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April 4 is the 94th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar (95th in
leap years ). There are 271 days remaining.
Contents
1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances
4.1 Liturgical Feast days
5 External links
Events 1581 - Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elizabeth I .
1660 - Declaration of Breda by King Charles II of England .
1721 - Sir Robert Walpole enters office as the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom under King George I .
1812 - U.S. President James Madison enacted a ninety-day embargo on trade with the United Kingdom .
1814 - Napoleon abdicates for the first time.
1818 - The United States Congress adopts the flag of the United States with 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (then 20).
1841 - William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia becoming the first President of the United States to die in office and the shortest term served.
1850 - Los Angeles, California is incorporated as a city.
1859 - Bryant's Minstrels debut "Dixie " in New York City in the finale of a blackface minstrel show .
1865 - American Civil War : A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia , U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.
1866 - Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt in the city of Kiev.
1887 - Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States .
1905 - In India , an earthquake near Kangra kills 370,000.
1913 - The Greek aviator Emmanuel Argyropoulos becomes the first pilot victim of the Hellenic Air Force when his plane crashes.
1918 - World War I : Second Battle of the Somme ends.
1939 - Faisal II becomes King of Iraq .
1945 - World War II : American troops liberate Ohrdruf forced labor camp in Germany .
1945 - World War II: Soviet Army takes control of Hungary .
1949 - Twelve nations sign The North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation .
1960 - Senegal independence day.
1964 - The Beatles occupy all top five positions on the Billboard singles chart in the United States.
1965 - The first model of the new Saab Viggen fighter aircraft plane is unveiled.
1967 - Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" speech in New York City 's Riverside Church . King billed the speech as a declaration of independence from the war and called the United States "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."
1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated at a motel in Memphis , Tennessee .
1968 - Apollo program : NASA launches Apollo 6 .
1968 - AEK Athens BC becomes the first Greek team to win the European Basketball Cup.
1969 - Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart .
1973 - The World Trade Center in New York is officially dedicated.
1974 - "Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones " opens as the first film with a quadraphonic soundtrack.
1975 - Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico
1975 - Vietnam War : Operation Baby Lift - A United States Air Force C-5A Galaxy crashes near Saigon , South Vietnam shortly after takeoff, transporting orphans - 172 die.
1976 - Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
1979 - President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
1983 - Space Shuttle Challenger STS-6 ).
1984 - President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons .
1988 - Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.
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 .
1994 - Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name "Mosaic Communications Corporation".
1996 - Comet Hyakutake was imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous .
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.
Births 186 - Caracalla , Roman emperor (d. 217 )
