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What are the important events that happened on April 4? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
April 4: Facts & Myths About This Day
April 4 is the 94th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 271 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 22, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,062,080 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘enneacontatetragon’ day.
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Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 319 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,487 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 4 Historical Events
- 1581 –Francis Drake is knighted for completing a circumnavigation of the world.
- 1887 –Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
- 1939 –Faisal II becomes King of Iraq.
- 1967 –Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” speech in New York City’s Riverside Church.
- 1979 –President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
Who were born on April 4?
- 1924 –Gil Hodges, American baseball player and manager (d. 1972)
- 1968 –Jesús Rollán, Spanish water polo player (d. 2006)
- 1972 –Magnus Sveningsson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
- 1976 –Sébastien Enjolras, French racing driver (d. 1997)
- 1988 –Frank Fielding, English footballer
Who died on April 4?
- 1536 –Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b. 1460)
- 1870 –Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist (b. 1802)
- 1970 –Byron Foulger, American actor (b. 1899)
- 1979 –Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, President (1971–1973) and Prime Minister of Pakistan (1973–1977) (b. 1928)
- 1991 –Forrest Towns, American hurdler (b. 1914)
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