Check Your Batteries Day April 2. A day set aside for checking the batteries in your watches, remote controls, smoke detectors, and other devices.  This could save your life.  And it's so much fun to do. Egg Salad Week April 24-30.  A week dedicated to the many delicious uses for leftover Easter Eggs.  www.aeb.org Teflon Invented April 6, 1938.  Teflon coating was invented by Roy J. Plunkett.  Metric System Anniversary April 7, 1795 the metric system was adopted in France where it had been developed.   We thought the French were more exciting than this. Safety Pin Patented -- 150th Anniversary April 10, 1849 Walter Hunt of New York patented the first safety pin. First Dictionary of American English Published April 14, 1828.  Dull Men like to read dictionaries, where words are arranged in order, not scrambled all around like in novels. First McDonald's Opens -- Anniversary April 15, 1955 the first McDonald's was opened in Des Plaines, Illinois. National Organize Your Files Week April 17-23, a week after tax season and in conjunction with spring cleaning dedicated to purging, reorganizing, and creating more effective files, that will save you time and money, and remove the frustration of not being able to retrieve files in a timely manner.   For info: Gloria Schaaf, Organization Works, (212) 410-4937.

 

Events to Avoid

World Cow Chip Throwing Contest

April 11 - 19, Beaver, Oklahoma

Sinking of the Titanic -- Anniversary

April 15, 1912