About April 4
April 4, 2023 is the 94th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 271 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 312 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 4
- 1147 –First historical record of Moscow.
- 1581 –Francis Drake is knighted for completing a circumnavigation of the world.
- 1812 –U.S. President James Madison enacted a ninety-day embargo on trade with the United Kingdom.
- 1814 –Napoleon abdicates for the first time.
- 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.
- 1866 –Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt in the city of Kiev.
- 1930 –The Communist Party of Panama is founded.
- 1944 –World War II: First bombardment of Bucharest by Anglo-American forces kills 3000 civilians.
- 1945 –World War II: American troops capture Kassel.
- 1960 –France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.
- 1968 –AEK Athens BC becomes the first Greek team to win the European Basketball Cup.
- 1975 –Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico
- 1975 –Vietnam War: Operation Baby Lift – A United States Air Force C-5A Galaxy crashes near Saigon, South Vietnam shortly after takeoff, transporting orphans – 172 die.
- 1976 –Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
- 1979 –The 2nd Congress of the Communist Youth of Greece starts.
- 1983 –Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space (STS-6).
- 1984 –President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
- 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”.
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