What Day of the Week

April 28, 2022 was the 118^th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 247 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Thursday.

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

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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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• 357

  Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnus Magnentius.
• 1792

  France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium), beginning the French Revolutionary War.
• 1869

  Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
• 1887

  A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of German Emperor William I, defusing a possible war.
• 1944

  World War II: Nine German S-boots attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.
• 1952

  Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
• 1975

  General Cao Van Vien, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory.
• 1978

  President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
• 1988

  Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle “C.B.” Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane’s fuselage rips open in mid-flight.
• 2008

  A train collision in Shandong, China, kills 72 people and injures 416 more.

• 1715

  Franz Sparry, composer (d. 1767)
• 1868

  Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (d. 1908)
• 1908

  Oskar Schindler, Austro-Hungarian (Sudeten German) industrialist (d. 1974)
• 1912

  Kaneto Shindō, Japanese film director
• 1924

  Donatas Banionis, Lithuanian actor
• 1932

  Brownie Ledbetter, American civil rights activist (d. 2010)
• 1949

  Paul Guilfoyle, American actor
• 1957

  Wilma Landkroon, Dutch singer
• 1964

  Noriyuki Iwadare, Japanese composer
• 1965

  Jennifer Rardin, American author, Jaz Parks series (d. 2010)

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