About April 4
April 4, 2024 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.
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Aries is the sun 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.
What Happened On April 4
- 1081 –Alexios I Komnenos is crowned Byzantine emperor at Constantinople, bringing the Komnenian dynasty to full power.
- 1147 –First historical record of Moscow.
- 1660 –Declaration of Breda by King Charles II of England.
- 1721 –Sir Robert Walpole enters office as the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom under King George I.
- 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.
- 1859 –Bryant’s Minstrels debut “Dixie” in New York City in the finale of a blackface minstrel show.
- 1905 –In India, the 1905 Kangra earthquake hits the Kangra valley, kills 20,000, and destroys most buildings in Kangra, Mcleodganj and Dharamshala
- 1944 –World War II: First bombardment of Bucharest by Anglo-American forces kills 3000 civilians.
- 1945 –World War II: American troops liberate Ohrdruf forced labor camp in Germany.
- 1949 –Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
- 1960 –France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.
- 1975 –Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico
- 1975 –Vietnam War: Operation Baby Lift – A United States Air Force C-5A Galaxy crashes near Saigon, South Vietnam shortly after takeoff, transporting orphans – 172 die.
- 1979 –The 2nd Congress of the Communist Youth of Greece starts.
- 1994 –Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name “Mosaic Communications Corporation”.
- 2002 –In what is known as the Society Murders, Matthew Wales kills his parents in Melbourne, Australia.
- 2002 –The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War.
- 2007 –15 British Royal Navy personnel held in Iran are released by the Iranian President.
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