What day of the week was April 1, 1949?

The day of the week April 1st, 1949 fell on was a Friday. There were 16 days until Easter Sunday.

Gérard Mestrallet the French businessman was born on 01 April in 1949. As was Sammy Nelson the Irish footballer and coach , Gil Scott-Heron the American singer-songwriter and author (d. 2011) .

Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Nationalist Party in Beijing the after three years of fighting. The 26 counties of the Irish Free State become Ireland.