Thursday 1

April Fools Day

For starters, switch the salt and the sugar, then...

Friday 2

International Children's Book Day

Inspire a child to read today.

Saturday 3

Inauguration of the Pony Express

Delivered mail to the old west.

Sunday 4

Daylight Savings Time Begins

Spring forward... Benjamin Franklin came up with the idea in 1784.

Monday 5

Booker T. Washington (1856)

First principal of the Tuskegee Institute.

Tuesday 6

Pesach or Passover

Celebrates the Jews freedom from Egyptian slavery.

Wednesday 7

Metric System (1795)

Adopted today in France, now used worldwide.

Thursday 8

International Feng Shui Awareness Day

Arrange your surroundings for a happier life.

Friday 9

Civil War Ends (1865)

Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomatox, thus ending the war between the states.

Saturday 10

Safety Pin Patented (1849)

Walter Hunt made it possible.

Sunday 11

Easter

Here comes Peter Cottontail, hopping down the bunny trail...

Monday 12

Egg Salad Week

What to do with all those Easter eggs?

Tuesday 13

Thomas Jefferson (1743)

"When in the Course of human events..."

Wednesday 14

Anne Sullivan (1866)

The Miracle Worker

Thursday 15

McDonalds (1955)

The first of billions and billions is sold in Des Plaines, IL by Ray Kroc.

Don't forget! Income Taxes are due!

Friday 16

National Stress Awareness Day

Take it easy today!

Saturday 17

National Sense of Smell Day

Stop and smell the roses.

Sunday 18

National Library Week

Celebrate at your library, read a book!

Monday 19

National TV Turnoff Week

Read a book, plant some flowers, take a bike ride, talk to your family...

Tuesday 20

National Library Workers Day

Honors the work of library support staff and librarians.

Wednesday 21

San Jacinto Day

"Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may." - General Sam Houston

Thursday 22

Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day

Let them see what Mom and Dad do.

Friday 23

Top Quark Discovered (1994)

Physicists found evidence of the 6th, and final quark predicted to be in existence - thus supporting the quark theory of the structure of matter.

Saturday 24

Astronomy Day

Take a look at the night sky.

Sunday 25

Martin Waldseemuller: Remembrance Day

Waldseemuller's book Cosmographiae Introductio was published today in 1507 and was the first to label the New World America.

Monday 26

John James Audubon (1785)

Artist and naturalist best known for his Birds of America.

Tuesday 27

Walter Lantz (1900)

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, it's Woody Woodpecker's creator.

Wednesday 28

Mutiny on the Bounty (1789)

Fletcher Christian lead the mutiny against Captain Bligh.

Thursday 29

Zipper Patented (1913)

Zip it up in honor of Gideon Sundbach.

Friday 30

El Día de Los Niños: El Día de Los Libros

"This is the day of the children, los niños, the children. This is the day of the children the children and their books."