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.
• 1928

  Los Angeles City Hall dedicated.
• 1937

  Spanish Civil War: Guernica (or Gernika in Basque), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
• 1942

  Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead.
• 1946

  Naperville train disaster kills 47.
• 1954

  The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
• 1962

  NASA’s Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
• 1965

  A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.
• 1966

  A new government is formed in the Republic of Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.

• 1879

  Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
• 1898

  John Grierson, British filmmaker (d. 1972)
• 1918

  Stafford Repp, American actor (d. 1974)
• 1926

  Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (d. 2003)
• 1932

  Michael Smith, British-born chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)
• 1940

  Giorgio Moroder, Italian composer
• 1949

  Carlos Bianchi, Argentinian footballer
• 1978

  Peter Madsen, Danish footballer
• 1979

  Janne Wirman, Finnish musician (Children of Bodom)
• 1982

  Cooper Wallace, American football player

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