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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1814 –Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
- 1863 –American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with a Union retreat.
- 1910 –The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
- 1912 –Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
- 1932 –In Atlanta, Georgia, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1974 –An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000-meter peak.
- 1988 –The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of space shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
- 1989 –Iran-Contra Affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges. The convictions, however, are later overturned on appeal.
- 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.
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