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
- 1471 –Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward, Prince of Wales.
- 1493 –Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
- 1855 –American adventurer William Walker departs from San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer Nicaragua.
- 1871 –The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
- 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.
- 1949 –The entire Torino football team (except for two players who did not take the trip: Sauro Tomà, due to an injury and Renato Gandolfi, because of coach request) is killed in a plane crash at the Superga hill at the edge of Turin, Italy.
- 1970 –Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: the Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the United States’ invasion of Cambodia.
- 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.
Who were born on May 4?
- 1655 –Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian maker of musical instruments (d. 1731)
- 1919 –Dory Funk, Professional wrestler (d. 1973)
- 1948 –Hurley Haywood, American race car driver, and three-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans
- 1951 –Gérard Jugnot, French actor, film director, screenwriter and producer
- 1970 –Gregg Alexander, American musician (New Radicals)
- 1970 –Will Arnett, American actor
- 1971 –Joe Borowski, American baseball player
- 1974 –Miguel Cairo, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1980 –Franziska Weisz, Austrian actress
- 1982 –Markus Rogan, Austrian swimmer
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