About April 4
April 4, 2024 is the 95th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 271 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 300 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 4
- 1081 –Alexios I Komnenos is crowned Byzantine emperor at Constantinople, bringing the Komnenian dynasty to full power.
- 1147 –First historical record of Moscow.
- 1581 –Francis Drake is knighted for completing a circumnavigation of the world.
- 1660 –Declaration of Breda by King Charles II of England.
- 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.
- 1859 –Bryant’s Minstrels debut “Dixie” in New York City in the finale of a blackface minstrel show.
- 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.
- 1905 –In India, the 1905 Kangra earthquake hits the Kangra valley, kills 20,000, and destroys most buildings in Kangra, Mcleodganj and Dharamshala
- 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.
- 1960 –France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.
- 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
- 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.
- 1979 –President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
- 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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