May 4th

See also: Category: Holidays May 4

National

• Zambia - Labor Day.
• China - Youth Day .
• Latvia - Independence Day .
• Netherlands - Memorial Day .
• USA , Rhode Island - Independence Day .
• Tonga - Crown Prince Day.
• Japan - Green Day .

Religious

Catholicism

• memory of the blessed Catherine of Leuven ;
• the commemoration of St. Florian Lorkh ;
• the memory of St. Gotthard of Hildesheim ;
• the memory of Judas Kyriac ;
• the memory of the blessed Seferino Jimenez Malia ;
• the memory of Sacerdos of Limoges ;
• memory of .

  Orthodoxy ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

• the memory of the martyr Jananuarius, the Bishop of Benevento , and with him the martyrs Procule, Sossia and Favsta of the deacons, Disideria of the Puteola reader, Eutychius and Akution (c. 305);
• the memory of the martyr Theodore, his ilk in Perga, his mother, the martyrs of Philippia, the martyrs Dioscorus, Socrates and Dionysius (II);
• the discovery of the relics of St. Theodore the Sanaksar (1999);
• the memory of the righteous Alexy Bortsurmansky (1848);
• the memory of the martyrs Isaac, Apollos and Kodrata (303);
• the memory of St. Maximian (Maxim) , Archbishop of Constantinople (434);
• the memory of martyr John Prigorovsky , presbyter (1918);
• the memory of the clergyman Nikolai Pisarevsky , presbyter (1933);
• memory of martyr Alexis Protopopov , presbyter (1938);
• celebration in honor of the Mozdok (Iveron) Icon of the Mother of God.

Name Day

• Catholic: Venus, Gothard, Catherine , Jude , Sacerdos, Seferino, Florian
• Orthodox: Acution, Alexander , Alexey , Apollos , Dionysius , Dioscorus, Disiderius, Evtikhii , Ivan , Isaaci , Codrat, Maximian , Nikolai , Proclus , Socrates, Sossius, Favst , Theodore , Philippia, Jacob , Yanuariy

See also: Category: May 4 Events

Until the XIX century

• 1113 - Vladimir Monomakh came to the Kiev Grand Prince's throne.
• 1410 - antipope Alexander V died in Bologna under mysterious circumstances (suggest that he was poisoned by his successor John XXIII ).
• 1415 - The Council of Constance decided to burn the body of the English theologian John Wycliffe , who died 21 years before.
• 1493 - Pope Alexander VI published the first Inter Caetera bull sharing the New World between Spain and Portugal .
• 1715 - the first folding umbrella was made in Paris .
• 1738 - by decree of Empress Anna Ioannovna, the French dance master Jean-Baptiste Lande established the first Russian dance school in St. Petersburg .
• 1776 - Independence of Rhode Island (now the US state) is proclaimed.
• 1783 - English astronomer William Herschel noticed a red flash on the moon .

XIX century

• 1807 - The Finkenstein Treaty was signed between France and Persia, which marked the beginning of the Franco-Persian alliance against Britain and Russia.
• 1838 - cultural workers bought Ukrainian serf Taras Shevchenko from serfdom.
• 1844 - a solemn dinner was held in the Aksakovs' house in honor of the reconciliation of Russian Westernizers and Slavophiles .
• 1848 - the opening of the Constituent Assembly of France .
• 1852 - one of the naibs of Imam Shamil - Hadji Murad , who with his detachment sided with the Russians, interrupted the guards and left for the mountains. The head of Hadji Murad is still kept in the Kunstkamera in St. Petersburg .
• 1878 - in the building of the opera house Thomas Alva Edison for the first time publicly demonstrated the phonograph invented by him.
• 1896 - The first edition of the Daily Mail was published in London .

