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
- 1436 –Assasination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson
- 1776 –Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
- 1799 –Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is invaded and Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris.
- 1814 –Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
- 1855 –American adventurer William Walker departs from San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer Nicaragua.
- 1871 –The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
- 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.
- 1912 –Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
- 1919 –May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.
- 1932 –In Atlanta, Georgia, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
- 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: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1988 –The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of space shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
- 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.
- 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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