	National Public Health Week	health posters	American Public Health Assoc.
	World Health Day	health posters	World Health Organization (WHO)
	Week of the Young Child	Montessori posters	National Association for the Education of the Young Child

	Second Week of April
	Astronomy Week - between mid April & mid May near or before 1st quarter moon	astronomy posters	Astronomical League
	Library Week	literature posters	American Library Association

	Third Week of April
	Animal Cruelty/Human Violence Awareness Week	peace posters	• ASPCA - American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals • Human Society of America

	Fourth Week of April
	Administrative Professionals Week/Day 4th week of April / Wednesday	• voc ational posters • women posters	IAAP - International Association of Administrative Professionals

April Holidays
	April 1 - All Fool's Day	Fool poster	April Fool's Day Lesson Plan
	April 2 - International Children's Book Day (Hans Christian Andersen B-Day)	children posters	International Children's Book Day
	April 7 - World Health Day	health posters	World Health Organization (WHO)
	3-24 Palm Sunday 2013 / Sunday before Easter	Christianity posters	Religion & Ethics BBC site
	3-14 to 4-22, 2014 - Passover, which begins on the 15th day of Nisan in the Jewish calendar, commemorates the Exodus and freedom of the Israelites from ancient Egypt. (April 3-11-2015)	Judaism posters	Judaism 101
	b. Gautama Buddha celebrated eighth day of the fourth month in the Chinese calendar	Buddhism posters	Wesak Flower Festival- Celebration of Buddha's Birth & Enlightenment wikipedia.org
	4-18 Good Friday 2014 (4-3-15; 3-25-16; 4-14-17)	Christianity posters
	4-20, Easter Sunday 2014 (4-5-2015; 3-27-16; 4-16-17)	Christianity posters
	April 13, 14, or 15- Baisakhi, Hindu Solar New Year	Hinduism posters	Baisakhi - Birth of the Khalsa
	April 23	literature posters	World Book & Copyright Day - UNESCO
	April 20-May 2 Ridvån, Bahåi Faith	World's Religions posters	The Bahåi World
	Arbor Day Proclaimed last Friday in April, local observances based on climate.	trees posters	National Arbor Day Foundation
	April 30 - Walpurgis Night, the eve of May Day		Old pagan festival similar to Halloween (All Hallow's Eve)

April Notable Dates

	d. 4-1-1204 - Eleanor of Aquataine		Eleanor of Aquataine Resource File
	b. 4-1-1578 - Dr. William Harvey, scientist		William Harvey Resource File
	b. 4-1-1697 - Abbé Prévost, author & priest		Abbé Prévost Resource File
	b. 4-1-1809 - Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, author		Gogol Resource File
	b. 4-1-1820 - Felix Nadar, photographer & aviator		Felix Nadar Resource File
	b. 4-1-1862 - Edwin Austin Abbey, artist		Edwin Austin Abbey Resource File
	b. 4-1-1866 - Sophonisba Breckinridge, activist		Sophonisba Breckinridge Resource File
	b. 4-1-1866 - Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni, pianist		Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni Res. File
	b. 4-1-1869 - Edmond Rostand, author		Edmond Rostand Resource File
	b. 4-1-1873 - Sergei Rachmaninov, composer		Sergei Rachmaninov Resource File
	b. 4-1-1895 - Alberta Hunter, singer		Alberta Hunter Resource File
	b. 4-1-1908 - Abraham Maslow, humanist psychologist		Abraham Maslow Resource File
	d. 4-1-1917 - Scott Joplin, musician		Scott Joplin Resource File
	b. 4-1-1929 - Milan Kundera, author		Milan Kundera Resource File
	b. 4-1-1929 - Jane Powell, dancer & actress		Jane Powell Resource File
	b. 4-1-1940 - Wangari Maathai, activist & 2004 Nobel Peace Prize		Wangari Maathai Resource File

