What Day of the Week

April 17, 2021 was the 107^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 258 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Saturday.

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

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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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• 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.
• 1492

  Spain and Christopher Columbus sign the Capitulations of Santa Fe for his voyage to Asia to acquire spices.
• 1797

  Sir Ralph Abercromby attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico in what would be one of the largest invasions of the Spanish territories in America.
• 1942

  French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung Königstein.
• 1946

  Syria obtains its Independence from the French occupation.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1982

  Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.
• 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.

• 1620

  Marguerite Bourgeoys, founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame (d. 1700)
• 1750

  François de Neufchâteau, French statesman and intellectual figure (d. 1828)
• 1902

  Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican politician (d. 1974)
• 1903

  Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (d. 1976)
• 1955

  Todd Lickliter, American basketball coach
• 1964

  Lela Rochon, American actress
• 1967

  Henry Ian Cusick, Peruvian-born Scottish actor
• 1972

  Yuichi Nishimura, Japan referee football player
• 1976

  Monet Mazur, American actress and musician
• 1979

  Siddharth Narayan, Indian actor

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