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Holidays 4.28
Holidays
Astronomy Day
Biological Clock Day
Bulldogs Are Beautiful Day
Chicken Tickling Day
Clean Comedy Day
Cubicle Day
Day for Safety and Health at Work (Poland)
Day of Dialogue
Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust, Day 1 (US)
Eat Your Friends Day
Ed Balls Day (UK)
Flag Day (Åland Islands)
Flat White Day
Food Pyramid Day
428 Day
Global Pay It Forward Day
Gone-ta-Pott Day [every 28th]
Great Poetry Reading Day
Hyacinth Day (French Republic)
International Astronomy Day
International Automation Professionals Day
International Consanguinamory Day
International Girls in Information and Telecommunication Technologies Day
Jester’s Day (Elder Scrolls)
Kenneth Kaunda Day (Zambia)
Kiss Your Mate Day
Lawyers’ Day (India)
Mujahideen Victory Day (Afghanistan)
Mutiny On the Bounty Day
National Anger Day (UK)
National BSL Day (UK)
National Brave Hearts Day
National Cubicle Day
National Day of Mourning (Canada)
National Franklin Day
National Great Poetry Reading Day
National Headshot Day
National Heroes’ Day (Barbados)
National Kiss Your Mate Day
National Poetry and Literature Day (Indonesia)
National “Say Hi to Joe” Day
National Suck Breast Day
National Superhero Day
National Teach Children to Save Day
National Willy Fog Day (UK)
National Workplace Wellbeing Day (Ireland)
Occupational Safety & Health Day
Pastele Blajinilor (Memory or Parent's Day; Moldova)
Restoration of Sovereignty Day (Japan)
Rip Cord Day
Saint Pierre-Chanel Day (Wallis and Futuna)
Santa Fe Trail Day
Sardinia Day (Italy)
Small Car Day
Steel Safety Day
Texas Wildflower Day
Turkmen Racing Horse Festival (Turkmenistan)
Victory Day (Afghanistan)
Workers’ Memorial Day (Gibraltar)
World Art Deco Day
World Day for Safety and Health at Work (UN)
Food & Drink Celebrations
National Blueberry Pie Day
4th & Last Sunday in April
Blue Sunday [Last Sunday]
Brasseries Portes Ouvertes (Open Breweries' Day; Belgium) [Last Sunday]
Dictionary Day [Sunday of Nat’l Library Week]
Divine Mercy Sunday [Last Sunday]
Drive It Day (UK) [4th Sunday]
Family Reading Week begins [Sunday before 1st Saturday in May]
International Search and Rescue Dog Day [Last Sunday]
International Twin Cities Day [Last Sunday]
Landsgemeinde (Switzerland) [Last Sunday]
Mother, Father Deaf Day [Last Sunday]
Music Minister Appreciation Day [Last Sunday]
National Blue Sunday and Day of Prayer for Abused Children [Last Sunday]
National Pet Parents Day [Last Sunday]
Pinhole Photography Day [Last Sunday]
Sunday of the Paralytic [Last Sunday]
Turkmen Racing Horse Festival (Turkmenistan) [Last Sunday]
World Day of Marriage [Last Sunday]
World Nyckelharpa Day [Last Sunday]
Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day [Last Sunday]
Weekly Holidays beginning April 28 (Last Week)
Go Diaper Free Week (thru 5.4) [From Last Sunday]
National Auctioneers Week (thru 5.4)
National Small Business Week (thru 5.4) [1st Week of May]
Preservation Week (thru 5.4)
Stewardship Week (thru 5.5) [Last Sunday to 1st Sunday]
Independence & Related Days
Maryland Statehood Day (#7; 1788)
Restoration of Sovereignty Day (Japan)
Festivals Beginning April 28, 2024
Blessing of the Fleet & Seafood Festival (Mount Pleasant, South Carolina)
The Good Food Awards (Portland, Oregon)
Heritage Fire (Atlanta, Georgia)
St. Thomas Carnival (Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands) [thru 5.5]
Sweet Corn Fiesta (West Palm Beach, Florida)
Taste of St. Augustine (St. Augustine, Florida)
Turkmen Racing Horse Festival (Turkmenistan) [Last Sunday]
Feast Days
Aphrodisius and companions (Christian; Saint)
Blueberry Pie Day (Pastafarian)
Chicken Tickling Day (Leprechauns; Shamanism)
Cronan of Roscrea, Ireland (Christian; Saint)
Cyril of Turov (Christian; Saint)
Didymus and Theodore (Christian; Martyrs)
Elmo’s Jacket (Muppetism)
Feast of Jamál (Beauty; Baha'i)
Floralia (Old Roman Goddess of Flowers)
Gianna Beretta Molla (Christian; Saint)
Harper Lee (Writerism)
José Malhoa (Artology)
Kirill of Turov (Orthodox, added to Roman Martyrology in 1969)
L’Africaine (The African Woman), by Giacomo Meyerbeer (Opera; 1865)
Louis Mary de Montfort (Christian; Saint)
Palmer Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Pamphilus of Sulmona (Christian; Saint)
Patricius, Bishop of Pruse, in Bithynia (Christian; Saint)
Paul of the Cross (Christian; Saint)
Peter Chanel (Christian; Martyr)
Phocion (Positivist; Saint)
Pollio and others (Christian; Martyrs in Pannonia)
Terry Pratchett (Writerism)
Theodora and Didymus (Christian; Martyrs)
Vitalis and Valeria of Milan (Christian; Saint)
Walpurgisnacht, Day VI (Pagan)
Yom HaShoah (began last night; Judaism)
Yves Klein (Artology)
Orthodox Christian Liturgical Calendar Holidays
Palm Sunday
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]
Fortunate Day (Pagan) [17 of 53]
Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 20 of 60)
Premieres
Akeelah and the Beer (Film; 2006)
The Art of Excellence, by Tony Bennett (Album; 1987) [1st CD-only Release]
Bananas (Film; 1971)
Before These Crowded Street, by Crowded House (Album; 1998)
The Birth of Britain, by Winston Churchill (History Book; 1956)
Bridesmaids (Film; 2011)
Buck and the Preacher (Film; 1972)
Casino Royale (Film; 1967) [James Bond non-series film]
Chicago Transit Authority, by Chicago (Album; 1969)
The Death of the Heart, by Elizabeth Bowen (Novel; 1938)
FM (Film; 1978)
Frequency (Film; 2000)
Hair (Broadway Musical; 1968)
Hard Candy (Film; 2006)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Film; 2005)
The Hockey Champ (Disney Cartoon; 1939)
A Hound for Trouble (WB MM Cartoon; 1951)
How to Be a Latin Lover (Film; 2017)
I Kissed a Girl, by Katy Perry (Song; 2008)
I’m the One, by DJ Khaled (Album; 2017)
Iron Man 2 (Film; 2010)
Kiss Me Deadly (Film; 1955)
Leave Well Enough Alone (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1939)
Love Me, Love My Mouse (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1966)
Loverboy (Film; 1989)
Mighty Mouse Meets Jekyll and Hyde Cat (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1944)
Mud Squad (Tijuana Toads Cartoon; 1971)s
Night (Disney Cartoon; 1930)
Odd Ant Out (Ant and the Aardvark Cartoon; 1970)
A Painted House, by John Grisham (Novel; 2001)
Passport to Pimlico (Film; 1949)
Pennsylvania 6-5000, recorded by Glenn Miller (Song; 1940)
Polite Society (Film; 2023)
The Power of Positive Thinking, by Norman Vincent Peale (Book; 1954)
The Prison Panic (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1930)
Problem, by Ariana Grande (Song; 2014)
Robinson Crusoe (WB LT Cartoon; 1956)
The Secret of the Old Clock, by Carolyn Keene (Mystery Novel; 1930) [1st Nancy Drew]
*61 (Film; 2001)
Slave to Love, by Bryan Ferry (Song; 1985)
Smoked Hams (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1947)
Starman, by David Bowie (Song; 1972)
Stick It (Film; 2006)
Suddenly It’s Spring (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1944)
Suffragette City, by David Bowie (Song; 1972)
Trailer Horn (Disney Cartoon; 1950)
Viva Las Vegas, by Elvis Presley (Song; 1964)
Today’s Name Days
Hugo, Ludwig, Pierre (Austria)
Dada, Ljudevit, Petar (Croatia)
Vlastislav (Czech Republic)
Vitalis (Denmark)
Lagle, Luige (Estonia)
Ilpo, Ilppo, Tuure (Finland)
Valérie (France)
Hugo, Ludwig, Pierre (Germany)
Valéria (Hungary)
