April is the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, the fifth in the early Julian and one of four months with a length of 30 days. April is commonly associated with the season of spring in parts of the Northern hemisphere and autumn in parts of the Southern hemisphere, where it is the seasonal equivalent to October in the Northern hemisphere and vice versa.
April symbols: The birthstone for April is the diamond. The birth flower is typically listed as either the Daisy (Bellis perennis) or the Sweet Pea. The zodiac signs for the month of April are Aries (until April 20) and Taurus (April 21 onwards).
Day of Week 28th » Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
Famous Birthdays on April in 1869
2nd » Hughie Jennings, American baseball player and manager (d. 1928)
4th » Mary Colter, American architect, designed the Desert View Watchtower (d. 1958)
5th » Sergey Chaplygin, Russian physicist, mathematician, and engineer (d. 1942)
5th » Albert Roussel, French composer (d. 1937)
6th » Levon Shant, Armenian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1951)
8th » Harvey Williams Cushing, American surgeon (d. 1939)
11th » Kasturba Gandhi, Indian wife of Mohandas Gandhi (d. 1944)
11th » Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (d. 1943)
12th » Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer (d. 1922)
30th » Hans Poelzig, German architect, designed the IG Farben Building and Großes Schauspielhaus (d. 1936)