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 95th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 271 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 22, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,536,480 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 ‘enneacontapentagon’ 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 300 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 4,122 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.
- 1814 –Napoleon abdicates for the first time.
- 1818 –The United States Congress adopts the flag of the United States with 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (then 20).
- 1841 –William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia becoming the first President of the United States to die in office and the one with the shortest term served.
- 1850 –Los Angeles, California is incorporated as a city.
- 1850 –The Great Fire of Cottenham, a large part of the Cambridgeshire village (England) is burnt to the ground under suspicious circumstances.
- 1873 –The Kennel Club is founded, the oldest and first official registry of purebred dogs in the world.
- 1968 –AEK Athens BC becomes the first Greek team to win the European Basketball Cup.
- 1975 –Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico
- 1979 –The 2nd Congress of the Communist Youth of Greece starts.
Who were born on April 4?
- 1843 –William Henry Jackson, American photographer (d. 1942)
- 1908 –Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American memoirist (Cheaper by the Dozen) (d. 2006)
- 1911 –Max Dupain, Australian photographer (d. 1992)
- 1923 –Peter Vaughan, English actor
- 1924 –Gil Hodges, American baseball player and manager (d. 1972)
- 1952 –Villy Søvndal, Danish politician
- 1957 –Ali El Haggar, Egyptian singer and actor
- 1978 –Irene Skliva, Greek pageant contestant
- 1980 –Trevor Moore, American comedian
- 1987 –McDonald Mariga, Kenyan footballer
Who died on April 4?
- 1292 –Pope Nicholas IV (b. 1227)
- 1305 –Jeanne of Navarre, wife of Philip IV of France (b. 1273)
- 1864 –Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer (b. 1808)
- 1890 –Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Quebec politician (b. 1820)
- 1912 –Charles Brantley Aycock, 50th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina (b. 1859)
- 1932 –Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
- 1972 –Stefan Wolpe, German composer (b. 1902)
- 1983 –Gloria Swanson, American actress (b. 1899)
- 1991 –Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (b. 1920)
- 2005 –Edward Bronfman, Canadian businessman (b. 1924)
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