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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• 1336

  Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux
• 1805

  First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
• 1865

  Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
• 1945

  World War II: Battle of Bautzen – last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
• 1945

  World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army was liberated in Baguio City and they fought against the Japanese forces under by General Tomoyuki Yamashita.
• 1946

  Naperville train disaster kills 47.
• 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.
• 1986

  A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world’s worst nuclear disaster.
• 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.

• 1812

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

  Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
• 1914

  James W. Rouse, American investor (d. 1996)
• 1918

  Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (d. 2004)
• 1929

  Richard Mitchell, American author and professor (d. 2002)
• 1949

  Jerry Blackwell, American wrestler (d. 1995)
• 1967

  Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Academy Award nominated British actress
• 1980

  Marlon King, Jamaican footballer
• 1987

  Jarmila Gajdošová, Slovakian/Australian tennis player
• 1988

  Kimber James, American pornographic actress

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