Manilio, Pietro, Valeria (Italy)
Gundega, Gunta, Terēze (Latvia)
Rimgailė, Valerija, Vitalius, Vygantas (Lithuania)
Vivi, Vivian (Norway)
Arystarch, Maria, Paweł, Przybyczest, Waleria, Witalis (Poland)
Iason, Sosipatru (Romania)
Tamara (Russia)
Jarmila (Slovakia)
Luis, Pedro, Prudencio (Spain)
Ture, Tyra (Sweden)
Valeria, Valerian, Valerie, Valery (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 119 of 2024; 247 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 7 of week 17 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 15 of 28]
Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 20 (Ren-Xu)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]
Hebrew: 20 Nisan 5784
Islamic: 19 Shawwal 1445
J Cal: 29 Cyan; Eightday [29 of 30]
Julian: 15 April 2024
Moon: 79%: Waning Gibbous
Positivist: 7 Caesar (5th Month) [Themistocles]
Runic Half Month: Lagu (Flowing Water) [Day 4 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 41 of 92)
Week: 4th Week of April / 1st Week of May
Zodiac: Taurus (Day 9 of 31)
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Beer Events 4.28
Events
The word cocktail 1st used in print (1803)
Andrew Reid died (1841)
John Schaefer patented a Pressure-Regulating Valve (1903)
William Haussermann patented a Beer Filter (1903)
Thomas Pick patented a Beer Stein (1914)
Erik Eriksson patented a Pressed-Metal Keg (1931)
Beer became legal in North Carolina after Prohibition (1933)
Eberhard A. Klepper of Paicines, California patented a Method of Making Prune Beer (1936)
Sven Rosenqvest patented the Aeration of Fermenting Wort in the Manufacture of Yeast (1942)
Sandor Frankfurt patented a Tapping Device (1959)
Casino Royale premiered in US (1967) [James Bond non-series film]
Paul Kalmanovitz got a controlling interest in Falstaff (1975)
OSHA founded (1989)
Biological Clock gene discovered (1994)
1st hemp ale, Hempen Ale by Frederick Brewing, released (Maryland; 1997)
Bruery beer 1st sold (California; 2008)
Brewery Openings
Owen O'Leary's Brewery (Massachusetts; 1996)
Stone Iwamoto Co. (Japan; 1997)
Nikko Brewing (Japan; 1999)
Flying Bison Brewing (New York; 2000)
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Events 4.28 (after 1950)
1952 – Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO in order to campaign in the 1952 United States presidential election.
1952 – The Treaty of San Francisco comes into effect, restoring Japanese sovereignty and ending its state of war with most of the Allies of World War II.
1952 – The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1965 – United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. Army troops.
1967 – Vietnam War: Boxer Muhammad Ali refuses his induction into the United States Army and is subsequently stripped of his championship and license.
1969 – Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
1970 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to take part in the Cambodian campaign.
1973 – The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, recorded in Abbey Road Studios goes to number one on the US Billboard chart, beginning a record-breaking 741-week chart run.
1975 – General Cao Văn Viên, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closes in on victory.
1977 – The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.
1978 – The President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
1986 – High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident.
1988 – Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight.
1994 – Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
1996 – Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 41⁄2 hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
1996 – Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania: A gunman, Martin Bryant, opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, killing 35 people and wounding 23 others.
2004 – CBS News released evidence of the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse. The photographs show rape and abuse from the American troops over Iraqi detainees.
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Events 4.28 (before 1950)
224 – The Battle of Hormozdgan is fought. Ardashir I defeats and kills Artabanus V effectively ending the Parthian Empire.
357 – Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnus Magnentius.
1192 – Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title to the throne is confirmed by election. The killing is carried out by Hashshashin.
1253 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō for the very first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
1294 – Temür, grandson of Kublai, is elected Khagan of the Mongols with the reigning title Oljeitu.
1503 – The Battle of Cerignola is fought. It is noted as one of the first European battles in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder.
1611 – Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the largest Catholic university in the world.
1625 – A combined Spanish and Portuguese fleet of 52 ships commences the recapture of Bahia from the Dutch during the Dutch–Portuguese War.
1758 – The Marathas defeat the Afghans in the Battle of Attock and capture the city.
1788 – Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
1792 – France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars.
1794 – Sardinians, headed by Giovanni Maria Angioy, start a revolution against the Savoy domination, expelling Viceroy Balbiano and his officials from Cagliari, the capital and largest city of the island.
1796 – The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.
1869 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First transcontinental railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
1881 – Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
1887 – A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of William I, German Emperor, defusing a possible war.
1910 – Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in the United Kingdom.
1920 – The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic is founded.
1923 – Wembley Stadium is opened, named initially as the Empire Stadium.
1930 – The Independence Producers hosted the first night game in the history of Organized Baseball in Independence, Kansas.
1937 – South African medical researcher Max Theiler develops the yellow fever vaccine at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York.
1941 – The Ustaše massacre nearly 200 Serbs in the village of Gudovac, the first massacre of their genocidal campaign against Serbs of the Independent State of Croatia.
1944 – World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.
1945 – Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are shot dead by Walter Audisio, a member of the Italian resistance movement.
1945 – The Holocaust: Nazi Germany carries out its final use of gas chambers to execute 33 Upper Austrian socialist and communist leaders in Mauthausen concentration camp.
1947 – Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
1948 – Igor Stravinsky conducted the premiere of his American ballet, Orpheus at the New York City Center.
1949 – The Hukbalahap are accused of assassinating former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, while she is en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and ten others are also killed.
