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
- 1660 –Declaration of Breda by King Charles II of England.
- 1721 –Sir Robert Walpole enters office as the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom under King George I.
- 1814 –Napoleon abdicates for the first time.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1930 –The Communist Party of Panama is founded.
- 1958 –The CND Peace Symbol displayed in public for the first time in London.
- 1964 –The Beatles occupy the top five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart.
- 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.
- 1976 –Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
- 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.
- 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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