APRIL
"Child
Abuse Prevention Month"
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| April 1 | Wangari Maathai born in Kenya, 1940 Jimmy Cliff born in Jamaica, 1948 |
| April 2 | 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 Doris Day born in Ohio, 1924 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 Gregory Peck born in California, 1916 |
| April 6 | Ram Dass born in Massachusetts, 1931 The first modern Olympics opened in Athens, 1896 |
| April 7 | 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| April 12 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Paul Harris born in Wisconsin, 1868 Ashley Judd born in California, 1968 Anti-Slavery Society founded by William Wilberforce, U.K. 1839 |
| April 20 | Gro Harlem Brundtland was born in Norway, 1939 Jessica Lange was born in Minnesota, 1949 |
| April 21 | 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 |
| April 22 | J. Sterling Morton born in New York, 1832 Yehudi Menuhin born in New York, 1916 Human Rights of Refugees guaranteed by UN Convention 1954 |
| April 23 | 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 |
| April 25 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 Alice Waters born in New Jersey, 1944 Penelope Cruz born in Spain, 1974 |
| April 29 | Maurice Strong born in Canada, 1929 |
| 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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CALENDAR OF DAYS To Celebrate Hope for a Better World and to unite and mobilize the Better World Movement... January
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