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April Fool's Day or All Fools' Day in many countries
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2nd |
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4th |
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Hong Kong - Children's Day
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5th |
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China - Qingming Festival
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South Korea - Arbor Day and Hansik
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6th |
Thailand - Chakri Day, commemorating the reign of the Chakri Dynasty.
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North America - Tartan Day, celebrates Scottish heritage, informally known as "Scots Day".
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7th |
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9th |
Philippines - Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valor, celebrated as Bataan Day in Bataan)
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11th |
Costa Rica - Juan Santamaría Day, anniversary of his death in the Battle of Rivas
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13th |
Thailand, Cambodia - First day of Songkran, Thai/Cambodian New Year.
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Sri Lanka - First day of Sinhala/Hindu new year
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14th |
South and Southeast Asia (Namely by Bengalis, Burmese, Cambodians, Laotians, Malayalees, Punjabis, Sinhalese, Tamils and Thais.) -Astrological New Year
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Georgia - Day of the Georgian language
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15th |
Hawai'i - Father Damien Day — celebrated annually.
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India - Baisakhi, Pôhela Boishakh, Rongali Bihu
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North Korea - Arirang Festival held to commemorate Kim Il-sung's birth.
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17th |
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18th |
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Zimbabwe – Independence Day
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19th |
Venezuela - Independence Day
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20th |
Bahá'í Faith - Ridván begins at sunset
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22nd |
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23rd |
Catalonia - Lover's Day. Men and women receive a book and rose as gifts from their romantic interest. The book is in honor of Shakespeare's and Cervantes's death on April 23, 1616.
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Turkey - National Sovereignty and Children's Day
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Germany - National Beer Day
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24th |
Armania - Genocide Remembrance Day.
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Australia - Kapyong Day a day of remembrance for Korean War veterans, named after the Battle of Kapyong in 1951
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25th |
Australia, New Zealand - ANZAC Day
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Faroe Islands - National Flag Day.
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Italy - Festa della Liberazione
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Portugal - Carnation Revolution in commemoration to the end of the fascist dictatorship (National holiday).
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Jamaica - Rastafari, Celebration of Haile Selassie's visit to Jamaica.
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Swaziland - National Flag Day.
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26th |
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27th |
Catalonia - Montserrat's Day.
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Sierra Leone - Republic Day.
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Slovenia -: Day of Uprising Against Occupation.
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South Africa -: Freedom day.
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28th |
Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Jamál (Beauty)
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Barbados - National Heroes Day
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29th |
Japan - The Emperor's Birthday, traditionally the start of the Golden Week
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30th |
Central and western Europe - Walpurgis Night
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Sweden - Birthday of King Carl XVI Gustav, an official flag day.
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The Netherlands - Queen's Day, the largest one-day holiday in the Netherlands.
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Celtic - Bealtaine Eve (From either Irish Bealtaine or Scottish Gaelic)
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Vietnam - Liberation Day.
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Czech Republic and Slovakia - Carodejnice - witches' night
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