May 4 is the 125th day of the year.
There are 241 days remaining until the end of the year.
the sun will rise in San Francisco at 6:09 am
and sunset will be at 8:04 pm.
Today we will have 13 hours and 55 minutes of sun.
The moon is 7.8 illuminated, a waning crescent
the first low tide was at 4:10 am
and the next low tide will be at 4:06 pm.
The first high tide will be at 10:39 am
and the next high tide at 10:43 pm.
National Star Wars Day
National Candied Orange Peel Day
Bird Day
National Orange Juice Day
National Renewal Day
National Weather Observers Day
National Bike To School Day
it is also...
Anti-Bullying Day declared by the United Nations
Cassinga Day in Namibia
Day of the adoption of the Declaration of independence in Latvia
Death of Milan Rastislav Štefánik Day in Slovakia
Greenery Day in Japan
International Firefighters' Day
May Fourth Movement commemorations:
Literary Day in Republic of China
Youth Day in China
Remembrance Day for Martyrs and Disabled in Afghanistan
Remembrance of the Dead in Netherlands
Youth Day in Fiji
on this day in history…
1626 - Dutch explorer Peter Minuit landed on what is now Manhattan.
1776 – Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
1871 – The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1886 – Haymarket affair: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
1904 – The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
1904 – Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England.
1910 – The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
1919 – May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory
to Japan.
1927 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded.
1946 – In San Francisco Bay, U.S. Marines from the nearby Treasure Island Naval Base stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. Five people are killed in the riot.
1953 – Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
1959 – The 1st Annual Grammy Awards are held.
1961A group of Freedom Riders left Washington, D.C., for New Orleans to challenge racial segregation on interstate buses and in bus terminals.
1970 – Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire killing
four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the Cambodian invasion lead by the United States and South Vietnam.
1972 – The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation".
1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1980Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito died at age 87.
1989 – Iran–Contra affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges. The convictions, however, are later overturned
on appeal.
1990 – Latvia proclaims the renewal of its independence after the Soviet occupation.
1994 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord, granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
1998 – A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing
him from the death penalty.
if today is your special day, you get to share birthday cake with...
1655 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian instrument maker, invented the piano (d. 1731)
1796 – Horace Mann, American educator and politician (d. 1859)
1874, Frank Conrad, the American electrical engineer whose innovations led to the establishment of the first radio station, was born.
1889 – Francis Spellman, American cardinal (d. 1967)
1928 – Maynard Ferguson, Canadian trumpet player and bandleader (Big Bop Nouveau) (d. 2006)
1928 – Thomas Kinsella, Irish poet, translator, and publisher
1928 – Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian air marshal and politician, 4th President of Egypt
1929 – Audrey Hepburn, British actress and humanitarian (d. 1993)
1931 – Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Russian conductor and educator
1937 – Ron Carter, American bassist and educator (Miles Davis Quintet)
1939 – Amos Oz, Israeli journalist and author
1941 – George Will, American journalist and author
1946 – Gary Bauer, American political activist
1951 – Jackie Jackson, American singer-songwriter and dancer (The Jackson 5)
1953 – Pia Zadora, American actress and singer
1959 – Randy Travis, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor