April 13 Holidays

National Peach Cobbler Day celebrates the Southern baked dessert of sweetened peaches beneath a biscuit-dough topping, a tradition traced to 19th-century chuck wagons where cobblers were improvised in Dutch ovens over campfires. National Scrabble Day marks the April 13, 1899 birthday of Alfred Mosher Butts, the New York architect who invented the game in 1938 by combining a crossword structure with tile-drawing probability. Songkran Water Festival is the Thai New Year celebrated from April 13 to 15, during which participants drench one another with water as a symbol of washing away bad luck. FND Awareness Day raises visibility for Functional Neurological Disorder, a condition in which the nervous system misfires despite showing no structural damage on imaging. A cobbler, a tile rack, a water cannon, and a misunderstood nervous system.