	• 4-2/8-1513 - Juan Ponce de Leon arrival in what is known as Florida		Florida Heritage Collection
	b. 4-2-1647 - Anna Maria Sibylla Merian, botantist		Anna Maria Sibylla Merian Bio
	b. 4-2-1805 - Hans Christian Andersen, author		Hans Christian Andersen Resource File
	b. 4-2-1840 - Emile Zola, author		Emile Zola Resource File
	b. 4-2-1862 - Nicholas Murray Butler, educator & Nobel Peace Prize		Nicholas Murray Butler Resource File
	b. 4-2-1892 - Rudolf Bockelmann, baritone		Rudolf Bockelmann Resource File
	b. 4-2-1905 - Serge Lifar, ballet dancer		Sergei Lifar Resource File
	b. 4-2-1908 - Buddy Ebsen, dancer & actor		Buddy Ebsen Resource File
	b. 4-2-1939 - Marvin Gaye, musician		Marvin Gaye Resource File

	b. 4-3-1593 - George Herbert, metaphysical poet		George Herbert Resources File
	b. 4-3-1755 - Simon Kenton, explorer		Simon Kenton Resources File
	b. 4-3-1783 - Washington Irving, author		Washington Irving Bio
	b. 4-3-1798 - Charles Wilkes, explorer		Charles Wilkes Resources File
	b. 4-3-1822 - Edward Everett Hale, author		Edward Everett Hale Resource File
	b. 4-3-1822 - John Burroughs, conservationist & author		John Burroughs Resource File
	b. 4-3-1863 - Henry van de Velde, architect		Henry van de Velde Resource File
	b. 4-3-1926 - Virgil “Gus” Grissom, astronaut		Virgil Grissom Resource File
	b. 4-3-1934 - Jane Goodall, scientist		Jane Goodall Resource File
	b. 4-3-1967 - Cat Cora, chef		Cat Cora Resource File

	d. 4-4-1617 - John Napier, mathematician		John Napier Resource File
	b. 4-4-1692 - Giuseppe Tartini, violinist		Giuseppe Tartini Resource File
	b. 4-4-1780 - Edward Hicks, Quaker minister & artist		Edward Hicks Resource File
	b. 4-4-1785 - Bettina von Arnim, author		Bettina von Arnim Resource File
	b. 4-4-1802 - Dorothea Dix, reformer		Voice for the Mad: The Life of Dorothea Dix
	b. 4-4-1809 - Benjamin Peirce, mathematician		Benjamin Peirce Resource File
	b. 4-4-1828 - Margaret Oliphant, author		Margaret Oliphant Resource File
	b. 4-4-1868 - Philippa Garrett Fawcett, mathematician & educator		Philippa Fawcett Resource File
	b. 4-4-1869 - Mary Colter, architect		Mary Colter Resource File
	b. 4-4-1896 - Robert E. Sherwood, playwright		Robert E. Sherwood Resource File
	b. 4-4-1899 - Sigurd F. Olson, environmentalist		Siguard F. Olsen Resource File
	b. 4-4-1908 - Antony Tudor, choreographer & dancer		Antony Tudor Resource File
	b. 4-4-1913 - Muddy Waters, musician		Muddy Waters Resource File
	b. 4-4-1928 - Maya Angelou, author		CP Links for Learning - Angelou


	b. 4-5-1588 - Thomas Hobbes, philosopher		Thomas Hobbes Resource File
	b. 4-5-1732 - Jean-Honore Fragonard, artist		Jean-Honore Fragonard Resource File
	b. 4-5-1804 - Matthias Jakob Schleiden, botanist		Matthais Scheiden Resource File
	b. 4-5-1827 - Dr. Joseph Lister, scientist		Joseph Lister Resource File
	b. 4-5-1837 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet		Algernon Charles Swinburne Resource File
	b. 4-5-1856 - Booker T. Washington, educator		CP Links for Learning - B. T. Washington
	b. 4-5-1908 - Bette Davis, actress		Bette Davis Resource File
	• 4-5-1930 - Salt March, India		CP Links for Learning - Gandhi
	b. 4-5-1949 - Judith Resnik, astronaut & electrical engineer		Judith Resnick Resource File

	b. 4-6-1483 - Raphael, artist		Raphael Resource File
	b. 4-6-1798 - James Beckwourth, explorer		James Beckwourth Resource File
	b. 4-6-1890 - Anthony Fokker, aviator		Anthony Fokker Resource File
	b. 4-6-1911 - Feodor Lynen, biologist		Feodor Lynen Resource File

	d. 4-7-1614 - El Greco, artist		El Greco Resource File
	b. 4-7-1770 - William Wordsworth, poet		Wm Wordsworth Bio
	b. 4-7-1772 - Charles Fouier, utopian socialist & philosopher		Charles Fourier Resource File
	b. 4-7-1803 - Flora Tristan, suffragette		Flora Tristan Resource File
	• 4-7-1805 - Lewis & Clark break winter camp with Mandans, continue west		Lewis & Clark Resource File
	b. 4-7-1881 - Daisy Ashford, author		Daisy Ashford Resource File
	b. 4-7-1884 - Bronislaw Malinowski, anthropologist		Bronislaw Malinowski Resource File
	b. 4-7-1889 - Gabriela Mistral, poet, teacher, activist		Gabriela Mistral Resource File
	b. 4-7-1890 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas, environmentalist & author		Majory Stoneman Douglas Resource File
	b. 4-7-1915 - Billie Holliday, singer		Billie Holliday Resource File
	b. 4-7-1915 - Yul Brynner, actor		Yul Brynner Resource File
	b. 4-7-1920 - Ravi Shankar, musician		Ravi Shankar Resource File
	b. 4-7-1931 - Daniel Ellsburg, peace activist		Daniel Ellsburg Resource File
	• 4-7-1943 - First synthesis of LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide, by Albert Hofman		LSD Resource File
	b. 4-7-1969 - The Internet's symbolic birth - publication of RFC 1.		Internet History Resource File
	• 4-7-1983 - 1st Space Shuttle Space Walk		STS-6 Resource File

	b. 4-8-563 BC - Gautama Buddha
	b. 4-8-1827 - Barbara Bodichon, educator & feminist		Barbara Bodichon Resource File
	b. 4-8-1859 - Edmund Husserl, philosopher		Edmund Husserl Resource File
	b. 4-8-1885 - Blanche Stuart Scott, aviator		Blanche Stuart Scott Resource File
	b. 4-8-1886 - Lily Elsie, actress		Lily Elsie Resource File
	b. 4-8-1892 - Richard Neutra, architect		Richard Neutra Resource File
	b. 4-8-1912 - Sonja Henie, figure skater		Sonja Henie Resource File
	• 4-8-1913 - 17th Amendment- Direct Election of Senators Bill of Rights posters
	b. 4-8-1938 - Kofi Annan, diplomat		Kofi Annan Resource File
	b. 4-8-1955 - Barbara Kingsolver, environmentalist & author		Barbara Kingsolver Resource File
	• 4-8-2005, Hybrid Solar Eclipse, S. Pacific	astronomy posters	NASA Eclipse Home Page

	d. 4-9-1553 - Francois Rabelais, author & physician		Francois Rabelais Resource File
	b. 4-9-1806 - Isambard Kingdom Burnel, engineer		Isambard Kingdom Brunel Resource File
	b. 4-9-1821 - Charles Baudelaire, author		Charles Baudelaire Resource File
	b. 4-9-1830 - Eadweard Muybridge, photographer		Eadweard Muybridge Resource File
	b. 4-9-1860 - Emily Hobhouse, activist		Emily Hobhouse Resource File
	• 4-9-1865 - Civil War - Lee Surrenders to Grant at Appomattox, VA		Heritage Preservation Services
	b. 4-9-1898 - Paul Robeson - actor & singer		Paul Robeson Resource File
	b. 4-9-1906 - Victor Vasarely, artist		Victor Vasarely Resource File
	b. 4-9-1919 - J. Presper Eckert, electrical engineer, computer scientist		J. Presper Eckert Resource File

	b. 4-10-1755 - Samuel Hahnemann, homeopathic physician		Samuel Hahnemann Resource File
	b. 4-10-1778 - William Hazlitt, author		William Hazlitt Resource File
	b. 4-10-1794 - Matthew C. Perry, US Navy		Matthew C. Perry Resource File
	b. 4-10-1806 - Juliette Drouet, actress		Juliette Drouet Resource File
	d. 4-10-1806 - Horatio Gates, Revolutionary War		Horatio Gates Resource File
	• 4-10-1815 - Mount Tambora, Indonesia, most violent volcano eruption in recorded history.		Mount Tambora Resource File
	b. 4-10-1827 - Lew Wallace, author		Lew Wallace Resource File
	b. 4-10-1882 - Frances Perkins - Secretary of Labor		Frances Perkins Resources File
	b. 4-10-1930 - Dolores Huerta, activist		Dolores Huerta Resources File