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Birthdays 4.28
Beer Birthdays
Ernst F. Baruth (1842)
Louis F. Neuweiler (1848)
Tom Ciccateri (1956)
Carl Kins (1956)
Michael Demers (1966)
Abram Goldman-Armstrong (1978)
Five Favorite Birthdays
Ann-Margret; actor, singer (1941)
Kurt Gödel; Austrian mathematician (1906)
Harper Lee; writer (1926)
James Monroe; 5th President of the US (1758)
Terry Pratchett; writer (1948)
Famous Birthdays
Jessica Alba; actor (1981)
Robert Anderson; playwright (1917)
Dick Ayers; author and illustrator (1924)
Hertha Marks Ayrton; Polish-British mathematician and physicist (1854)
Jimmy Barnes; Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter (1956)
Lionel Barrymore; actor (1878)
Bart Bok; astronomer (1906)
Roberto Bolaño; Chilean novelist (1953)
Blake Bortles, American football QB (1992)
Charles Caleb Cotton; English writer (1630)
Carolyn Cassady; author (1923)
Willie Colón; Puerto Rican-American trombonist (1950)
Charles Cotton; English poet and author (1630)
Penelope Cruz; actor (1974)
Paul Guilfoyle; actor (1949)
Marie Harel; French cheesemaker (1761)
Jinky the Fruit Bat; character on David Letterman
Carolyn Jones; actor (1929)
Steve Khan; jazz musician (1947)
Bruno Kirby; actor (1949)
Yves Klein; French painter (1928)
Sylvestre François Lacroix; French mathematician (1765)
Ferruccio Lamborghini; Italian businessman (1916)
Jay Leno; comedian, television talk show host (1950)
Seymour Lubetzky; Russian-American librarian (1898)
José Malhoa; Portuguese painter (1855)
Melanie Martinez; singer (1995)
Mary McDonnell; actor (1952)
James Monroe 5th U.S. President (1758)
Bridget Moynahan; actor (1971)
Nezahualcoyotl; Acolhuan philosopher, warrior, poet and ruler (1402)
Robert Oliveri; actor (1978)
Jan Oort; Dutch astronomer (1900)
Alberto Pirelli; Italian manufacturer (1882)
Ian Rankin; Scottish author (1960)
Nate Richert; actor (1978)
Oskar Schindler; Czech-German businessman (1908)
Karl Barry Sharpless; chemist (1941)
Eugene Merle Shoemaker; geologist and astronomer (1928)
Madge Sinclair; Jamaican-American actress (1938)
Sidney Toler; actor (1874)
Tristan Tzara; Romanian-French poet (1896)
Alice Waters; chef (1944)
Kari Wuhrer; actor (1967)
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Holidays 4.27
Holidays
Abolition Day (Mayotte)
Autism Super Mom Day
Babe Ruth Day
Battenberg Day
Button Mushroom Day (French Republic)
Celebrate Teen Literature Day
Day of Russian Parliamentarism (Russia)
Day of the Uprising Against the Occupying Forces (Slovenia)
Drone Safety Day
Ed Balls Eve (UK)
Flag Day (Moldova)
427 Day
Freedom Day (South Africa)
Free Feral Cat Spay Day
International Crow and Raven Appreciation Day
International Donor Conception Awareness Day
International Hyena Day
Koninginnedag (King’s Day; Netherlands)
Lapu-Lapu Day (Philippines)
Local Yarn Store Day
Marine Mammal Rescue Day
Matanzas Mule Day
Mayotte National Day
Moehanga Day (UK)
Morse Code Day
National Alicia Day
National Back Office Heroes Day
National Bubble Butt Appreciation Day
National D.J. Day
National Domestic Workers’ Day (Brazil)
National Little Pampered Dog Day
National Patricia Day
National Pimp Day
National Pneumatics Day
National Transportation Safety Day (Iran)
National Veterans' Day (Finland)
New Beginning Day
Poetry Day (Ireland)
Resistance Day (Slovenia)
Rogers Hornsby Day
Sleep Day
State Flag Day (Moldova)
Teach Your Children to Save Day
Tell A Story Day
Treasurer Day (Ukraine)
Trevithick Day (UK)
UnFreedom Day (South Africa)
Victory Day (Afghanistan)
Woody Woodpecker Day
World Bath Bomb Day
World Design Day
World Graphic Design Day
World Tapir Day
Write An Old Friend Today Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Battenberg Day
Chips with Everything Day
Learn To Make An Apricot Cream Pie Day
Marselan Day
National Devil Dog Day
National Gummi Bear Day
National Prime Rib Day
Saison Day (Allagash)
World Marselan Day
4th & Last Saturday in April
Beer Clean Glass Day [4th Saturday]
Bob Wills Day [Last Saturday]
Canadian Independent Bookstore Day (Canada) [Last Saturday]
Celebrate Trails Day [4th Saturday]
Children’s Day (Colombia) [Last Saturday]
Day of Trees (Colombia) [Last Saturday]
Doo Dah Parade Day (Pasadena, California) [Last Saturday]
Eeyore's Birthday Party (Austin, Texas) [Last Saturday]
Go Birding Day [Last Saturday]
Independent Bookstore Day [Last Saturday]
International Marconi Day [Saturday closest to 4.25]
International Sculpture Day [Last Saturday]
International Table Top Day [Last Saturday]
National Day of Puppetry [4th Saturday]
National First Ladies Day [Last Saturday]
National Go Birding Day [Last Saturday]
National Herb Day [Last Saturday; also 1st Saturday in May]
National Kiss of Hope Day [Last Saturday]
National Pool Opening Day [Last Saturday]
National Prepare-A-Thon! Day [Last Saturday; also 9.30]
National Prescription Drug Take Back Day [Last Saturday]
National Rebuilding Day [Last Saturday]
National Sense of Smell Day [Last Saturday]
Penguin Day [Last Saturday]
Save the Frogs Day [Last Saturday]
World Aboriginal and Native Sacred Ceremony and Dance Day [Last Saturday]
World Activism Day [Last Saturday]
World Disco Food Day [Last Saturday]
World Healing Day [Last Saturday]
World Healing Meditation Day [Last Saturday]
World Reiki Day [Last Saturday]
World Sufi Day [Last Saturday]
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day [Last Saturday]
World Thespian Day [Last Saturday]
World Veterinary Day [Last Saturday]
World Yoga Day [Last Saturday]
Weekly Holidays beginning April 27 (4th Week)
Antigua Sailing Week (St. Johns, Antigua, Barbuda) [thru 5.3]
Just Pray No Weekend [4th Saturday] (thru 4.28)
Independence & Related Days
IKwaZulu-Natali (Declared; 1994) [unrecognized]
lundren (a.k.a. Viscounty of lundgren; Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]
Sierra Leone (from UK, 1961)
Togo (from France, 1960)
Festivals Beginning April 27, 2024
The Appomattox Oyster Festival (Concord, Virginia)
Austin Blues Festival (Austin, Texas) [thru 4.28]
Between the Bluffs Beer, Wine & Cheese Festival (La Crosse, Wisconsin)
Cherry Blossom Festoval (Monterey, California) [thru 4.28]
Clayton Art and Wine Festival (Clayton, California) [thru 4.28]
Comic-Con Cape Town (Cape Town, South Africa) [thru 5.1]
Craft Beer Festival (Long Grove, Illinois)
Dessert Wars (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Downtown Waterloo Sip-n-Stroll (Waterloo, Iowa)
Endless Mountains Maple festival (Troy, Pennsylvania) [thru 4.28]
Florida Taco Battle, A Fiesta Affair! (Boca Raton, Florida)
Gnarly Culpepper Block Party & Brew Fest (Culpepper, Virginia)
Hard-Pressed Cider Fest (Hood River, Oregon)
Lodi Beer Festival & BBQ Championship (Lodi, California)
Maifest (St. Louis, Missouri) [thru 4.28]
Mountain Mushroom Festival (Irvine, Kentucky) [thru 4.28]
