What are the important events that happened on April 4? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
April 4: Facts & Myths About This Day
April 4 is the 94th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 271 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 22, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,743,724,800 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘enneacontatetragon’ day.
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Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 319 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,487 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 4 Historical Events
- 1850 –Los Angeles, California is incorporated as a city.
- 1913 –The Greek aviator Emmanouil Argyropoulos becomes the first pilot victim of the Hellenic Air Force when his plane crashes.
- 1930 –The Communist Party of Panama is founded.
- 1965 –The first model of the new Saab Viggen fighter aircraft plane is unveiled.
- 1975 –Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico
- 1979 –The 2nd Congress of the Communist Youth of Greece starts.
- 1988 –Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.
- 1991 –Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.
- 2002 –In what is known as the Society Murders, Matthew Wales kills his parents in Melbourne, Australia.
- 2007 –15 British Royal Navy personnel held in Iran are released by the Iranian President.
Who were born on April 4?
- 1916 –Nikola Ljubicic, Yugoslav general, Serbian communist politician (d. 2005)
- 1924 –Gil Hodges, American baseball player and manager (d. 1972)
- 1945 –Daniel Cohn-Bendit, French political activist
- 1956 –David E. Kelley, American writer and TV producer
- 1957 –Aki Kaurismäki, Finnish film director
- 1962 –Craig Adams, English musician (The Sisters of Mercy, Mission UK)
- 1973 –David Blaine, American illusionist
- 1978 –Irene Skliva, Greek pageant contestant
- 1980 –Eric Steinbach, American football player
- 1994 –Risako Sugaya, Japanese singer
Who died on April 4?
- 636 –Saint Isidore of Seville, Church Father and the proposed patron of Internet (b. c. 560)
- 1766 –John Taylor, English classical scholar (b. 1704)
- 1864 –Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer (b. 1808)
- 1919 –Sir William Crookes, English chemist and physicist (b. 1832)
- 1931 –André Michelin, French industrialist (b. 1853)
- 1958 –Johnny Stompanato, American organized crime figure (b. 1925)
- 1984 –Oleg Antonov, Soviet airplane engineer (b. 1906)
- 1987 –C.L. Moore, American writer (b. 1911)
- 1996 –Larry LaPrise, American songwriter (b. 1913)
- 2011 –Scott Columbus, American drummer (Manowar) (b. 1956)
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