XX century

• 1904
  • The construction of the Panama Canal began .
  • In England, Henry Royce and Charles Rolls began producing cars called Rolls Royce .
• 1910
  • Created by the Canadian Navy .
  • From May 4 to May 8, the All-Russian Congress on Combating Women’s Bargaining was held in St. Petersburg . The initiator of its convocation was the committee of the Russian Society for the Protection of Women. Presided at the congress doctor of medicine, member of the 3rd State Duma Vasily Konstantinovich von Anrep .
• 1919
  • The Latvian Academy of Arts was founded.
  • In Beijing , a student protest is held, which marked the beginning of the May 4th Movement .
• 1924
  • In Paris , the VIII Olympic Games began .
  • Helicopter E. Emishen first flew on a closed route of 1 km ( France ).
• 1927 - The Academy of Cinema Art was established in the USA , which will soon establish the Oscar film award.
• 1931 - at the RAPP secretariat it was decided to “immediately start an artistic show of the heroes of the five-year plans”.
• 1934 - the opening of the Moscow House of Cinema (now the Central House of Cinema ).
• 1935 - Stalin on the issue of red officers said his famous phrase: "Personnel decide everything!".
• 1942 - the beginning of the Battle of the Coral Sea .
• 1944 - restrictions on trade in meat are abolished in the USA .
• 1946 - The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) adopted a resolution on the organization of the State Publishing House of Foreign Literature and the Library of Foreign Literature .
• 1953 - The Kiev Higher Engineering Radio Engineering School of Air Defense ( KVIRTU Air Defense ) began work.
• 1960 - The USSR Council of Ministers adopted a decree “On changing the scale of prices and replacing the now circulating money with new money,” according to which, from January 1, 1961 , a 10-fold decrease in prices (denomination) and earnings with the introduction of a “new” ruble, equivalent to ten "old."
• 1961 - a decree was adopted in the USSR on intensifying the fight against parasitism .
• 1964 - The first public performance of the rock band “Moody Blues” took place in Birmingham .
• 1966 - in Turin, a protocol was signed on the participation of the Italian company Fiat in the construction of an industrial complex for the production of cars in Togliatti .
• 1970 - The Kent tragedy . At the University of Kent State University, the National Guard opened fire on a student demonstration against the US invasion of Cambodia (4 students were killed).
• 1979 - Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female prime minister of Great Britain .
• 1986 - evacuation zone around Chernobyl increased to 30 kilometers.
• 1987 - The decision of the Lensovet Executive Committee "On the construction of buildings to protect Leningrad from floods."
• 1988 - PepsiCo became the first Western company to buy advertising time on Central Soviet television.
• 1990 - The Supreme Soviet of the Latvian SSR strongly condemned the inclusion of Latvia into the Soviet Union and announced the restoration of the independence of the Republic of Latvia.
• 1994 - members of the European Parliament voted for full membership of Finland , Norway , Austria and Sweden in the European Union from January 1, 1995 .
• 1995 - Jose Estenssoro (president of José Estenssoro), the president of Argentina's largest oil company YPF, died in a plane crash in Ecuador ^[6] .
• 1997 - Seferino Jimenez Malia was proclaimed Blessed and became the official patron of the Gypsies with the Catholics .
• 1998 - A few hours after taking office in the Vatican, under mysterious circumstances, the 31st Commander of the Papal Swiss Guard, Alois Estermann , was shot dead with his wife.
• 1999 - the founding congress of the communist organization Avant - garde of red youth was held in Moscow ^{[ significance of fact? ]}
• 2000
  • The literary prize was awarded to the writer Valentin Rasputin in the Moscow House of Russian Abroad. This award was established by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and he himself handed the diploma of the winner to Rasputin.
  • The first appearance of the virus " I love you ".
  • Items from the sunken Titanic in 1912 sold at Sotheby 's for $ 60,000 ^{[ significance of fact? ]} .
  • Italian actress Claudia Cardinale debuted on the theater stage. She played a major role in the play "Venetian" by an unknown Italian author of the XVI century . The play was staged at the Ron Poan Theater in Paris. The premiere caused a furore in Paris . Cardinal is 60 years old. She starred in 120 films, but never played in the theater before. ^{[ significance of fact? ]} .

