Summary of the Day ✨ 4 April (04/04)
South Korea’s Constitutional Court upheld President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment for martial law, ending his presidency, while Finland officially joined NATO after Turkey’s approval and the Battle of Chasiv Yar began in Ukraine. China held a national day of mourning for COVID-19 martyrs as Syria conducted a chemical weapons air strike on Khan Shaykhun, killing 89 civilians.
Historical Events 📜
- 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.
- 2024: Russo-Ukrainian war: The Battle of Chasiv Yar begins.
- 2023: Finland becomes a member of NATO after Turkey accepts its membership request.
- 2020: China holds a national day of mourning for martyrs who died in the fight against the novel coronavirus disease outbreak.
- 2017: Syria conducts an air strike on Khan Shaykhun using chemical weapons, killing 89 civilians.
- 2013: Seventy-four people are killed in a building collapse in Thane, India.
- 2011: Georgian Airways Flight 834 crashes at N’djili Airport in Kinshasa, killing 32.
- 2010: A magnitude 7.2 earthquake hits south of the Mexico-USA border, killing at least two and damaging buildings across the two countries.
- 2009: France announces its return to full participation of its military forces within NATO.
- 2002: The MPLA government of Angola and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War.
- 1997: Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-83. However, the mission is later cut short due to a fuel cell problem.
- 1996: Comet Hyakutake is imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous.
- 1994: Three people are killed when KLM Cityhopper Flight 433 crashes at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.
- 1991: Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their airplane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.
- 1991: Forty-one people are taken hostage inside a Good Guys! Electronics store in Sacramento, California. Three of the hostage takers and three hostages are killed.
Famous Births 👶
- 2005: Lil Mabu, American rapper
- 2003: Harvey Elliott, English footballer
- 2001: Anzor Alem, Congolese actor and singer
- 2001: Jalen Carter, American football player
- 2001: Angelo Stiller, German footballer
- 1996: Austin Mahone, American singer-songwriter and actor
- 1994: Shunsuke Nishikawa, Japanese actor
- 1994: Risako Sugaya, Japanese singer and actress
- 1993: Samir Carruthers, English footballer
- 1993: David Soria, Spanish footballer
- 1993: Frank Kaminsky, American basketball player
- 1992: Lucy May Barker, English actress and singer
- 1992: Ricky Dillon, American YouTuber and singer
- 1991: Yui Koike, Japanese singer and actress
- 1991: Asia Muhammad, American tennis player
Notable Deaths 🕊️
- 2025: Manoj Kumar, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1937)
- 2025: Tony Rundle, Australian politician, 40th Premier of Tasmania (born 1939)
- 2024: Lynne Reid Banks, British author (born 1929)
- 2024: Thomas Gumbleton, American Roman Catholic prelate (born 1930)
- 2024: Pat Zachry, American baseball player (born 1952)
- 2016: Chus Lampreave, Spanish actress (born 1930)
- 2015: Jamaluddin Jarjis, Malaysian engineer and politician (born 1951)
- 2015: Elmer Lach, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1918)
- 2015: Donald N. Levine, American sociologist and academic (born 1931)
- 2015: Klaus Rifbjerg, Danish author and poet (born 1931)
- 2014: İsmet Atlı, Turkish wrestler and trainer (born 1931)
- 2014: Wayne Henderson, American trombonist and producer (born 1939)
- 2014: Kumba Ialá, Bissau-Guinean soldier and politician, President of Guinea-Bissau (born 1953)
- 2014: Margo MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician (born 1943)
- 2014: Curtis Bill Pepper, American journalist and author (born 1917)
Holidays & Observances 🎉
- Children’s Day (Hong Kong, Taiwan)
- 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:
Reginald Heber (Anglican Church of Canada) - Christian feast day:
Tigernach of Clones - Christian feast day:
Plato of Sakkoudion - Christian feast day:
April 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) - Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Senegal from France (1960).
- Peace Day (Angola)
- One of the possible days for Qingming Festival.
- NATO Day