National Cornbread Festival (South Pittsburg, Tennessee) [thru 4.28]
New Jersey Folk Festival (New Brunswick, New Jersey)
North Carolina Pickle Festival (Mount Olive, North Carolina)
Oklahoma Renaissance Festival (Muskogee, Oklahoma) [thru 6.2]
Oregon Cheese Festival (Central Point, Oregon) [thru 4.28]
Ozarks Beerfest (Springfield, Missouri)
Riverside Tale Festival (Riverside, California)
Sacramento Grilled Cheese Festival (Sacramento, California) [thru 4.28]
Schubertiade Vorarlberg )Hohenems, Austria) [thru 5.1]
Taste of Claremont (Claremont, California)
Thirsty Orange Brew Extravaganza (Johnson City, Tennessee)
Tweed Run (London, UK)
Waikiki Spam Jam (Waikiki, Hawaii)
Wine Fest (Kemah, Texas)
WineFest (St. Michaels, Maryland) [thru 4.28]
Feast Days
Alan Reynolds (Artology)
Anastasius, Pope (Christian; Confessor)
Anthimus of Nicomedia (Christian; Saint)
Assicus (Christian; Saint)
Beltane Quinoa Salad Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
86400 Seconds Day (Pastafarian)
Ennead Sail Through the Land, The (Ancient Egypt)
Floribert of Liège (Christian; Saint)
Furze-Hopping Event (Shamanism)
George Petty (Artology)
Hanuman Jayanti (Birthday of the Monkey God; Hindu)
John of Constantinople (Christian; Saint)
Liberalis of Treviso (Christian; Saint)
Olive (Muppetism)
Peter Canisius (Christian; Saint)
Pollio (Christian; Saint)
Rafael Arnáiz Barón (Christian; Saint)
Shemp Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Theodor Kittelsen (Artology)
Turbos of Mogrovejo (Christian; Saint)
Tyi Wara Festival (Mythical half-man, half-animal that teaches Farming to the Bambara Tribe; Mali])
Virgin of Montserrat (Christian; Saint)
Walpurgisnacht, Day V (Pagan)
Xenophon (Positivist; Saint)
Yom HaShoah begins (Holocaust Remembrance Day; Judaism) [27 Nisan; 8 Days]
Zita of Lucca (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Lucky Day (Philippines) [23 of 71]
Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]
Premieres
Anna Karenina (Film; 1948)
Apollo, by Igor Stravinsky (Ballet; 1928)
Avengers: Infinity War (Film; 2018)
Can You Take It (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1934)
The Chinese Nightingale (Happy Harmonies Cartoon; 1935)
Chips with Everything, by Arnold Wesker (Play; 1962)
Cold War (Disney Cartoon; 1951)
The Dish (Film; 2000)
The Fabric of the Cosmos, by Brian Greene (Book; 2004)
The Five-Year Engagement (Film; 2012)
Für Elise, a.k.a. Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor, written by Ludwig van Beethoven (Piano Music; 1810)
Goofy News Views (Phantasies Cartoon; 1945)
Heavy Cream, by Cream (Compilation Album; 1973)
Hooked Bear (Disney Cartoon; 1956)
Hoots Mon! (Film; 1940)
The Hungry Astronaut (Deputy Dawg Cartoon; 1963)
In His Own Write, by John Lennon (Poetry Book; 1964)
Justice Society: World War II (WB Animated Film; 2021)
Kill the Umpire (Film; 1950)
Koyaanisqatsi (Documentary Film; 1983)
The Krays (Film; 1990)
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (TV Series; 2014)
Madeline, by Ludwig Bemelmans (Children’s Book; 1939)
The Manchurian Candidate, by Richard Condon (Novel; 1959)
Mary’s Little Lamb (ComiColor Cartoon; 1935)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Film; 1975)
Mrs. Robinson, by Simon and Garfunkel (Song; 1968)
Music for the Royal Fireworks, by George Frederic Handel (Orchestral Suite; 1749)
Now Hear This (WB LT Cartoon; 1963)
Personality, by Lloyd Price (Song; 1959)
Pink in the Woods (Pink Panther Cartoon; Theatrical; 1979)
The Pirates! Band of Misfits! (Animated Film; 2012)
Roméo et Juliette, by Charles Gounod (Opera; 1867)
Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla (Grammar Rock Cartoon; Schoolhouse Rock; 1976)
Seventeenth Summer, by Maureen Daly (Novel; 1942)
Shape Ahoy (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1945)
Shōgun (TV Mini-Series; 2024)
Spaced Invaders (Film; 1990)
The Streak, by Ray Stevens (Song; 1974)
We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin (Novel; 1924)
This Week with John Oliver (TV Series; 2014)
We’re Not Gonna Take It, by Twisted Sister (Song; 1984)
Today’s Name Days
Petrus, Zita (Austria)
Euzebije, Ozana, Polion (Croatia)
Jaroslav (Czech Republic)
Ananias (Denmark)
Haldi, Haldja, Halja (Estonia)
Meea, Merja (Finland)
Zita (France)
Montserrat, Petrus, Zita (Germany)
Zita (Hungary)
Zita (Italy)
Inars, Klementīne, Raimonda, Tāle (Latvia)
Anastazas, Aušra, Gotautas, Zita (Lithuania)
Charles, Charlotte, Lotte (Norway)
Anastazy, Andrzej, Bożebor, Kanizjusz, Martyn, Piotr, Teofil, Zyta (Poland)
Simeon (Romania)
Jaroslav (Slovakia)
Montserrat, Pedro, Zita (Spain)
Engelbrekt (Sweden)
Laverne, Sam, Samantha, Sami, Sammy, Samuel, Samuela, Ulises, Ulysses, Vern, Verna, Verne, Vernon, Zita (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 118 of 2024; 248 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 6 of week 17 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 14 of 28]
Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 19 (Xin-You)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]
Hebrew: 19 Nisan 5784
Islamic: 18 Shawwal 1445
J Cal: 28 Cyan; Sevenday [28 of 30]
Julian: 14 April 2024
Moon: 86%: Waning Gibbous
Positivist: 6 Caesar (5th Month) [Phocion]
Runic Half Month: Lagu (Flowing Water) [Day 3 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 40 of 92)
Week: 4th Week of April
Zodiac: Taurus (Day 8 of 31)
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Beer Events 4.27
Events
Anton Landgrebe patented an Apparatus for Dispensing Beverages (1915)
Beer became legal in Michigan after Prohibition (1933)
Abraham Klein patented a Brewing Method Using Albedo in Wort (1948)
August A. Busch Jr. named CEO of Anheuser-Busch (1971)
Brewery Openings
Grizzly Paw Pub & Brewing (Canada; 1996)
Restaurant Bunarin (Japan; 1999)
Rockyard Brewing (Colorado; 1999)
Shimane Beer Co. (Japan; 1999)
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Events 4.27 (after 1970)
1974 – 109 people are killed in a plane crash near Pulkovo Airport.
1976 – Thirty-seven people are killed when American Airlines Flight 625 crashes at Cyril E. King Airport in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.
1978 – John Ehrlichman, a former aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon, is released from the Federal Correctional Institution, Safford, Arizona, after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
1978 – The Saur Revolution begins in Afghanistan, ending the following morning with the murder of Afghan President Mohammed Daoud Khan and the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
1978 – Willow Island disaster: In the deadliest construction accident in United States history, 51 construction workers are killed when a cooling tower under construction collapses at the Pleasants Power Station in Willow Island, West Virginia.
