What Day of the Week

April 26, 2019 was the 116^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 249 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Friday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is viernes.

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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.
• 1865

  American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. Also the date of Confederate Memorial Day for most states.
• 1923

  The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
• 1925

  Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
• 1928

  Los Angeles City Hall dedicated.
• 1933

  The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
• 1937

  Spanish Civil War: Guernica (or Gernika in Basque), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
• 1944

  Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
• 1954

  The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
• 1965

  A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.

• 1648

  King Peter II of Portugal (d. 1706)
• 1782

  Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies, Queen Consort of the French (d. 1866)
• 1894

  Rudolf Hess, Nazi official (d. 1987)
• 1898

  John Grierson, British filmmaker (d. 1972)
• 1922

  Jeanne Sauvé, Canadian politician (d. 1993)
• 1924

  Browning Ross, American long-distance running Olympian (d. 1998)
• 1926

  Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (d. 2003)
• 1955

  Kurt Bodewig, German politician
• 1956

  Koo Stark, American actress
• 1978

  Avant, American singer

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