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This day in history: 4 April

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Key facts

504 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 4 April.
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2025: The impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea in response to his declaration of martial law is unanimously upheld by the country's Constitutional Court, ending his presidency.

Holidays and observances

Children's Day (Hong Kong, Taiwan)

Christian feast day: April 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Benedict the Moor

Christian feast day: Gaetano Catanoso

Christian feast day: Isidore of Seville

Christian feast day: Martin Luther King Jr. (Episcopal Church (USA))

Christian feast day: Plato of Sakkoudion

Christian feast day: Reginald Heber (Anglican Church of Canada)

Christian feast day: Tigernach of Clones

Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Senegal from France (1960).

One of the possible days for Qingming Festival.

Events

2025The impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea in response to his declaration of martial law is unanimously upheld by the country's Constitutional Court, ending his presidency.

2024Russo-Ukrainian war: The Battle of Chasiv Yar begins.

2023Finland becomes a member of NATO after Turkey accepts its membership request.

2020China holds a national day of mourning for martyrs who died in the fight against the novel coronavirus disease outbreak.

2017Syria conducts an air strike on Khan Shaykhun using chemical weapons, killing 89 civilians.

2013Seventy-four people are killed in a building collapse in Thane, India.

2011Georgian Airways Flight 834 crashes at N'djili Airport in Kinshasa, killing 32.

2010A magnitude 7.2 earthquake hits south of the Mexico-USA border, killing at least two and damaging buildings across the two countries.

2009France announces its return to full participation of its military forces within NATO.

2002The MPLA government of Angola and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War.

1997Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-83. However, the mission is later cut short due to a fuel cell problem.

1996Comet Hyakutake is imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous.

1994Three people are killed when KLM Cityhopper Flight 433 crashes at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.

1991Forty-one people are taken hostage inside a Good Guys! Electronics store in Sacramento, California. Three of the hostage takers and three hostages are killed.

1991Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their airplane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.

1990The current flag of Hong Kong is adopted for post-colonial Hong Kong during the Third Session of the Seventh National People's Congress.

1988Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.

1987Garuda Indonesia Flight 032 crashes at Medan Airport, killing 23.

1984President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.

1983Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space on STS-6.

1981Iran–Iraq War: The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force mounts an attack on H-3 Airbase and destroys about 50 Iraqi aircraft.

1979Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.

1977Southern Airways Flight 242 crashes in New Hope, Paulding County, Georgia, killing 72.

1975Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

1975Vietnam War: A United States Air Force Lockheed C-5A Galaxy transporting orphans, crashes near Saigon, South Vietnam shortly after takeoff, killing 172 people.

1973A Lockheed C-141 Starlifter, dubbed the Hanoi Taxi, makes the last flight of Operation Homecoming.

1973The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City are officially dedicated.

1969Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.

1968Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6.

1968Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

1967Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" speech in New York City's Riverside Church.

1964The Beatles occupy the top five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart.

1963Bye Bye Birdie, a musical romantic comedy film directed by George Sidney, was released.

1960France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.

1958The CND peace symbol is displayed in public for the first time in London.

1949Cold War: Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

1946Greek judge and archeologist Panagiotis Poulitsas is appointed Prime Minister of Greece in the midst of the Greek Civil War.

1945World War II: Soviet Red Army troops liberate Hungary from German occupation.

1945World War II: United States Army troops capture Kassel.

1945World War II: United States Army troops liberate Ohrdruf forced labor camp in Germany.

Born on this day

2005Lil Mabu, American rapper

2003Harvey Elliott, English footballer

2001Angelo Stiller, German footballer

2001Anzor Alem, Congolese actor and singer

2001Jalen Carter, American football player

1996Austin Mahone, American singer-songwriter and actor

1994Risako Sugaya, Japanese singer and actress

1994Shunsuke Nishikawa, Japanese actor

1993Daniela Bobadilla, Mexican-Canadian actress

1993David Soria, Spanish footballer

1993Frank Kaminsky, American basketball player

1993Samir Carruthers, English footballer

1992Lucy May Barker, English actress and singer

1992Ricky Dillon, American YouTuber and singer

1991Asia Muhammad, American tennis player

1991Jamie Lynn Spears, American actress and singer

1991Justin O'Neill, Australian rugby league player

1991Marlon Stöckinger, Filipino race car driver

1991Martín Pérez, Venezuelan baseball player

1991Yui Koike, Japanese singer and actress

1990Elizabeth Booker Houston American lawyer, public health professional, stand‑up comedian, and political commentator.

1989Chris Herd, Australian footballer

1989Jens Toornstra, Dutch footballer

1989Steven Finn, English cricketer

1989Vurnon Anita, Dutch footballer

1988Frank Fielding, English footballer

1987Cameron Maybin, American baseball player

1987Marcos Vellidis, Greek footballer

1987McDonald Mariga, Kenyan footballer

1987Sami Khedira, German footballer

1987Sarah Gadon, Canadian actress

1986Aiden McGeady, Scottish-born Irish footballer

1986Alexander Tettey, Norwegian footballer

1986Cameron Barker, Canadian ice hockey player

1986Eunhyuk, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer

1986Maurice Manificat, French skier

1985Dudi Sela, Israeli tennis player

1985Ricardo Vilar, Brazilian footballer

1985Rudy Fernández, Spanish basketball player

1984Arkady Vyatchanin, Russian swimmer

Died on this day

2025Manoj Kumar, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1937)

2025Tony Rundle, Australian politician, 40th Premier of Tasmania (born 1939)

2024Lynne Reid Banks, British author (born 1929)

2024Pat Zachry, American baseball player (born 1952)

2024Thomas Gumbleton, American Roman Catholic prelate (born 1930)

2016Chus Lampreave, Spanish actress (born 1930)

2015Donald N. Levine, American sociologist and academic (born 1931)

2015Elmer Lach, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1918)

2015Jamaluddin Jarjis, Malaysian engineer and politician (born 1951)

2015Klaus Rifbjerg, Danish author and poet (born 1931)

2014Curtis Bill Pepper, American journalist and author (born 1917)

2014İsmet Atlı, Turkish wrestler and trainer (born 1931)

2014Kumba Ialá, Bissau-Guinean soldier and politician, President of Guinea-Bissau (born 1953)

2014Margo MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician (born 1943)

2014Muhammad Qutb, Egyptian author and academic (born 1919)

2014Wayne Henderson, American trombonist and producer (born 1939)

2013Bengt Blomgren, Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1923)

2013Carmine Infantino, American illustrator (born 1925)

2013Ian Walsh, Australian rugby player and coach (born 1933)

2013Noboru Yamaguchi, Japanese author (born 1972)

2013Roger Ebert, American journalist, critic, and screenwriter (born 1942)

2013Tommy Tycho, Hungarian-Australian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1928)

2012A. Dean Byrd, American psychologist and academic (born 1948)

2012Anne Karin Elstad, Norwegian author and educator (born 1938)

2012Claude Miller, French director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1942)

2012Dimitris Christoulas, Greek pensioner who committed suicide in public (born 1935)

2012Dubravko Pavličić, Croatian footballer (born 1967)

2012Roberto Rexach Benítez, Puerto Rican academic and politician, 10th President of the Senate of Puerto Rico (born 1929)

2011Juliano Mer-Khamis, Israeli actor, director, and activist (born 1958)

2011Ned McWherter, American politician, 46th Governor of Tennessee (born 1930)

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