Anniversaries, Holidays, & Observances for April 9, 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

• Name Yourself Day
• National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day
• 1454: Milan, Naples, and Florence signed the peace of Lodi, bringing an end to the Wars in Lombardy
• 1768: John Hancock refused to allow two British customs agents to go below deck of his ship in what is by some to be the first act of physical resistance to British authority in the colonies
• 1784: Great Britain ratified the Treaty of Paris, signed September 3, 1783, ending the American Revolutionary War
• 1829: Gdańsk, known at the time as Danzig, experienced flooding that killed 1200 people due to a dike break
• 1833: The first US taxpayer-supported public library opened in Peterborough, New Hampshire
• 1866: The US Congress voted to override a presidential veto giving all equal rights in US
• 1909: The US Congress passed the Payne-Aldrich bill, raising certain tariffs on goods entering the United States
• 1918: Latvia proclaimed independence
• 1928: Turkey passed a law establishing the separation of church and state
• 1947: Tornadoes struck West Texas and Oklahoma killing 169 people and injuring 1,300
• 1948: Far-right Zionist fighters carried out a massacre at Deir Yassin, killing at least 107 people in a village of about 600
• 1991: Georgia SSR voted to secede from the USSR
• 2013: 12 civilians and UN peacekeepers were killed in an ambush in Jonglei, Sudan
• 2013: 37 people were killed and 850 were injured after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake shook Iran
• 2013: The French Senate approved a bill legalizing same-sex marriage
• 2019: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a public health emergency and compulsory vaccinations after a measles outbreak in Brooklyn that would lead to several hundred measles cases in NYC and hundreds of more across the state
  
  

Weekly Holidays and Observances including April 9, 2022

• National Public Health Week (April 3-9)
• Passion Week (April 3-9)
• Passiontide (April 3-16)
• Explore Your Career Options Week (April 6-12)
  
  

April Monthly Holidays and Observances

• Lent (March 2 – April 14)
• Orthodox Lent (March 7 – April 23)
• Deaf History Month (March 13 – April 15)
• 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)