1492 - Ambrosius Blarer , German reformer (d. 1564 )
1593 - Edward Nicholas , English statesman (d. 1669 )
1646 - Antoine Galland , French archaeologist (d. 1715 )
1648 - Grinling Gibbons Dutch-born woodcarver (d. 1721 )
1688 - Joseph-Nicolas Delisle , French astronomer (d. 1768 )
1718 - Benjamin Kennicott , English churchman and Hebrew scholar (d. 1783 )
1772 - Nachman of Breslov , founder of Breslov Hasidut (d. 1810 )
1785 - Bettina von Arnim , German writer (d. 1859 )
1802 - Dorothea Dix , American social activist (d. 1887 )
1819 - Queen Maria II of Portugal (d. 1853 )
1821 - Linus Yale, Jr. , American inventor and manufacturer (d. 1868 )
1826 - Zénobe Gramme , Belgian engineer (d. 1901 )
1842 - Edouard Lucas , French mathematician (d. 1891 )
1846 - Comte de Lautréamont , French writer (d. 1870 )
1858 - Remy de Gourmont , French poet (d. 1915 )
1875 - Pierre Monteux , French conductor (d. 1964 )
1876 - Maurice de Vlaminck , French painter (d. 1958 )
1882 - Kurt von Schleicher , Chancellor of Germany (d. 1934 )
1884 - Isoroku Yamamoto , Japanese naval commander (d. 1943 )
1888 - Tris Speaker , American baseball player (d. 1958 )
1888 - Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr. , Polish literary historian (d. 1975 )
1895 - Arthur Murray , American dance teacher (d. 1991 )
1896 - Robert E. Sherwood , American playwright (d. 1955 )
1897 - Pierre Fresnay , French stage and film actor (d. 1975 )
1898 - Agnes Ayres , American actress (d. 1940 )
1902 - Louise Leveque de Vilmorin , French actress (d. 1969 )
1906 - Bea Benaderet , American actress (d. 1968 )
1906 - John Cameron Swayze , American journalist (d. 1995 )
1908 - Ernestine Gilbreth Carey , American memoirist (Cheaper by the Dozen 2006 )
1911 - Max Dupain , Australian photographer (d. 1992 )
1913 - Frances Langford , American actress (d. 2005 )
1914 - Marguerite Duras , French writer (d. 1996 )
1915 - Muddy Waters , American musician (d. 1983 )
1916 - Edith Fore , old lady in commercial ("I've fallen and I can't get up !") (d. 1997 )
1916 - Mickey Owen , American baseball player (d. 2005 )
1916 - David White , American actor (d. 1990 )
1918 - George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe (d. 2007 )
1920 - Éric Rohmer , French film director
1922 - Elmer Bernstein , American composer (d. 2004 )
1924 - Gil Hodges , American baseball player and manager (d. 1972 )
1925 - Claude Wagner , French Canadian politician and judge (d. 1979 )
1928 - Maya Angelou , American writer
1931 - Bobby Ray Inman , American admiral and intelligence director
1932 - Clive Davis , American record producer
1932 - Estelle Harris , American actress
1932 - Richard Lugar , American politician
1932 - Anthony Perkins , American actor (d. 1992 )
1932 - Andrei Tarkovsky , Soviet film director (d. 1986 )
1938 - A. Bartlett Giamatti , American university president and Commissioner of Baseball (d. 1989 )
1939 - JoAnne Carner , American golfer
1939 - Major Lance , American singer (d. 1994 )
1939 - Hugh Masekela , South African musician
1940 - Sharon Sheeley , American songwriter
1942 - Jim Fregosi , American baseball player and manager
1942 - Kitty Kelley , American writer
1944 - Magda Aelvoet , Belgian politician
1944 - Craig T. Nelson , American actor
1945 - Daniel Cohn-Bendit , French political activist
1945 - Caroline McWilliams , American actress
1946 - Dave Hill , English guitarist (Slade )
1946 - Katsuaki Sato , Japanese martial artist
1947 - Luke Halpin , American actor
1947 - Wiranto , Indonesian general
1948 - Michael Blassie , U.S. Air Force officer (d. 1972 )
1948 - Berry Oakley , American bassist (The Allman Brothers Band ) (d. 1972 )
1948 - Abdullah Öcalan , leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party
1948 - Dan Simmons , American writer
1948 - Derek Thompson , Northern Irish actor
