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 French then this day of the week in French is samedi.

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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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• 1250

  Seventh Crusade: Ayyubids of Egypt capture King Louis IX of France in the Battle of Fariskur.
• 1652

  At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.
• 1814

  Nominal beginning of the Bourbon Restorationanniversary date that Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba. (Rule by the Bourbons is delayed a few weeks, though allies held most key locales of France.)
• 1830

  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement, is organized by Joseph Smith, Jr. and others at Fayette or Manchester, New York.
• 1903

  The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Israel and the Western world.
• 1962

  Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks from the podium during a New York Philharmonic concert featuring Glenn Gould performing Brahms’ First Piano Concerto.
• 1965

  Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.
• 1965

  The British Government announces the cancellation of the TSR-2 aircraft project.
• 1973

  Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
• 2008

  2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers.

• 1886

  Walter Edward Dandy, American neurosurgery pioneer (d. 1946)
• 1890

  Anthony Fokker, Dutch aviation engineering pioneer (d. 1939)
• 1903

  Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player (d. 1962)
• 1934

  Anton Geesink, Dutch judoka (d. 2010)
• 1965

  Frank Black, American singer/songwriter (Pixies and Frank Black and the Catholics)
• 1974

  Robert Kovač, Croatian footballer
• 1978

  Myleene Klass, British singer
• 1983

  Diora Baird, American actress and model
• 1984

  Max Bemis, American musician and songwriter
• 1986

  Aaron Curry, American football player

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