April 13
Scrabble
Day
April is ...
➤ National Humor Month
➤ International Guitar Month
➤ Keep America Beautiful Month
➤ National Kite Month
➤ National Poetry Month
➤ National Pecan Month
➤ April is the 4th month of year
and has 30 days.
➤ Birthstone: Diamond
➤ Signs: March 21-April 19 Aries
& April 20-May 20 Taurus
➤ Flower: Daisy
➤ April is named for the Greek
goddess of love, Aphrodite.
April 28
International
Astronomy Day
April 25
World
Penguin
Day
The
Humboldt
penguin is
a South
American
penguin
living
mainly
in the
North
of
Chile.
April 12
Russian
Cosmonaut
Day
"Eto bol'shaya Medveditsa!"
means "that's the Big
Dipper!" in Russian.
Look
up
at
the
Sky
Day
April
14
April 16
Mushroom
Day
April 17
Bat Appreciation
Day
As part of
the U.S. Mint's
America the
Beautiful
Quarters
program,
the
fruit bat
quarter
honors
the National
Park of American Samoa,
which is located in a group of
volcanic islands 2,600 miles
southwest of Hawaii. The
bat on the quarter is
the Samoan fruit bat.
These megabats are
huge, with a wing
span up to 3 feet
wide!
Sources: calendarr.com, treehugger.com, Wikipedia.org
April 27
Babe
Ruth
Day
Babe Ruth was
an American
baseball player
who played 22
seasons in Major League
Baseball from 1914 to 1935. He once
said "yesterday's home runs don't
win today's games."
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