Daily Calendar - May 4
5/3/2026
The 115th day of the year, 241 days left until the New Year.
Church Calendar
His Holiness Martyr Ekvtims the Enlightened Metropolitan (Shervashidze, 1822)*; His Holiness Janvar, Bishop of Venivendo, and his fellow martyrs: Sossus and Procles, deacons, who were in the city of Potioli, Eutychus and Acustion, deacons, and Faustus and Disider, clerics (305); Martyrs: Theodore of Perga, his mother Philippias, Dioscorus, Socrates, and Dionysius (II); Martyrs: Queen Alexandra, Isaac, Apollos, and Quadrates (303); Maximian, Patriarch of Constantinople (434).
Born:
1772 — Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, founder of the famous encyclopedic publishing house. Died in 1832.
1782 — Teimuraz Batonishvili, writer, scientist, son of George XII. Died in 1846.
1881 — Alexander Kerensky, figure of the Russian February Revolution, head of the Provisional Government. Died in 1970.
1916 — Robert Sturua, painter-monumentalist. Died in 1982.
1923 — Edmond Kalandadze, painter, Rustaveli Prize laureate.
1926 — Konstantine Tsereteli, Georgian linguist, Semitologist. Died in 2004.
1928 — Muhammad Hosni Mubarak, former President of Egypt.
1929 — Audrey Hepburn, British actress of Anglo-Dutch origin. Died in 1993.
Died:
1938 — Karl Ossetsky, German journalist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1955 — George Enescu, Romanian composer.
Events:
1924 — The VIII Olympic Games opened in Paris.
1961 — Americans M. Ross and W. Prater set a record for the highest altitude of a balloon — 34,668 meters.
1967 — The American automatic interplanetary station Luna Orbiter-4 was launched.
1979 — Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister of Great Britain.
1989 — The American spacecraft "Space Shuttle-30 Atlantis-4" was launched.
Memorable days:
Tonga - Crown Prince's Day
Zambia - Labor Day
China - Youth Day
Netherlands - Memorial Day
Japan - National Day