NIH Diversity Calendar - April 2023

April: Celebrate Diversity Month

  • 2nd
    World Autism Awareness Day
  • 2nd
    Palm Sunday (Christian)
  • 5th
    Passover/Pesach (April 5 to April 13)
  • 6th
    Maundy/Holy Thursday (Christian)
  • 6th
    Theravada New Year (Buddhist)
  • 7th
    Good Friday (Christian)
  • 7th
    Day to Remember Rwanda Genocide Victims
  • 9th
    Easter Sunday (Christian)
  • 14th
    Day of Silence (Students take a day-long vow of silence to protest the actual silencing of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students and their straight allies due to bias and harassment)
  • 14th
    Orthodox Good Friday
  • 14th
    Vaisakhi (Sikh)
  • 17th
    Yom Hashoah (Jewish) (Sunset April 17 to Sunset April 18)
  • 17th
    Laila Al-Qadr (Islamic) (Sunset April 17)
  • 21st
    Eid Al-Fitr (Islamic) (Sundown April 21 to Sundown April 22)
  • 21st
    Festival of Ridvan (Baha’i) (April 21 to May 2)
  • 24th
    Armenian Martyrs’ Day
  • 25th
    Yom HaAtzmaut (Jewish) (Sundown April 25 to Nightfall April 26)