	b. 4-11-1749 - Christopher Smart, author & poet		Christopher Smart Resource File
	b. 4-11-1749 - Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, artist		Adélaïde Labille-Guiard Resource File
	b. 4-11-1755 - James Parkinson, apothocary & surgeon		James Parkinson Resource File
	b. 4-11-1862 - Charles Evans Hughes, jurist		Charles E. Hughes Resource File
	b. 4-11-1899 - Percy Lavon Julian, research chemist		Percy Lavon Julian Resource File
	• 4-11-1947 - Jackie Robinson is the first African American to play in a modern-day Major League Baseball game.		CP Links for Learning : Robinson
	• 4-11-1968 - Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.		Lyndon B. Johnson Library, Civil Rights Timeline

	b. 4-12-1777 - Henry Clay, stateman		Henry Clay Resource File
	• 4-12-1861 - Confederate batteries opened fire on Ft. Sumter, Charleston, SC
	b. 4-12-1884 - Otto Fritz Meyerhof, biologist		Otto Fritz Meyerhof Resource File
	b. 4-12-1898 - Lily Pons, opera singer		Lily Pons Resource File
	• 4-12-1961 - First human space flight mission, Vostok 1, sent astronaut Yuri Gagarin to Earth orbit and returned him safely to Earth.
	• 4-12-1981 - First Space Shuttle launch, Columbia, STS-1 with John W. Young and Robert Crippin (returns 4-14)

	b. 4-13-1743 - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US President		Monticello
	b. 4-13-1828 - Josephine Butler, activist		Josephine Butler Resource File
	b. 4-13-1891 - Nella Larsen, author		Nella Larsen Resource File
	b. 4-13-1892 - Michio Ito, dancer		Michio Ito Resource File
	b. 4-13-1895 - Olga Rudge, violinist & Ezra Pound's lover		Olga Rudge Resource File
	b. 4-13-1906 - Samuel Beckett, author		Samuel Beckett Resource File
	b. 4-13-1901 - Jacques Lacan, psychiatrist		Jacques Lacan Resource File
	b. 4-13-1902 - Marguerite Henry, author		Marguerite Henry Resource File
	b. 4-13-1909 - Eudora Welty, author		Eudora Welty Resource File
	b. 4-13-1933 - Ben Nighthorse Campbell, politician		Ben Nighthorse Campbell Resource File
	b. 4-13-1949 - Christopher Hitchens, author		Christopher Hitcherns Resource File
	b. 4-13-1957 - Amy Goodman, journalist & activist		Amy Goodman Resource File

	b. 4-14-1629 - Christiaan Huygens, astronomer		Christiaan Huygens Resource File
	d. 4-14-1865 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President, Assassinated		CP Links for Learning : Lincoln
	d. 4-14-1866 - Annie Sullivan, teacher		Anne Sullivan Resource File
	b. 4-14-1889 - Arnold J. Toynbee, historian & author		Arnold J. Toynbee Resource File
	b. 4-14-1907 - Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier, dictator & physician		Francois Duvalier Resource File
	• 4-14/15-1912 - RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg on its maiden voyage - it finishes sinking at about 2:20 am the next day.		Titanic Resource File

	d. 4-15-1446 - Filippo Brunelleschi, artist & architect		Filippo Brunelleschi Resource File
	b. 4-15-1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, artist & inventor		CP Links for Learning : Da Vinci
	b. 4-15-1707 - Leonhard Euler, mathematician		Leonard Euler Resource File
	b. 4-15-1710 - Marie Anne de Cupis de Camargo, ballet dancer		“La Camargo” Resource File
	b. 4-15-1786 - Sir John Franklin, explorer		John Franklin Resource File
	b. 4-15-1800 - James Clark Ross, explorer		James Clark Ross Resource File
	b. 4-15-1812 - Théodore Rousseau, artist		Théodore Rousseau Resource File
	b. 4-15-1843 - Henry James, author		Henry James Resource File
	b. 4-15-1889 - Thomas Hart Benton, artist		Thomas Hart Benton Resource File
	b. 4-15-1894 - Bessie Smith, singer		The Essential Bessie Smith, CD
	b. 4-15-1899 - A. Philip Randolph, civil rights activist		CP Links for Learning : Randolph
	b. 4-15-1904 - Arshile Gorky, artist		Arshile Gorky Resource File
	b. 4-15-1907 - Nikolaas Tinbergen, zoologist		Nikolaas Tinbergen Resource File
	b. 4-15-1967 - Dara Torres, swimmer		Dara Torres Resource File
	• 4-15 U.S. Personal Income Tax Deadline		IRS