1949 - Junior Braithwaite , Jamaican singer (The Wailers ) (d. 1999 )
1949 - Shing-Tung Yau , Chinese mathematician
1950 - Christine Lahti , American actress
1951 - Hun Sen , Prime Minister of Cambodia
1952 - Rosemarie Ackermann , German athlete
1952 - Pat Burns , Canadian ice hockey coach
1952 - Gary Moore , Irish guitarist (Thin Lizzy )
1953 - Robert Bertrand , Canadian politician
1956 - David E. Kelley , American writer and television producer
1956 - Tom Herr , American baseball player
1957 - Ali El Haggar , Egyptian singer and actor
1957 - Aki Kaurismäki , Finnish film director
1957 - Graeme Kelling , Scottish musician (Deacon Blue ) (d. 2004 )
1957 - Kelso , American racehorse (d. 1983 )
1957 - Nobuyoshi Kuwano , Japanese musician (Rats & Star )
1958 - Cazuza , Brazilian poet, singer and composer (d. 1990 )
1958 - Mary-Margaret Humes , American actress
1960 - Jane Eaglin , English soprano
1960 - Hugo Weaving , Nigerian-born English-Australian actor
1963 - Jack Del Rio , American football player and coach
1963 - Graham Norton , Irish talk show host
1963 - Dale Hawerchuk , Canadian ice hockey player
1964 - David Cross , American actor and comedian
1964 - Branco , Brazilian football player and coach
1964 - Sertab Erener , Turkish singer and Eurovision winner
1964 - Robbie Rist , American actor
1965 - Robert Downey Jr. , American actor
1966 - Nancy McKeon , American actor
1968 - Jennifer Lynch , American director
1970 - Barry Pepper , Canadian actor
1971 - John Zandig , American professional wrestler
1971 - Yanic Perreault , Canadian ice hockey player
1973 - David Blaine , American illusionist
1974 - Dave Mirra , American athlete
1975 - Thobias Fredriksson , Swedish cross-country skier
1975 - Scott Rolen , American baseball player
1975 - Delphine Arnault , French billionaire businesswoman
1976 - Emerson , Brazilian footballer
1977 - Adam Dutkiewicz , American guitarist (Killswitch Engage )
1978 - Jason Ellison , American baseball player
1978 - Lemar , English R'n'B singer
1978 - Alan Mahon , Irish footballer
1978 - Irene Skliva , Greek 1996 Miss World winner
1979 - Heath Ledger , Australian actor
1979 - Roberto Luongo , Canadian ice hockey player
1979 - Natasha Lyonne , American actress
1980 - Johnny Borrell , English singer (Razorlight )
1980 - Björn Wirdheim , Swedish race car driver
1983 - Doug Lynch , Canadian ice hockey player
1982 - Fabian Geiser , Swiss footballer
1984 - Arkady Vyatchanin , Russian swimmer
1987 - Sarah Gadon , Canadian actress
1987 - Devon Anderson , English actor
1991 - Jamie Lynn Spears , American actress
1992 - Alexa Nikolas , American actress
1994 - Risako Sugaya , Japanese singer
Deaths 397 - St. Ambrose , Bishop of Milan
636 - Saint Isidore of Seville , Church Father and the proposed patron of Internet
896 - Pope Formosus (b. 816 )
1284 - King Alfonso X of Castile (b. 1221 )
1292 - Pope Nicholas IV (b. 1227 )
1305 - Jeanne of Navarre , wife of Philip IV of France
1536 - Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b. 1460 )
1588 - King Frederick II of Denmark (b. 1534 )
1609 - Charles de L'Ecluse , Flemish botanist (b. 1526 )
1617 - John Napier , Scottish mathematician (b. 1550 )
1643 - Simon Episcopius , Dutch theologian (b. 1583 )
1661 - Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven , Scottish soldier
1701 - Joseph Haines , entertainer and author
1743 - Daniel Neal , English historian (b. 1678 )
1761 - Theodore Gardelle , Swiss painter and enameler (b. 1722 )
1766 - John Taylor , English classical scholar (b. 1704 )
1774 - Oliver Goldsmith , English writer (b. 1728 )
1792 - James Sykes , American politician (b. 1725 )
1807 - Joseph Jérôme Lefrançais de Lalande , French astronomer (b. 1732 )
1817 - André Masséna , Duke of Rivoli, Prince of Essling and Marshal of France (b. 1758 )
