70 Amazing Facts About April

70 Amazing Facts About April

• April is named for the Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite.
• America’s first astronauts were announced by NASA on April 9, 1959.
• The first Webster Dictionary was copyrighted by Noah Webster on April 14, 1828.
• The Titanic sank on April 15, 1912.
• The Revolutionary War in America began on April 19, 1775.
• The United States Library of Congress was established April 24, 1800.
• Our first President George Washington was inaugurated on April 30, 1789.
• We know it is the fourth month of the year, but that’s only by the Gregorian calendar that we adhere to now. It was previously the fifth month in the earlier Julian calendar.
• April also only had 29 days, but a 30th day was added when Julius Caesar established the Julian calendar.
• In the Southern Hemisphere, April is the seasonal equivalent to October.
• In some parts of the world, it is planting time, while in other parts, it is the harvest season.
• April is Humor Month, so laugh it up!
• The birthstone for April is the diamond.
• The zodiac signs are Aries (March 21 – April 19) and Taurus (April 20-May 20).
• The birth flowers for the month of April are the sweet pea and the daisy.
• There are two zodiac signs in April. Aries, which is until April 19th, and Taurus, which is April 20th and onwards.
• The name for the month of April originally came for Aprilis which means to open.
• Small animals that hibernate are usually coming out of their burrows in April. The birds fly back northward and settle down to have their families. The bees and butterflies begin to gather nectar from the first flowers of the season.
• The first day of April is April Fools Day, when children and grown-ups play jokes on one another.
• April 22 is Earth Day.
• April 2 is Light It Up Blue for Autism Day and the whole month is Autism Awareness Month.
• Arbor Day is a day for planting trees, and it is observed on various April days.
• The Jewish festival of Pescah, or Passover, is celebrated early in April.
• Easter is almost always in April, and, with it comes other Christian celebrations such as Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, and Good Friday.
• April is a great month for meteor showers. One of which is the Lyrids meteor shower, which appears from April 16th to April 26th each year. There’s another one called the Eta Aquariids meteor shower that can be seen onwards from April 21st.
• There are quite a few notable historical people born in April, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Shakespeare, and Queen Elizabeth II.
• The smaller animals that hibernate for the winter in the Northern Hemisphere usually start coming out of their burrows in April.
• April is also the month that the birds migrate north and settle down for the summer to mate.
• For all the car enthusiasts out there, Ford unveiled their first Mustang on April 17, 1964, costing $2,368.
• The first battle of the Revolutionary War, Lexington, and Concord broke out on April 19, 1775.
• As you can see, there’s more to April than just April Fool’s Day, although that is definitely one of the most fun days of the month!
• April was the second month in an early Roman calendar, but became the fourth when the ancient Romans started using January as the first month.
• April is also the month of the Thai New Year in Thailand and the Khmer New Year in Cambodia.
• No one is sure how the month ended up with its name, but we do know the Romans named it “Aprillis.”
• The etymology behind the word “April” comes from the verb “aperire,” which means “to open.” It’s commonly believed that the word refers to the season of trees and flowers begin to “open” or bloom.
• Those who were born in April have a diamond as their birthstone, which represents innocence. Their birth flower is either a Daisy or a Sweet Pea.
• On April 15, 1912, the famous Titanic ship hit an iceberg and sunk on her first and only voyage.
• George Washington was inaugurated as the First President of the United States on April 30, 1789.
• Back in the time of the Ancient Romans, April was sacred to the goddess Venus.
• Of course, one of the most well-known dates of April, is April Fools’ Day on the 1st of the month. No one is sure where this originated from, but some believe it to be inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer’s story in “Canterbury Tales” called “Nun’s Priest’s Tale.”
• On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13 was launched and ran into difficulties about two days later. It was then that the famous line “Houston, we’ve had a problem here” was said, and is today usually misquoted.
• After a 1,500 year break, the first Olympics of the modern era took place on April 6, 1896, in Athens.
• The explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine occurred on April 26, 1986, which forced everyone within a 300-mile radius to be evacuated.

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