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Stoker's Day

Stoker's Day is held on April 15. It is celebrated in spring, at the end of the heating season. All shifts workers gether in the boiler room to extinguish the boilers and begin to celebrate. The date of this celebration is not fixed. The local authorities decide when to start and when to finish the heating season but usually it hapends not later than April 30 if the average air temperature is above +8 for 3 days in a raw. This event in the second decade of the month April is annual.

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A fireman, stoker or watertender is a person whose occupation it is to tend the fire for the running of a boiler, heating a building, or powering a steam engine.

A mechanical stoker is a mechanical system that feeds solid fuel like coal, coke or anthracite into the furnace of a steam boiler. They are common on steam locomotives after 1900 and are also used on ships and power stations. A good stoker also supplies air for combustion and regulates the rate of burning and, in large installations, disposes of the ashes.

Underfeed principle is suitable for burning the semi- bituminous and bituminous coals. Charging of fuel into the furnace is mechanized by means of stokers of various types. They are installed above the fire doors underneath the bunkers which supply the fuel.

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National Library Workers Day in Hungary on April 14;

National Announcer's Day in Chile on April 14;

Wine Journalist's Day in Argentina on April 14;

National Accountant's Day in Nicaragua on April 14;

Portfolio Day in April on April 14;

International Moment of Laughter Day on April 14 (is focuses on laughter as a way to de-stress);

Look Up at the Sky Day on April 14;

Reach as High as You Can Day on April 14;

That Sucks Day on April 14 (Throughout the history of the holiday and the organization that sponsored it, That Sucks LLC, they seek to exemplify all that is terrible and wrong in the world);

Be Kind to Lawyers Day on April 14 (Second Tuesday of April);

N'Ko Alphabet Day on April 14 (Mande speakers);

Secretary's Day in Pakistan on April 15;

Rubber Eraser Day on April 15 (Joseph Priestley discovered the eraser in 1770, using pieces of rubber imported from Brazil. Then in 1858, Hyman Lipman of Philadelphia, Pa., patented the pencil with an eraser at the end);