May 4

The 4th of May is the 124th day of the Gregorian calendar ( 125th in leap years), thus still remain 241 days of the year.

  • 2.1 Before the 19th century
  • 2.2 19th century
  • 2.3 20th century 2.3.1 1901-1950
  • 2.3.2 1951-2000
  • 3.1 Before the 20th century
  • 3.2 20th century
  • 3.3 21st century

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Economy

Science and Technology

  • 2002: NASA launches the Aqua satellite research to explore the role of water in the complex ecosystem of our planet. Aqua is the first satellite of the "A- Train" from the research program Earth Observing System.

Culture

Society

Religion

  • 0304: The exiled to Lorch Roman Christian Florian of Lorch is drowned after a death sentence in the Enns. The martyr is revered as a saint.

Disasters

  • 2007: A tornado Class EF -5 on the Fujita scale destroyed over ninety percent of the city Greensburg, Kansas.

Minor accidents are listed in the sub- items of disaster.

Sports

Entries of Athletics world records are located under the respective discipline under Athletics.

Born

Before the 19th century

19th century

20th century

1901-1950

1951-2000

Died

Before the 20th century

  • 0304: Florian of Lorch, a Christian martyr
  • 0784: Arbeo, Bishop of Freising
  • 1269: Gerhard I von Hoya, Bishop of Verden
  • 1406: Coluccio Salutati Italian humanist and politician, Chancellor of Florence, discoverer of Cicero's letters
  • 1471: Edward of Westminster, English nobleman, Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall
  • 1508: Christopher Mendel of Steinfels, German bishop of Chiemsee
  • 1519: Lorenzo II de Medici, Duke of Urbino and ruler of Florence

20th century

21st Century

  • 2001: Rudi beam, German playwright, short story writer and poet
  • 2002: Rolf Friedemann Pauls, German diplomat
  • 2003: Johannes Agnoli, German political scientist and philosopher
  • 2003: Friedrich Steinbauer, German theologian and anthropologist
  • 2004: Carl Heinz Hollmann, German television presenter
  • 2004: David Reimer, a Canadian boy growing up as a girl
  • 2004: Coxsone Dodd, Jamaican producer
  • 2005: Yakovos Bilek, German basketball coach
  • 2005: David Haskell Hackworth, U.S. military expert
  • 2006: Alma Würth, German entrepreneur
  • 2006: Walter Conrad, German writer
  • 2006: Fritz Schenk, German publicist, journalist and broadcaster
  • 2007: Herbert Schindler, German writer and art historian
  • 2007: Karl Schlögl, Austrian chemist
  • 2008: Gerhard Schmidt, German - Danish farmer and general chairman of the Federal German Nordschleswiger
  • 2008: Richard Holme, British politician
  • 2008: Colin Murdoch, New Zealand pharmacist, veterinarian and inventor
  • 2009: Dom DeLuise, American actor and director
  • 2009: Fritz Muliar, Austrian actor
  • 2009: Gisela Stein, German actress
  • 2010: Cardinal Luigi Poggi, Vatican diplomat and cardinal
  • 2012: Haukur Angantýsson, Icelandic chess player
  • 2012: Adam Yauch, American musician, producer and director
  • 2012: Rashidi Yekini, Nigerian footballer
  • 2013: Christian de Duve, Belgian biochemist and Nobel Prize winner
  • 2013: Klaus- Peter Stein, German football player

Holidays and observances

  • Religious observances Michael Schirmer, German pastor and hymn writer ( Protestant)
  • Saint Florian of Lorch, Roman official, martyr and patron saint ( Catholic)
  • Friedrich Conrad Dietrich Wyneken, German -American pastor and missionary (Protestant: LCMS )
  • Name Days Florian, Guido, Valerie
  • State Holidays and observances Netherlands: National Dodenherdenking
  • More information for the day Star Wars Day

More entries contains the list of commemorative and action days.

