This is our day guide for Friday April 3rd 2015 which shows you at a glance what's happening on this day around the world. Using the calendar on this page, you can look at a day guide for any day. Why not look up your birthday to see which holidays you share it with?
Holidays on April 3rd 2015
International: Good Friday
Good Friday occurs on the Friday before Easter. The day commemorates the Crucifixion of Jesus.
Sri Lanka: Bak Full Moon Poya
Celebrates Buddha's second visit to Sri Lanka to make peace between two warring local chiefs, who were also uncle and nephew
Taiwan: Children's Day Holiday (in lieu)
Children's Day was declared a non-working public holiday by the Legislative Yuan in May 1990| Choose a Day |
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| General Information for April 3rd 2015 | |
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| There are 3 public holidays today. | |
| Day 93 of 2015 | |
| 272 days left in 2015 | |
| Week 14 of the year | |
| On this Day in History | |
| 1930 - Former German chancellor Helmut Kohl is born. | |
| 1912 - Calbraith Perry Rogers is the first casualty from a bird strike, when he flews his Wright Flyer into a flock of seagulls during an air show in Long Beach and crashes into the sea. | |
| 1895 - The trial of a libel case instigated by the playwright Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality. | |
| 1883 - The trial begins of Alfred Packer - the 'Colorado Cannibal' - for the murder of Israel Swan. |
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