	b. 4-16-1728 - Joseph Black, chemist, professor & physician		Joseph Black Resource File
	b. 4-16-1755 - Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, artist		Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun Resource File
	b. 4-16-1821 - Mary Baker Eddy, theologian		Mary Baker Eddy Resource File
	b. 4-16-1844 - Anatole France, author		Anatole France Resource File
	b. 4-16-1867 - Wilber Wright, aviator		Wright Brothers Bio
	b. 4-16-1871 - John Millington Synge, author		John Millington Synge Resource File
	b. 4-16-1886 - Margaret Woodrow Wilson, first daughter		Margaret Woodrow Wilson Resource File
	b. 4-16-1947 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball player		Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Resource File

	b. 4-17-1879 - Agnes Borgo, opera singer		Agnes Borgo Bio
	b. 4-17-1885 - Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) author		Isak Dinesen Resource File
	b. 4-17-1888 - Maggie Teyte, soprano opera singer		Maggie Teyte Resource File
	b. 4-17-1897 - Thornton Wilder, author		Thornton Wilder Society
	b. 4-17-1921 - Graciela Rivera, opera singer		Graciela Rivera Resource File
	• 4-17-1970 - Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.		Apollo 13 Resource File

	b. 4-18-1480 - Lucrezia Borgia		Lucrezia Borgia Resource File
	b. 4-18-1773 - Giuseppina Grassini, opera singer		Giuseppina Grassini Resource File
	• 4-18-1775 - Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott ride to warn of impending arrests of Samuel Adams and John Hancock and seizure of weapons. Only Prescott finishes the ride.		Paul Revere Resource File text The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
	b. 4-18-1813 - James McCune Smith, physician		James McCune Smith Resource File
	b. 4-18-1884 - Frank R. Paul, illustrator		Frank R. Paul Resource File
	• 4-18-1906- San Francisco Earthquake	Earth Process posters	San Francisco Earthquake article
	d. 4-18-1934 - Loretta Lynn, country singer		Loretta Lynn Resource File
	d. 4-18-1955 - Albert Einstein, physicist		CP Links for Learning - Einstein
	b. 4-18-1959 - Susan Faludi, author & journalist		Susan Faludi Resource File

	b. 4-19-1721 - Roger Sherman, Revolutionary War		Roger Sherman Resource File
	• 4-19-1775 - American Revolution Battle of Lexington & Concord /Patriots Day (obs. 3rd Monday of April)		Minute Man National Historic Park
	b. 4-19-1849 - Eva Gonzales, artist		Eva Gonzales Resource File
	b. 4-19-1868 - Max von Schillings, composer		Max von Schillings Resource File
	b. 4-19-1912 - Glenn T. Seaborg, chemist		Glenn T. Seaborg Resource File
	b. 4-19-1932 - Fernando Botero, artist		Fernando Botero Resource File
	b. 4-19-1932 - Andrea Mead Lawrence, alpine skier		Andrea Mead Lawrence Resource File
	• 4-19-1995 - Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is bombed, killing 168.		Oklahoma City bombing
	b. 4-19-1966 - Veronique Gens, soprano opera singer		Veronique Gens Resource File

	b. 4-20-571 - Muhammad (likely date)		Muhammed Resource File
	b. 4-20-1745 - Philippe Pinel, “father modern psychiatry”		Philippe Pinel Resource File
	b. 4-20-1739 - William Bartram, naturalist		William Bartram Resource File
	d. 4-20-1769 - Chief Pontiac		Chief Pontiac Resource File
	b. 4-20-1840 - Odilon Redon, painter		Odilon Redon Resource File
	b. 4-20-1889 - Adolph Hitler, Austria-Hungary
	b. 4-20-1893 - Joan Miró, painter		Joan Miró Resource File
	b. 4-20-1908 - Lionel Hampton, jazz musician		Lionel Hampton Resource File
	b. 4-20-1939 - Gro Harlem Brundtland, physician & Norgewian PM		Gro Harlem Brundtland Resource File
	b. 4-20-1945 - Naftali Temu, athlete		Naftali Temu Resource File
	• 4-20-1999 - Columbine HS Massacre	Bowling for Columbine movie poster	No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine

