| April
1 |
Wangari
Maathai born in Kenya, 1940
Jimmy
Cliff born in Jamaica, 1948
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| April
2 |
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World Autism Day
Reconciliation
Day
Tell
The Truth Day
Homeless
Unity Day
Nicholas
Murray Butler born in New Jersey, 1862
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| April
3 |
Dorothea
Dix born in Maine, 1802
John
Burroughs
born in New York, 1837
Doris
Day
born in Ohio, 1924
Jane
Goodall
born in England, 1934
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| April
4 |
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International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action
National
Holiday of Senegal
Maya
Angelou born in Missouri, 1928
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| April
5 |
Gandhi's
day of non violent action; first Satyagraha 1919, Salt strike
1930
Booker
T. Washington born in Virginia, 1856
Gregory
Peck born in California, 1916
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| April
6 |
Ram
Dass born in Massachusetts, 1931
The
first modern Olympics opened in Athens, 1896
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| April
7 |
*
World
Health Day
*
Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Rwanda Genocide
National
Day of Hope
Gustav Landauer
born in Germany, 1870
Daniel
Ellsberg born in Michigan, 1931
Jackie
Chan born in Hong Kong, 1954
World
Health Organization (WHO) founded, 1948
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| 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.
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| April
10 |
National
D.A.R.E. Day
Frances
Perkins born in Massachusetts, 1882
Dolores
Huerta born in New Mexico, 1930
David
Rovics born in New York, 1967
Rachel
Corrie born in Washington, 1979
Good
Friday Peace Agreement in Northern Ireland, 1998
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| April
11 |
Mary
White Ovington born in New York, 1867
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
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| April
12 |
*
International Day of Human Space Flight
Frederick
Franck born in The Netherlands, 1909
Dennis
Banks born in Minnesota, 1932
Herbie
Hancock born in Chicago, Illinois, 1940
LEE
Jong-wook born in Korea, 1945
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| April
13 |
Thomas
Jefferson born in Virginia, 1743
Amy
Goodman born in Washington, DC, 1957
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
Arun
Gandhi born in South Africa, 1934
First
American Abolition Society founded in Philadelphia, 1775
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| April
15 |
A.
Philip Randolph born in Florida, 1889
Hugh
Thompson born in Georgia, 1943
Emma
Thompson born in England, 1959
Preliminary
articles of peace ending Revolutionary War were ratified, 1783
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| 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
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| 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 |
Paul
Harris born in Wisconsin, 1868
Ashley
Judd born in California, 1968
Anti-Slavery
Society founded by William Wilberforce, U.K. 1839
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| April
20 |
Gro
Harlem Brundtland was born in Norway, 1939
Jessica
Lange was born in Minnesota, 1949
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| April
21 |
Creativity
Day
John
Muir born in Scotland, 1838
Sister
Helen Prejean born in Louisiana, 1939
Michael
Succow born in Germany, 1941
Juan
Somavia born in Chile, 1941
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| April
22 |
Earth
Day
*
International Mother Earth Day
J.
Sterling Morton born in New York, 1832
Yehudi
Menuhin born in New York, 1916
Human
Rights of Refugees guaranteed by UN Convention 1954
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| April
23 |
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World
Book & Copyright Day
Michael
Moore born in Michigan, 1954
|
| April
24 |
Barbra
Streisand born in New York, 1932
Review
Conference of Treaty on the non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
opened, 2000
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| April
25 |
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World Malaria Day
Edward R.
Murrow born in North Carolina, 1908
Earl
Hickey born in Camden County, 1970
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
|
| April
26 |
John
James Audubon born in Haiti, 1785
National
Holiday of United Republic of Tanzania
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| April
27 |
Mary
Wollstonecraft born in England, 1759
James
Alexander born in Canada, 1914
Coretta
Scott King born in Alabama, 1927
Fethullah
Gülen born in Turkey, 1941
National
Holiday of Sierra Leone, South Africa, Togo, Yugoslavia
Togo
achieved independence in UN-supervised elections 1960
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| April
28 |
*
World Day for Safety and Health at Work
Moratorium
on capital punishment adopted by Human Rights Commission, 1999
Tobias
Asser born in The Netherlands, 1838
Oskar
Schindler born in Austria-Hungary, 1908
Alice
Waters born in New Jersey, 1944
Penelope
Cruz born in Spain, 1974
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| April
29 |
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Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare
Maurice
Strong born in Canada, 1929
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| April
30 |
Gerda
Lerner born in Austria, 1920
Willie
Nelson born in Texas, 1933
António
Guterres born in Portugal, 1949
Albert
Schweitzer broadcast his "Peace
or Atomic War?" appeal, 1958
National
Holiday of The Netherlands
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