About April 4

April 4, 2023 is the 94th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 271 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

You can browse the full year calendar in case you need it.

Coffee Love Do you drink coffee? Did you know that coffee and word games are an excellent combination to sharpen your vocabulary? Try this! Within 30 seconds, how many words can you think of from these letters FOAQABRX? Check your answers here: Make words with these letters FOAQABRX. (Sponsored by WordFinder.Cafe)

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 312 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On April 4

  • 1147
    First historical record of Moscow.
  • 1581
    Francis Drake is knighted for completing a circumnavigation of the world.
  • 1812
    U.S. President James Madison enacted a ninety-day embargo on trade with the United Kingdom.
  • 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.
  • 1850
    The Great Fire of Cottenham, a large part of the Cambridgeshire village (England) is burnt to the ground under suspicious circumstances.
  • 1866
    Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt in the city of Kiev.
  • 1930
    The Communist Party of Panama is founded.
  • 1944
    World War II: First bombardment of Bucharest by Anglo-American forces kills 3000 civilians.
  • 1945
    World War II: American troops capture Kassel.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1976
    Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
  • 1979
    The 2nd Congress of the Communist Youth of Greece starts.
  • 1983
    Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space (STS-6).
  • 1984
    President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
  • 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.
  • 1994
    Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name “Mosaic Communications Corporation”.

My Birthday Ninja Is this your birthday? Are you not curious to learn who shares your special day? Find out the April 4 famous birthdays and expand your knowledge today. (Sponsored link)



Share or Link to This Page: