Guest Author - Meg Grooms

Apr. 8
Buddha’s Birthday (Buddhist). Celebrated by Buddhists in Japan, Korea and the United States.

Apr. 13
Baisakhi or Vaisakhi (Brotherhood), Sikh. A New Year celebration and important commemoration, because on this day 400 years ago Guru Bogind Singh rejected the Indian caste system and formed Khalsa, the Sikh Brotherhood (same date every year)

Apr. 13
Gudipadia (Hindu). Beginning of the Hindu New Year. Also called Yugadi or Ugadi.


Apr. 21
Ramavani (Birth of Ram), (Hindu). Birth of Ram, incarnation of Vishnu (The Preserver) in Hinduism. Also called Navami.

Apr. 21
Feast of Ridván (Bahá’i). Anniversary of Baha’ullah’s Declaration in Baghdad. In this special 12-day period, the first, ninth and twelfth days are Holy Days in which Bahá’i’s do not do work.

Apr. 22
Earth Day

Apr. 29
Ninth Day of Ridván (Bahá’i). See April 21.

Apr. 29
Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day (Jewish). Begins at sunset, ends at sunset Apr. 30. To commemorate the six million Jews killed by Nazis during World War II (1933-45).