Anniversaries, Holidays, & Observances for April 16, 2022

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 here. If there are other items you feel should be included, please email contact@llphp.org and share!


Please note all holidays and observances listed as “National” days are American holidays and observances unless it is stated otherwise.

On This Day

• Emancipation Day
• First Day of Passover
• Holy Saturday
• World Semicolon Day
• World Voice Day
• 1818: The US Senate ratified the Rush-Bagot amendment providing for an unarmed US-Canada border
• 1854: San Salvador was destroyed by an earthquake
• 1861: US President Abraham Lincoln outlawed commerce with Confederate States as part of the US Civil War
• 1862: Slavery was abolished in Washington, DC
• 1862: The American Confederate Congress approved a conscription act for all white males ages 18-35
• 1869: Ebenezer Bassett became the first African American diplomat when he began service as the Ambassador to Haiti
• 1922: The Treaty of Rapallo between the German Republic and Soviet Union was signed, normalizing diplomatic relations with each side renouncing their territorial and financial claims against the other
• 1924: Child labor laws were strengthened in Holland
• 1942: The Japanese occupying army on Java implemented film censorship
• 1945: The Dutch town of Arnhem, site of failed Operation Market Garden, was freed by British and Canadian forces
• 1945: Colditz Castle, the high-security prisoner of war camp in Germany, was liberated by American troops
• 1948: The Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) was formed in Paris
• 1956: The first solar powered radios went on sale
• 1962: Brazil nationalized US businesses
• 1966: Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith broke off diplomatic relations with Britain
• 1987: The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) imposed a broader definition of indecency over the airwaves
• 1993: The jury reached verdicts in the federal case against the Los Angeles police officers who beat Rodney King, but the verdict is not read until April 17th. Two officers were convicted, and two were acquitted.
• 2013: 37 people were killed by a 7.8 earthquake in Khash country, Iran
• 2020: A new study published in the journal “Science”claimed a multi-decade megadrought was already under way in the western US
• 2020: A Nationwide State of Emergency was declared in Japan until 6 May due to the worsening COVID-19 outbreak
  
  

Weekly Holidays and Observances including April 16, 2022

• Passiontide (April 3-16)
• Holy Week (April 10-16)
• National Oral, Head, and Neck Cancer Awareness Week (April 10-16)
• Passover, also known as Pesach (April 15-April 23)
  
  

April Monthly Holidays and Observances

• Orthodox Lent (March 7 – April 23)
• Alcohol Awareness Month
• Arab American Heritage Month
• Cancer Control Month
• Celebrate Diversity Month
• Cesarean Awareness Month
• Community Service Month
• Community Spirit Days
• Counseling Awareness Month
• Defeat Diabetes Month
• Emotional Overeating Awareness Month
• Financial Literacy Month
• Genocide and Human Rights Awareness Month
• Grange Month
• International Amateur Radio Month
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Awareness Month
• Listening Awareness Month
• Move More Month
• Multicultural Communication Month
• National Anxiety Month
• National Autism Awareness Month
• National Child Abuse Prevention Month
• National Distracted Driving Awareness Month
• National Food Month
• National Garden Month
• National Parkinson’s Awareness Month
• National Pest Management Month
• National Pet First Aid Awareness Month
• National Sarcoidosis Awareness Month
• National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month aka Sexual Assault Awareness Month of Action
• STI Awareness Month (Sexually Transmitted Infections) aka National STD Awareness Month aka National Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD)’s Education and Awareness Month
• National Sjogren’s Syndrome Awareness Month
• Physical Wellness Month
• Rosacea Awareness Month
• Stress Awareness Month
• Summer Tire Changeover Month
• Testicular Cancer Awareness Month
• Workplace Conflict Awareness Month
• World Habitat Awareness Month
• Ramadan (Islamic Holy Month) (April 2 – May 2)