| April
1 |
Wangari
Maathai born in Kenya, 1940 |
| April
2 |
Reconciliation
Day - www.ReconciliationDay.com
Homeless
Unity Day
Nicholas
Murray Butler born in New Jersey,
1862
|
| April
3 |
Dorothea
Dix born in Maine, 1802
John
Burroughs
born in New York, 1837
Jane
Goodall
born in England, 1934
|
| April
4 |
National
Holiday of Senegal
Maya
Angelou born in Missouri, 1928
|
| April
5 |
Gandhi's
day of non violent action; first Satyagraha
1919, Salt strike 1930
Booker
T. Washington born in Virginia,
1856
|
| April
6 |
The
first modern Olympics opened in Athens,
1896 |
| April
7 |
*World
Health Day - www.WorldHealthDay.net
National
Day of Hope - www.HopeDay.us
World
Health Organization (WHO) founded, 1948
Gustav
Landauer born in Germany, 1870
Daniel
Ellsberg born in Michigan, 1931
|
| April
8 |
Kofi
Annan born in Ghana, 1938 |
| April
9 |
Paul
Robeson born in New Jersey,
1898
Civil
War ended, 1865
Civil
Rights Bill of 1866 passed by Congress
granting blacks rights of American Citizenship,
eventually becoming the 14th Amendment
|
| April
10 |
National
D.A.R.E. Day
Dolores
Huerta born in New Mexico, 1930
Good
Friday Peace Agreement in Northern Ireland,
1998
|
| April
11 |
International
Labour Organisation (ILO) founded 1919
Civil
Rights Act of 1968 signed into law by
President Lyndon Johnson, expanding
rights of Native Americans, protecting
civil rights workers and protecting
tenants against antidiscrimination
|
| April
12 |
Dennis
Banks born in Minnesota, 1932
LEE
Jong-wook born in Korea, 1945
|
| April
13 |
Thomas
Jefferson born in Virginia,
1743
Rachel
Carson's Silent Spring was published,
1962, hearlding the Environmental Movement
|
| April
14 |
Pan
American Day - proclamation issued
each year in US commemorating the first
International Conference of American
States in 1890
First
American Abolition Society founded in
Philadelphia, 1775
|
| April
15 |
A.
Philip Randolph born in Florida,
1889
Preliminary
articles of peace ending Revolutionary
War were ratified, 1783
|
| April
16 |
National
Holiday of Denmark
Jacob
Coxey born in Pennsylvania,
1854
Sir Gladwyn
Jebb (Lord Gladwyn) 1900, elected
first and only acting UN Secretary-General
1946
Sir
Peter Ustinov born in England,
1921
|
| April
17 |
National
Holiday of Syrian Arab Republic
Jaime-Torres
Bodet, Director-General of UNESCO,
who promoted 'peace in the minds of men,'
born Mexico City 1902 |
| April
18 |
Third
World Day - commemorating first
use of phrase "Third World"
by Indonesian President Sukarno to mean
the non-white and underdeveloped nations
of the world
National
Holiday of Zimbabwe
|
| April
19 |
Anti-Slavery
Society founded by William Wilberforce,
U.K. 1839 |
| April
20 |
Jessica
Lange was born in Minnesota, 1949 |
| April
21 |
Creativity
Day - www.CreativityDay.us
John
Muir born in Scotland, 1838
Michael
Succow born in Germany, 1941
Juan
Somavia born in Chile, 1941
|
| April
22 |
Earth
Day - www.EarthDayInfo.com
J.
Sterling Morton born in New
York, 1832
Human
Rights of Refugees guaranteed by UN
Convention 1954
|
| April
23 |
*World
Book & Copyright Day
Michael
Moore born in Michigan, 1954
|
| April
24 |
Review
Conference of Treaty on the non-proliferation
of Nuclear Weapons opened, 2000 |
| April
25 |
The
United Negro College Fund was incorporated,
1944
Fifty
nations met in San Francisco to start
the United Nations Conference on International
Organizations, 1945
American
student Samantha
Smith invited to visit the Soviet
Union, after writing to Soviet leader
Yuri Andropov about her fears about
nuclear war, 1983
300,000
activists march on Washington, DC demanding
freedom from discrimination for gays
and lesbians, 1993
First
World Conference on Sustainable Development
of Small Island States, 1994
Edward
R. Murrow born in North Carolina, 1908
|
| April
26 |
John
James Audubon born in Haiti,
1785
National
Holiday of United Republic of Tanzania
|
| April
27 |
Mary
Wollstonecraft born in England,
1759
James
Alexander born in Canada, 1914
Coretta
Scott King born in Alabama,
1927
National
Holiday of Sierra Leone, South Africa,
Togo, Yugoslavia
Togo
achieved independence in UN-supervised
elections 1960
|
| April
28 |
Moratorium
on capital punishment adopted by Human
Rights Commission, 1999
Tobias
Asser born in The Netherlands,
1838
Oskar
Schindler born in Austria-Hungary,
1908
|
| April
29 |
Maurice
Strong born in Canada, 1929 |
| April
30 |
António
Guterres born in Portugal,
1948
Albert
Schweitzer broadcast his "Peace
or Atomic War?" appeal, 1958
National
Holiday of The Netherlands
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