April 30 - Holidays and Observances

Holidays and Observances

  • Armed Forces Day (Georgia)
  • Birthday of the King Carl XVI Gustav, one of the official flag days of Sweden.
  • Last day of classes at universities in India
  • Camarón Day (French Foreign Legion)
  • Children's Day (Mexico)
  • Christian Feast Day:
    • Adjutor
    • Aimo
    • Amator, Peter and Louis
    • Blessed Miles Gerard
    • Eutropius of Saintes
    • Marie Guyart (Anglican Church of Canada)
    • Maximus of Rome
    • Pomponius of Naples
    • Quirinus of Neuss
    • Suitbert the Younger
    • Saint Pope Pius V
    • April 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • Consumer Protection Day (Thailand)
  • Earliest day on which Ascension Day can fall, while June 3 is the latest; celebrated 40 days after Easter (Christianity), and its related observances
  • International Jazz Day, organized by UNESCO, first observed in 2012, "is intended to raise awareness in the international community of the virtues of jazz as an educational tool, and a force for peace, unity, dialogue and enhanced cooperation among people."
  • May Eve, the eve of the first day of summer in the Northern hemisphere (see May 1):
    • Beltane Fire Festival (Calton Hill, Edinburgh)
    • Carodejnice (Czech Republic and Slovakia)
    • Beltane begins at sunset in the Northern hemisphere (Celtic Druidic holiday)
    • Samhain begins at sunset in the Southern hemisphere (Celtic Druidic holiday)
    • Walpurgis Night (Central and Northern Europe)
  • National Persian Gulf Day (Iran)
  • Queen's Day (Netherlands, Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten)
  • Reunification Day (Vietnam)
  • Teacher's Day (Paraguay)

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