What Day of the Week

April 8, 2019 was the 98^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 267 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Monday.

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

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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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• 1139

  Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated.
• 1886

  William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
• 1893

  The first recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
• 1904

  The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
• 1908

  Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
• 1913

  The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law.
• 1929

  Indian Independence Movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
• 1943

  U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities.
• 1959

  The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.
• 1985

  Bhopal disaster: India files suit against Union Carbide for the disaster which killed an estimated 2,000 and injured another 200,000.

• 1320

  King Peter I of Portugal (d. 1367)
• 1905

  Erwin Keller, German field hockey player (d. 1971)
• 1924

  Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley, English soldier and historian (d. 2006)
• 1944

  Hywel Bennett, Welsh actor
• 1964

  John McGinlay, Scottish footballer
• 1972

  Paul Gray, American bassist (Slipknot) (d. 2010)
• 1974

  Chino XL, American rapper
• 1974

  Holger Hott Johansen, Norwegian orienteerist
• 1979

  Alexi Laiho, Finnish guitarist and singer (Children of Bodom, Sinergy, Kylähullut)
• 1981

  Brian Burres, American baseball player

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