About April 4
April 4, 2022 is the 94th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 271 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 293 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 4
- 1721 –Sir Robert Walpole enters office as the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom under King George I.
- 1812 –U.S. President James Madison enacted a ninety-day embargo on trade with the United Kingdom.
- 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.
- 1859 –Bryant’s Minstrels debut “Dixie” in New York City in the finale of a blackface minstrel show.
- 1887 –Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
- 1913 –The Greek aviator Emmanouil Argyropoulos becomes the first pilot victim of the Hellenic Air Force when his plane crashes.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1968 –Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
- 1975 –Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico
- 1979 –The 2nd Congress of the Communist Youth of Greece starts.
- 1994 –Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name “Mosaic Communications Corporation”.
- 2002 –In what is known as the Society Murders, Matthew Wales kills his parents in Melbourne, Australia.
- 2002 –The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War.
- 2007 –15 British Royal Navy personnel held in Iran are released by the Iranian President.
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