1986 – The city of Pripyat and surrounding areas are evacuated due to Chernobyl disaster.
1987 – The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (and his wife, Elisabeth, who had also been a Nazi) from entering the US, charging that he had aided in the deportations and executions of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
1989 – The April 27 demonstrations, student-led protests responding to the April 26 Editorial, during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
1992 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed.
1992 – Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
1992 – The Russian Federation and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
1993 – Most of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon en route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal.
1994 – South African general election: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force.
2005 – Airbus A380 aircraft has its maiden test flight.
2006 – Construction begins on the Freedom Tower (later renamed One World Trade Center) in New York City.
2007 – Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.
2007 – Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem.
2011 – The 2011 Super Outbreak devastates parts of the Southeastern United States, especially the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. Two hundred five tornadoes touched down on April 27 alone, killing more than 300 and injuring hundreds more.
2012 – At least four explosions hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk with at least 27 people injured.
2018 – The Panmunjom Declaration is signed between North and South Korea, officially declaring their intentions to end the Korean conflict.
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Events 4.27 (before 1970)
247 – Philip the Arab marks the millennium of Rome with a celebration of the ludi saeculares.
395 – Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of the more powerful Roman empresses of Late Antiquity.
711 – Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
1296 – First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.
1509 – Pope Julius II places the Italian state of Venice under interdict.
1521 – Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapulapu.
1539 – Official founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (nowadays Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.
1565 – Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
1595 – The relics of Saint Sava are incinerated in Belgrade on the Vračar plateau by Ottoman Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha; the site of the incineration is now the location of the Church of Saint Sava, one of the largest Orthodox churches in the world
1650 – The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army from Orkney invades mainland Scotland but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
1667 – Blind and impoverished, John Milton sells Paradise Lost to a printer for £10, so that it could be entered into the Stationers' Register.
1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" part of the Marines' Hymn).
1813 – War of 1812: American troops capture York, the capital of Upper Canada, in the Battle of York.
1861 – American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
1906 – The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.
1909 – Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
1911 – The Second Canton Uprising took place in Guangzhou, Qing China but was suppressed.
1927 – Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.
1936 – The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
1941 – World War II: German troops enter Athens.
1945 – World War II: The last German formations withdraw from Finland to Norway. The Lapland War and thus, World War II in Finland, comes to an end and the Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn photograph is taken.
1945 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.
1953 – Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defects with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
1967 – Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day.
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Birthdays 4.27
Beer Birthdays
Adam Gettelman (1847)
John Maier (1955)
Gwen Conley (1966)
Latiesha Cook (2004)
Five Favorite Birthdays
Rogers Hornsby; St. Louis Cardinals 2B (1896)
Walter Lantz; animator, Woody Woodpecker creator (1900)
George Petty; artist, illustrator (1894)
Kate Pierson; rock keyboardist, singer (1948)
Sergei Prokofiev; Russian composer (1891)
Famous Birthdays
Frank Abagnale Jr.; security consultant & criminal (1948)
Philip Abelson; physicist (1913)
Irving Adler; mathematician 1913)
Anouk Aimee; actor (1932)
Earl Anthony; bowler (1938)
Ludwig Bemelmans; Italian-American author & illustrator (1898)
Judy Carne; comedian (1939)
Wallace Carothers; chemist & inventor of nylon (1896)
Jenna Coleman; English actress (1986)
Cecil Day-Lewis; Anglo-Irish poet & author (1904)
Sandy Dennis; actor (1937)
Sheena Easton; pop singer (1959)
Charles Emanuel I; king of Sardinia (1701)
Ace Frehley; rock musician (1951)
Edward Gibbon; historian, writer (1737)
Ruth Glick; author (1942)
Ulysses S. Grant; 18th U.S. President (1822)
Pete Ham; rock musician (1947)
Sally Hawkins; English actress (1976)
Casey Kasem; DJ (1932)
Jim Keltner; rock drummer (1942)
Theodor Kittelsen; Norwegian painter & illustrator (1857)
Jack Klugman; actor (1922)
Jules Lemaître; French playwright (1853)
Lizzo; singer and rapper (1988)
Samuel F.B. Morse; code inventor (1791)
Ann Peebles; soul singer-songwriter (1947)
Dave Peel; rock musician (1947)
Alan Reynolds; English painter (1926)
Enos Slaughter; St. Louis Cardinals RF (1916)
Herbert Spencer; English philosopher (1820)
James Samuel Stone; British historian (1852)
Yoshihiro Togashi; Japanese illustrator (1966)
Friedrich von Flotow; German composer (1812)
August Wilson; playwright (1945)
Mary Wollstonecraft; writer, feminist (1759)
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Holidays 4.26
Holidays
Activity Advisor Appreciation Day
Alien Day
Arbor Day (Germany)
Audubon Day
Australian Appreciation Day
Beatrix Asteroid Day
Cape Henry Day (Virginia)
Chuvash Language Day (Russia)
Common Columbine Day (French Republic)
Confederate Memorial Day (Florida)
Day of Remembrance of the Chernobyl Tragedy (Belarus)
Festival of Individual Sovereignty
Football Day (Kazakhstan)
426 Day
General Prayer Day (Denmark)
Get Organized Day
Help a Horse Day
High School Radio Day
Hug a Friend Day
Hug An Australian Day
Hug a Prom Sponsor
Huntingdonshire Day (England)
Internal Medicine Research Day
International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day (UN)
International Choerm Day
International Day of Humor
International Day of the Penis
International Flamingo Day
International Seeds Day
International Shared Parenting Day
Lesbian Visibility Day
Lily of the Valley Day (French Republic)
Memorial Day of Radiation Accidents and Catastrophes (Russia)
National Ai Day
National Audubon Day
National Dissertation Day
National Drug Take Back Day
National Gabriel Day
National Garage Day
National Hand Holding Day
National Help a Horse Day
National Hit It From the Back Day
National Jason Day
National Kids and Pets Day
National No Makeup Day
National Ranboo Day
National South Dakota Day
Old Permic Alphabet Day
Parental Alienation Awareness Day
Poetry and the Creative Mind Day
Prayer Day (Faroe Islands; Greenland)
Read Me Day
Regional Autonomy Day (Indonesia)
Remember Your First Kiss Day
Resistance Day (Day of the Uprising Against the Occupying Forces; Slovenia) [26th Unless a Sunday, then 27th]
Richter Scale Day
Secretaries’ Day (Colombia)
Self-Aware Universe Day
Shared Parenting Day (Kentucky)
Shuffleboard Day
Static Cling Day
Studio 54 Day
Sultan’s Day (Malaysia)
Tartar Language Day
Underground Nuclear Test Day
Union Day (Tanzania)
Vallenato Legend Festival begins (Colombia)
Venus Day
Visakhabousa Day (Laos)
Wallabee Day
World Burlesque Day
World Intellectual Freedom Day
World Intellectual Property Day (UN)
World Pilots’ Day
YMCA Healthy Kids Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Beer Autism Hope Day
International Macaroni Day
National Pretzel Day
4th & Last Friday in April
Arbor Day [Last Friday]
Arbrewday [Last Friday]
