What day of the week was April 12, 1961?

The day of the week April 12th, 1961 fell on was a Wednesday.

Enedina Arellano Félix the Mexican drug lord was born on 12 April in 1961. As was Corrado Fabi the Italian race car driver , Lisa Gerrard the Australian singer-songwriter (Dead Can Dance) , Charles Mann the American football player , Magda Szubanski the English-Australian actress .

The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight the in Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1).