What Day of the Week

April 17, 2019 was the 107^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 258 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was 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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• 1080

  King of Denmark Harald III dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized.
• 1492

  Spain and Christopher Columbus sign the Capitulations of Santa Fe for his voyage to Asia to acquire spices.
• 1524

  Giovanni da Verrazzano reaches New York harbor.
• 1895

  The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
• 1897

  The Aurora, Texas UFO incident
• 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.
• 1949

  At midnight 26 Irish counties officially leave the British Commonwealth. A 21-gun salute on O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, ushers in the Republic of Ireland.
• 1969

  Czechoslovakian Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed.
• 1969

  Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.

• 1573

  Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (d. 1651)
• 1816

  Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder (d. 1876)
• 1865

  Ursula Julia Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic saint (d. 1939)
• 1919

  Chavela Vargas, Costa Rican-Mexican singer
• 1939

  Robert Miller, American art dealer (d. 2011)
• 1972

  Muttiah Muralitharan, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1978

  Lindsay Hartley, American actress
• 1978

  Loukas Louka, Greek-Cypriot footballer
• 1982

  Lee Jun Ki, South Korean actor and model
• 1983

  Roberto Jimenez, Peruvian football player

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