April 5·Every year

Easter Sunday

Western Christianity's celebration of the resurrection. Date is the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the spring equinox — codified at the First Council of Nicaea in 325. Coexists with secular traditions (egg hunts, the Easter Bunny) of pre-Christian European origin.

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Notable · 2018

Agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided a slaughterhouse in Tennessee, detaining nearly 100 Hispanic workers in one of the largest immigration raids in the history of the U.S.

2018Agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid a slaughterhouse in Tennessee, detaining nearly 100 undocumented Hispanic workers in one of the largest workplace raids in the history of the United States.
2010Up to 50 people are killed and another 100 injured in two militant suicide bombings and attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan: the first on an Awami National Party rally in Timergara; the second on the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar.
2010Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia.