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April 2025 Literary Calendar

Events in the month of April for writers and readers

Arab-American Heritage Month

Child Abuse Awareness Month

Dog Appreciation Month

Earth Month

Genocide Awareness Month

Global Astronomy Month

International Guitar Month

Mathematics & Statistics Awareness Month

National Alcohol Awareness Month (U.S.)

National Card & Letter Writing Month (U.S.)

National Fair Housing Month (U.S.)

National Humor Month (U.S.)

National Poetry Month (U.S.)

School Library Month (U.S.)

Famous April Birthdays

Other April Events

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Happy New Year 2024!

“May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.”

Joey Adams

“New Year’s resolution: to tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.”

James Agate

“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on.”

Hal Borland

“‘Out with the old, in with the new’ is a fitting expression for a holiday that is based on vomiting.”

Andy Borowitz

“Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let’s just wish each other a bile-less new year and leave it at that.”

Judith Christ

“I would say, ‘Happy New Year,’ but it’s not happy; it’s exactly the same as last year except colder.”

Robert Clark

“If you want an interesting party, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.”

Robert Fulghum

“He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; he who makes one is a fool.”

Farquhar McGillivray Knowles

“I made no resolutions for the new year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.”

Anaïs Nin

“The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.”

P.J. O’Rourke

“Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.”

Brad Paisley

“Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.”

William Shakespeare

“It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets.”

William Thomas

“New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.”

Mark Twain

“My New Year’s resolution list usually starts with the desire to lose between 10 and 3,000 pounds.”

Nia Vardalos

“Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.”

Bill Vaughan

“Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.”

Barbara Walters

“This New Year’s, I was going to make a resolution never to be late again, but I didn’t wake up until January 2.”

Melanie White

“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”

Oscar Wilde

“Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.”

Eric Zorn

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April 2022 Literary Calendar

Events in the month of April for writers and readers

D.E.A.R. (Drop Everything and Read) Month

National Poetry Month

School Library Month

  • 1 – Reading is Funny Day
  • 2 – International Children’s Book Day
  • 2 – National Children’s Picture Book Day
  • 2 – Hans Christian Anderson’s birthday
  • 3-9 – National Library Week
  • 4 – National School Librarian Day
  • 4 – Maya Angelou’s birthday
  • 5 – National Library Worker’s Day
  • 6 – National Library Outreach Day (formerly National Bookmobile Day)
  • 7 – Take Action for Libraries Day
  • 9 – National Unicorn Day
  • 12 – Drop Everything and Read (D.E.A.R.) Day
  • 12 – Beverly Cleary’s birthday
  • 13 – Scrabble Day
  • 14 – Celebrate Teen Literature Day
  • 15 – Rubber Eraser Day
  • 15 – World Art Day
  • 16 – National Librarian Day
  • 17 – International Haiku Poetry Day
  • 18 – Newspaper Columnists Day
  • 23 – William Shakespeare’s birthday
  • 23 – World Book and Copyright Day
  • 23 – World Book Night
  • 24 – U.S. Congress approved the Library of Congress
  • 27 – National Tell A Story Day
  • 28 – Harper Lee’s birthday
  • 28 – Great Poetry Reading Day
  • 30 – Independent Bookstore Day

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Photos of the Week – December 12, 2020

This week COVID-19 vaccinations began in Great Britain.  Margaret Keenan, 90, became the first person to receive the new vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech at Guy’s Hospital in London.  These are just a handful of photos taken during this unprecedented event.

The first man to receive a vaccine in the UK was an Englishman named William Shakespeare.

A woman with the first of two COVID-19 vaccine shots administered at Guy’s Hospital in London. Victoria Jones/Pool via AP

The deputy charge nurse Katie McIntosh waiting to administer the first of two vaccine shots to workers at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland, on Tuesday. Andrew Milligan – Pool / Getty Images

Syringes in a tray at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh containing the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech. Andrew Milligan – Pool / Getty Images

Nurse Katie McIntosh administering an injection of Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine to the clinical nurse manager Fiona Churchill at the Western General Hospital. Andrew Milligan/Pool via AP

A box of vials of Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine concentrate being transported from storage ready for use at Guy’s Hospital in London. Victoria Jones/Pool via Reuters

Josephine Faleye, 80, with senior nurse Dilhani Somaweera at the Royal Free Hospital in London. Jack Hill – Pool / Getty Images

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