Anniversaries, Holidays, & Observances for April 27, 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

• Tell A Story Day
• 1509: Pope Julius II excommunicated the entire Italian state of Venice
• 1773: The British Parliament passed the Tea Act that would be a causal factor behind the Boston Tea Party
• 1838: Fire destroyed half of Charleston, South Carolina
• 1857: The establishing of Jewish congregations in Lower Austria was prohibited
• 1861: US President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus which prevented improper or indefinite detentions
• 1861: West Virginia seceded from Virginia after Virginia seceded from the Union
• 1881: Pogroms were carried out against Russian Jews starting in Elisabethgrad
• 1910: The Belgian Parliament rejected a socialist motion for general voting rights
• 1911: Passive resistance protests by Indians were suspended when General J.C. Smuts began negotiations with Gandhi
• 1920: Pogrom leader Petljoera declared Ukrainian Independence
• 1942: Belgian Jews were forced to wear stars
• 1942: A tornado destroyed Pryor, Oklahoma, killing 100 people and injuring 300 more
• 1950: South Africa passed the Group Areas Act segregating races
• 1953: The first general elections in British Guiana were held, won by the People’s Progressive Party with Cheddi Jagan becoming the first person of Indian descent to be elected head of government outside South Asia
• 1960: Togo, formerly known as French Togo, declared independence from French administration
• 1961: Sierra Leone declared independence from the UK
• 1968: The Congress of Political Party Radicals (PPR) formed in the Netherlands
• 1968: The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) held a rally to protest the banning of a Republican Easter parade
• 1989: Students took over Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China
• 1989: A hurricane killed 500 people in Bangladesh
• 1989: A mandatory seatbelt law went into effect in Italy
• 1992: Betty Boothroyd became the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history
• 1994:Day 2 of 3 in South Africa’s first multi-racial elections had the most voters, with people waiting in line 10 hours to vote
• 2011: The deadliest day of the 2011 super outbreak of tornadoes, the largest tornado outbreak in United States history, which overall brought 324 deaths, over 3100 injuries, and caused over $10.2 billion in damage from 360 tornadoes
• 2018: In a historic Korean summit, the North’s Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in of South Korea agreed to officially end Korean war and rid the peninsula of nuclear weapons, though the denuclearization promise has yet to be fulfilled
• 2018: Mass protests swept across Spain after 5 men were convicted of sexual abuse but not rape of a teenage girl during the Running of the Bulls festival in Pamplona
• 2020: Global confirmed cases of COVID-19 passed 3 million with the death toll reaching 205,000. 1/3 of all new cases were in the US
  
  

Weekly Holidays and Observances including April 27, 2022

• Festival of Ridvan (Baháʼí holy festival) (April 21-May 2)
• Canadian Immunization Awareness Week (April 23-30)
• Holocaust Remembrance Week (April 24-May 1)
• National Infant Immunization Week (April 24-30)
• National Infertility Awareness Week (April 24-30)
• National Organ / Tissue Donor Awareness Week (April 24-30)
• World Immunization Week (April 24-30)
• National Youth Violence Prevention Week (April 25-29)
• Holocaust Remembrance Day or Yom HaShoah (Evening of April 27-Evening of April 28)
  
  

April Monthly Holidays and Observances

• 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)