April 26

 Holidays and Observances
(Alphabetical Order)

2024 Daily Holidays that fall on April 26, include:

• Alien Day 
  
• Arbor Day - April 26, 2024 (Last Friday in April)
• Audubon Day 
• Childcare Professionals Day - April 26, 2024 (Last Friday in April)
• Confederate Heroes' Day - (State of FL)
• Get Organized Day 
  
• Hairball Awareness Day - April 26, 2024 (Last Friday in April)
• Hug a Friend Day 
• Hug an Australian Day 
  
• International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day 
• Lesbian Visibility Day 
• National Dissertation Day 
• National Help a Horse Day 
• National Kids and Pets Day 
• National Pretzel Day
• National Static Cling Day 
• Remember Your First Kiss Day 
  
• Richter Scale Day 
• Undiagnosed Children's Awareness Day - April 26, 2024 (Last Friday in April)
• World Intellectual Property Day 

2024 Weekly Holidays that include April 26, are:

• Administrative Professional's Week - April 21-27, 2024 (Last Full Week of April)
• American Quilters Society Week - April 24-27, 2024
• Animal Cruelty / Human Violence Awareness Week - April 21-27, 2024 (Third Full Week in April)
• Bedbug Awareness Week - April 21-27, 2024 (Last Week in April)
• Canadian Immunization Awareness Week - April 21-27, 2024 (Last Week in April) 
• Chemists Celebrate Earth Week - April 21-27, 2024 (Always includes Earth Day 4/22)
• Every Kid Healthy Week - April 22-26, 2024 (Monday-Friday of Last Full Week in April)
  
• Fibroid Awareness Week - April 21-27, 2024 (Fourth Week in April)
• Gathering of Nations PowWow - April 25-27, 2024
• Global Youth Service Days - April 26-28, 2024 
• National African Violet Week - April 21-28, 2024
  
• National And Global Youth Service Days - April 26-28, 2024 (Last Weekend in April)
• National Coin Week - April 21-27, 2024 (Third Full Week of April)
• National Crime Victims' Rights Week - April 21-27, 2024
• National Dance Week - April 19-28, 2024 
  
• National Dream Hotline - April 26-28, 2024 (Last Weekend in April)
• National Green Week - February 4 - April 30, 2024 (Start First Full Week in February to April 30)
  
• National Infants Immunization Week - April 21-27, 2024 (Fourth Week of April)
• National Infertility Awareness Week - April 21-27, 2024 (Fourth Week of April)
• National Karaoke Week - April 21-27, 2024 (Fourth Week of April)
• National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week - April 21-27, 2024 (Last Full Week of April)
• National Organ / Tissue Donor Awareness Week - April 21-27, 2024 (Last Week of April)
  
• National Paperboard Packaging Week - April 21-27, 2024 (Includes Earth Day April 22nd)
  
• National Park Week - April 20-28 2024 (Entrance fees are waived at all National Parks on April 20, 2024)
• National Playground Safety Week - April 22-26, 2024 (Last Monday - Friday week in April)
  
• National Princess Week - April 21-27, 2024 (Last Full Week of April)
• National Scoop the Poop Week - April 24-30
• National Student Leadership Week - April 21-27, 2024 (Third Week of April)
• National Volunteer Week - April 21-27, 2024 (Third Full Week in April)
• Orthodox Lent - Begins on Ash Wednesday - March 18, 2024 - May 4, 2024 (Begins on Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday)
  
• Passover (also known as Pesach) - Evening of April 22 - Evening of April 30, 2024
• Pesach (also known as Passover) - Evening of April 22 - Evening of April 30, 2024
• Sky Awareness Week - April 21-27, 2024 (Last Full Week in April)
  
• UN Global Road Safety Week - April 23-29
• World Immunization Week - April 24-30
• World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week - April 21-27, 2024 (Week that surrounds April 24th each year)

2024 Monthly Holidays that include April 26, 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)

• Festival of Ridvan - April 20 - May 2, 2024
• Fiddler's Frolic - April 26-28, 2024
• Interstate Mullet Toss - April 26-28, 2024 (Last Full Weekend in April)

Astrological Sign

The Astrological Sign for April 26 is Taurus.

