About April 4
April 4, 2021 is the 94th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 271 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 303 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.
- 1660 –Declaration of Breda by King Charles II of England.
- 1812 –U.S. President James Madison enacted a ninety-day embargo on trade with the United Kingdom.
- 1818 –The United States Congress adopts the flag of the United States with 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (then 20).
- 1850 –Los Angeles, California is incorporated as a city.
- 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.
- 1913 –The Greek aviator Emmanouil Argyropoulos becomes the first pilot victim of the Hellenic Air Force when his plane crashes.
- 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 –AEK Athens BC becomes the first Greek team to win the European Basketball Cup.
- 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 –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.
- 1979 –The 2nd Congress of the Communist Youth of Greece starts.
- 1983 –Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space (STS-6).
- 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.
- 2007 –15 British Royal Navy personnel held in Iran are released by the Iranian President.
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