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Saturday 3 April 2027

What the atlas records for this date, across the traditions it covers.

The Day BeforeTodayThe Day AfterAll Of April 2027

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Eastertide
Feast / celebration
The fifty days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost, kept as a single festal season
Day 7 of 50
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The Week Ahead

Sunday 4 AprilDivine Mercy Sunday

This Week In Space and Astronomy History

5 AprilPegasus, First Flight Date 1990
6 AprilPioneer 11, Launch Date 1973
7 April2001 Mars Odyssey, Launch Date 2001
7 April2001 Mars Odyssey, Launch Date 2001
7 AprilProton-M, First Flight Date 2001
7 AprilTim Peake, born 1972
8 AprilGemini Program, Launch Date 1964
8 AprilGemini spacecraft, Launch Date 1964
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Dates for the Hebrew and Islamic calendars are the tabular reckoning, which is what a printed calendar prints. Communities that begin a month on a sighted crescent may differ by a day, and differ from one another by place.