What Day of the Week

April 8, 2018 was the 98^th day of the year 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 267 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Sunday.

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

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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.
• 1767

  Ayutthaya kingdom falls to Burmese invaders.
• 1942

  World War II: Siege of Leningrad – Soviet forces open a much-needed railway link to Leningrad.
• 1942

  World War II: The Japanese take Bataan in the Philippines.
• 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.
• 1945

  World War II: After an air raid accidentally destroys a train carrying about 4,000 Nazi concentration camp internees in Prussian Hanover, the survivors are massacred by Nazis.
• 1959

  A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper meets to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL.
• 1992

  Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announces that he has AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries.
• 1999

  Haryana Gana Parishad, a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, merges with the Indian National Congress.
• 2004

  Darfur conflict: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups.

• 1818

  King Christian IX of Denmark (d. 1906)
• 1875

  King Albert I of Belgium (d. 1934)
• 1912

  Alois Brunner, Austrian Nazi
• 1923

  Edward Mulhare, Irish actor (d. 1997)
• 1941

  Vivienne Westwood, English fashion designer
• 1943

  Michael Bennett, American dancer/choreographer (d. 1987)
• 1947

  Larry Norman, American singer/songwriter (d. 2008)
• 1978

  Ana de la Reguera, Mexican actress
• 1979

  Alexi Laiho, Finnish guitarist and singer (Children of Bodom, Sinergy, Kylähullut)
• 1984

  Júlia Liptáková, Slovak model

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