About May 4
May 4, 2021 is the 124th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 241 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 273 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 4
- 1436 –Assasination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson
- 1471 –Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward, Prince of Wales.
- 1675 –King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
- 1686 –The Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines.
- 1776 –Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
- 1814 –King Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decrete of the 4th of May, returning Spain to absolutism.
- 1855 –American adventurer William Walker departs from San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer Nicaragua.
- 1863 –American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with a Union retreat.
- 1869 –The Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay is fought in Japan.
- 1871 –The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
- 1904 –Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England.
- 1904 –The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
- 1942 –World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier USS Yorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before.
- 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.
- 1961 –American civil rights movement: The “Freedom Riders” begin a bus trip through the South.
- 1970 –Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: the Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the United States’ invasion of Cambodia.
- 1972 –The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to “Greenpeace Foundation”.
- 1990 –Latvia proclaims the renewal of its independence after the Soviet occupation.
- 2000 –Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London.
- 2007 –Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7 mi wide EF-5 tornado.
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