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Worldwide Holidays or Events for April 2012

1st April

April Fool's Day - Poisson d'Avril.

National Day: San Marino.

Republic Day: Iran.

2nd April

Malvinas Day: Argentina.

4th April

Liberation Day (1945): Hungary.

Memorial Day of Chiang Kai-shek: Taiwan.

National Day: Senegal.

5th April

Arbor Day: South Korea.

6th April

Good Friday.

Chakri Day: Thailand.

Uprising Day: Sudan.

7th April

Women's Day: Mozambique.

8th April

Easter Sunday (Western)

9th April

Martyr's Day: Tunisia.

11th April

Heroes' Day: Costa Rica.

Liberation Day: Uganda.

13th April

Songkran: Thailand.

National Day: Chad.

14th April

Fast and Prayer Day: Liberia.

Pan American Day: Honduras.

Thingyan: Myanmar.

15th April

Easter Sunday (Eastern)

National Day: Niger.

16th April

Independence Day: Cyprus.

New Year's Day: Myanmar.

17th April

Independence Day: Cambodia.

National Day: Syria.

18th April

Independence Day: Zimbabwe.

19th April

Independence Day: Venezuela.

King's Birthday: Swaziland.

Patriots' Day: Uruguay.

Republic Day: Sierra Leone.

21st April

The Queen's Birthday: United Kingdom.

Tiradentes: Brazil.

22nd April

Earth Day.

23rd April

National Sovereignty: Turkey.

St. George's Day: England.

24th April

 Easter

25th April

Anzac Day: Australia, New Zealand.

Liberation Day: Italy, Portugal.

National Flag Day: Swaziland.

Sinai Liberation Day: Egypt.

26th April

Union Day: Tanzania.

27th April

Independence Day: Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Togo.

30th April

Fall of Saigon: United States of America.

Independence Day: Israel.

Queen's Birthday: Netherlands.

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