Also on April 4
🏛️ Public Holidays
Also observed in: Holy Saturday (AU,CL,HK,PH) · Black Saturday (PH) · Ching Ming Festival (HK) · Näfels procession (CH) · Sábado Santo (CL) · 兒童節 (TW)
✡️ Religious Observances
- Jewish: Pesach III (CH’’M) פסח ג׳ (חוה״מ) holiday
- Chinese: Qingming Festival major
🕰️ On This Day in History
- 2013 — More than 70 people are killed in a building collapse in Thane, India. ↗
- 2002 — The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War. ↗
- 1996 — Comet Hyakutake is imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous. ↗
- 1994 — Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name Mosaic Communications Corporation. ↗
- 1991 — Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their airplane over an elementary school in... ↗
🎂 Notable Births
- 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 — Cerys Hale, Welsh rugby player