What day of the week was April 1, 1873?

The day of the week April 1st, 1873 fell on was a Tuesday. There were 12 days until Easter Sunday.

Sergei Rachmaninoff the Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1943) was born on 01 April in 1873.

The White Star steamer sinks off Nova Scotia the killing 547 in the worst marine disaster of the 19th century.