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

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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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• 217

  Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated (and succeeded) by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
• 1740

  War of Jenkin’s Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa.
• 1864

  American Civil War: Battle of Mansfield – Union forces are thwarted by the Confederate army at Mansfield, Louisiana.
• 1893

  The first recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
• 1895

  In Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.
• 1904

  British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of The Book of the Law.
• 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.
• 1950

  India and Pakistan sign the Liaquat-Nehru Pact.
• 1961

  A large explosion on board the MV Dara in the Persian Gulf kills 238.

• 1904

  Hirsch Jacobs, American thoroughbred horse trainer and owner (d. 1970)
• 1928

  Monty Sunshine, English jazz clarinetist
• 1941

  Vivienne Westwood, English fashion designer
• 1943

  Michael Bennett, American dancer/choreographer (d. 1987)
• 1943

  Tony Banks, British politician (d. 2006)
• 1946

  Stuart Pankin, American actor
• 1947

  Robert Kiyosaki, American investor
• 1948

  Michael Leshner, Canadian lawyer and gay rights advocate
• 1956

  Justin Sullivan, English musician (New Model Army)
• 1977

  Mark Spencer, American computer programmer

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