What Day of the Week

April 26, 2021 was the 116^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 249 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Monday.

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

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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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• 1802

  Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.
• 1803

  Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European science that meteors exist.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1958

  Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
• 1963

  In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allows for female participation in elections.
• 1989

  People’s Daily publishes the People’s Daily editorial of April 26 which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests
• 1991

  Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak’s end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year’s only F5 tornado (see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak).
• 1994

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

• 1910

  Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese movie producer and creator of Godzilla (d. 1997)
• 1922

  Jeanne Sauvé, Canadian politician (d. 1993)
• 1938

  Duane Eddy, American musician
• 1940

  Cliff Watson, British rugby league footballer
• 1944

  Amien Rais, Indonesian politician
• 1967

  Glenn Jacobs, American professional wrestler
• 1973

  Chris Perry, British footballer
• 1975

  Nerina Pallot, British singer
• 1979

  Ariane Moffatt, Canadian singer and songwriter
• 1983

  José María López, Argentine racing driver

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