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 95th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 271 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 22, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,536,480 minutes 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 ‘enneacontapentagon’ 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 300 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 4,122 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 4 Historical Events
- 1818 –The United States Congress adopts the flag of the United States with 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (then 20).
- 1841 –William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia becoming the first President of the United States to die in office and the one with the shortest term served.
- 1859 –Bryant’s Minstrels debut “Dixie” in New York City in the finale of a blackface minstrel show.
- 1939 –Faisal II becomes King of Iraq.
- 1967 –Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” speech in New York City’s Riverside Church.
- 1968 –Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
- 1969 –Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1996 –Comet Hyakutake is imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous.
Who were born on April 4?
- 1821 –Linus Yale, Jr., American inventor and manufacturer (d. 1868)
- 1905 –Eugene Bozza, French modern composer (d. 1991)
- 1913 –Frances Langford, American actress (d. 2005)
- 1918 –George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe (d. 2007)
- 1953 –Robert Bertrand, Canadian politician
- 1970 –Barry Pepper, Canadian actor
- 1973 –Peter Hoekstra, Dutch footballer
- 1975 –Roy Padrick, American journalist
- 1986 –Aiden McGeady, Irish footballer
- 1987 –Sami Khedira, German footballer
Who died on April 4?
- 1292 –Pope Nicholas IV (b. 1227)
- 1817 –André Masséna, Duke of Rivoli, Prince of Essling and Marshal of France (b. 1758)
- 1878 –Richard Brewer, American gunslinger/cowboy (b. 1850)
- 1879 –Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (b. 1803)
- 1967 –Al Lewis, American songwriter (b. 1901)
- 1967 –Héctor Scarone, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1898)
- 1972 –Stefan Wolpe, German composer (b. 1902)
- 1992 –Yvette Brind'Amour, French Canadian stage actress and artistic director (b. 1918)
- 1995 –Priscilla Lane, American singer and actress (b. 1915)
- 2007 –Terry Hall, English ventriloquist (b. 1927)
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