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Friday, April 17, 2026
Friday, April 17, 2026 falls on a Friday. It is day 107 of the year, ISO week 16, in Q2.
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Friday, April 17
April 17, 2026 is day 107 of 365, ISO week 16, in Q2. The moon is New Moon and the zodiac sign is Aries.
Day of year107
ISO week16
QuarterQ2
Days left258
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- New Moon
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- 0.3 days
- Illumination
- 0%
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- Spring in the Northern Hemisphere, autumn in the Southern Hemisphere
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- Aries
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April 17
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Donnán of Eigg
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Henry Heath
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Kateri Tekakwitha (Canada)
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Robert of Molesme
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Shemon bar Sabbae
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April 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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Evacuation Day (Syria), celebrates the recognition of the independence of Syria from France in 1946.
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FAO Day (Iraq)
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Local briefFriday, April 17, 2026 combines practical calendar facts with a wider view of the day: 2014: NASA announced the discovery of Kepler-186f, the first exoplanet with a radius similar to Earth's discovered in the habitable zone of another star.. Use it to check the date, plan across time zones, and scan the observances and historical markers attached to April 17.
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History for April 17
NASA announced the discovery of Kepler-186f, the first exoplanet with a radius similar to Earth's discovered in the habitable zone of another star.
An ammonium nitrate explosion occurred at a fertilizer company facility in West, Texas, U.S., killing 15 people and injuring 160 others.
A Palestinian suicide bomber detonated explosives in a restaurant in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing 11 people and injuring 70 others.
The Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly declared peace, having hypothetically been at war for 335 years without a single shot being fired and no casualties incurred.
Metropolitan Police officer Yvonne Fletcher was shot and killed while on duty during a protest outside the Libyan embassy in London, resulting in an 11-day police siege of the building and a breakdown of Libya–United Kingdom re...
The Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh, the capital of the Khmer Republic, ending the Cambodian Civil War and establishing the socialist state of Democratic Kampuchea.
George Lucas began writing a 13-page film treatment that later formed the basis of Star Wars.
Czechoslovak Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubček was deposed.
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