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.
- 1415 –Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.
- 1493 –Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
- 1686 –The Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines.
- 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.
- 1869 –The Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay is fought in Japan.
- 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.
- 1945 –World War II: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army.
- 1945 –World War II: The North Germany Army surrenders to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
- 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.
- 1974 –An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000-meter peak.
- 1979 –Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- 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.
- 1990 –Latvia proclaims the renewal of its independence after the Soviet occupation.
- 1998 –A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
- 2000 –Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London.
- 2002 –An EAS Airlines BAC 1-11-500 crashes in a suburb of Kano, Nigeria shortly after takeoff killing more than 148 people.
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