Anniversaries, Holidays, and Observances for April 19, 2021
Many days there are far too many anniversaries, holidays, and observances to post about individually on social media, so in an effort to have more of them available, LLPHP is going to experiment with posting them daily. If there are other items you feel should be included, please email contact@llphp.org and share!
On This Day
- Oklahoma City Bombing Commemoration Day
- 1529: The Second Diet of Speyer sought to halt reforms amongst the Catholic Church and the offshoots beginning to form, but instead gave rise to Protestantism
- 1775: The American Revolution began in Lexington, Massachusetts with the “Shot Heard Round the World” taking place in Concord later that day
- 1904: Much of Toronto, Canada was destroyed by fire
- 1923: New Egyptian law allowed voting rights for most men, except soldiers
- 1933: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced the US would leave the gold standard
- 1939: Connecticut finally approved the Bill of Rights (148 years late)
- 1943: Jews refused to surrender the Warsaw Ghetto to SS officer Jürgen Stroop, who then ordered its destruction, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- 1993: After a 51 day siege by the FBI 76 Branch Davidians died in a fire near Waco, Texas
- 1993: Fire in a psychiatric institute in South Korea, killed 40
- 1994: The US Supreme Court prohibited excluding people from juries because of their gender
- 1995: The Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh detonated a truck bomb at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building killing 168 and injuring 500
Weekly Holidays and Observances including April 19, 2021
- Animal Cruelty / Human Violence Awareness Week (April 18-24)
- Consumer Awareness Week (April 18-23)
- National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (April 18-24)
- National Organ / Tissue Donor Awareness Week (April 18-24)
- National Volunteer Week (April 18-24)
- Every Kid Healthy Week (April 19-23)
April Monthly Holidays and Observances
- Alcohol Awareness Month
- Arab American Heritage Month
- Celebrate Diversity Month
- Community Service Month
- Genocide and Human Rights Awareness Month
- International Amateur Radio Month
- National Autism Awareness Month
- National Child Abuse Prevention Month
- National Distracted Driving Awareness Month
- National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month
- Physical Wellness Month
- Ramadan (Evening of April 12 – Evening of May 11)