2023 Daily Holidays that fall on April 26, include:
Administrative Professional's Day - April 26, 2023 (The Wednesday of the last full week of April)
Alien Day
Audubon Day
Confederate Heroes' Day - April 26 (State of FL)
Denim Day - April 26, 2023
Get Organized Day
Hug a Friend Day
Hug an Australian Day
International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day
International Guide Dog Day - April 26, 2023 (Last Wednesday of April)
Lesbian Visibility Day
National Bookmobile Day - April 26, 2023 (Wednesday of National Library Week)
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
Stop Food Waste Day - April 26, 2023
World Intellectual Property Day
2023 Weekly Holidays that include April 26, are:
Administrative Professional's Week - April 23-29, 2023 (Last Full Week of April)
Astronomy Week (Spring) - April 24-30, 2023
Bedbug Awareness Week - April 23-29, 2023 (Last Week in April)
Canadian Immunization Awareness Week - April 23-29, 2023 (Last Week in April)
Every Kid Healthy Week - April 24-28, 2023 (Monday-Friday of Last Full Week in April)
Fibroid Awareness Week - April 23-29, 2023 (Fourth Week in April)
International Wildlife Film Week - April 22-27, 2023
Medical Laboratory Professionals Week - April 23-29, 2023
National Crime Victims' Rights Week - April 23-29, 2023
National Dance Week - April 23-29, 2023
National Green Week - February 5 - April 30, 2023 (Start First Full Week in February to April 30)
National Infants Immunization Week - April 23-29, 2023 (Fourth Week of April)
National Infertility Awareness Week - April 23-29, 2023 (Fourth Week of April)
National Karaoke Week - April 23-29, 2023 (Fourth Week of April)
National Library Week - April 23-29, 2023
National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week - April 23-29, 2023 (Last Full Week of April)
National Organ / Tissue Donor Awareness Week - April 23-29, 2023 (Last Week of April)
National Park Week - April 22-30, 2023
National Playground Safety Week - April 24-28, 2023 (Last Monday - Friday week in April)
National Princess Week - April 23-29, 2023 (Last Full Week of April)
National Scoop the Poop Week - April 24-30
National Youth Violence Prevention Week - April 24-28, 2023
Sky Awareness Week - April 23-29, 2023 (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 23-29, 2023 (Week that surrounds April 24th each year)
Yom HaAtzmaut - Evening of April 25 to Evening of April 26, 2023
2023 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:
A page on each holiday will be coming soon and linked above.
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, 2023
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)
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!
Recipe of the Day or a Healthy Diet Habit Tip 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
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
Inside Baseball (noun)
1. (US, sports) Technical matters concerning baseball not apparent to spectators. 2. (US) Matters of interest only to insiders.
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