About April 4

April 4, 2025 is the 94th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 271 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

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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 319 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.
  • 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.
  • 1850 –
    The Great Fire of Cottenham, a large part of the Cambridgeshire village (England) is burnt to the ground under suspicious circumstances.
  • 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.
  • 1939 –
    Faisal II becomes King of Iraq.
  • 1945 –
    World War II: Soviet Army takes control of Hungary.
  • 1949 –
    Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
  • 1965 –
    The first model of the new Saab Viggen fighter aircraft plane is unveiled.
  • 1968 –
    Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6.
  • 1968 –
    Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
  • 1969 –
    Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
  • 1975 –
    Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico
  • 1979 –
    President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
  • 1979 –
    The 2nd Congress of the Communist Youth of Greece starts.
  • 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.

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