What Day of the Week

April 7, 2019 was the 97^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 268 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Sunday.

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

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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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• 1890

  Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
• 1906

  Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
• 1927

  First distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
• 1943

  Holocaust: In Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka where they are shot dead and buried in ditches.
• 1946

  Syria’s independence from France is officially recognised.
• 1976

  Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party.
• 1983

  During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk.
• 1990

  A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry M/S Scandinavian Star, killing 158 people.
• 1999

  The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
• 2003

  U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein’s regime falls two days later.

• 1648

  John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (d. 1721)
• 1780

  William Ellery Channing, Unitarian theologian (d. 1842)
• 1871

  Epifanio de los Santos, Filipino historian, scholar and lawyer (d. 1927)
• 1890

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and writer (d. 1998)
• 1893

  Allen Dulles, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 1969)
• 1897

  Walter Winchell, American broadcaster and journalist (d. 1972)
• 1931

  Donald Barthelme, American author (d. 1989)
• 1938

  Freddie Hubbard, American jazz trumpeter (d. 2008)
• 1952

  Clarke Peters, American actor
• 1975

  Ronnie Belliard, American baseball player

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