What Day of the Week

April 15, 2023 was the 105^th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 260 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Saturday.

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

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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.

• 1450

  Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years’ War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.
• 1638

  Tokugawa shogunate forces put down the Shimabara Rebellion when they retake Hara Castle from the rebels.
• 1715

  Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
• 1755

  Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.
• 1802

  William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a “long belt” of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
• 1865

  Abraham Lincoln dies without regaining consciousness after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.
• 1924

  Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
• 1979

  A disastrous earthquake (of M 7.1) occurs on Montenegro coast.
• 1992

  The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
• 1994

  Representatives of 124 countries and the European Communities sign the Marrakesh Agreements revising the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and initiating the World Trade Organization (effective January 1, 1995).

• 1641

  Robert Sibbald, Scottish physician (d. 1722)
• 1935

  Stavros Paravas, Greek actor
• 1940

  Robert Lacroix, French Canadian professor of economics
• 1952

  Brian Muir, British sculptor and creator of Darth Vader
• 1954

  Seka, American pornographic actress
• 1960

  Susanne Bier, Danish film director
• 1963

  Bobby Pepper, American journalist
• 1975

  Phil Labonte, American vocalist (All That Remains)
• 1981

  Andrés D'Alessandro, Argentine football player
• 1991

  Daiki Arioka, Japanese actor & singer

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