What Day of the Week

April 12, 2021 is the 102^nd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 263 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Monday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Getsuyōbi.

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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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• 1864

  American Civil War: The Fort Pillow massacre: Confederate forces kill most of the African American soldiers that surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.
• 1877

  The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
• 1917

  World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.
• 1934

  The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire.
• 1937

  Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
• 1961

  The Russian (Soviet) cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, in Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1).
• 1970

  Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board.
• 1980

  Terry Fox begins his “Marathon of Hope” at St. John’s, Newfoundland.
• 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.

• 1577

  King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway (d. 1648)
• 1792

  John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, Governor General of British North America (d. 1840)
• 1866

  Princess Viktoria of Prussia (d. 1929)
• 1883

  Dally Messenger, Australian rugby league footballer (d. 1959)
• 1916

  Benjamin Libet, American scientist (d. 2007)
• 1923

  Ann Miller, American actor and dancer (d. 2004)
• 1924

  Raymond Barre, French politician and Prime Minister (d. 2007)
• 1931

  Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet-songwriter (d. 1995)
• 1947

  Wayne Northrop, American actor
• 1971

  Shannen Doherty, American actor

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