What Day of the Week

April 8, 2020 was the 99^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 267 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Wednesday.

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

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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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• 1820

  The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
• 1893

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

  Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
• 1918

  World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City’s financial district.
• 1946

  Électricité de France, the world’s largest utility company, is formed as a result of the nationalisation of a number of electricity producers, transporters and distributors.
• 1959

  The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.
• 1974

  at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Hank Aaron hits his 715th career home run to surpass Babe Ruth’s 39-year-old record.
• 1975

  President Richard Nixon signs into law federal legislation authorizing the establishment of Voyageurs National Park in northern Minnesota.
• 1992

  Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announces that he has AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries.
• 2005

  Over four million people attend the funeral of Pope John Paul II.

• 1859

  Edmund Husserl, Austrian philosopher (d. 1938)
• 1892

  Mary Pickford, Canadian actress (d. 1979)
• 1905

  Helen Joseph, South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 1992)
• 1923

  Edward Mulhare, Irish actor (d. 1997)
• 1938

  Kofi Annan, Ghanaian diplomat and former United Nations Secretary General
• 1940

  John Havlicek, American basketball player
• 1946

  Catfish Hunter, American baseball player (d. 1999)
• 1962

  Evan Davis, British journalist and television presenter
• 1981

  Taylor Kitsch, Canadian actor and model
• 1987

  Royston Drenthe, Dutch footballer

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