Notable Historical Events on April 4th
April 4th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1081 |
Alexius I Comnenus occupies Byzantine throne |
1460 |
University of Basle in Swizerland forms |
1541 |
Ignatius of Loyola becomes 1st superior-general of Jesuits |
1552 |
Mauritius van Saksen begins alliance with Karel Anikita Stroganov |
1558 |
Tsar Ivan IV gives parts of North-Russia to fur traders |
1581 |
Francis Drake knighted by Queen Elizabeth I aboard Golden Hind at Deptford |
1588 |
Christian IV succeeds Frederik II as king of Denmark |
1655 |
Battle at Postage Farina, Tunis: English fleet beats Barbary pirates |
1655 |
The miraculous statue entitled the Infant of Prague is solemnly crowned by command of Cardinal Harrach. |
1660 |
English king Charles II sends Declaration of Breda (freedom of religion) |
1686 |
English king James II publishes Declaration of Indulgence |
1687 |
King James II orders his declaration of indulgence read in English churches |
1716 |
Russian & Prussian troops occupy Wismar |
1737 |
Anthony van Heim installed as Dutch pension advisor |
1814 |
Napoleon abdicates for the first time in favour of his son. |
1818 |
Congress decided US flag is 13 red & white stripes & 20 stars |
1828 |
Casparus van Wooden patents chocolate milk powder (Amsterdam) |
1832 |
Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Rio de Janeiro |
1841 |
Vice President John Tyler becomes the 10th President of the United States after the death of President William Henry Harrison |
1850 |
City of Los Angeles incorporated |
1859 |
Opera "Dinorah" is produced (Paris) |
1859 |
Bryant's Minstrels debut "Dixie" in New York City in the finale of a blackface minstrel show. |
1862 |
Battle of Yorktown (US Civil War) begins |
1862 |
US begins Peninsular Campaign aimed at capturing Richmond during US Civil War |
1864 |
Skirmish at Elkin's Ford (Little Missouri River), Arkansas |
1865 |
Lee's army arrives at Amelia Courthouse |
1866 |
Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt in the city of Kiev. |
1870 |
Golden Gate Park forms by City Order #800 |
1887 |
Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia, KS) |
1896 |
Announcement of Gold in Yukon |
1899 |
South Africa all out 35 vs England (Trott 4-19, Haigh 6-11) |
1900 |
Assassination attempt on Prince of Wales, later British King Edward VII when shot by Jean-Baptiste Sipido in protest over Boer war |
1900 |
British garrison of Reddersberg surrenders to Boer general De Wet |
1902 |
Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund forms with $10 million |
1905 |
Earthquake in Kangra India, kills 20,000 |
1911 |
Hugh Chalmers, automaker, suggests idea of baseball MVP |
1912 |
Army fires on striking mine workers at Lena-gold fields Siberia |
1912 |
Chinese republic proclaimed in Tibet |
1913 |
The Greek aviator Emmanuel Argyropoulos becomes the first pilot victim of the Hellenic Air Force when his plane crashes. |
1914 |
"Perils of Pauline" shown for 1st time in LA |
1915 |
Germany protests vigorously to the US, claiming it must insist that Britain lifts its blockade and assert American neutrality |
1916 |
US Senate agrees (82-6) to participate in WW I |
1918 |
Battle of Somme ends |
1918 |
Food riot in Amsterdam |
1920 |
Arabs attack Jews in Jerusalem |
1921 |
Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2 |
1922 |
WAAB (Baton Rouge La) becomes 1st US radio station with "W" calls |
1926 |
Greek dictator Theodorus Pangalos elected president |
1929 |
"New Moon" musical opens in London |
1929 |
1st AAU Greco-Roman wrestling championships held |
1930 |
Andrew Sandham makes Test Cricket 1st triple century |
1930 |
Les Ames makes the 1st Test Cricket century by a wicketkeeper (149) |
1930 |
The Communist Party of Panama is founded. |
1932 |
George Bernard Shaw's "Too True to be Good" premieres in NYC |
1932 |
Vitamin C 1st isolated, CC King, Univ of Pittsburgh |
1933 |
US Dirigible Akron crashes off coast of NJ, 73 die |
1937 |
4th Golf Masters Championship: Byron Nelson wins, shooting a 283 |
1938 |
5th Golf Masters Championship: Henry Picard wins, shooting a 285 |
1939 |
Faisal II ascends to throne of Iraq |
1940 |
R Rodgers/Lorenz Hart's "Higher & Higher" premieres in NYC |
1941 |
German troops conquer Banghazi |
1944 |
British troops capture Addis Ababa Ethiopia |
1944 |
De Gaulle forms new regime in exile, with communists |
