What day of the week was April 17, 1895?

The day of the week April 17th, 1895 fell on was a Wednesday.

Robert Dean Frisbie the American author (d. 1948) was born on 17 April in 1895.

The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War the and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.