What Day of the Week

April 15, 2018 was the 105^th day of the year 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 260 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Sunday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is dimanche.

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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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• 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.
• 1817

  Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
• 1865

  Abraham Lincoln dies without regaining consciousness after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.
• 1896

  Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
• 1921

  Black Friday: mine owners announce more wage and price cuts, leading to the threat of a strike all across England.
• 1941

  In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attack Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom killing one thousand people.
• 1958

  Walter O'Malley’s Los Angeles Dodgers host the first Major League Baseball game played on the West Coast of the United States.
• 1979

  A disastrous earthquake (of M 7.1) occurs on Montenegro coast.
• 2002

  An Air China Boeing 767-200, flight CA129 crashes into a hillside during heavy rain and fog near Busan, South Korea, killing 128.

• 1588

  Claudius Salmasius, French classical scholar (d. 1653)
• 1800

  James Clark Ross, English explorer (d. 1862)
• 1828

  Jean Danjou, French Foreign Legion officer (d. 1863)
• 1874

  Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1957)
• 1883

  Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
• 1888

  Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (d. 1904)
• 1920

  Richard von Weizsäcker, President of Germany
• 1947

  Cristina Husmark Pehrsson, Swedish politician
• 1969

  Jimmy Waite, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
• 1982

  Anthony Green, American musician

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