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Sunday 12 April 2026

What the atlas records for this date, across the traditions it covers.

The atlas records no observance on this date. That is not the same as nothing being observed: many of its holidays follow calendars whose rules have not been written down here yet.

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17 AprilLochner v. New York, Decision Date 1905
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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.