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.
  • 1436 –
    Assasination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson
  • 1493 –
    Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
  • 1626 –
    Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1871 –
    The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
  • 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.
  • 1945 –
    World War II: The North Germany Army surrenders to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
  • 1953 –
    Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
  • 1961 –
    American civil rights movement: The “Freedom Riders” begin a bus trip through the South.
  • 1972 –
    The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to “Greenpeace Foundation”.
  • 1982 –
    Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
  • 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.
  • 2000 –
    Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London.
  • 2001 –
    The Milwaukee Art Museum addition, the first Santiago Calatrava-designed structure in the United States, opens to the public.
  • 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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