	d. 4-21-1109 - Saint Anselm, theologian		Saint Anselm Resource File
	d. 4-21-1142 - Peter Abelard, theologian & teacher		Peter Abelard Resource File
	d. 4-21-1488 - Ulrich von Hutten, poet, scholar, reformer		Ulrich von Hutten Resource File
	d. 4-21-1782 - Friedrich Froebel, educator		Friedrich Froebel Resource File
	b. 4-21-1816 - Charlotte Brontë, author		Brontë Links for Learning
	b. 4-21-1838 - John Muir, environmentalist		John Muir Resource File
	b. 4-21-1864 - Max Weber, historian & sociologist		Max Weber Resource File
	b. 4-21-1896 - Wilfrid Reid “Wop” May, aviator		Wilfrid Reid May Resource File
	b. 4-21-1909 - Rollo May, psychologist & author		Rollo May Resource File
	b. 4-21-1915 - Garrett Hardin, environmentalist		Garrett Hardin Resource File
	b. 4-21-1926 - Queen Elizabeth II		Queen Elizabeth II Resource File
	b. 4-21-1931 - Bridget Riley, artist		Bridget Riley Resource File
	b. 4-21-1939 - Helen Prejean, anti capital punishment activist		Helen Prejean Resource File
	b. 4-21-1977 - Jamie Sale, figure skater		Jamie Sale Resource File

	b. 4-22-1451 - Queen Isabella of Castile		Queen Isabella of Castile Resource File
	b. 4-22-1707 - Henry Fielding, author		Henry Fielding : A Literary Life
	b. 4-22-1724 - Immanuel Kant, philosopher		• Immanuel Kant Resource File • Kant: A Very Short Introduction
	b. 4-22-1766 - Anne-Louise de Stael, author		Anne Louise Germaine de Staël Resource File
	d. 4-22-1778 - James Hargreaves, spinning jenny inventor		James Hargreaves Resource File
	b. 4-22-1813 - Stephen A. Douglas, statesman		Stephen Douglas Resource File
	b. 4-22-1830 - Emily Davies, activist & educator		Emily Davies Resource File
	b. 4-22-1830 - J. Sterling Morton, founder of Arbor Day		J. Sterling Morton Resource File
	b. 4-22-1884 - Otto Rank, psychoanalyst		Otto Rank Resource File
	b. 4-22-1891 - Nicola Sacco, Italy
	b. 4-22-1899 - Vladimir Nabokov, author		Vladimir Nabokov Resource File
	b. 4-22-1904 - J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist		J. Robert Oppenheimer Resource File
	b. 4-22-1912 - Kathleen Ferrier, contralto		Kathleen Ferrier Resource File
	b. 4-22-1914 - Jan de Hartog, author & pacificist		Jan de Hartog Resource File
	b. 4-22-1916 - Yehudi Menuhin, violinist		Yehuda Menuhin Resource File
	b. 4-22-1922 - Charles Mingus, Jazz musician		Charles Mingus Resource File
	b. 4-22-1922 - Steve Fossett, aviator		Steve Fossett Resource File
	d. 4-22-1994 - Richard Nixon (b. 1913)		White House Bio - Nixon
	• 4-22-1970 - First Earth Day celebrated		Earth Day: Keeping Our Planet Clean

	b. 4-23-1775 - George Anson, explorer		George Anson Resource File
	b. 4-23-1775 - Joseph M. W. Turner, artist		J. M. W. Turner Resource File
	b. 4-23-1791 - James Buchanan, 15th US President, 1857-1861		White House Bio- Buchanan
	b. 4-23-1804 - Maria Taglioni, ballerina		Maria Taglioni Resource File
	b. 4-23-1856 - Granville T. Woods, inventor		Granville T. Woods Resource File
	b. 4-23-1857 - Reggero Leoncavello, composer		Reggero Leoncavello Resource File
	b. 4-23-1858 - Max Planck, physicist, Noble Prize 1918		Max Planck Resource File
	b. 4-23-1858 - Pandita Ramabai, humanitarian activist		Pandita Ramabai Resource File
	b. 4-23-1880 - Michel Fokine, ballet dancer		Michel Fokine Resource File
	b. 4-23-1897 - Lester B. Pearson, statesman		Lester B. Pearson Resource File
	b. 4-23-1902 - Halldor Laxness, author		Halldor Laxness Resource File
	b. 4-23-1928 - Shirley Temple, actress		Shirley Temple Resource File
	b. 4-23-1942 - Michael Moore, activist		Michael Moore Resource File

