What Day of the Week

April 12, 2022 was the 102^nd day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 263 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Tuesday.

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

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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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• 1204

  The Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade breach the walls of Constantinople and enter the city, which they completely occupy the following day.
• 1557

  Cuenca is founded in Ecuador.
• 1877

  The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
• 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).
• 1968

  Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley, Utah.
• 1970

  Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board.
• 1981

  The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) launches on the STS-1 mission.
• 1990

  Jim Gary’s “Twentieth Century Dinosaurs” exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
• 1994

  Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam.
• 2010

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

• 1550

  Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, English politician (d. 1604)
• 1871

  Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and dictator (d. 1941)
• 1907

  Hardie Gramatky, American author and animator (d. 1979)
• 1952

  Reuben Gant, American professional football player
• 1961

  Lisa Gerrard, Australian musician
• 1962

  Takada Nobuhiko, Japanese wrestler
• 1972

  Dimitrios Kokotis, Greek high jumper
• 1979

  Jordan De Jong, American baseball player
• 1985

  Hitomi Yoshizawa, Japanese singer
• 1987

  Shawn Gore, Canadian football player

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