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Here you will find the world's holidays, annual events and a few anniversaries on April 9.

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holidays & events
  • All Over Again Day
  • Bataan Day
  • Jenkin's Ear Day
  • Name Yourself Day
  • National Chinese Almond Cookie Day
  • Verruca Salt (Goblin)
  • Wild Turkey Drive begins

Christian holidays


anniversaries

  • Winston Churchill Day a/k/a Churchill Day
  • Martyrs' Day - Tunisia
  • Jalal (2nd Month) - Bahá’í - April 9, 2003
  • Mark Twain (a.k.a. Samuel Clemens) becomes a steamboat pilot on this date in history. In 1833, the first free library opened in Petersborough, New Hampshire. - April 9
  • Martyrs Day in Tunisia
  • Denmark - Occupation 1940 (Half staff until 12:02 PM)
  • Finland - Mikael Agricola's Birthday 1508
  • Philippines - Bataan Day 1945
  • Tunisia - Martyr's Day
  • Kidsproj - Rama Navami in India
  • Kidsproj - Victory Day in Russia
  • Civil Rights Bill of 1866: Anniversary. The Civil Rights Bill, passed by Congress over the veto of President Andrew Johnson, granted blacks the rights and privileges of American citizenship and formed the basis for the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. · Mural Representation: The Civil Rights Movement Timeline
  • Civil War Ending: Anniversary (1865). Lesson Plan Ideas  (with trade book suggestions) http://members.aol.com/MrDonnHistory/American.html#CIVIL
  • Yom Ha-Shoah (Jewish) - More commonly known as Holocaust Day, Yom Ha-Shoah remembers the Jews who perished in concentration camps during World War II. This day is traditionally observed by fasting from sundown to sundown.
  • Holocaust Day (Yom Hashoah) - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • St. Casilda's Day - April 9; Patroness Saint invoked against sterility and bad luck. A Moorish princess, she was converted to Christianity by the prisoners held captive by her father. According to legend, Casilda would bring the prisoners extra rations of food and wine. Almost discovered by her father when he demanded to know what she carried under her cloak, Casilda answered "Roses," and the food and wine she carried were miraculously transformed into flowers.

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April holidays & events by location

 
Africa

Africa

  •  Fast & Prayer Day - in Liberia
  •  Martyr's Day - in Tunisia
 
Asia & the Middle East

Asia


Middle East

 
Australia & Oceania

Australia and Oceania

 
Europe

Europe

  •  Budget Day - in the UK
 
North & Central America

North America


Caribbean


Central America

 
South America

South America

 
calendar & zodiac

Gregorian calendar

  • Day 99, with 266 days remaining in the year
  • 2001 A. D.: Monday
  • 2002 A. D.:  Tuesday
  • 2003 A. D.:  Wednesday
  • 2004 A. D.:  Friday
  • 2005 A. D.:  Saturday
  • 2006 A. D.:  Sunday
  • 2007 A. D.:  Monday
  • 2008 A. D.:  Wednesday
  • 2009 A. D.:  Thursday
  • 2010 A. D.:  Friday
  • 2011 A. D.:  Saturday

other calendars


season

  • Northern hemisphere:  Spring
  • Southern hemisphere:  Autumn

zodiac


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last edited Sunday, December 25, 2005