About May 4
May 4, 2024 is the 125th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 241 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 270 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.
- 1436 –Assasination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson
- 1675 –King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
- 1686 –The Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines.
- 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.
- 1859 –The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England.
- 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.
- 1942 –World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier USS Yorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before.
- 1945 –World War II: The North Germany Army surrenders to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
- 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.
- 1961 –American civil rights movement: The “Freedom Riders” begin a bus trip through the South.
- 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”.
- 1988 –The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of space shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
- 1990 –Latvia proclaims the renewal of its independence after the Soviet occupation.
- 2000 –Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London.
- 2001 –The Milwaukee Art Museum addition, the first Santiago Calatrava-designed structure in the United States, opens to the public.
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