Anniversaries, Holidays, & Observances for April 17, 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

• Easter Sunday
• Orthodox Palm Sunday
• World Hemophilia Day
• 1492: Christopher Columbus signed a contract with the Spanish monarchs to find the “Indies” with the stated goal of converting people to Catholicism. This promised him 10% of all riches found, and the governorship of any lands encountered
• 1864: A bread revolt took place in Savannah, Georgia
• 1895: The Treaty of Shimonoseki was signed ending the First Sino-Japanese War
• 1905: The US Supreme Court ruled a maximum work day unconstitutional in Lochner v. New York by declaring the “right to free contract” implicit in the due process clause of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution
• 1932: Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia ended slavery
• 1946: Syria declared independence from French administration
• 1961: 1,400 Cuban exiles landed in the Bay of Pigs in a doomed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro
• 1969: People’s Democracy activist Bernadette Devlin became the youngest woman Member of Parliament ever elected to Westminster at 21 years old
• 1983: In Warsaw, police routed 1,000 Solidarity supporters
• 1984: During a demonstration at the Libyan Embassy in London, British police officer Yvonne Fletcher was shot dead
• 1989: Polish labor unions were granted legal status
• 1991: Railroad workers went on strike in the US
• 2013: Same-sex marriage was legalized in New Zealand
• 2018: Protests broke out across India at the rape and murder of an 8-year old Muslim girl in Kathua, Bengalu
• 2021: The Global COVID-19 death toll passed three million deaths according to Johns Hopkins University
• 2021: Canada registered more new daily COVID-19 cases than the US for the first time as infections surge in Ontario
  
  

Weekly Holidays and Observances including April 17, 2022

• Passover, also known as Pesach (April 15-April 23)
• Fibroid Awareness Week (April 17-23)
• National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (April 17-23)
• National Volunteer Week (April 17-23)
• Orthodox Holy Week (April 17-23)
  
  

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)