What Day of the Week

April 7, 2021 was the 97^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 268 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Wednesday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is mercredi.

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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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• 1805

  Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.
• 1940

  Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
• 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.
• 1945

  World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes 200 miles north of Okinawa while en-route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go.
• 1976

  Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party.
• 1977

  German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
• 1985

  Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the deployment of middle-range missiles in Europe.
• 1990

  A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry M/S Scandinavian Star, killing 158 people.
• 1992

  Republika Srpska announces its independence.
• 1995

  First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.

• 1644

  François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (d. 1730)
• 1870

  Gustav Landauer, German anarchist and revolutionary (d. 1919)
• 1903

  Edwin T. Layton, American Naval officer (d. 1984)
• 1908

  Percy Faith, Canadian composer and musician (d. 1976)
• 1915

  Stanley Adams, American actor (d. 1977)
• 1931

  Donald Barthelme, American author (d. 1989)
• 1935

  Bobby Bare, American musician
• 1946

  Colette Besson, French runner (d. 2005)
• 1947

  Eliseo Soriano, Philippine evangelist
• 1947

  Florian Schneider, German musician (Kraftwerk)

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