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

  • 1581 –
    Francis Drake is knighted for completing a circumnavigation of the world.
  • 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 –
    The Great Fire of Cottenham, a large part of the Cambridgeshire village (England) is burnt to the ground under suspicious circumstances.
  • 1887 –
    Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
  • 1930 –
    The Communist Party of Panama is founded.
  • 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.
  • 1964 –
    The Beatles occupy the top five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart.
  • 1967 –
    Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” speech in New York City’s Riverside Church.
  • 1968 –
    Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6.
  • 1969 –
    Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
  • 1973 –
    The World Trade Center in New York is officially dedicated.
  • 1975 –
    Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico
  • 1979 –
    President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
  • 1983 –
    Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space (STS-6).
  • 1994 –
    Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name “Mosaic Communications Corporation”.
  • 1996 –
    Comet Hyakutake is imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous.
  • 2002 –
    The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War.

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