What Day of the Week

April 12, 2019 was the 102^nd day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 263 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Friday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is viernes.

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Here’s the April calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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• 467

  Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
• 1204

  The Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade breach the walls of Constantinople and enter the city, which they completely occupy the following day.
• 1865

  American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
• 1934

  The U.S. Auto-Lite Strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.
• 1934

  The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire.
• 1954

  Bill Haley & His Comets record “Rock Around the Clock” in New York City.
• 1963

  The Soviet nuclear powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.
• 1990

  Jim Gary’s “Twentieth Century Dinosaurs” exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
• 2002

  A female suicide bomber detonated at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda open-air market, killing 7 and wounding 104.
• 2010

  A train derails near Merano, Italy, after running into a landslide, causing nine deaths and injuring 28 people.

• 599 BC

  Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism (d. 527 BC)
• 1550

  Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, English politician (d. 1604)
• 1713

  Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (d. 1796)
• 1928

  Hardy Krüger, German actor
• 1932

  Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lankan politician (d. 2005)
• 1932

  Tiny Tim, American musician (d. 1996)
• 1933

  Montserrat Caballé, Spanish soprano
• 1934

  Heinz Schneiter, Swiss footballer
• 1939

  Alan Ayckbourn, English writer
• 1973

  J. Scott Campbell, American comic book artist

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