What are the important events that happened on May 4? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
May 4: Facts & Myths About This Day
May 4 is the 125th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 241 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 21, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,714,780,800 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 ‘hectaicosapentagon’ day.
Taurus is the zodiac 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 270 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 4,152 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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May 4 Historical Events
- 1471 –Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward, Prince of Wales.
- 1675 –King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
- 1686 –The Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines.
- 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.
- 1863 –American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with a Union retreat.
- 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.
- 1972 –The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to “Greenpeace Foundation”.
- 1974 –An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000-meter peak.
- 1998 –A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
- 2001 –The Milwaukee Art Museum addition, the first Santiago Calatrava-designed structure in the United States, opens to the public.
Who were born on May 4?
- 1649 –Maharaja Chhatrasal (d. 1731)
- 1781 –Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher (d. 1832)
- 1937 –Dick Dale, American guitarist
- 1941 –George Will, American writer
- 1945 –Narasimhan Ram, Indian journalist
- 1961 –Luis Herrera, Colombian cyclist
- 1973 –Guillermo Barros Schelotto, Argentine footballer
- 1978 –Daisuke Ono, Japanese seiyu
- 1983 –Derek Roy, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1985 –Ravinder Bopara, English cricketer
Who died on May 4?
- 1471 –Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset, English military commander (executed)
- 1471 –Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (killed in battle) (b. 1453)
- 1677 –Isaac Barrow, English mathematician (b. 1630)
- 1811 –Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (b. 1776)
- 1859 –Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician (b. 1771)
- 1880 –Edward Clark, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
- 1916 –Members of the Easter Rising: Edward Daly, Irish nationalist and Member of the Easter Rising (b. 1891)
- 1938 –Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1889)
- 1945 –Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (b. 1880)
- 1961 –Anita Stewart, American film actress (b. 1895)
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