What Day of the Week

April 6, 2019 was the 96^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 269 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Saturday.

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

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Here’s the April calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

Aries 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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• 1327

  The poet Petrarch first sees his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare in Avignon.
• 1580

  One of the largest earthquakes recorded in the history of England, Flanders, or Northern France, takes place.
• 1652

  At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.
• 1861

  First performance of Arthur Sullivan’s debut success, his suite of incidental music for The Tempest, leading to a career that included the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operas.
• 1896

  In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
• 1917

  World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson’s address to Congress).
• 1929

  Huey P. Long Governor of Louisiana is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
• 1941

  World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 (the invasion of Kingdom of Yugoslavia) and Operation Marita (the invasion of Greece).
• 1965

  The British Government announces the cancellation of the TSR-2 aircraft project.
• 1972

  Vietnam War: Easter Offensive – American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.

• 1483

  Raphael, Italian painter and architect (d. 1520)
• 1851

  Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (d. 1932)
• 1917

  Leonora Carrington, British-born surrealist painter
• 1926

  Sergio Franchi, Italian-born singer and actor (d. 1990)
• 1941

  Gheorghe Zamfir, Romanian musician
• 1949

  Horst Ludwig Störmer, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1967

  Mika Koivuniemi, Finnish ten-pin bowler
• 1976

  Candace Cameron Bure, American actress
• 1982

  Travis Moen, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1988

  Fabrice Muamba, Congolese/English footballer

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