Culture Calendar

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1. ●.This is April Fool’s Day,or All Fools’ Day, which is celebrated in many countries. The day is marked by
practical jokes on friends and neighbours, such as pinning a paper fish to the back of someone’s
clothing, but in England you can only play the jokes before midday.


●.English physicisian and discoverer of the circulation of the blood, WilliamHarvey, was born in 1578.


●In Canada, the creation of the autonomus territory of Nunavut for the Inuit people was implemented in
1999.


2. ●. Frankish king and Christian Emperor of the West Charlemagne was born in 742.


●. On this day in 1513, the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León discovered Florida.

●.Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen was born in 1805. Heis most famous for his fairy tales, which
include The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Ducklin and The Princess and the Pea.

3. ●.US actor Marlon Brando was born in 1924.Best known for his film The Godfather.

●.Two British planes made aviation history by being the first to fly over the peak of Mt Everest in the
Himalayas, in 1933.

●.English writerGraham Greene died in 1991.He wrote The Quiet American and The Human Factor.

4. ●.In 1932, vitamin C was first isolated.


●.The US Black civil rights leader Martin Luther King , Jr was assassinated on this day in 1968 in
Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to have led a sanitation workers’protest.


●.The première of the film 2001:A Space Odyssey, directed by StanleyKubrick, was held in 1968.

5. ●.US actor Gregoy Peck was born in 1916. His best-known film is To Kill a Mockingbird.


●. In 1955, Sir Winston Churchill, who was then 81 and in failing health, resigned as Prime Minister. This
had been his second premiership of the UK., beginning in 1951; his first had covered the war years, from
1940 to 1945.


6. ●.The first modern OlympicGames opened in Athens, Greece, in 1896.


●.The film Ben Hur won a record-breaking eleven Oscars, in 1960.

7. ● World Health Day is celebrated on this day every year under the sponsorship of the World Health
Organisation. The day is celebrated to create “awareness of a specific health theme and the activities-
related to that particular theme”-continue for thefollowing year. World Health Day themes in recent years
were: Road safety (2004), Make every mother and child count (2005), Working together for health
(2006), Invest in health, build a safer future(2007). For 2011 is To Antibiotic resistance: No action today, no cure tomorrow. Balanced use is the best medicine. The topic of World Health Day in 2012 is Ageing and healthwith the theme "Good health adds life to years". The focus is how good health throughout life can help older men and women lead full and productive lives and be a resource for their families and communities. Ageing concerns each and every one of us – whether young or old, male or female, rich or poor – no matter where we live.



●.Spanish Jesuit missionary St. Francis Xavier was born in1506.He was the founder of the Company of
Jesus.


●.The first matches were sold by English inventor and chemist John Walker, from his shop on Stockton-on
Tees, to a local solicitor who paid him one shilling for 100, in 1827.


8. ●.This day is considered by many Buddhist as Buddha’s birthday, although the exact date is uncertain.
The founder of Buddhism wasborn in what now is Nepal probably around 563 BC.


●.US inventor of the elevator Elisha Graves Otis died in 1861.

9. ●.Don Vicente Sos Baynat (1895-1992) was appointed vice-president of the 1st Spanish Congress of Geology. The Congress was held in Segovia from 9th to 14th of April, 1984.


● The US Civil Rights Bill of 1866 was passed, allowing black people the rights...