What Day of the Week

April 9, 2020 was the 100^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 266 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Thursday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is jueves.

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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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• 1241

  Battle of Liegnitz: Mongol forces defeat the Polish and German armies.
• 1609

  Eighty Years’ War: Spain and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of Antwerp to initiate twelve years of truce.
• 1914

  Mexican Revolution: One of the world’s first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.
• 1937

  The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London – it is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
• 1942

  World War II: The Battle of Bataan/Bataan Death March – United States forces surrender on the Bataan Peninsula. The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon (Sri Lanka); Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Hermes and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer HMAS Vampire are sunk off the island’s east coast.
• 1947

  The Glazier-Higgins-Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
• 1952

  Hugo Ballivian’s government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalisation of tin mines
• 1959

  Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States’ first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the “Mercury Seven”.
• 1975

  The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world.
• 1992

  John Major’s Conservative Party wins an unprecedented fourth general election victory in the United Kingdom.

• 1680

  Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist (d. 1754)
• 1898

  Paul Robeson, American singer and activist (d. 1976)
• 1928

  Paul Arizin, American basketball player (d. 2006)
• 1934

  Bill Birch, New Zealand politician
• 1965

  Jay Wesley Neill, American murderer (d. 2002)
• 1980

  Clueso, German singer, rapper, songwriter and producer
• 1980

  Jerko Leko, Croatian footballer
• 1982

  Jay Baruchel, Canadian actor
• 1986

  Leighton Meester, American singer and actress
• 1987

  Jesse McCartney, American actor and singer

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