Finally! A Reason to Celebrate April 19th!
Posted on April 19th, 2008 in General by kende ||
In fact, there’s more than one… First off, at least this year, we have the start of Passover. While that alone would be plenty good for most days’ claim to holiday fame, 4.19 isn’t content to leave it at that. No, this day is ambitious. A young upward mover. A from the bootstraps striver… Ok, I’m getting too into this. I blame Coming Anarchy. See, it turns out today is also Primrose Day:
Today is Primrose Day in the United Kingdom, an uncelebrated memorial day marking the death of former Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, Britain’s only Jewish head of government…
But that’s not all… 4.19 is also Patriots Day:
Patriots Day may be the least known American holiday, and the day most deserving of our recognition. Observed in Massachusetts and Maine only. Don’t know it? It marks the day, April 19, 1775, on which Americans took up arms against their king, and bled, at the crack of terrible dawn.
And of course, for a certain group of people, the most important holiday of all those marked today is the widely celebrated (if accompanied by a slight whiff of illegality) 420-eve.