What day of the week was April 5, 1943?

The day of the week April 5th, 1943 fell on was a Monday. There were 20 days until Easter Sunday.

Aleš Hrdlička the Czech-American anthropologist (b. 1869) died on this day in 1943.

World War II: American bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths the including 209 children, and 1,300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. Their target was the Erla factory one kilometer from the residential area hit.