What Day of the Week

April 17, 2020 was the 108^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 258 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Friday.

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

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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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• 69

  After the First Battle of Bedriacum, Vitellius becomes Roman Emperor.
• 1080

  King of Denmark Harald III dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized.
• 1397

  Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. Chaucer scholars have also identified this date (in 1387) the start of the book’s pilgrimage to Canterbury.
• 1521

  Martin Luther speaks to the assembly at the Diet of Worms, refusing to recant his teachings.
• 1524

  Giovanni da Verrazzano reaches New York harbor.
• 1864

  American Civil War: The Battle of Plymouth begins – Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina.
• 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.
• 1951

  The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom’s first National Park.
• 1961

  Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of CIA financed and trained Cuban exiles lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.

• 1598

  Giovanni Riccioli, Italian astronomer (d. 1671)
• 1896

  Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist (d. 1999)
• 1917

  Bill Clements, American politician
• 1934

  Don Kirshner, American composer (d. 2011)
• 1940

  Billy Fury, British singer (d. 1983)
• 1951

  Börje Salming, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1965

  Yoshiki Kuroda, Japanese urban planner
• 1968

  Prince Maurits of the Netherlands
• 1976

  Alex Nesic, American actor
• 1989

  Paraskevi Papahristou, Greek triple jumper

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