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Holy days and haunting songs.
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APRIL
1 April Fools' Day or All
Fools' Day; the sun should now be near the maximum in its
roughly 11-year cycle of sunspots and other activity - so
in this month after the equinox (when the active latitudes
of the sun are pointed more directly toward Earth) look for
possible great displays of the Northern Lights, maybe even
visible to the southernmost United States; watch the west
at dusk and in early evening this month and next to see
marvelous patterns of the planets Jupiter, Saturn and Mars.
2 Daylight Saving Time begins at 2:00 A.M. - set clocks
ahead one hour ("spring forward" in spring); Pascua Florida
Day; International Children's Book Day (on birthday of Hans
Christian Andersen).
3 Super Tornado Outbreak of 1974: 148 tornadoes in 13
states, 330 deaths and 5,484 injuries (worst hit were
Alabama, Tennessee and Ohio); Washington Irving born, 1783;
Pony Express began, 1860.
4 NEW MOON, 2:12 P.M. EDT; NATO established, 1949.
5 Mars at its closest to Jupiter (only about 1° - less
than the width of your little finger at arm's length -
separates slightly ruddy Mars from far brighter Jupiter
this evening and tomorrow evening), with moon not far away
and Saturn to upper left.
6 Islamic New Year (start of year A.H. 1421) begins at
previous days sunset if crescent moon is seen (this New
Year moves back in civil calendar an average of 11 days
each year); moon near Saturn, with Jupiter and Mars to
lower right; Robert Peary becomes first to reach North
Pole, 1909.
8 Astronomy Day; Japanese celebration of Buddha's birth.
9 Appomattox Day: Lee surrenders to Grant to end Civil War
in 1865.
10 American SPCA incorporated, 1866.
11 FIRST QUARTER MOON, 9:;30 A.M. EDT; Mars appears about
equally distant from Jupiter and Saturn.
12 Highest wind gust ever directly measured by an
anemometer: 231 mph at Mount Washington in New Hampshire
this day in 1934; Fort Sumter in South Carolina attacked,
starting Civil War, 1861.
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