April 22 Jelly Bean Day

Jelly Bean Day is celebrated on April 22. Almost everyone loves a jelly bean. Jelly beans are now an everyday treat and there’s no better time to celebrate them than Jelly Bean Day. Popular during Easter and Halloween, jelly bean candies come in a variety of flavors and colors. No-one knows for sure how, when or why Jelly Bean Day began and the origins of the beans themselves are equally mysterious.

Most jelly beans are sold as an assortment of around eight different flavors, most of them fruit based. Assortments of "spiced" jellybeans and gumdrops are also available, which include a similar number of spice and mint flavors. The colors of jelly beans often correspond with a fruit and a "spiced" flavor. 

April 21 Kindergarten Day

Kindergarten Day takes place on April 21 every year. Kindergarten Day celebrates birthday of Friedrich Froebe who was born in 1782 and started the first kindergarten in 1837, in Germany. The day celebrates the preschool educational institution for children and honors the creator of the concept of the “kindergarten”.

Despite being popular in Germany, the Prussian government outlawed the schools in 1851. Froebe died a year later and it wasn’t until 1860 that the Prussians relented and allowed the schools to continue. 1873 saw the first public kindergarten opened in the United States, in St Louis.

The term kindergarden is used around the world to describe a variety of different institutions that have been developed for children ranging from the ages of two to seven, depending on the country concerned. Many of the activities developed by Fröbel are also used around the world under other names.

April 21 High Five Day – Third Thursday in April

Each year on the third Thursday in April 21, College students at the University of Virginia, Conor Lastowka (San Diego, CA), Sam Miotke (Corvallis, OR) and Wynn Walent (New York, NY) together created National High Five Day, an unofficial national holiday.

High Five Day aims to promote awareness of cancer, and the effects that it has on all of us. Two in five people are likely to be diagnosed with some form of the disease during their lifetime, and their stories touch and impact everybody in their lives. 

April 19 Amaretto Day

April 19, 2016 is Amaretto Day observed every year. Amaretto in Italian means “a little bitter” and is made from bitter almonds or apricot kernels or both. Its most notable characteristic is its strong almond flavoring. This flavor comes from apricot kernel oil, burnt sugar, and spices. The name "amaretto" means "slightly bitter" and refers to the aftertaste of the drink.

It appearing for sale in advertisements in the United States in the late 1940s.

Another amaretto tale comes from the same area of Italy but is of a young Lazzaroni couple blessed by the Cardinal of Milan in 1718. The couple honored his visit with a special recipe of their own, producing an amaretto cookie like no other. This one came in a bottle. Their recipe was also a closely guarded family secret for generations.

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April 19 Garlic Day

Native to central Asia, garlic has a lengthy history dating back 6,000 years. Long a staple of Mediterranean diets, garlic was a commonly used seasoning in the cuisines of Africa, Asia and Europe. China is currently the world’s biggest producer of garlic followed by India, South Korea, Egypt and Russia.

Garlic is known for causing bad breath (halitosis), as well as causing sweat to have a pungent "garlicky" smell.

Garlic has been used as both food and medicine in many cultures for thousands of years, dating at least as far back as when the Giza pyramids were built. Garlic is claimed to help prevent heart disease and cancer. Animal studies, and some early research studies in humans, have suggested possible cardiovascular benefits of garlic.

10 Benefits of Garlic You Probably Didn't Know 

April 18 Animal Crackers Day

Animal Crackers Day is observed on April 18. Animal Crackers refer to a type of small cookie baked in the shape of circus or zoo animals, such as a lion, tiger, bear or elephant. The most common variety are light-colored and slightly sweet. However, chocolate and frosted varieties are also available. Even though animal crackers are made with layered dough much like crackers, they are sweet like cookies.

Animal-shaped crackers were first brought to the United States during the late 1800’s. In 1902 animal crackers officially became known as “Barnum’s Animals” and evoked the familiar circus theme of the Barnum and Bailey Circus. in 1903, there have been 37 different animals included in Barnum's Animal Crackers.

April 17 recognizes the food holiday Cheeseball Day.

There are two ways a cheeseball can be served:

Crunchy and bright cheese puffs in the shape of balls will turn your fingers orange. This snack is similar to the cheese doodles. It is manufactured by extruding heated corn dough through a form of particular shape.

The other version of cheeseball is what you make for parties as an appetizer. This is a soft cheese spread in a shape of ball, served with crackers.

Traditional cheese ball appetizers can include different ingredients, like cheddar cheese, cream cheese, pepper, garlic, salt, nuts. Gourmet versions of cheeseballs call for blue cheese, sherry, pineapple, olives and even smoked salmon. 

April 17 Haiku Poetry Day

Observed annually on April 17, Haiku Poetry Day encourages all to try their hand in creativity. Haiku poetry is a form of Japanese poetry that is non-rhyming and normally consists of 3 lines with a syllable pattern of 5-7-5. First popularized in Japan in the 17th century, Haiku as a poetry genre has been adopted by many languages around the world. In English, the genre first became mainstream in the early 20th century.