Childcare Professionals Day [Last Friday]
Children’s Memorial Flag Day [Last Friday]
Day of Dialogue [Last Friday]
Flashback Friday [Every Friday]
Friendship Friday [Last Friday]
Fry Day (Pastafarian; Fritism) [Every Friday]
Hairball Awareness Day [Last Friday]
Hooky Day (Argentina) [Last Friday]
International Viognier Day [Last Friday]
National Historic Marker Day [Last Friday]
National Skipping Day (UK) [4th Friday]
Swiss Beer Day (Switzerland) [Last Friday]
Undiagnosed Children’s Day (UK) [Last Friday]
World Meningitis Day [4th Friday]
World Women’s Wellness Day [Last Friday]
Weekly Holidays beginning April 26 (4th Week)
Global Youth Service Days [Last Weekend] (thru 4.28)
Interstate Mullet Toss [Last Weekend] (thru 4.28)
National Dream Hotline [Last Weekend] (thru 4.28)
National Pie Championships [Last Weekend] (thru 4.28)
Independence & Related Days
Aetosia (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]
Karisradd (Declared; 2013) [unrecognized]
Kotland (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]
Republic of Alba (Declared; 1796) [lasted 2 days]
Roskya (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]
Tanzania (Union Day; Created by Zanzibar and Tanganyika merger; 1964)
New Year’s Days
New Year’s Seed Sowing Ceremony (Goddess of Fertility; Sierra Leone)
Festivals Beginning April 26, 2024
Asheville Spring Herb Festival (Asheville, North Carolina) [thru 4.28]
Astoria-Warrenton Crab, Seafood & Wine Festival (Astoria, Oregon) [thru 4.28]
Big Island Chocolate Festival (Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel; Hawaii) [thru 4.27]
Brewgaloo (Raleigh, North Carolina)) [thru 4.27]
Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 4.28]
Chicken Fried Steak Festival (Lamesa, Texas) [thru 4.28]
Clinton-Hickman County Spring Chicken Festival (Clinton, Kentucky) [thru 4.27]
Colleton County Rice Festival (Walterboro, South Carolina) [thru 4.27]
Fiddler’s Frolic [thru 4.28]
Georgia State Fair, Spring (Metro Atlanta, Hampton, Georgia) [thru 5.5]
Glen Lake Restaurant Week (Glen Arbor Area, Michigan) [thru 5.4]
Interstate Mullet Toss and Gulf Coast’s Greatest Beach Party (Orange Beach, Alabama) [thru 4.27]
Pensacola Crawfish Festival (Pensacola, Florida) [thru 4.28]
Procession of the Species (Olympia, Washington) [thru 4.27]
Sacramento Beer Week (Sacramento, California) [thru 5.5]
Sacred Heart Garden City Festival (Augusta, Georgia) [thru 4.27]
Santa Barbara Restaurent Week (Santa Barbara, California) [thru 5.5]
Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival (Winchester, Virginia) [thru 5.5]
Striped Bass Festival (Manning, South Carolina) [thru 4.27]
Vermontville Maple Syrup Festival (St. Albans, Michigan) [thru 4.28]
Wakarusa Maple Syrup Festival (Wakarusa, Indiana) [thru 4.28]
Feast Days
Aldobrandesca (a.k.a. Alda; Christian; Saint)
Anacletus, Pope (a.k.a. Cletius) and Marcellinus (Christian; Martyrs)
Basil (Christian; Saint)
Bernard Malamud (Writerism)
The Birthday Cake (Muppetism)
Cimon (Positivist; Saint)
Cletus and Marcellinus (Christian; Martyrs)
Delphinia (Festival of Apollo; Ancient Greece)
Edward Charles Tarbell (Artology)
Eugène Delacroix (Artology)
Fairy Laughter Convention (Shamanism)
Festival of Renenutet (Ancient Egypt)
The Fixer, by Bernard Malamud (Novel; 1966)
Franca Visalta (Christian; Saint)
Get Organized Day (Pastafarian)
Giamonios (Celtic Book of Days)
Gian Paolo Lomazzo (Artology)
Hug An Australian Day (Pastafarian)
Jethro Tull Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
John James Audubon (Artology)
Lucidius of Verona (Christian; Saint)
Mayan Rain Festival (Ancient Mayan)
Memorial of Our Lady of Good Counsel (Christian)
Moon Magick Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Our Lady of Good Counsel (Christian; Saint)
Paschasius Radbertus (Christian; Saint)
Peter of Rates (or of Braga; Christian; Saint)
Rafael Arnaiz (Christian; Saint) [Diabetes]
Riquier (a.k.a. Ricardius; Christian; Saint)
Robert Hunt (Episcopal Church (USA))
Sacrifice to Zeus Epacrios (Ancient Greece)
Stephen of Perm (Christian; Saint)
Trudpert (Christian; Saint)
Visakh Bochea Day (Buddha Day; Cambodia)
Walpurgisnacht, Day IV (Pagan)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Lucky Day (Philippines) [22 of 71]
Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]
Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because the Chernobyl meltdown began.)
Premieres
American Recordings, by Johnny Cash (Album; 1994)
Avengers: Endgame (Film; 2019)
Bear De Guerre (The Inspector Cartoon; 1968)
Belfagor, by Ottorino Respighi (Opera; 1923)
The Bridge at Andau, by James A. Michener (History Book; 1957)
The Cat Concerto (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1947)
Devils & Dust, by Bruce Springsteen (Album; 2005)
Dogtown and Z-Boys (Documentary Film; 2002)
Dragon Ball Z (Anime TV Series; 1989)
The Enchanted Wood, by Enid Blyton (Children’s Book; 1939)
Farewell, My Lovely, by Raymond Chandler (Novel; 1940)
4th Symphony, by Charles Ives (Symphony; 1965)
The Goose Goes South (MGM Cartoon; 1941)
Gunsmoke (Radio Series; 1952)
The Handmaid’s Tale (TV Series; 2017)
The Hip-Nut-Tist (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1935)
Just One of the Guys (Film; 1985)
The Last Waltz, by The Band (Live Album & Concert Film; 1978)
Moosylvania Wish Mash or A State of Confusion (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 366; 1965)
Moosylvania Saved, Part 3 (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 365; 1965)
The Muppet Musicians of Bremen (Muppet TV Special; 1972)
Neverland, by Jim Steinman (Musical Play; 1977)
Pink Posies (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1967)
The Reluctant Recruit (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1971)
Seven Samurai (Film; 1954)
The Ship Who Sang, by Anne McCaffrey (Novel; 1969)
Swing Your Partner (Swing Symphony Cartoon; 1943)
Those Were Wonderful Days (WB MM Cartoon; 1934)
Throwing Copper, by Live (Album; 1994)
The Trial, by Franz Kafka (Novel; 1925)
The Truth About Cats & Dogs (Film; 1996)
Tugboat Mickey (Disney Cartoon; 1940)
Ups ’n Downs (WB LT Cartoon; 1931)
A Waggily Tale (WB LT Cartoon; 1958)
”Weird Al” Yankovic, by Weird Al Yankovic (Album; 1983)
Today’s Name Days
Helene, Trudpert (Austria)
Kleto, Maksima, Montan, Stanislav, Višnja (Croatia)
Oto (Czech Republic)
Cletus (Denmark)
Eesi, Reesi, Teesi, Teisi, Tereese (Estonia)
Teresa, Terttu, Tessa (Finland)
Alida (France)
Consuela, Helene (Germany)
Glafyra (Greece)
Ervin (Hungary)
Alida, Bianca, Cleto, Marcellino (Italy)
Alīna, Geraldine, Rusins, Sandris (Latvia)
Dargailė, Gailenis, Klaudijus (Lithuania)
Tea, Terese (Norway)
Artemon, Klaudiusz, Klet, Marcelin, Marcelina, Maria, Marzena, Spycimir (Poland)
Chindeu, Chiril, Tasie, Vasile (Romania)
Jaroslava (Slovakia)
Isidoro (Spain)
Terese, Teresia (Sweden)
Clarence, DeMarco, Demarcus, Demario (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 117 of 2024; 249 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 5 of week 17 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 13 of 28]
Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 18 (Geng-Shen)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]
Hebrew: 18 Nisan 5784
Islamic: 17 Shawwal 1445
J Cal: 27 Cyan; Sixday [27 of 30]
Julian: 13 April 2024
Moon: 92%: Waning Gibbous
Positivist: 5 Caesar (5th Month) [Xenophon]
Runic Half Month: Lagu (Flowing Water) [Day 2 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 39 of 92)
Week: 4th Week of April
Zodiac: Taurus (Day 7 of 31)
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Events
Peter Gaynor patented a Beer-Drawing Apparatus (1892)
Samuel Hurst and Harrie Keck patented a Can Filling Machine (1938)
William Ross patented an Automatic Barrel Stacker and Dispenser (1938)
Leslie Peake patented a Beer Dispenser (1966)
William Youngers' Holyrood Brewery closed (Scotland; 1986)
Coors Field opened (Denver, Colorado; 1995)
Boston Beer Co. patented a Preparation of Beer (2000)
Griffin Groups buys Anchor Brewery (2010)
Brewery Openings
Independence Brewing (Pennsylvania; 1995)
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Events 4.26 (after 1950)
1954 – The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
1954 – The first clinical trials of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine begin in Fairfax County, Virginia.
