Holidays and Observances
- Christian Feast Day:
- Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha (Canada)
- Pope Anicetus
- April 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Earliest day on which Store Bededag or General Prayer Day can fall, while May 13 is the latest; observed on the 4th Friday after Easter day. (Denmark)
- Evacuation Day, celebrates the recognition of the independence of Syria from France in 1946.
- FAO Day (Iraq)
- Flag Day (American Samoa)
- Women's Day (Gabon)
- World Hemophilia Day (International)
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“... if it be true that death is annihilation, then the man who believes that he will certainly go straight to heaven when he dies, provided he has fulfilled certain simply observances in this life, has a cheap pleasure which will not be followed by the least disappointment.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)