1841 - William Henry Harrison , 9th President of the United States (b. 1773 )
1842 - Jean Moufot , French philosopher and mathematician (b. 1784 )
1846 - Solomon Sibley , Senator from Michigan Territory (b. 1769 )
1861 - John McLean , U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1785 )
1864 - Joseph Pitty Couthouy , American naval officer (b. 1808 )
1870 - Heinrich Gustav Magnus , German chemist and physicist (b. 1802 )
1874 - Charles Ernest Beulé , French archaeologist and politician (b. 1826 )
1879 - Heinrich Wilhelm Dove , German physicist (b. 1803 )
1883 - Peter Cooper , American Industrialist, inventor and philanthropist (b. 1791 )
1884 - Marie Bashkirtseff , Russian artist and diarist (b. 1860 )
1890 - Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau , Quebec politician (b. 1820 )
1890 - Edmond Hébert , French geologist (b. 1812 )
1919 - William Crookes , English chemist and physicist (b. 1832 )
1923 - John Venn , British mathematician (b. 1834 )
1929 - Karl Benz ,German engine designer and automobile engineer (b. 1844 )
1931 - André Michelin , French industrialist (b. 1853 )
1932 - Wilhelm Ostwald , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853 )
1951 - Al Christie , Canadian film director and producer (b. 1881 )
1951 - George Albert Smith , President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS or Mormon Church) (b. 1870 )
1953 - King Carol II of Romania (b. 1893 )
1957 - E. Herbert Norman , Canadian diplomat (b. 1909 )
1958 - Johnny Stompanato , American organized crime figure (b. 1925 )
1961 - Simion Stoilow , Romanian mathematician (b. 1873 )
1967 - Héctor Scarone , Uruguayan footballer (b. 1898 )
1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr. , American civil rights activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1929 )
1972 - Adam Clayton Powell Jr. , American politician (b. 1908 )
1972 - Stefan Wolpe , German-born composer (b. 1902 )
1976 - Harry Nyquist , contributor to information theory (b. 1889 )
1979 - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto , President and Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1928 )
1979 - Edgar Buchanan , American actor (b. 1903 )
1980 - Red Sovine , American country music singer (b. 1917 )
1983 - Gloria Swanson , American actress (b. 1897 )
1984 - Oleg Antonov , Soviet airplane engineer (b. 1906 )
1985 - Kate Roberts , Welsh nationalist and writer (b. 1891 )
1987 - C.L. Moore , American writer (b. 1911 )
1991 - Edmund Adamkiewicz , German footballer (b. 1920 )
1991 - Max Frisch , Swiss writer (b. 1911 )
1991 - H. John Heinz III , U.S. Senator (b. 1938 )
1991 - Forrest Towns , American hurdler (b. 1914 )
1992 - Yvette Brind'Amour , French Canadian stage actress and artistic director (b. 1918 )
1992 - Arthur Russell , American cellist (b. 1951 )
1993 - Alfred Butts , American architect and inventor (Scrabble ) (b. 1899 )
1995 - Kenny Everett , British radio DJ and television entertainer (b. 1944 )
1995 - Priscilla Lane , American singer and actress (b. 1915 )
1996 - Barney Ewell , American athlete (b. 1918 )
1996 - Larry LaPrise , American songwriter (b. 1913 )
1997 - Alparslan Türkeş , Başbuğ (b. 1917 )
1999 - Faith Domergue , American actor (b. 1924 )
1999 - Early Wynn , American baseball player (b. 1920 )
2000 - Tommaso Buscetta , Sicilian mafioso and pentito (b. 1928 )
2001 - Ed "Big Daddy" Roth , American custom car designer (b. 1932 )
2002 - Harry L. O'Connor , Czech-born film stuntman
2003 - Anthony Caruso , American actor (b. 1916 )
2003 - Resortes , Mexican comedian (b. 1916 )
2004 - Alberic Schotte , Belgian cyclist (b. 1919 )
2004 - Casey Sheehan , American soldier, son of Cindy Sheehan (b. 1979 )
2005 - Edward Bronfman , Canadian businessman (b. 1924 )
2007 - Bob Clark , American film director (b. 1941 )
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