1956 – SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas.
1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
1960 – Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after 12 years of dictatorial rule.
1962 – NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
1962 – The British space programme launches its first satellite, the Ariel 1.
1963 – In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allows for female participation in elections.
1964 – Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form the United Republic of Tanzania.
1966 – The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.
1966 – A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
1970 – The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force.
1981 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.
1986 – The Chernobyl disaster occurs in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
1989 – The deadliest known tornado strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.
1989 – People's Daily publishes the April 26 Editorial which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests.
1991 – Fifty-five tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado.
1993 – The Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on mission STS-55 to conduct experiments aboard the Spacelab module.
1994 – China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
1994 – South Africa begins its first multiracial election, which is won by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress.
2002 – Robert Steinhäuser kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before committing suicide.
2005 – Cedar Revolution: Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).
2015 – Nursultan Nazarbayev is re-elected President of Kazakhstan with 97.7% of the vote, one of the biggest vote shares in Kazakhstan's history.
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Events 4.26 (before 1950)
1336 – Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux.
1478 – The Pazzi family attack on Lorenzo de' Medici in order to displace the ruling Medici family kills his brother Giuliano during High Mass in Florence Cathedral.
1564 – Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of birth is unknown).
1607 – The Virginia Company colonists make landfall at Cape Henry.
1721 – A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz.
1777 – Sybil Ludington, aged 16, allegedly rode 40 miles (64 km) to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British regular forces
1794 – Battle of Beaumont during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France.
1803 – Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European scientists that meteors exist.
1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia.
1900 – Fires destroy Canadian cities Ottawa and Hull, reducing them to ashes in 12 hours. Twelve thousand people are left without a home.
1903 – Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded
1915 – World War I: Italy secretly signs the Treaty of London pledging to join the Allied Powers.
1916 – Easter Rising: Battle of Mount Street Bridge.
1920 – Ice hockey makes its Olympic debut at the Antwerp Games with center Frank Fredrickson scoring seven goals in Canada's 12–1 drubbing of Sweden in the gold medal match.
1923 – The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
1925 – Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established by Hermann Göring.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
1942 – Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead.
1943 – The Easter Riots break out in Uppsala, Sweden.
1944 – Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
1944 – Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete.
1945 – World War II: Battle of Bautzen: Last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army liberate Baguio as they fight against the Japanese forces under General Tomoyuki Yamashita.
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Birthdays 4.26
Beer Birthdays
John Toohey (1839)
Henry Hoerl (1854)
Five Favorite Birthdays
John James Audubon; ornithologist, artist (1785)
Count Basie; jazz bandleader, pianist (1904)
Carol Burnett; comedian, actor (1933)
Bruce Jay Friedman; writer (1930)
Ludwig Wittgenstein; Austrian/English philosopher (1889)
Famous Birthdays
Gracie Allen; comedian (1906)
Marcus Aurelius; Roman emperor (121 C.E.)
Joan Chen; actor (1961)
Eugene Delacroix; French artist (1798)
Duane Eddy; rock guitarist (1938)
Teddy Edwards; jazz saxophonist (1924)
Giancarlo Esposito; actor (1958)
Jimmy Giuffre; jazz clarinetist (1921)
Kevin James; actor (1965)
Kimber James; porn actor (1988)
Stana Katic; actor (1978)
Jet Li; actor, martial artist (1963)
Anita Loos; writer (1893)
Bernard Malamud; writer (1914)
Edward Shepherd Mead; writer (1914)
Muhammad; religious leader (571 C.E.)
