About May 4
May 4, 2024 is the 125th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 241 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 270 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 4
- 1415 –Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.
- 1493 –Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
- 1675 –King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
- 1686 –The Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines.
- 1799 –Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is invaded and Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris.
- 1814 –Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
- 1859 –The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England.
- 1863 –American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with a Union retreat.
- 1869 –The Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay is fought in Japan.
- 1886 –Haymarket Square Riot: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, Illinois, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
- 1904 –The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
- 1932 –In Atlanta, Georgia, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
- 1945 –World War II: The North Germany Army surrenders to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
- 1946 –In San Francisco Bay, U.S. Marines from the nearby Treasure Island Naval Base stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz federal prison. Five people are killed in the riot.
- 1959 –The 1st Grammy Awards are held.
- 1982 –Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
- 1990 –Latvia proclaims the renewal of its independence after the Soviet occupation.
- 1994 –Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord regarding Palestinian autonomy granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
- 2001 –The Milwaukee Art Museum addition, the first Santiago Calatrava-designed structure in the United States, opens to the public.
- 2007 –Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7 mi wide EF-5 tornado.
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