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ON THIS DAY: April 17, 2017
April 17th is International Bat Appreciation Day * Chaucer Day * Cheeseball Day * Ellis Island Family History Day * International Haiku Poetry Day World Hemophilia Day * ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Geoffrey Chaucer, Karen Blixen and Clare Francis, click
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Tagged Anna Garlin Spencer, Artur Schnabel, Clare Francis, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry Vaughan, Karen Blixen, Martin Luther
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ON THIS DAY: April 16, 2017
April 16th is Easter Sunday Health Care Decisions Week Eggs Benedict Day National Bean Counter Day National Librarian Day National Orchid Day * Save the Elephants Day * ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Wilbur Wright, Harriet Quimby and Apollo 16, click
ON THIS DAY: April 15, 2017
April 15th is Glazed Ham Day Jackie Robinson Day * Rubber Eraser Day * World Art Day * Auctioneers Day U.S. Income Tax Day (but due on Monday this year) ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Leonardo da Vinci, Bessie Smith and Jackie Robinson, click
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Tagged Bessie Smith, Corrie Ten Boom, Elizabeth Catlett, Henry James, Jackie Robinson, Leonardo da Vinci, Philip Randolph
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ON THIS DAY: April 14, 2017
April 14th is Dictionary Day * Look Up at the Sky Day National Dolphin Day Pan American Day * National Pecan Day World Marbles Day International Moment of Laughter Day * ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Christiaan Huygens, Anne Sullivan and Tom Petty, click
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Tagged Anne Sullivan, Arnold Toynbee, Christiaan Huygens, Fats Domino, Loretta Lynn, The Grapes of Wrath, Tom Petty
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ON THIS DAY: April 13, 2017
April 13th is Make Lunch Count Day * Peach Cobbler Day Scrabble Day * Thomas Jefferson Day* Celebrate Teen Literature Day * ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Miyamoto Musashi, Eudora Welty and Garry Kasparov, click
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Tagged Eudora Welty, Garry Kasparov, John Dryden, Miyamoto Musashi, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, Thomas Jefferson
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ON THIS DAY: April 12, 2017
April 12th is Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality Monument Day * D.E.A.R. Day * Polio Vaccine Day * National Bookmobile Day * Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day International Day for Street Children * International Day of Human Space Flight * ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Henry Clay, Imogen Cunningham … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Paul and Alva Belmont, Beverly Cleary, Bill Haley and the Comets, Henry Clay, Imogen Cunningham, Jonas Salk, Lily Pons
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ON THIS DAY: April 11, 2017
April 11th is National Equal Pay Day * Cheese Fondue Day Education and Sharing Day * National Library Workers Day U.S. Submarine Day * World Parkinson’s Disease Day * International “Louie Louie” Day * ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Christopher Smart, Jane Bolin and Richard Berry, … Continue reading
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Tagged Annie Besant, Charles Evans Hughes, Dean Acheson, James Parkinson, Jane Bolin, Leo Rosten, Richard Berry
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ON THIS DAY: April 10, 2017
April 10th is ASPCA Day * Cinnamon Roll Day Golfer’s Day * National Sibling Day * Encourage a Young Writer Day * National Farm Animals Day * Salvation Army Founder’s Day * International Safety Pin Day * ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Lew Wallace, Frances Perkins … Continue reading
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Tagged Dolores Huerta, Frances Perkins, Isaac Hayes, John Denver, Lew Wallace, Nat King Cole, William Hazlitt
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