April 30 - Holidays and Observances

Holidays and Observances

• Armed Forces Day (Georgia)
• Birthday of the King Carl XVI Gustav, one of the official flag days of Sweden.
• Last day of classes at universities in India
• Camarón Day (French Foreign Legion)
• Children's Day (Mexico)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Adjutor
  • Aimo
  • Amator, Peter and Louis
  • Blessed Miles Gerard
  • Eutropius of Saintes
  • Marie Guyart (Anglican Church of Canada)
  • Maximus of Rome
  • Pomponius of Naples
  • Quirinus of Neuss
  • Suitbert the Younger
  • Saint Pope Pius V
  • April 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Consumer Protection Day (Thailand)
• Earliest day on which Ascension Day can fall, while June 3 is the latest; celebrated 40 days after Easter (Christianity), and its related observances
• International Jazz Day, organized by UNESCO, first observed in 2012, "is intended to raise awareness in the international community of the virtues of jazz as an educational tool, and a force for peace, unity, dialogue and enhanced cooperation among people."
• May Eve, the eve of the first day of summer in the Northern hemisphere (see May 1):
  • Beltane Fire Festival (Calton Hill, Edinburgh)
  • Carodejnice (Czech Republic and Slovakia)
  • Beltane begins at sunset in the Northern hemisphere (Celtic Druidic holiday)
  • Samhain begins at sunset in the Southern hemisphere (Celtic Druidic holiday)
  • Walpurgis Night (Central and Northern Europe)

• National Persian Gulf Day (Iran)
• Queen's Day (Netherlands, Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten)
• Reunification Day (Vietnam)
• Teacher's Day (Paraguay)