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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1910 –
    The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
  • 1945 –
    World War II: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army.
  • 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.
  • 1972 –
    The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to “Greenpeace Foundation”.
  • 1979 –
    Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • 1998 –
    A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
  • 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.
  • 2007 –
    Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7 mi wide EF-5 tornado.

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