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World Health Day

Commemoration of a person or event

Fixed Gregorian date, 7 April, every year.

Marks the founding of the World Health Organization, dated from the First World Health Assembly in 1948, observed each year from 1950.

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7 AprilA. V. Dicey, died 1922

7 AprilCarl Schmitt, died 1985

7 AprilDarian Pavli, born 1975

7 AprilGeorge Arney, died 1883

7 AprilHozumi Nobushige, died 1926

7 AprilIsidore of Seville, died 636

7 AprilKarl Binding, died 1920

7 AprilMuhammad Hatta Ali, born 1950

7 AprilWallace Nesbitt, died 1930

8 AprilEquality Act 2010, Enacted Date 2010

8 AprilGrant Gilmore, born 1910

8 AprilHowell Edmunds Jackson, born 1832

8 AprilIbn al-Mulaqqin, born 1323

8 AprilKirill Gevorgian, born 1953

8 AprilLon L. Fuller, died 1978

8 AprilSupreme Court of Canada, founded 1875

9 AprilChristian Wolff, died 1754

9 AprilCivil Rights Act of 1866, Enacted Date 1866

9 AprilJames F. Byrnes, died 1972

9 AprilMarcel Lihau, died 1999

9 AprilSherman Minton, died 1965

9 AprilStephen Johnson Field, died 1899

9 AprilUnited States District Court for the Southern District of New York, founded 1814

9 AprilWolfgang Schomburg, born 1948

10 AprilDonal O'Donnell, born 1958

10 AprilFrancesco Ruffini, born 1863

10 AprilGlanville Williams, died 1997

10 AprilHugo Grotius, born 1583

10 AprilRayner Goddard, Baron Goddard, born 1877

10 AprilSelahattin Demirtaş, born 1973

10 AprilTheresia Degener, born 1961

11 AprilCarl Friedrich von Gerber, born 1823

11 AprilCharles Evans Hughes, born 1862

11 AprilCivil Rights Act of 1968, Enacted Date 1968

11 AprilRebeca Raquel Obando, born 1954

11 AprilSunarto, born 1959

11 AprilYong Pung How, born 1926

12 AprilIndian Act, Enacted Date 1876

12 AprilJohn Norton Pomeroy, born 1828

13 AprilBashir Jehangiri, died 2020

13 AprilBertram of Metz, died 1212

13 AprilConrad of Gelnhausen, died 1390

13 AprilDavid Dudley Field II, died 1894

13 AprilFrank Murphy, born 1890

13 AprilManley O. Hudson, died 1960

13 AprilMax Gluckman, died 1975

13 AprilMuhammad Shahabuddin, died 1971

13 AprilOswald Smith Crocket, born 1868

13 AprilUmara al-Yamani, died 1174

13 AprilVivien Rose, born 1960

Dates for the Hebrew and Islamic calendars are the tabular reckoning, which is what a printed calendar prints. Communities that begin a month on a sighted crescent may differ by a day, and differ from one another by place.