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, 2025 is the 124th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 241 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Sunday.
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
- 1493 –Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
- 1626 –Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.
- 1686 –The Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines.
- 1863 –American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with a Union retreat.
- 1871 –The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
- 1904 –The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
- 1919 –May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.
- 1982 –Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
- 2002 –An EAS Airlines BAC 1-11-500 crashes in a suburb of Kano, Nigeria shortly after takeoff killing more than 148 people.
- 2007 –Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7 mi wide EF-5 tornado.
Who were born on May 4?
- 1796 –William H. Prescott, American historian (d. 1859)
- 1864 –Marie Booth, the third daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1937)
- 1918 –Tanaka Kakuei, Japanese political leader (d. 1993)
- 1918 –Thomas Mead, Australian politician and journalist (d. 2004)
- 1929 –Sidney Lamb, American linguist
- 1937 –Dick Dale, American guitarist
- 1946 –John Watson, Northern Irish racecar driver
- 1953 –Salman Hashimikov, Soviet heavyweight wrestler
- 1966 –Jane McGrath, co-founder of the McGrath Foundation for breast cancer (d. 2008)
- 1983 –Trisha Krishnan, Indian actress
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