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

• 1900 - Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist, famous for the creation of the Richter magnitude scale of measuring the size of earthquakes
• 1933 - Carol Burnett, American actress, singer, comedian (Carol Burnett Show)
• 1977 - Tom Welling, American actor, director and producer (Smallville)
• 1980 - Jordana Brewster, Panamanian-American actress (Fast & Furious movies)
• 1983 - Jessica Lynch, American soldier who served in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and was injured and captured, and then rescued by the U.S. Special Operation Forces

Famous Deaths

• 1784 - Nano Nagle, an Irish nun who founded the Presentation Sisters (b. 1718)
• 1865 - John Wilkes Booth, American actor who assassinated U.S. President Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838)
• 1984 - Count Basie, American bandleader, pianist and composer (b. 1904)
• 1989 - Lucille Ball, American actress and producer (I Love Lucy) (b. 1911)
• 2003 - Edward Max Nicholson, Irish environmentalist who co-founded the World Wide Fund for Nature (b. 1904)
• 2003 - George Jones, American Country music singer, songwriter and guitarist (b. 1931)

Famous Weddings and Divorces

• 1946 - Father Divine, a religious leader who claimed to be God, marries his 2nd wife, Edna Rose Ritchings. He founded the International Peace Mission movement. After his death in September 1965, Edna, known as Mother Divine is now the leader.
• 1986 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor/bodybuilder and politician, marries newscaster Maria Shriver
• 1994 - Patrick Dempsey, actor divorces his wife/manager, Rocky Parker after close to 7 years of marriage

Quote of the Day

Lucille Ball, was one of the great comedians in my opinion!

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

View the Recipe from Averie Cooks here, or by clicking through on the picture above!

This Day in History

• 1607 - 1st English colonists make landfall and establish a colony at Cape Henry, Virginia at the entrance to Chesapeake Bay 
• 1721 - The smallpox vaccination is 1st administered
• 1803 - Thousands of meteor fragments fall in L'Aigle, France
• 1859 - The defense of "Temporary Insanity" is used successfully for the first time, to acquit Dan Sickles of murder
• 1865 - Union cavalry troopers shoot John Wilkes booth, who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia
• 1926 - Germany & Russia sign a neutrality peace treaty
• 1933 - The official secret police force of Nazi Germany, the Gestapo is established
• 1959 - Cuba invades Panama
• 1964 - Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania
• 1970 - The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) enters into force, as one of the self-funding agencies of the United Nations
• 1954 - Nationwide test of the Salk anti-polio vaccine begins
• 1962 - NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon
• 1971 - The Bahia district in Brazil has 15" of rain in 24 hours
• 1981 - The 1st open fetal surgery if performed by Dr. Michael R. Harrison, of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center
• 1986 - The 4th reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union explodes and creates the world nuclear disaster to date, with 31 deaths
• 1989 - Central Bangladesh has the deadliest tornado strike, in world history, with close to 1,300 deaths, 12,000+ injuries, and leaving at least 80,000 homeless
• 1990 - A 6.9 earthquake strikes China and 126 die
• 1991 - Seventy tornadoes break out in the Central United States, with Andover, Kansas recording the year's only F5 tornado

This Day in Music

• 1835 - Frederic Chopin's, 'Grand Polonaise Brillante', opens in Paris
• 1977 - Glen Campbell's, 'Southern Nights', hits #1
• 1977 - New York City's most famous disco, Studio 54 opens
• 1982 - Rod Stewart is mugged, and a gunman steals his $50,000 Porsche
• 2003 - The Morgan Creek Bridge in Chapel Hill, NC is renamed the James Taylor Bridge  

Way back when I was in high school....I listened to James Taylor and Carly Simon.  They sounded great together! 

Please check out our Music Holidays page!

This Day in Sports

• 1905 - Jack McCarthy, of the Chicago Cubs is the first fielder to throw out 3 runners at home plate in one game in a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates
• 1912 - The 1st homerun hit at Fenway Park, in Boston, MA was by Hugh Bradley or the Red Sox
• 1931 - Lou Gehrig hits a homerun, but passes a runner in front of him and is called out. He ends the season tied with Babe Ruth for the number of homeruns
• 1952 - Patty Berg scores 64 and set a world record for women golfers
• 1980 - Record set for the longest jump by a jet boat is 120 feet
• 1992 - Ozzie Smith steals his 500th base, and went on to end his career with 580 stolen bases
• 1995 - Coors Field opens in Denver, Co

Word of the Day from Wiktionary

Wishing You a Great Day Today!