English haiku does not always follow the strict syllable count found in Japanese haiku. The typical length of haiku found in English language journals is 10-14 syllables, versus the 5-7-5 syllables used in the Japanese language.

To craft a perfect Haiku, you need to include an element of seasonality, and a ‘cut’ (either a word or through punctuation) to create a comparison between the themes and content of the haiku.

Im gujrati so I learn haiku in school days.

વર્ષાને કહી દો, માપથી વરસે,

નયનને વહેવાની આદત નથી.. – આરતી પરીખ

April 16 Eggs Benedict Day

Eggs Benedict Day is celebrated annually on April 16, an excuse to have a tasty treat. Everybody has their own versions, variations and favorites which change and swap out pretty much all of the components, from using bread instead of muffins, to cheese instead of sauce, or adding extra ingredients such as paprika.

There are two different stories as to how Eggs Benedict came to be.

In 1894 stock broker Lemuel Benedict ordered “buttered toast, poached eggs, crisp bacon, and a side of Hollandaise” at the Waldorf Hotel. They were so impressed with the dish that they put it on the menu substituting ham and English muffins in place of the bacon and toast.

Another account comes from a man named Edward P. Montgomery. In 1967 he wrote a letter to The New York Times Magazine claiming that he'd discovered the true inventor of Eggs Benedict. Montgomery’s note contained a recipe created by Commodore E.C. Benedict before his death in 1920. Montgomery received the recipe from his mother who was an acquaintance of the Commodore.

Regardless of where the recipe for Eggs Benedict originated, it is now considered a classic. Enjoy this delicious dish for breakfast, lunch, or dinner today to celebrate Eggs Benedict Day.

Eggs Benedict

April 16 Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day

Each year on April 16th people observed Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day

What some people are calling “the best holiday of the year,” Relax the dress code and work in comfort on Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day. This day was created as a fun holiday. It is a day to celebrate and unwind from the long hours and hard work of those whose job is to prepare taxes and the anxiety of the last minute tax filers. National Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day allows you to sleep in a little later than you normally would. Once you get up, you do not have to take the time getting dressed as you are already dressed for your day.

PJs started to gain acceptance in the Western world by the late 1800s. Since then, jammies have been transformed into the sleepwear garments that we know and love today. Pajams, payjamas or jammies is a loose piece of clothing, not unlike pants, worn on the lower part of a person's body. While most people wear them to bed, they were once and still are part of a normal outfit worn by men and women during the day in many parts of the Middle East and South Asia. 

April 15 Glazed Spiral Ham Day

April 15 is Glazed Spiral Ham Day Celebrated every year. Glazed ham is a common dish for Christmas and Thanksgiving. There is no prohibits using ham for any other day, especially on today, on April 15, to honor the best savory and hearty dish.

Glazed ham appeared in the USA during the 1940s, when a recipe of this dish was printed in one local newspaper. Harry J. Hoenselaar of Detroit, Michigan, invented in his basement a tool that allowed slicing glazed ham in spiral in 1957. Honeselaar opened the first Honey Baked Ham store. Today, the company has over 400 stores nationwide and sells millions of glazed spiral hams during the holiday season.

Original recipes call for sugar and honey or orange juice. A traditional ham glaze contains sugar, honey or orange juice, and flavorful ingredients like cloves, mustard, and Worcestershire sauce. But you can also try any other glaze with mustard, fruit juice, maple syrup or ginger. 

April 15 Rubber Eraser Day

 

 

Observed annually on April 15 is National Rubber Eraser Day. This day celebrates, recognizes and appreciates the invention of erasers. Typical erasers are made from synthetic rubber, but more expensive or specialized erasers are vinyl, plastic, or gum-like materials.

April 15, 1770, Joseph Priestly founded a vegetable gum to remove pencil marks. He dubbed the substance “rubber”.
1770 Edward Nairne developed the first marketed rubber eraser.
1839 Charles Goodyear discovered vulcanization (a method that would cure rubber and make it a durable material) this method made rubber erasers standard.
1858 Hyman Lipman (Philadelphia, Pa.) patented the pencil with an eraser at the end. 

 

 

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April 14 Dolphin Day

Each year on April 14th, people participate in Dolphin Day. Dolphin Day is perhaps one of the most well-known unofficial holidays of the world.

Dolphins are cetacean mammals that are related to whales and porpoises.

Ranging is size from 4 ft to up to 30 feet;

dolphins are among almost forty species in 17 genera.

Found worldwide, they prefer the shallower seas of the continental shelves.

As carnivores, their diet consists of mostly fish and squid.

 Male dolphin – bull

Female dolphin – cow

Young dolphin – calf

Group of dolphins – school or pod

Dolphins are known to have acute eyesight both in and out of the water along with having a well-developed sense of touch, with free nerve endings densely packed in the skin. They can hear frequencies ten times or more above the upper limit of what adult humans can and are capable of making a broad range of sounds using nasal air sacs located just below the blowhole.

You will see the dolphins frequently leaping above the water’s surface. They do this for various reasons; when traveling, jumping saves them energy as there is less friction while in the air, this is known as proposing. Some other explanations for leaping include orientation, social display, fighting, non-verbal communication, entertainment and attempting to dislodge parasites.