April 19

 Holidays and Observances
(Alphabetical Order)

2025 Daily Holidays that fall on April 19, include:

• Auctioneers Day - April 19, 2025 (Third Saturday of April)
• Bicycle Day
  
• Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Action Day 
  
• Dutch-American Friendship Day 
• Garlic Day 
• Holy Saturday - April 19, 2025 (Holy Saturday falls between Good Friday and Easter Sunday)
• Humorous Day 
• Husband Appreciation Day - April 19, 2025 (Third Saturday of April)
• International Raw Milk Cheese Appreciation Day - April 19, 2025 (Third Saturday in April)
• John Parker Day
• National Amaretto Day 
• National Hanging Out Day 
• National Poker Day 
• Oklahoma City Bombing Commemoration Day 
• Orthodox Holy Saturday - April 19, 2025
• Pet Owners Day 
• Record Store Day - April 19, 2025 (Third Saturday of April)
• Rice Ball Day 
• Take Your Parents to the Playground Day - April 19, 2025 (8 Days before Easter)
• World Circus Day - April 19, 2025 (Third Saturday in April)

2025 Weekly Holidays that include April 19, are:

• Building Safety Week - April 13-19, 2025 (Second Week of April)
• California Native Plant Week - April 12-19, 2025
• Cleaning for a Reason Week - April 18-24
• Consumer Awareness Week - April 18-23
  
• Global Youth Service Days - April 18-20, 2025
• Health Information Professionals Week - April 18-24, 2025
• Holy Week - April 13-19, 2025 (Begins on Palm Sunday and Ends on Holy Saturday)
• International Wildlife Film Week - April 19-24, 2025 
• Just Pray No! Worldwide Weekend of Prayer and Fasting - April 19-20, 2025
• Make Mine Chocolate - (Campaign kicks off annually on Feb 15, and ends on Easter which is April 20, 2025)
• National Animal Control Appreciation Week - April 13-19, 2025 (Second Full Week in April)
• National Animal Control Officer Appreciation Week - April 13-19, 2025 (Second Full Week in April)
• National Dog Bite Prevention Week - April 13-19, 2025
• National Green Week - February 4 - April 30, 2025 (Start First Full Week in February to April 30)
• National Osteopathic Medicine Week - April 14-20, 2025
• National Park Week - April 19-27 2025 (Entrance fees are waived at all National Parks on April 19, 2025)
• National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week - April 13-19, 2025 (Second Full Week of April)
• National Student Employment Week - April 13-19, 2025 (Second Full Week of April)
• Orthodox Holy Week -April 13-21, 2025
• Orthodox Lent - Begins on Ash Wednesday - March 3, 2025 - April 19, 2025 (Begins on Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday)
• Pan American Week - April 13-19, 2025 (Week that includes April 14th)
• Passiontide - April 6-19, 2025 (Passion Week + Holy Week)
• Passover (also known as Pesach) - Evening of April 12 - Evening of April 20, 2025
• Pesach (also known as Passover) - Evening of April 12 - Evening of April 20, 2025
• Police Officers Who Gave Their Lives in the Line of Duty Week - April 18-23

2025 Monthly Holidays that include April 19, are:

There are too many monthly holidays to include here, so please check out our April Holidays page to see all of the holidays that are celebrated the entire month of April.

NOTE:

1. A page on each holiday will be coming soon and linked above.
2. If a date is a movable holiday, that is different every year, I'll include the year as well as the date rule above. Otherwise, the holiday falls on the same date each year.

World Festivals and Events
(Date Order)

• Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival - Weekend One = April 11-13, 2025 and Weekend Two = April 18-20, 2025

Astrological Sign

The Astrological Sign for April 19 is Aries.

Birth Flower of the Month

The Birth Flower(s) for the Month for April are:

• Daisy - signifies innocence, loyal love, and purity
• Sweet Pea - signify blissful pleasure, but are also used to say good-bye.

Birthstone

The Birthstone(s) for April is the diamond, a symbol of enduring love.

Famous Birthdays

• 1930 - Dick Sargent, American actor (Bewitched) (d. 1994)
• 1933 - Jayne Mansfield, American model and actress (d. 1967)
• 1935 - Dudley Moore, English actor and comedian (10, Arthur) (d. 2002)
• 1946 - Tim Curry, English actor (The Rocky Horror Picture Show)
• 1968 - Ashley Judd, American actress and activist
• 1979 - Kate Hudson, American actress (Almost Famous)
• 1981 - Hayden Christensen, Canadian-American actor (Star Wars: Episode II and III)
• 1987 - Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player

Famous Deaths

• 1989 - Daphne du Maurier, English novelist (Rebecca, The Jamaican Inn) (b. 1907)
• 2007 - Helen Walton, American businesswoman (Wal-Mart) (b. 1919)

Famous Weddings and Divorces

• 1956 - Grace Kelly, U.S. actress marries Monaco's Prince Rainier III
• 1997 - Andre Agassi, tennis champion, marries Brooke Shields, model and actress
• 1997 - Chris O'Donnell, actor (NCIS: Los Angeles) marries Caroline Fentress, his high school sweetheart
• 2008 - Eli Manning, New York Giants NFL quarterback, marries Abby McGrew

Quote of the Day

Healthy Diet Habit Tip of the Day 
or a Recipe of the Day

Hitting a weight loss plateau in the world of dieting is a given, for mathematical reasons! It’s common and going to happen, yet we are surprised when it happens to us! Gaining an understanding of why this will happen to you, can help you to work through the lifestyle solutions you need to succeed, and continue your weight loss to your goal weight.

Find out what causes a weight loss plateau and tips to break through them from Kerry at Healthy Diet Habits! (link goes to her website!)

This Day in History

• 1770 - Captain James Cook sights the eastern coast of Australia
• 1775 - The American Revolutionary War begins with an American victory in Concord
• 1948 - Burma joins the United Nations
• 1971 - The first space station Salyut 1 is launched
• 1971 - Charles manson is sentenced to death in the Tate-LaBianca murders. His sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment
• 1984 - Advance Australia Fair is chosen as Australia's national anthem
• 1987 - The Simpsons first appear on The Tracey Ullman Show
• 1989 - 47 sailors are killed after a gun turret on the USS Iowa explodes
• 1993 - In Waco, Texas, 81 people die after a fire breaks out in the Branch Davidian building during the 51-day FBI siege.
• 1995 - The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City is bombed, killing 168
• 2013 - Tamerland Tsarnaev one of the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects is killed in a shootout with police.

This Day in Music

• 1967 - The Beatles sign a contract to stay together for 10 years
• 1978 - Because the Night is released by Patti Smith
• 1986 - Prince has two songs that he wrote in the top ten at the same time. The songs were Kiss by Prince and the Revolution and Manic Monday by The Bangles
• 1991 - Time, Love and Tenderness is released by Michael Bolton - shown below

This Day in Sports

• 1966 - Roberta Bignay is the first woman to ever run the Boston Marathon
• 1974 - Al Bumbry of the Oriole's hits an inside the park HR against the NY Yankees
• 1986 - Michael Spinks earns the heavyweight boxing title by beating Larry Holmes in 15 rounds
• 1987 - Gregory Robertsons saves an unconscious skydiver by doing a 200-mph free fall
• 1991 - Evander Holyfield earns the heavyweight boxing title by beating George Forman in 12 rounds

Word of the Day from Wiktionary

Wishing You a Great Day Today!