About May 4
May 4, 2025 is the 124th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 241 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 289 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 4
- 1256 –The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.
- 1471 –Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward, Prince of Wales.
- 1493 –Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
- 1776 –Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
- 1814 –Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
- 1814 –King Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decrete of the 4th of May, returning Spain to absolutism.
- 1863 –American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with a Union retreat.
- 1869 –The Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay is fought in Japan.
- 1886 –Haymarket Square Riot: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, Illinois, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
- 1904 –The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
- 1912 –Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
- 1932 –In Atlanta, Georgia, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
- 1946 –In San Francisco Bay, U.S. Marines from the nearby Treasure Island Naval Base stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz federal prison. Five people are killed in the riot.
- 1949 –The entire Torino football team (except for two players who did not take the trip: Sauro Tomà, due to an injury and Renato Gandolfi, because of coach request) is killed in a plane crash at the Superga hill at the edge of Turin, Italy.
- 1959 –The 1st Grammy Awards are held.
- 1970 –Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: the Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the United States’ invasion of Cambodia.
- 1972 –The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to “Greenpeace Foundation”.
- 1982 –Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
- 1989 –Iran-Contra Affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges. The convictions, however, are later overturned on appeal.
- 2007 –Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7 mi wide EF-5 tornado.
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