1944 |
Allied Bucharest bombings targeting railroads kills 5,000 |
1945 |
Hungary liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day) |
1945 |
US forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany |
1945 |
US tanks/infantry conquer Bielefeld |
1947 |
Convention on International Civil Aviation goes into effect |
1947 |
Largest group of sunspots on record |
1947 |
UN's International Civil Aviation Organization forms |
1948 |
84-year-old Connie Mack challenges 78-year-old Clark Griffith to a race from home to 1st base; it ends in a tie |
1949 |
Israel & Jordan sign armistice agreement |
1949 |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed (Wash DC) |
1949 |
WKRC TV channel 12 in Cincinnati, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1950 |
Dirk Stikker becomes chairman of OES |
1951 |
Dutch Prince Bernhard visits Juan & Eva Peron in Buenos Aires |
1953 |
KFDA TV channel 10 in Amarillo, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Carrollton Georgia Golf Open |
1955 |
British government signs military treaty with Iraq |
1956 |
Enid Bagnold's "Chalk Garden" premieres in London |
1957 |
Heitor Villa-Lobos' 10th Symphony, premieres in Paris |
1958 |
1st march against nuclear weapons (Aldermaston, England) |
1958 |
Eugene Ionesco's "Tueur sans Gages" premieres in Darmstadt |
1958 |
The CND Peace Symbol displayed in public for the first time in London. |
1959 |
Fed of Mali, consisting of Senegal & French Sudan (dissolved 1960) |
1960 |
32nd Academy Awards - "Ben-Hur", Charlton Heston & Simone Signoret win |
1960 |
Oscar awarded to Neth director Bert Haanstra |
1960 |
Project Ozma begins at Green Bank radio astronomy center |
1960 |
Senegal declares independence from France |
1964 |
"Anyone Can Whistle" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 9 performances |
1964 |
Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks |
1965 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Baton Rouge Golf Invitational |
1965 |
The first model of the new Saab Viggen fighter aircraft plane is unveiled. |
1966 |
Pirate Radio Scotland changes name to Radio Ireland |
1966 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1967 |
Amsterdam Marines chase out "nozems" of Central Station |
1967 |
Dutch De Young government forms |
1967 |
Marines chase "Nozems" out of Amsterdam Central Station |
1968 |
"Education of Hyman Kaplan" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 28 perfs |
1968 |
Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned |
1968 |
US civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee |
1969 |
Denton Cooley gets 1st temporary artificial heart |
1970 |
Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Don Johnson |
1971 |
"Follies" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 524 performances |
1971 |
Marine clay under houses liquefies in St-Jean-Vianney, Quebec, 31 die |
1972 |
1st electric power plant fueled by garbage begins operating |
1974 |
Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's home-run record by hitting his 714th |
1975 |
130 killed as USAF plane evacuating Vietnamese orphans crashes |
1975 |
Steve Miller is arrested for burning his girlfriend's clothes |
1975 |
USAF transport carrying orphans from Saigon crashes killing 155 |
1975 |
Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen. |
1976 |
5th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Judy Rankin |
1976 |
Seni Pramoj's Democratic Party wins elections in Thailand |
1979 |
Ex-President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed. |
1980 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1981 |
Henry Cisneros becomes 1st Mexican-American mayor (San Antonio) |
1982 |
11th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sally Little |
1983 |
45th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: NC State beats Houston 54-52 |
1983 |
6th space shuttle mission, Challenger 1 launched |
1984 |
Michael Frayn's "Benefactors" premieres in London |
1984 |
Winston Smith in Orwell's "1984" begins his secret diary |
1985 |
Tulane University cancels its basketball season amidst scandal |
1986 |
Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 213th point of season |
1987 |
Dow Jones up 69.89 points, ending at record 2,390.34 pts |
1988 |
50th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kansas beat Oklahoma 83-79 |
