{"id":33,"date":"2019-09-22T09:54:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T09:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justgottabe.org\/Humanist-Calendar\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2020-08-02T15:52:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T15:52:47","slug":"april","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/justgottabe.org\/humanist-calendar\/april\/","title":{"rendered":"April"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Birthdays:<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.acgrayling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AC Grayling<\/a>&nbsp;(3rd, 1949),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.samharris.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sam Harris<\/a>&nbsp;(9th, 1967),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/christopher-hitchens--20845987\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chirstopher Hitchens<\/a>&nbsp;(13th, 1949; d. 2011),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Madalyn_Murray_O%27Hair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Madalyn Murray O\u2019Hair&nbsp;<\/a>(13th, 1919; d. 1995)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Founding Days:<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/americanhumanist.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">American Humanist Association&nbsp;<\/a>(1st, 1941);&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ffrf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Freedom From Religion Foundation&nbsp;<\/a>(incorporated nationally on April 15, 1976)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Ask An Atheist Day<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Initiated by the national Secular Student Alliance organization, AaA Day is intended to invite respectful conversation to build bridges across faith-related differences.&nbsp; Learn more:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/secularstudents.org\/AaAday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">secularstudents.org\/AaAday<\/a><\/li><li><strong>World Autism Awareness Day<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Every year, autism organizations around the world celebrate the day with unique fundraising and&nbsp;awareness-raising events.&nbsp; Learn more:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/every%20year%2C%20autism%20organizations%20around%20the%20world%20celebrate%20the%20day%20with%20unique%20fundraising%20and%20awareness-raising%20events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AutismSpeaks.org<\/a><\/li><li><strong>Yuri\u2019s Night or Cosmonaut\u2019s Day<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 April 12th, 1981, was the launch of the first Space Shuttle.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>\u201cCircling the Earth in my orbital spaceship I marveled at the beauty of our planet. People of the world, let us safeguard and enhance this beauty \u2014 not destroy it!\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/yurisnight.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Yuri Gagarin<\/a>, 1<sup>st<\/sup>&nbsp;human in space.<\/li><li><strong>Earth Day<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 held every year on April 22nd.<\/li><li><strong>Arbor Day<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;an annual observance that celebrates the role of trees in<br>our lives and promotes tree planting and care. It is celebrated on the last Friday in April, although some states use alternate dates based on the best weather for planting trees.<\/li><li><strong>Astronomy Day<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;In 2018, the dates are April 21st and October 13th.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.astroleague.org\/al\/astroday\/astrodayform.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Astronomy Day<\/a>&nbsp;is a world-wide event observed each spring and fall.&nbsp;The&nbsp;lunar&nbsp;influence on the schedule means that the events happen on a different date each year, rather than set calendar dates.<\/li><li><strong>DNA Day<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Celebrated on April 25. It commemorates the day in 1953 when James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin and colleagues published papers in the journal Nature on the structure of DNA. It commemorates the completion of the Human Genome Project in April 2003, and the discovery of DNA\u2019s double helix in 1953. Learn more at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.genome.gov\/10506367\/national-dna-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Genome.gov<\/a><\/li><li><strong>Pay it Forward Day<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 An international effort (and data collection) engaging all people, from all walks of life,&nbsp; to give to someone else and make a positive difference. Learn more:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/payitforwardday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PayItForward.com<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birthdays:&nbsp;AC Grayling&nbsp;(3rd, 1949),&nbsp;Sam Harris&nbsp;(9th, 1967),&nbsp;Chirstopher Hitchens&nbsp;(13th, 1949; d. 2011),&nbsp;Madalyn Murray O\u2019Hair&nbsp;(13th, 1919; d. 1995) Founding Days:&nbsp;&nbsp;American Humanist Association&nbsp;(1st, 1941);&nbsp;Freedom From&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justgottabe.org\/humanist-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justgottabe.org\/humanist-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justgottabe.org\/humanist-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justgottabe.org\/humanist-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justgottabe.org\/humanist-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/justgottabe.org\/humanist-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/justgottabe.org\/humanist-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justgottabe.org\/humanist-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justgottabe.org\/humanist-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}