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
- 1256 –The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.
- 1415 –Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.
- 1471 –Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward, Prince of Wales.
- 1776 –Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1912 –Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2007 –Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7 mi wide EF-5 tornado.
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