What Day of the Week

April 15, 2020 was the 106^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 260 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Wednesday.

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

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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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• 1071

  Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.
• 1638

  Tokugawa shogunate forces put down the Shimabara Rebellion when they retake Hara Castle from the rebels.
• 1802

  William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a “long belt” of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
• 1892

  The General Electric Company is formed.
• 1900

  Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.
• 1941

  In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attack Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom killing one thousand people.
• 1945

  The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.
• 1970

  During the Cambodian Civil War, massacres of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong River into South Vietnam.
• 1979

  A disastrous earthquake (of M 7.1) occurs on Montenegro coast.
• 1989

  Upon Hu Yaobang’s death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in the People’s Republic of China.

• 1793

  Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, German astronomer (d. 1864)
• 1901

  Joe Davis, English snooker player (d. 1978)
• 1922

  Harold Washington, American politician (d. 1987)
• 1933

  Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (d. 1995)
• 1942

  Kenneth Lay, American businessman (d. 2006)
• 1952

  Brian Muir, British sculptor and creator of Darth Vader
• 1967

  Dara Torres, American swimmer
• 1978

  Austin Aries, American wrestler
• 1983

  Dudu Cearense, Brazilian footballer
• 1983

  Matt Cardle, British singer/songwriter

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