On This Day May 4th

 OTD

May 4th is the one-hundred-twenty-fourth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 243 days remain until the end of the year.

 

Events

1415 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.

1471 – Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales.

1626 – Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherlands (present-day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.

1776 – Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.

1859 – The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge, linking Devon and Cornwall in England

1871 – The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

1904 – The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.

1953 – Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.

1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

 

Birthdays

1006 – Khwaja Abdullah Ansari, Persian mystic, and poet (d. 1088)

1655 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian instrument maker, invented the piano (d. 1731)

1796 – Horace Mann, American educator and politician (d. 1859)

1825 – Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist, anatomist, and academic (d. 1895)

1905 – Al Dexter, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1984)

1929 – Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-British actress and humanitarian (d. 1993)

1959 – Randy Travis, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

1979 – Lance Bass, American singer, dancer, and producer

 

Holiday Highlight

RESPECT FOR CHICKENS DAY

They say that the chickens are descendants of avian dinosaurs. We can say that these magnificent birds haven’t forgotten about their ancestors just by looking at their ferocity. Male chickens are called cocks, and females are called hens. Biddy, rooster, capon, chick, pullet, etc., are a few name variants used for different situations and conditions. Chickens are the most widespread domesticated birds found anywhere a human population exists.

 

The wild chickens evolved from wild jungle fowl. They are chicken-like birds that lived in parts of Southeast Asia some 50 million years ago. D.N.A. analysis and mathematical models trace the origin of chickens back to 58,000 years ago. There is a fascinating insight into these numbers. The first amniotic eggs appeared approximately 340 million years ago, and the first chicken appeared approximately 58,000 years ago. This settles the age-old question of who came first — the chicken or the egg.

 

The domestication of chickens happened some 8,000 years ago in Southeast Asia and then spread worldwide. Chickens were initially not used as a source of food. They were used for entertainment through cockfighting. Only between 400 and 200 B.C., during the Hellenistic period, people in the Southern Levant region started using chickens as a food source. But the condition of these fantastic birds has never been good since the day we domesticated them. They suffered due to the living conditions and constant abuse. To make a better world for these domesticated birds and to create a better conscience, United Poultry Concerns started International Respect for Chickens Day, and we are working to raise better compassion towards chickens and other domesticated fowl.

 

Holidays And Observance

Bird Day

Free Comic Book Day - May 4, 2024 (First Saturday in May)

International Firefighter's Day

International Respect for Chickens Day

Learn to Ride a Bike Day - May 4, 2024 (First Saturday in May)

Mariachi Day - May 4, 2024 (First Saturday in May)

National Candied Orange Peel Day

National Fitness Day

National Herb Day

National Homebrew Day

National Kids Fitness Day

National Orange Juice Day

National Play Outside Day

National Scrapbooking Day

National Weather Observers Day

National Wildfire Community Preparedness Day

Pilates Day

Rhode Island Independence Day

Star Wars Day

World Beer Pong Day –

World Naked Gardening Day

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