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

  • 1256 –
    The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.
  • 1471 –
    Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward, Prince of Wales.
  • 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.
  • 1814 –
    King Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decrete of the 4th of May, returning Spain to absolutism.
  • 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.
  • 1912 –
    Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
  • 1919 –
    May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.
  • 1945 –
    World War II: The North Germany Army surrenders to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1990 –
    Latvia proclaims the renewal of its independence after the Soviet occupation.
  • 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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