England's Calendar of Events | April
British and World Marbles Championship
April 6, 2007
Every year the Greyhound pub in Tinsley Green takes a popular playground game to its most competitive level, as it stages the British and World Marbles Championship.
The tournament in its current guise has been played since 1932, although evidence suggests that the game has been played here for more than 200 years. In West Sussex the marble season traditionally takes place between Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, with this competition marking the climax. It was once considered bad luck to play past midday on the Friday, but now with over 100 competitors every year there simply wouldn't be enough time to play all the ties.
The tournament is played in a knockout format between around 20 teams, with team and individual titles up for grabs. An over-50s competition has also been recently introduced. It is free to watch and to participate but, if you'd like to enter, it is advisable to do so in advance.
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Jazz Divas Festival
April 13-15, 2007
The Jazz Divas Festival, at the Ventnor Towers Hotel and other venues on the Isle of Wight, offers a weekend of stylish jazz including modern, mainstream, traditional and avant garde styles, featuring some of the best female jazz singers and musicians on the scene.
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Lewes Lion Club International Toad-In-The-Hole Competition
April 25, 2007
This unique event is not, as the name suggests, devoted to that comforting British dish of sausages buried in Yorkshire pudding. It is instead a traditional throwing game, held annually at Lewes Town Hall, in which old penny coin-sized discs (toads) are tossed through a hole in the slanting top of a table.
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April Dates of Note
April 10, 1998 - The signing of the Good Friday Agreement.
April 12, 1606 - Union Flag became the official Flag of the United Kingdom.
April 15, 1912 - HMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank.
April 14, 1931 - Highway Code first issued.
April 19, 1978 - Post marks were introduced in Britain by the Post Office.
April 23 - St. George's Day. Patron Saint of England and also of Scouting. April 23, 303 is the accepted date of St. George's death.
April 23, 1584 - Shakespeare's birthday. April 23, 1613 is the anniversary of his death.
April 24, 1949 - Sweet rationing ended in England.
April 26, 1957 - First broadcast of The Sky at Night, a BBC program on astronomy.
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