April 30th 2022 - Holidays and Observances

 

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• Armed Forces Day (Georgia)
• Birthday of the King Carl XVI Gustaf, one of the official general flag flying days of Sweden.
• Camarón Day (French Foreign Legion)
• Children's Day (Mexico)
• Christian feast day:
  • Adjutor
  • Aimo
  • Amator, Peter and Louis
  • Donatus of Evorea
  • Eutropius of Saintes
  • Marie Guyart (Anglican Church of Canada)
  • Marie of the Incarnation (Ursuline)
  • Maximus of Rome
  • Blessed Miles Gerard
  • Pomponius of Naples
  • Pope Pius V^[42]
  • Quirinus of Neuss
  • Sarah Josepha Hale (Episcopal Church)
  • Suitbert the Younger
  • April 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Consumer Protection Day (Thailand)
• International Jazz Day (UNESCO)^[43]
• Martyrs' Day (Pakistan)
• May Eve, the eve of the first day of summer in the Northern hemisphere (see May 1):
  • Beltane begins at sunset in the Northern hemisphere, Samhain begins at sunset in the Southern hemisphere. (Neo-Druidic Wheel of the Year)
  • Carodejnice (Czech Republic and Slovakia)
  • Walpurgis Night (Central and Northern Europe)
• National Persian Gulf Day (Iran)
• Reunification Day (Vietnam)
• Rincon Day (Bonaire)^[44]
• Russian State Fire Service Day (Russia)
• Teachers' Day (Paraguay)

 

Observances

National Adopt A Shelter Pet Day

National Bubble Tea Day

National Bugs Bunny Day

National Kiss of Hope Day

National Military Brats Day

National Raisin Day

National Rebuilding Day

National Sarcoidosis Day

National Sense of Smell Day

Dianna Agron

Gal Gadot

Travis Scott

 

Fun Observances

Honesty Day

April begins with a day that celebrates falsehoods – April Fool’s Day. End it with a day that celebrates and acknowledges the importance of honesty – Honesty Day.

Celebrated annually on April 30, the day was created in the early 1990s by M. Hirsh Goldberg, the former press secretary to the state of Maryland in the United States.

Speak the Truth

Goldberg created the holiday as a way to encourage people to speak the truth and to "honor the honorable."

A Rare Quality

Famous American singer-songwriter, Billy Joel once sang that honesty is such a lonely word, suggesting that honesty is a very rare quality in all kinds of relationships - personal, professional, and social.

This unofficial holiday, also sometimes called National Honesty Day, emphasizes that honesty does not need to be a lonely word and that truthfulness can strengthen relationships and make them more productive.

How to Celebrate?

• Be truthful. Embrace truth and honesty.

Did You Know…

…that the phrase honesty is the best policy was coined by Benjamin Franklin?

 

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A customer brought her car into our Saturn dealership complaining of rattling noises. Later, the technician said the problem was no big deal.

"Just a case of CTIP:

Customer Thinks It's a Porsche."

 

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Fred comes home from his usual Saturday golf game. "What a terrible day," he tells his wife. "Harry dropped dead on the tenth tee."

"Oh, that's awful!" she says.

"You're not kidding," says Fred. "For the whole back nine, it was hit the ball, drag Harry, hit the ball, drag Harry …"

 

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An acquaintance of ours was—how do I put this delicately?—not well loved. So when he died, I was amazed to see how many people showed up for his funeral.

"I'm not surprised," said my husband. "As P. T. Barnum said, ‘Give the people what they want and they'll show up.' "

 

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