What Day of the Week

April 12, 2020 was the 103^rd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 263 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Sunday.

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

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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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• 238

  Gordian II lost the Battle of Carthage against the Numidian forces loyal to Maximinus Thrax and is killed. Gordian I, his father, commits suicide.
• 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.
• 1606

  The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of Great Britain.
• 1820

  Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.
• 1864

  American Civil War: The Fort Pillow massacre: Confederate forces kill most of the African American soldiers that surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.
• 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.
• 2007

  A suicide bomber penetrated the Green Zone and detonated in a cafeteria within a parliament building, killing Iraqi MP Mohammed Awad and wounding more than twenty other people.
• 2009

  Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwe Dollar as their official currency.

• 1577

  King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway (d. 1648)
• 1777

  Henry Clay, American statesman (d. 1852)
• 1892

  Johnny Dodds, American musician (d. 1940)
• 1894

  Francisco Craveiro Lopes, 13th President of Portugal (d. 1964)
• 1903

  Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1994)
• 1928

  Jean-François Paillard, French conductor
• 1930

  Michał Życzkowski, Polish technician (d. 2006)
• 1945

  Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the WHO (d. 2006)
• 1971

  Shannen Doherty, American actor
• 1977

  Giovanny Espinoza, Ecuadorian footballer

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