XXI century

• 2001 - The rules of dog walking are approved in Moscow .
• 2002 - BAC disaster 1-11 in Kano , killing 149 people.
• 2004 - The World Hemp March, banned by the prefecture, took place in Moscow on Old Arbat (65 people out of 100-200 participants were detained).

See also: Category: Born May 4

Until the XVIII century

• 1006 - Ansari (d. 1089 ), Persian mystic poet, theologian.
• 1611 - Carlo Rainaldi (died 1691 ), Italian architect.
• 1622 - Juan de Valdes Leal (died 1690 ), Spanish painter, sculptor and architect.
• 1654 - Kansi (died 1722 ), the fourth Chinese emperor from the Manchu Qing dynasty (1661-1722).
• 1655 - Bartolomeo Cristofori (died 1731 ), Italian musical master, inventor of piano .

XVIII century

• 1708 - Mavra Shuvalova (died 1759 ), the closest friend of the Russian Empress Elizaveta Petrovna , the stats lady of her court.
• 1733 - Jean-Charles de Borda (nickname Knight ; d. 1799 ), French physicist and surveyor, who determined the length of the second pendulum in Paris.
• 1744 - Jean-Louis Voile (died 1803 ), French portrait painter, who worked in Russia.
• 1770 - Francois Gerard (died 1837 ), French portrait painter.
• 1772 - Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus (died 1823 ), German publisher, founder of an encyclopaedic publishing house .
• 1776 - Johann Friedrich Herbart (died 1841 ), German psychologist and teacher, founder of formal aesthetics.
• 1777 - Louis Tenard (d. 1857 ), French chemist.
• 1778 - Mikhail Magnitsky (died 1844 ), Russian poet, essayist, public figure.
• 1793 - Ivan Snegiryov (died 1868 ), Russian historian, ethnographer, folklorist, archaeologist.
• 1796 - William Prescott (died 1859 ), American historian.

XIX century

• 1825 - Thomas Henry Huxley (d. 1895 ), English natural scientist, Darwinist biologist.
• 1826 - Frederick Church (d. 1900 ), American landscape painter.
• 1827 - John Henning Speake (died in 1864 ), officer of the British Indian Army, explorer of Africa, who discovered Lake Victoria in 1858 and the source of the White Nile .
• 1843 - Fedor Korsch (died 1913 ), Russian philologist, linguist, academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.
• 1846 - Emile Halle (died 1904 ), French artist, master of art glass.
• 1852 - Alice Liddell (d. 1934 ), a type of Alice in the tales of Lewis Carroll .
• 1863 - Robert Teichmüller (died 1939 ), German pianist, composer.
• 1879 - Leonid Mandelstam (died 1944 ), Soviet radio physicist, academician.
• 1881 - Alexander Kerensky (d. 1970 ), Russian political and public figure, chairman of the Provisional Government .
• 1899 - Fritz von Opel (died 1971 ), German industrialist and inventor, pioneer in the field of rocket technology.
• 1900 - Antun Avgustinchich (d. 1979 ), Croatian sculptor, foreign member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR.