  • Day
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April May 1 May 2 May 3 May 5 May 6 May 7 May 8 May 9 May 10 May 11 May 12 May 13 May 14 May 15 May 16 May 17 May 18 May 19 May 20 May 21 May 22 May 23 May 24 May 25 May 26 May 27 May 28 May 29 May 30 May 31 Battle of Tewkesbury Wars of the Roses History of England House of Lancaster Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales Henry VI of England Margaret of Anjou 1493 Pope Alexander VI Inter caetera Demarcation line New World 1521 Wartburg Frederick III, Elector of Saxony 1626 1793 Committee of Public Safety Cereal 1799 Kingdom of Mysore 1807 Treaty of Finckenstein Franco-Persian alliance 1814 Portoferraio Absolute monarchy 1849 History of Saxony Frederick Augustus II of Saxony 1855 Nicaragua 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville Robert E. Lee Army of Northern Virginia Army of the Potomac 1869 Naval Battle of Hakodate Republic of Ezo 1886 Chicago 1911 Antiqua (typeface class) October 17 1912 History of Italy Dodecanese 1917 SS Transylvania (1914) SM U-63 (Germany) Ligurian Sea 1919 1937 Barcelona May Days 1942 Battle of the Coral Sea 1945 Adolf Hitler Obersalzberg Berchtesgaden Hans-Georg von Friedeburg 1949 Berlin-Blockade 1956 Operation Redwing Enewetak Atoll July 21 1970 Kent State University Kent (Ohio) Sandra Scheuer 1974 1979 1980 1982 HMS Sheffield (D80) Type 42 destroyer 1986 1990 History of Latvia Singing Revolution 1993 Andorra 1278 Greater London History of Lebanon 1833 Magazine 1904 Charles Rolls 1933 1976 Satellite Laser Ranging LAGEOS 1995 H. L. Hunley (submarine) 1864 Clive Cussler A-train (satellite constellation) 1506 Miniature book 1555 1895 Der Evangelimann Wilhelm Kienzl Eisenach 1927 Hollywood Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 1948 Carleton College 1953 Frederick Delius The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway Pablo Picasso 1802 Goldsmith 1932 1998 Morality 1415 1201 1897 Superga air disaster 1988 PEPCON disaster Henderson (Nevada) Greensburg (Kansas) 1780 Derby (horse race) Epsom 1900 Gelsenkirchen 1924 1924 Summer Olympics July 27 1587 1654 Kangxi Emperor 1655 Bartolomeo Cristofori 1671 1678 1733 1735 Jacob Baden 1738 1744 Marianna Martines 1747 Philippe-Jean Pelletan 1762 Johann Heinrich Abicht 1772 1776 Johann Friedrich Herbart 1777 1779 John Adam (administrator) 1783 Joseph Wanton Morrison 1794 Heinrich Boie 1796 1800 1806 William Fothergill Cooke 1808 1810 Alexandre Colonna-Walewski 1811 1813 Johann Florian Heller 1815 Franz Adam 1817 Florian Ceynowa 1819 1825 Thomas Henry Huxley 1826 Augustus Le Plongeon 1827 1830 1842 1843 1845 Louis Henry Davies 1846 1847 1850 Emanuel Schiffers 1851 1852 1859 1860 Charles S. Deneen 1870 1871 1872 A. Mitchell Palmer 1873 1874 Bernhard Hoetger 1875 John J. Blaine 1879 1880 1881 1882 Karel Domin 1883 Jan Olieslagers 1885 1887 Hugo Eberlein 1889 1890 1891 Frederick Jacobi 1892 1893 Cornelius Van Til 1896 1899 Fritz von Opel 1903 Luther Adler Josef Pieper 1905 Al Dexter 1906 Gustav Bergmann 1908 Wolrad Eberle 1909 Howard Da Silva 1910 Matthias Volz 1913 Ibram Lassaw Agnelo Rossi 1918 Mary Ann McCall 1920 1921 Werner Schumacher 1922 Alex Randolph John Paul Hammerschmidt 1923 1925 1926 Umberto Masetti 1928 Maynard Ferguson 1929 Audrey Hepburn Eric Wright (writer) 1931 Gennady Rozhdestvensky 1935 Reshat Bardhi José Luandino Vieira Ron Carter 1939 Paul Gleason 1940 Peter Gregg (racing driver) 1941 Kay Nehm 1943 1944 Russi Taylor 1946 Richard B. Hays Hurley Haywood George Tupou V. Graham Swift Mick Mars Jackie Jackson 1952 Antony Hamilton Jacob Miller (musician) 1954 Ricky Ford 1955 Mircea Tiberian David Guterson 1958 Keith Haring 1959 Inger Nilsson Randy Travis Maurizio Cheli 1960 1961 1962 Oleta Adams 1963 Martin Schwalb 1964 Rocco Siffredi 1966 Dirk Becker 1967 Ana Gasteyer Haydar Zorlu 1968 Olaf Bodden Karla Homolka 1971 1972 1973 Malin Andersson Gunther Schepens Katrin Apel 1975 Jim Ronny Andersen Louise Hansen Simon Jentzsch Mariusz Jurasik 1977 1978 Danny Byrd Audrey Hannah 1983 1984 Sarah Meier (figure skater) 1985 Mathieu Montcourt 1987 Jorge Lorenzo Anjeza Shahini Cornelia Groot 1989 Bram Nuytinck Arbeo of Freising 1527 1530 1566 Luca Ghini 1591 1605 1664 1696 1729 Louis-Antoine de Noailles 1752 1755 Ignacio Visconti 1809 1824 Joseph Joubert 1829 1831 1836 1838 Josef Danhauser 1878 William Froude Johann Georg Fischer Adolph Woermann 1934 1938 Carl von Ossietzky Wilhelm Middelschulte Fedor von Bock Guglielmo Gabetto Ezio Loik Valentino Mazzola Mario Rigamonti 1957 Robert Pracht Anton Ackermann Jane Bowles Moe Howard Joe "Mr Piano" Henderson Paul Butterfield 1994 Andrey Abramov (boxer) David Hackworth Richard Holme, Baron Holme of Cheltenham F. C. D. Wyneken Florian (name) Valerie (given name)
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