About April 4

April 4, 2025 is the 94th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 271 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

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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 319 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On April 4

  • 1147 –
    First historical record of Moscow.
  • 1812 –
    U.S. President James Madison enacted a ninety-day embargo on trade with the United Kingdom.
  • 1850 –
    The Great Fire of Cottenham, a large part of the Cambridgeshire village (England) is burnt to the ground under suspicious circumstances.
  • 1865 –
    American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.
  • 1866 –
    Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt in the city of Kiev.
  • 1873 –
    The Kennel Club is founded, the oldest and first official registry of purebred dogs in the world.
  • 1887 –
    Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
  • 1944 –
    World War II: First bombardment of Bucharest by Anglo-American forces kills 3000 civilians.
  • 1945 –
    World War II: American troops capture Kassel.
  • 1958 –
    The CND Peace Symbol displayed in public for the first time in London.
  • 1964 –
    The Beatles occupy the top five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart.
  • 1965 –
    The first model of the new Saab Viggen fighter aircraft plane is unveiled.
  • 1979 –
    President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
  • 1984 –
    President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
  • 1988 –
    Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.
  • 1991 –
    Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.
  • 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 –
    In what is known as the Society Murders, Matthew Wales kills his parents in Melbourne, Australia.
  • 2007 –
    15 British Royal Navy personnel held in Iran are released by the Iranian President.

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