What day of the week was April 26, 1865?

The day of the week April 26th, 1865 fell on was a Wednesday.

John Wilkes Booth the American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838) died on this day in 1865.

American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham the North Carolina. Also the date of Confederate Memorial Day for two states. Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth the assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.