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, 484,368 hours 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
- 1859 –Bryant’s Minstrels debut “Dixie” in New York City in the finale of a blackface minstrel show.
- 1866 –Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt in the city of Kiev.
- 1939 –Faisal II becomes King of Iraq.
- 1944 –World War II: First bombardment of Bucharest by Anglo-American forces kills 3000 civilians.
- 1945 –World War II: American troops capture Kassel.
- 1945 –World War II: Soviet Army takes control of Hungary.
- 1975 –Vietnam War: Operation Baby Lift – A United States Air Force C-5A Galaxy crashes near Saigon, South Vietnam shortly after takeoff, transporting orphans – 172 die.
- 1976 –Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
- 1979 –President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
- 1984 –President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
Who were born on April 4?
- 1842 –Edouard Lucas, French mathematician (d. 1891)
- 1902 –Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, French writer (d. 1969)
- 1922 –Elmer Bernstein, American composer (d. 2004)
- 1945 –Caroline McWilliams, American actress (d. 2010)
- 1957 –Aki Kaurismäki, Finnish film director
- 1957 –Nobuyoshi Kuwano, Japanese musician (Rats & Star)
- 1966 –Nancy McKeon, American actor
- 1973 –Peter Hoekstra, Dutch footballer
- 1984 –Arkady Vyatchanin, Russian swimmer
- 1987 –Cameron Maybin, American baseball player
Who died on April 4?
- 896 –Pope Formosus (b. 816)
- 1609 –Charles de L'Ecluse, Flemish botanist (b. 1526)
- 1766 –John Taylor, English classical scholar (b. 1704)
- 1870 –Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist (b. 1802)
- 1912 –Isaac Kaufmann Funk, American lexicographer, co-founder of Funk & Wagnalls (b. 1839)
- 1932 –Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
- 1962 –James Hanratty, British rapist and murderer (b. 1936)
- 1984 –Oleg Antonov, Soviet airplane engineer (b. 1906)
- 1999 –Early Wynn, American baseball player (b. 1920)
- 2003 –Resortes, Mexican comedian (b. 1916)
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