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.
- 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.
- 1865 –American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.
- 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.
- 1905 –In India, the 1905 Kangra earthquake hits the Kangra valley, kills 20,000, and destroys most buildings in Kangra, Mcleodganj and Dharamshala
- 1930 –The Communist Party of Panama is founded.
- 1945 –World War II: Soviet Army takes control of Hungary.
- 1958 –The CND Peace Symbol displayed in public for the first time in London.
- 1960 –France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.
- 1967 –Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” speech in New York City’s Riverside Church.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2002 –The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War.
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