1988 |
Eddie Hill becomes the world's first driver to cover the quarter mile in under 5 seconds |
1988 |
Largest crowd (55,438) at a season game at Riverfront (Reds Vs Cards) |
1988 |
Last broadcast of "Crossroads" on British TV |
1988 |
Mets set Opening Day record with 6 HRs |
1989 |
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's last NBA game in Seattle |
1989 |
NY Yankee Tommy John ties record of playing 26 seasons, his 287th win puts him 19th overall as Yanks beat Twins on opening day 4-2 |
1990 |
"Marshall Chronicles" premieres on ABC-TV |
1990 |
Gloria Estefan released from hospital after her accident |
1990 |
Security law violator Ivan Boesky is released from federal custody |
1991 |
"Lucifer's Child" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 28 performances |
1991 |
Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania. |
1992 |
Game 1 of Mayor Challenge - NY Yankees beat NY Mets 6-4 at Yank Stad |
1992 |
Jury deliberations begin in Noriega case |
1992 |
Sali Berisha becomes president/Alexander Meksi premier of Albania |
1993 |
12th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Texas Tech beats OH State 84-82 |
1993 |
5th Seniors Golf Tradition: Tom Shaw |
1993 |
Trish Johnson wins Las Vegas LPGA at Canyon Gate Golf Tournament |
1993 |
Wrestlemania IX at Caesar's Palace Las Vegas, Hulk Hogan pins Yokozuna |
1994 |
1st game played at Jacobs Field, Indians beat Mariners 4-3 in 11 inn |
1994 |
56th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Ark Razorbacks beats Duke 76-72 |
1994 |
Cubs Karl "Tuffy" Rhodes, hit 3 HRs in 1993 hits 3 HRs on opening |
1994 |
KLM Saab 340B crashes at Schiphol, 3 killed |
1994 |
LA Dodger Darryl Strawberry begins substance abuse treatment |
1994 |
Largest Opening Day crowd at Yankee Stadium, 56,706 |
1994 |
Netscape Communications founded as Mosaic Communications |
1994 |
Tony Curtis undergoes heart-bypass surgery |
1994 |
Day vs Mets starter Dwight Gooden |
1996 |
"Inherit the Wind" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 45 performances |
1996 |
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Austin TX on KJFK 98.9 FM |
1997 |
Anaheim Ducks clinch their 1st-ever playoff berth |
1997 |
Braves officially open Turner Field against Cubs |
1997 |
DMSP Titan 2 launched |
1997 |
STS 83 (Columbia 22), launches |
1998 |
NFL Europe (Formerly WLAF), kicks off season |
2002 |
The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War. |
2007 |
15 British Royal Navy personnel held in Iran are released by the Iranian President. |
2008 |
The raid on the FLDS owned ranch called the YFZ Ranch in Texas, 401 children were taken into custody. 133 woman were taken into state custody also, the total number of woman and children is 534. |
2012 |
German Nobel Laureat, Gunter Grass, publishes controversial poem that claims Israel is plotting to wipe out Iran |
2012 |
Somalia's National Theatre is struck by a suicide bomber killing ten people including the presidents of the Somali Olympic Committee and Football Federation |
2012 |
Boris Tadić, President of Serbia, resigns |
2013 |
74 people are killed after an illegally constructed building collapses in Thane, India |
2013 |
9 people have been killed on an axe-murdering rampage in Chhattisgarh state, India |
2013 |
Poecilotheria rajaei, a giant tarantula with a 20cm leg span, is discovered in Sri Lanka |
2016 |
Greece Begins Refugee Deportations Under EU Plan |
2016 |
Leaked Files Detail Offshore Accounts Tied to World Leaders |
2016 |
Australian tax office probes hundreds for possible tax evasion after Panama leak |
2016 |
Chris Stapleton scores big at Country Music awards |
2016 |
Abby Wambach: Former US striker arrested for drink-driving |
2017 |
Tesla Passes Ford in Market Value as Investors Bet on the Future |
2017 |
Trump Donates First-Quarter Salary to National Park Service |
2017 |
Ratings agency Standard & Poor's drops South Africa to junk |
2017 |
UNC Holds off Gonzaga 71-65 to Win 6th NCAA Championship |
2017 |
NHL Announces It Won't Play Nice With 2018 Winter Olympics |
2018 |
China vows countermeasures as US issues extensive tariff list |
2018 |
Trump wants US military to secure border until wall is built |
2018 |
US proposes tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese imports |
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