	d. 4-24-1671 - Francois Vatel, chef		Francois Vatel Resource File
	d. 4-24-1731 - Daniel Defoe, author		Daniel Defoe Resource File
	b. 4-24-1774 - Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, physician & educator		Jean Marc Garpard Itard Resource File
	• 4-24-1800 - Library of Congress founded		The Library of Congress
	b. 4-24-1815 - Anthony Trollope, author		Anthony Trollope Resource File
	• 4-24-1847 - Susan Dimock, physician		Susan Dimock Resource File
	b. 4-24-1904 - Willem de Kooning, artist		Willem de Kooning Resource File
	b. 4-24-1905 - Robert Penn Warren, author		Robert Penn Warren Resource File
	b. 4-24-1934 - Shirley MacLaine, actress		Shirley MacLaine Resource File
	b. 4-24-1942 - Douglas J. Futuyma, ecologist		Douglas J. Futuyma Resource File
	b. 4-24-1942 - Barbra Streisand, actress		Barbra Streisand Resource File
	• 4-24-1990 - The Hubble Space Telescope is launched by Space Shuttle Discovery.		Hubble Resource File

	b. 4-25-1769 - Marc Isambard Brunel, engineer		Marc Isambard Brunel Resource File
	b. 4-25-1840 (o.s.)- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer		Tchaikovsky Resource File
	b. 4-25-1868 - John Moisant, aviator		John Moisant Resource File
	b. 4-25-1873 - Walter de la Mare, author		Walter de la Mare Resource File
	b. 4-25-1874 - Guglielmo Marconi, scientist & inventor		Guglielmo Marconi Resource File
	b. 4-25-1900 - Wolfgang Pauli, physicist		Wolfgang Pauli Resource File
	b. 4-25-1903 - Andrey Kolmogorov, mathematician		Andrey Kolmogorov Resource File
	b. 4-25-1909 - William L. Pereira, architect		William L. Pereira Resource File
	b. 4-25-1917 - Ella Fitzgerald, singer		CP Links for Learning - Fitzgerald
	b. 4-25-1928 - Cy Twombly, artist		Cy Twombly Resource File
	• 4-25-1945 - The United Nations is organized in San Francisco, California, by 50 nations. peace posters		United Nations: The First Fifty Years
	• 4-25-1953 - Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish description of the double helix structure of DNA.		DNA: The Secret of Life
	• 4-25-1959 - The first person now known to have HIV/AIDs enters a hospital.		The River: A Journey to the Source of HIV & AIDS

	b. 4-26-121 AD. - Marcus Aurelius		Marcus Aurelius Resource File
	b. 4-26-1564 - William Shakespeare, author		CP Links for Learning - Shakespeare
	b. 4-26-1711 - David Hume, philosopher		David Hume Resource File
	b. 4-26-1785 - John James Audubon, ornithologist & artist		John James Audubon Resource File
	b. 4-26-1798 - Eugène Delacroix, artist		• Eugène Delacroix Resource File • Eugène Delacroix- Getting to Know the World's Great Artistis
	b. 4-26-1822 - Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect & journalist		Frederick Law Olmsted Resource File
	b. 4-26-1886 - “Ma” Rainey, musician		“Ma” Rainey Resource File
	b. 4-26-1917 - I. M. Pei, architect		architecture posters
	b. 4-26-1918 - Fanny Blankers-Koen, track star		Fanny Blankers-Koen Resource File
	b. 4-26-1928 - William Stringfellow, theologian & lawyer		William Stringfellow Resource File
	b. 4-26-1947 - Donna de Varona, Olympic swimmer		Donna de Varona Resource File
	• 4-26-1986 - The Chernobyl, Ukraine nuclear plant explodes, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.		• Chernobyl Resource File • Voices from Chernobyl

