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Did you know? The 9th of April is also celebrated in the USA as Election Your Name Day. Reason enough to include this day of honour of the self-determined naming or finding of a name in the list of curious world days.
Daisy Jazz Isobel Ridley (born 10 April 1992) is an English actress. Born in Westminster and brought up in Maida Vale, Ridley trained in drama at the Tring Park School for the Performing Arts.
Shepard was born on April 11, 2154, is a graduate of the Systems Alliance N7 special forces program (service no. 5923-AC-2826), a veteran of the Skyllian Blitz, and is initially assigned to the SSV Normandy in 2183 as Executive Officer.
Vostok 1 was the first spaceflight of the Vostok programme and the first crewed spaceflight in history. The Vostok 3KA space capsule was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on April 12, 1961, with Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard, making him the first human to cross into outer space.
Happy Birthday Alfred Mosher Butts (1899 - 1993). In honor of the player inventor, the USA celebrates April 13 as its national Scrabble Day.
On the 14th of April, the calendar of curious holidays from all over the world will take a look up. To be more precise, towards heaven. Because this date stands for the US-American show-in-the-sky day.
Dolphin Day is a day dedicated to dolphins, aimed at educating people about dolphins and how they help protect the oceans.
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (born 15 April 1990) is an English actress and model. Born in Paris and brought up in Oxfordshire, Watson attended the Dragon School and trained as an actress at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts.
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (14/15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance whose areas of interest included invention, drawing, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.
Leonhard Euler (15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician and engineer who made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, such as infinitesimal calculus and graph theory, while also making pioneering contributions to several branches such as topology and analytic number theory.
April 15 is celebrated in the United States as National That Sucks Day. In this respect, the calendar day today is truly not under a good star. At least when it comes to the US-American Bruce Novotny, who founded this event in 2005.
Atlantic (1929) is a British black-and-white film, directed and produced by Ewald André Dupont and starring Franklin Dyall and Madeleine Carroll. Originally, two versions were made, the English and German-language version Atlantik were shot simultaneously. Subsequently, the production of a French version (Atlantis) began in spring 1930 using different footage and partially an altered storyline.