What Day of the Week

April 12, 2019 is the 102^nd day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 263 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is 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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• 1606

  The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of Great Britain.
• 1633

  The formal inquest of Galileo Galilei by the Inquisition begins.
• 1820

  Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.
• 1861

  American Civil War: The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
• 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).
• 1980

  Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup d'état, ending over 130 years of minority Americo-Liberian rule over the country.
• 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.
• 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.

• 1883

  Dally Messenger, Australian rugby league footballer (d. 1959)
• 1903

  Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1994)
• 1924

  Raymond Barre, French politician and Prime Minister (d. 2007)
• 1936

  Charles Napier, American actor (d. 2011)
• 1954

  Pat Travers, Canadian musician
• 1958

  Will Sergeant, English musician
• 1962

  Art Alexakis, American musician
• 1973

  Claudia Jordan, American model
• 1974

  Sylvinho, Brazilian footballer
• 1980

  Brian McFadden, Irish singer

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