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Saturday 12 April 2025

What the atlas records for this date, across the traditions it covers.

The Day BeforeTodayThe Day AfterAll Of April 2025

Already Underway

Lent
Fast / abstinence
The forty days from Ash Wednesday to Holy Thursday, Sundays not counted
Day 39 of 46
Forty days, counted excluding Sundays, which is why the span is forty-six.
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The Week Ahead

Sunday 13 AprilPalm Sunday
Sunday 13 AprilPassover (Pesach)
Thursday 17 AprilPaschal Triduum
Friday 18 AprilGood Friday

This Week In Space and Astronomy History

12 AprilVostok 1, Launch Date 1961
12 AprilVostok 1, Launch Date 1961
16 AprilApollo 16, Launch Date 1972
17 AprilApollo 13, End Date 1970
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Dates for the Hebrew and Islamic calendars are the tabular reckoning, which is what a printed calendar prints. Communities that begin a month on a sighted crescent may differ by a day, and differ from one another by place.