What Day of the Week

April 17, 2019 is the 107^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 258 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Suiyōbi.

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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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• 1521

  Martin Luther speaks to the assembly at the Diet of Worms, refusing to recant his teachings.
• 1797

  Citizens of Verona, Italy, begin an eight-day rebellion against the French occupying forces, which will end unsuccessfully.
• 1897

  The Aurora, Texas UFO incident
• 1905

  The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York which holds that the “right to free contract” is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
• 1942

  French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung Königstein.
• 1944

  Forces of the Communist-controlled Greek People’s Liberation Army attack the smaller National and Social Liberation resistance group, which surrenders. Its leader Dimitrios Psarros is murdered.
• 1964

  Jerrie Mock becomes the first woman to circumnavigate the world by air.
• 1970

  Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
• 1984

  Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher is killed by gunfire from the Libyan People’s Bureau in London during a small demonstration outside the embassy. Ten others are wounded. The events lead to an 11-day siege of the building.
• 1986

  The Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years’ War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly ends.

• 1586

  John Ford, English dramatist
• 1884

  Leo Frank, American victim of lynching (d. 1915)
• 1911

  Lester Rodney, American journalist (d. 2009)
• 1925

  Erich Göstl, German War Hero (d. 1990)
• 1954

  Lester Square, Canadian musician
• 1957

  Susan Roman, Canadian voice actress
• 1973

  Kaihō Ryōji, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1977

  Frederik Magle, Danish composer, organist and pianist
• 1978

  Loukas Louka, Greek-Cypriot footballer
• 1990

  Jonathan Brown, Welsh footballer

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