What Day of the Week

April 26, 2020 was the 117^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 249 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Sunday.

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

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Here’s the April calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

Taurus 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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• 1607

  English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
• 1805

  First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
• 1933

  The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
• 1946

  Naperville train disaster kills 47.
• 1954

  The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
• 1989

  People’s Daily publishes the People’s Daily editorial of April 26 which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests
• 1989

  The deadliest tornado in world history strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.
• 1994

  China Airlines flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
• 2002

  Robert Steinhäuser infiltrates and kills 17 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
• 2005

  Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country ( Syrian occupation of Lebanon ).

• 1812

  Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (d. 1887)
• 1879

  Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
• 1897

  Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (d. 1967)
• 1910

  Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese movie producer and creator of Godzilla (d. 1997)
• 1932

  Francis Lai, French film music composer
• 1942

  Bobby Rydell, American singer
• 1949

  Jerry Blackwell, American wrestler (d. 1995)
• 1963

  Colin Scotts, Australian-born American football player
• 1970

  Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins, American singer (TLC)
• 1977

  Chris Johnston, Irish rugby player

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