About May 4

May 4, 2025 is the 124th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 241 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

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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 289 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.
  • 1436 –
    Assasination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson
  • 1626 –
    Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.
  • 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.
  • 1871 –
    The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
  • 1910 –
    The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
  • 1912 –
    Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
  • 1945 –
    World War II: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army.
  • 1949 –
    The entire Torino football team (except for two players who did not take the trip: Sauro Tomà, due to an injury and Renato Gandolfi, because of coach request) is killed in a plane crash at the Superga hill at the edge of Turin, Italy.
  • 1953 –
    Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
  • 1959 –
    The 1st Grammy Awards are held.
  • 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”.
  • 1988 –
    The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of space shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
  • 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.
  • 2002 –
    An EAS Airlines BAC 1-11-500 crashes in a suburb of Kano, Nigeria shortly after takeoff killing more than 148 people.

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