XX century

• 1904 - Umm Kulthum (d. 1975 ), Egyptian singer, songwriter, actress.
• 1909 - Nikolai Dostal (d. 1959 ), Russian film director.
• 1912 - Nikolai Blokhin (d. 1993 ), Soviet oncologist, academician, public figure.
• 1914
  • Mark Fradkin (died 1990 ), songwriter, People's Artist of the USSR.
  • Emmanuelle Robles (d. 1995 ), French writer and playwright.
• 1924 - Tatiana Nikolaeva (d. 1993 ), pianist, composer and teacher, People's Artist of the USSR.
• 1928 - Hosni Mubarak , Egyptian military and political leader, President of Egypt 1981–2011.
• 1929 - Audrey Hepburn (d. 1993 ), British actress, winner of the Oscar .
• 1931 - Gennady Rozhdestvensky (d. 2018 ), conductor, pianist, composer, People's Artist of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labor.
• 1934
  • Tatyana Samoilova (d. 2014 ), theater and film actress, people's artist of Russia.
  • Leonid Kheifets , theater director, teacher, People's Artist of Russia.
• 1939 - Amos Oz , Israeli writer ("In the Land of Israel", "Somewhere, Maybe").
• 1941 - Natalia Velichko , theater and film actress, film director, honored actress of the RSFSR.
• 1942 - Anatoly Vasilyev , Soviet and Russian theater director and teacher.
• 1943 - Mikhail Shemyakin , Soviet, American and Russian artist, graphic artist, sculptor.
• 1951 - Jackie Jackson , American singer, musician, member of the band " The Jackson 5 ".
• 1958 - Keith Haring (d. 1990 ), American painter, sculptor and public figure.
• 1971 - Leonid Slutsky , Russian football coach.
• 1972 - Mike Dernt , guitarist of the American rock band Green Day .
• 1977 - Zhuzhanna Verös , Hungarian athlete, Olympic champion in modern pentathlon (2004), multiple world and European champion.
• 1983 - Michael Resch , German and Belgian biathlete, Olympic champion (2006), European champion (2004).
• 1984 - Sarah Mayer , Swiss figure skater, European champion (2011).
• 1987
  • Anastasia Kamensky , Ukrainian singer.
  • Francesc Fabregas , Spanish footballer, world champion (2010).
• 1988 - Alexander Abramenko , Ukrainian freestyle player, Olympic champion (2018).

See also: Category: Dead May 4

Until the XX century

• 1038 - Saint Godegard (r. 960 ), Bishop of Hildesheim.
• 1722 - Claude Gillo (b. 1673 ), French artist, stage designer and author of theater costumes.
• 1839 - Denis Davydov (b. 1784 ), Russian poet, hero of the Patriotic War of 1812 .
• 1889 - Vasily Kokorev (b. 1817 ), Russian entrepreneur and philanthropist.

XX century

• 1912 - Nettie Stevens (b. 1861 ), one of the first American women geneticists.
• 1924 - Edith Nesbit (b. 1858 ), English writer.
• 1933 - Spiridon Melikyan (b. 1880 ), Armenian Soviet musicologist, composer, choirmaster.
• 1938
  • Jigoro Kano (born 1860 ), Japanese martial artist, creator of judo .
  • Karl von Ossitzky (b. 1889 ), German journalist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1935).
• 1940 - Berend Pikk (b. 1861 ), German numismatist .
• 1947 - Prov Sadovsky (b. 1874 ), actor, theater director, People's Artist of the USSR.
• 1955 - George Enescu (born 1881 ), Romanian composer, violinist, conductor.
• 1969 - Oscar Maurus Fontana (b. 1889 ), Austrian writer.
• 1970 - Kasian Goleizovsky (b. 1892 ), Russian Soviet ballet dancer, choreographer, choreographer.
• 1972 - Edward Kendall (b. 1886 ), American chemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine (1950).
• 1980 - Josip Broz Tito (b. 1892 ), statesman, president of Yugoslavia (since 1953).
• 1984 - Diana Dors (b. 1931 ), English actress.
• 1988 - Oleg Zhakov (b. 1905 ), Soviet theater and film actor.
• 1993 - Maria Smirnova (b. 1905 ), Soviet screenwriter.

XXI century

• 2006 - Alexander Borschagovsky (b. 1913 ), Soviet and Russian writer, playwright, theater specialist.
• 2008 - Colin Murdock (born 1929 ), New Zealand pharmacist, inventor of a disposable plastic syringe.
• 2012 - Adam Yauk (b. 1964 ), American rapper, composer, co-founder of the Beastie Boys group.
• 2013 - Christian de Duve (b. 1917 ), Belgian biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine (1974, together with A. Claude and J. Palade ).
• 2014 - Tatiana Samoilova (b. 1934 ), Soviet actress.
• 2016 - Robert Foster Bennett (b. 1933 ), American politician, senator.
• 2017
  • Gennady Polevoy (b. 1927 ), Soviet and Ukrainian graphic artist, publicist.
  • Victor Lano (born 1936 ), French actor.

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