Frederick Law Olmstead; architect (1822)
I.M. Pei; architect (1917)
Ma Rainey; blues singer (1886)
Thomas Reid; English philosopher (1710)
Charles Richter; geologist (1900)
Bobby Rydell; pop singer (1942)
Douglas Sirk; film director (1897)
Michael Smith; English chemist (1932)
Koo Stark; actor (1956)
Edmund Tarbell; artist (1862)
Channing Tatum; actor (1980)
Roger Taylor; rock drummer (1960)
Artemus Ward; writer (1834)
Morris West; writer (1916)
Maurice Williams; pop singer (1938)
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Holidays 4.25
Holidays
Anti-Nuclear Day
ANZAC Day (Australia, New Zealand)
Carnation Day (Portugal)
Dandelion Day
Day of the Circassian Flag
DNA Day
Duck Appreciation Society Day
East Meets West Day (a.k.a. Elbe Day)
Flag Day (Faroe Islands, Eswatini, f.k.a. Swaziland)
Freedom Day (Portugal)
Free Love Day
Get On Board Day
Hairstylist Appreciation Day
Hayek Day
Hostile Aggressive Parenting Awareness Day
Hubble Telescope Day
Hug A Plumber Day
International Amigurumi Day
International Delegate’s Day
International Financial Independence Awareness Day
Liberation Day (Italy, Portugal, South Georgia)
License Plate Day
Mahavir Jayanti (Parts of India)
Malaria Awareness Day
Military Foundation Day (North Korea)
National Airhorn Day
National Amigurumi Day
National Christian College Day
National Crayola Day
National Darts Day
National Financial Awareness Day
National Lingerie Day
National Mani-Pedi Day
National Plumber’s Day
National Quote Day
National Telephone Day
Parental Alienation Awareness Day
Perfect Date Day (Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold; in film “Miss Congeniality”)
People’s Army Foundation Day (North Korea)
Plastic Grocery Bag Day
Poetry Day (Ireland)
Portugal Day (Portugal)
Radunitsa (Ancestors Veneration Day; Belarus)
Red Hat Society Day
Revolution Day (Timor-Leste)
Secotorial Government Holiday (Jordan)
Sinai Liberation Day (Egypt)
Tag des Baumes (Arbor Day; Germany)
20-Something Service Day
Whip-Poor-Will Day (Pennsylvania)
World DNA Day
World Malaria Day (UN)
World Penguin Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
National Crotilla Day
National Zucchini Bread Day
4th & Last Thursday in April
Dining Out For Life [Last Thursday]
Gathering of Nations (Native American Pow Wow) [begins 4th Thursday thru Saturday]
International Girls in ICT Day (4th Thursday]
Love Your Thighs Day [4th Thursday]
Pay It Forward Day [Last Thursday]
Poem in Your Pocket Day [Last Thursday]
Sumardagurinn Fyrsti (1st Day of Summer; Iceland) [Thursday after 4.18]
Support Teen Literature Day [Thursday of Library Week]
Take Action for Libraries Day [Thursday of Library Week]
Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work Day [4th Thursday]
Teach Your Children to Save Day [4th Thursday]
Thank You Thursday [6 Days Before 1st Wednesday in May]
Throwback Thursday [Every Thursday]
Weekly Holidays beginning April 25 (4th Week)
Gathering of Nations Pow Wow [thru 4.27]
National Write Your Book in a Weekend Weekends [thru 4.28] (also in Feb, Sep & Nov)
Independence & Related Days
Copan (Declared; 2011) [unrecognized]
Novaland (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]
Principality of Martin Presidia (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]
Yom HaAtzma’ut [יוֹם הָעַצְמָאוּת] (Israeli Independence Day observed) [5 Iyar]
Festivals Beginning April 25, 2024
Atlanta Film Festival (Atlanta, Georgia) [thru 5.5]
Bern Geranium Market [Bärner Graniummärit] (Bern, Switzerland)
Beaufort Wine & Food (Beaufort, North Carolina) [thru 4.28]
Buenos Aires International Book Fair (Buenos Aires, Argentina) [thru 5.13]
Busch Gardens Food & Wine Festival (Williamsburg, Virginia) [thru 6.13]
Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo (Calgary, Canada) [thru 4.28]
Gathering of Nations (Albuquerque, New Mexico) [thru 4.27]
Gauge County Maple Festival (Chardon, Ohio) [thru 4.28]
Missouri Cherry Blossom Festival (Marshfield, Missouri) [thru 4.27]
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (New Orleans, Louisiana) [thru 5.5]
San Francisco International Film Festival (San Francisco, California) [thru 4.28]
Shepherd Maple Syrup Festival (Shepherd, Michigan) [thru 4.28]
Vidalia Onion Festival (Vidalie, Oregon) [thru 4.28]
Washington State Apple Blossom Festival (Wenatchee, Washington) [thru 5.5]
World Dog Show (Zagreb, Croatia) [thru 4.28]
Feast Days
Adonia (Greek women's festival)
Anianus of Alexandria (Christian; Saint)
Aristides (Positivist; Saint)
Blessing of the Wheat (Ancient Hungary)
Canadanaigua (festival of lights, ritual of harvest and thanksgiving; Native American)
Cy Twombly (Artology)
Festival of Robigalia (Ancient Rome)
Giovanni Battista Piamarta (Christian; Saint)
Heribald (Christian; Saint)
Ivo (Christian; Saint)
Karel Appel (Artology)
Kebius of Cornwall (Christian; Saint)
Major Rogation (Western Christianity)
Mark the Evangelist (Christian; Saint)
Maughold of Isle of Man (Christian; Saint)
Mr. Hooper (Muppetism)
Mr. T Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Phaebadius, Bishop of Agen (Christian; Saint)
Philo and Agathopodes (Christian; Saint)
Quarks (Muppetism)
The Robigalia (Ancient Roman Grain & Corn Festival)
Walpurgisnacht, Day III (Pagan)
World Penguin Day (Pastafarian)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Lucky Day (Philippines) [21 of 71]
Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]
Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [24 of 57]
Premieres
Abusement Park (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1947)
Baby Mama (Film; 2009)
Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1938)
Big River (Broadway Musical; 1985)
The Big Short, by Michael Lewis (Book; 2010)
Drooler’s Delight (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1949)
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (Film; 2008)
Homage to Catalonia, by George Orwell (Memoir; 1938)
Infest, by Papa Roach (Album; 2000)
Let’s Eat (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1932)
Let’s Stick Together (Disney Cartoon; 1952)
Manhattan (Film; 1979)
Nuts and Volts (WB LT Cartoon; 1964)
The Old Curiosity Shop, by Charles Dickens (Novel; 1840)
The Other Woman (Film; 2014)
Piére li Houyeû (Peter the Miner), by Eugène Ysaÿe (Opera; 1931)
Polar Playmates (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1946)
Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe (Novel; 1719)
Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion (Film; 1997)
The Sky is Falling (Mighty Mouse Cartoon; 1947)
The Stupidstitious Cat (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1947)
That’s My Pup (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1953)
Turandot, by Giacomo Puccini (Opera; 1926)
Valse Trust, by Jean Sibelius (Orchestral Work; 1904)
We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, by Bruce Springsteen (Album; 2006)
Westward Whoa (WB LT Cartoon; 1936)
Where the Buffalo Roam (Film; 1980)
Today’s Name Days
Erwin, Markus (Austria)
Marko (Bulgaria)
Franka, Marko, Maroje (Croatia)
Marek (Czech Republic)
Markus (Denmark)
Marek, Margo, Margus, Mark, Marko, Markus (Estonia)
Markku, Marko, Markus (Finland)
Marc (France)
Erwin, Markus (Germany)
Markela, Markos, Nike, Niki (Greece)
Márk (Hungary)
Franco, Marco (Italy)
Barbala, Līksma, Liksme, Marks, Markus (Latvia)
Gražvyda, Gražvydė, Morkus, Tolmantas, Žadmantė (Lithuania)
Mark, Markus (Norway)
Jarosław, Marek, Wasyl (Poland)
Marcu, Vasile (Romania)
Marek (Slovakia)
Marcos (Spain)
Markus (Sweden)
Mark, Marko (Ukraine)
Marc, Marcel, Marcella, Marcia, Marcila, Marco, Marcos, Marcus, Marcy, Maricela, Mario, Marisol, Mark, Markus, Marsha (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 116 of 2024; 250 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 4 of week 17 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 12 of 28]
Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 17 (Ji-Wei)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]
Hebrew: 17 Nisan 5784
Islamic: 16 Shawwal 1445
J Cal: 26 Cyan; Fryday [25 of 30]
Julian: 12 April 2024
Moon: 97%: Waning Gibbous
Positivist: 4 Caesar (5th Month) [Cimon]
Runic Half Month: Lagu (Flowing Water) [Day 1 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 38 of 92)
Week: 4th Week of April
Zodiac: Taurus (Day 6 of 31)
Calendar Changes
Lagu (Flowing Water) [Half-Month 9 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 5.12)
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Beer Events 4.25
Events
Theodore Low patented a Bottle Opener (1939)
Where the Buffalo Roam premiered (1980)
Fred Eckhardt’s 1st piece about beer published (1984)
Roger Briess died (2001)
Beer Muscles premiered (2004)
Brewery Openings
Kingston Brewing (Ontario, Canada; 1986)
Compass Rose Brewpub (NM; 1996)
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