	b. 4-27-1495 - Suleiman the Magnificent, sultan		Suleiman I Resource File
	b. 4-27-1521 - Ferdinand Magella, explorer		Ferdinand Magellan Resource File
	d. 4-27-1627 - Adriaen Block, explorer		Adriaen Block Resource File
	b. 4-27-1737 - Edward Gibbon, author & historian		Edward Gibbon Resource File
	b. 4-27-1759 - Mary Wollstonecraft, author & feminist		CP Links for Learning - Wollstonecraft
	b. 4-27-1791 - Samuel F.B. Morse, inventor & portrait painter		Samuel Morse Resource File
	b. 4-27-1820 - Herbert Spencer, anthropologist & author		Herbert Spencer Resource File
	b. 4-27-1822 - Ulysses S. Grant, 18th US President		White House Bio- Grant
	b. 4-27-1851 - Alice Morse Earle, historian		Alice Morse Earle Resource File
	b. 4-27-1882 - Jessie Fauset, author		Jessie Fauset Resource File
	b. 4-27-1883 - Hubert Harrison, writer & activist		Hubert Harrison Resource File
	b. 4-27-1891 - Sergei Prokofiev, composer		Sergei Prokofiev Resource File
	b. 4-27-1927 - Coretta Scott King, civil rights activist		Coretta Scott King Resource File
	b. 4-27-1945 - August Wilson, playwright		August Wilson Resource File

	b. 4-28-1758 - James Monroe, 5th US President		White House Bio- Monroe
	• 4-28-1788 - Maryland Admission Day, 7th		Maryland History & Culture
	b. 4-28-1838 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser, 1911 Nobel Peace Prize		Tobias Michael Carel Asser Resource File
	b. 4-28-1870 - Cecil Aldin, artist		Cecil Aldin Resource File
	b. 4-28-1906 - Kurt Godel, mathematician		Kurt Godel Resource File
	b. 4-28-1908 - Oskar Schindler		Oskar Schindler Resource File
	b. 4-28-1926 - Harper Lee, author		Harper Lee Resource File
	b. 4-28-1928 - Eugene Shoemaker, geologist, planetary science		Eugene Shoemaker Resource File
	b. 4-28-1944 - Alice Waters, chef		Alice Waters Resource File
	• 4-28-1947 - Thor Heyerdahl and five crewmates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.		Thor Heyerdahl Resource File

	b. 4-29-1899 - Duke Ellington, composer		CP Links for Learning - Ellington
	• 4-29/30-1975 - Escape from Vietnam

	b. 4-30-1770 - David Thompson, explorer, surveyor, fur trader		David Thompson Resource File
	b. 4-30-1870 - Franz Lehar, composer		Franz Lehar Resource File
	b. 4-30-1777 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician		Carl Friedrich Gauss Resource File
	• 4-30-1803 - Louisiana Purchase • 4-30-1812 - Louisiana Admission Day		Louisiana History
	b. 4-30-1833 - Hortense Schneider, opera singer		Hortense Schneider Resource File
	b. 4-30-1857 - Eugen Bleuler, psychology		Eugen Bleuler Resource File
	b. 4-30-1920 - Gerda Lerner, historian & activist		Gerda Lerner Resource File


April Facts & Tidbits
	April, the fourth month of the year, has the old adage “April showers bring May flowers.” Follow up with the March weather observations through May. The name April possibly derives from the Latin aperire which means "to open" (aperture), probably referring to growing plants in spring, or from the Etruscan name Apru for Aphrodite. Do you remember the nursery rhyme “Hey diddle diddle”? It may refer to the month of April when the constellations Leo (cat), Taurus (cattle) and Lyre (fiddle), are visible in the night sky, along with Crater (dish) and the Ursa Major - Big Dipper (spoon). Look at other possible origins. • “Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.” ~ Charles Lamb
	Astrological Signs		Astrology
	• Aries: March 19 - April 20	• Aries poster • Aries, the Ram Ecard	cardinal, fire, personal; “I want,” action oriented, pioneering, assertive, "me" first, enthusiasm, leader, competitive, selfish, head/brain; assertive, impulsive, head down; imaginative, sensitive, distracted.
	• Taurus: April 21 - May 21	• Taurus poster • Taurus, the Bull Ecard	fixed, earth, personal; “I have,” sensual, cautious, acquisitive, musical, traditional, stubborn, throat/neck; resourceful, thorough, devoted, indulgent.
	Birthstone
	• Diamond - the hardest known natural material to humans is [a transparent crystal of tetrahedrally bonded carbon atoms”.		• Birthstone (U of Washington) • Diamonds Resource File
	Flower
	• Sweet Pea: Good-Bye, Departure, Blissful Pleasure	• flower posters	• Sweet Pea Resource File
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