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May 4: Day of the Week
May 4, 2024 is the 125th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 241 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Saturday.
If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is sábado.
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Here’s the May calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
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.
May 4 Historical Event(s)
1256
The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.
1626
Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.
1776
Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
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.
1814
Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
1814
King Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decrete of the 4th of May, returning Spain to absolutism.
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.
1961
American civil rights movement: The “Freedom Riders” begin a bus trip through the South.
1972
The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to “Greenpeace Foundation”.
2000
Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London.
Who were born on May 4?
1923
Stanley Biber, American physician, pioneer of transgender surgery (d. 2006)
1937
Ron Carter, American jazz bassist
1938
Carlos Monsiváis, Mexican writer
1945
Narasimhan Ram, Indian journalist
1950
Darryl Hunt, English musician (The Pogues)
1951
Colin Bass, British bassist (Camel)
1955
Avram Grant, Israeli football manager
1968
Julian Barratt, English comedian and musician, one half of The Mighty Boosh
1977
Nestoras Kommatos, Greek basketball player
1987
Jorge Lorenzo, Spanish motorcycle racer
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