Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: May 4
May 4, 2024 is the 125th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 241 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Saturday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Taurus is your zodiac sign. Emerald is your modern birthstone. Sapphire is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: May 4
- 1436 –Assasination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson
- 1675 –King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
- 1776 –Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
- 1869 –The Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay is fought in Japan.
- 1912 –Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
- 1942 –World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier USS Yorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before.
- 1945 –World War II: The North Germany Army surrenders to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
- 1972 –The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to “Greenpeace Foundation”.
- 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.
- 2002 –An EAS Airlines BAC 1-11-500 crashes in a suburb of Kano, Nigeria shortly after takeoff killing more than 148 people.
Who were born on May 4?
- 1649 –Maharaja Chhatrasal (d. 1731)
- 1923 –Godfrey Quigley, British actor (d. 1994)
- 1930 –Roberta Peters, American soprano
- 1947 –Richard Jenkins, American actor
- 1959 –Randy Travis, American musician
- 1968 –Julian Barratt, English comedian and musician, one half of The Mighty Boosh
- 1970 –Will Arnett, American actor
- 1971 –Joe Borowski, American baseball player
- 1983 –Jesse Moss, Canadian actor
- 1990 –Matthias Cuntz, German footballer
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