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May 4
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May 4 is the 124th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar (125th in
leap years). There are 241 days remaining.
Events
*
1471 -
Wars of the Roses: The
Battle of Tewkesbury –
Edward IV of England Edward IV defeats a
House of Lancaster Lancastrian Army and kills
Edward of Westminster Edward,
Prince of Wales.
*
1493 -
Pope Alexander VI divides the
New World between
Spain and
Portugal along the
Line of Demarcation Demarcation Line.
*
1494 -
Christopher Columbus lands in
Jamaica.
*
1626 -
Netherlands Dutch explorer
Peter Minuit arrives in
New Netherland (present day
Manhattan Island) aboard the ''See Meeuw''.
*
1675 - King
Charles II of England orders the construction of the
Royal Greenwich Observatory.
*
1776 -
Rhode Island becomes the first
13 colonies American colony to renounce allegiance to King
George III of the United Kingdom George III.
*
1814 - Emperor
Napoleon I of France arrives at
Portoferraio on the island of
Elba to begin his exile.
*
1855 -
United States American adventurer
William Walker (soldier) William Walker departs from
San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer
Nicaragua.
*
1859 -
Cornwall Railway opened across the
Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of
Devon and
Cornwall in
England.
*
1863 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Chancellorsville – The
battle ends with a
United States Union retreat.
*
1865 -
Abraham Lincoln buried in
Springfield, Illinois, three weeks after his
assassination.
*
1869 - The
Naval Battle of Hakodate takes place in
Japan.
*
1871 - The
National Association of Professional Baseball Players National Association, the first professional baseball league, begins its first season.
*
1886 -
Haymarket Square Riot: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a
Labor movement labor rally in
Chicago, Illinois,
United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
*
1904 - Construction begins by the
United States on the
Panama Canal.
*
1910 - The
Royal Canadian Navy is created.
*
1912 -
Italy occupies the island of
Rhodes.
*
1919 -
May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in
Tiananmen Square in
Beijing,
China, protesting the
Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to
Japan.
*
1924 - The
1924 Summer Olympics open in
Paris,
France.
*
1930 - British police arrest
Mahatma Gandhi and place him in
Yeravda Central Prison.
*
1932 - In
Atlanta, Georgia, mobster
Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for
tax evasion.
*
1942 -
World War II:
Battle of the Coral Sea – The
battle begins with the launch of attack aircraft from
United States American and
Japanese
aircraft carriers.
*
1945 - World War II: Liberation of the
Neuengamme concentration camp near
Hamburg by the British Army.
* 1945 - World War II: Surrender of the North Germany Army to
Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
*
1946 - In
San Francisco Bay,
United States Marine Corps US Marines from the Treasure Island Marine Barracks stop a two-day
riot at
Alcatraz federal prison. Five people are killed in the riot.
*
1948 -
Norman Mailer's first novel, ''
The Naked and the Dead'', is published.
*
1949 - The entire
Torino F.C. Torino football (soccer) team (except for one player who did not take the trip due to an injury) is killed in
Superga air disaster a plane crash at the
Superga hill at the edge of
Turin,
Italy.
*
1953 -
Ernest Hemingway is awarded the
Pulitzer Prize for ''
The Old Man and the Sea''.
*
1961 -
American civil rights movement: The "
Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
*
1970 -
Vietnam War:
Kent State shootings – The
Ohio United States National Guard National Guard, sent to
Kent State University after the
Reserve Officer Training Corps ROTC building was burnt down, opens fire on students protesting at the
United States' invasion of
Cambodia. Four students are killed, nine are wounded.
*
1972 - The ''Don't Make A Wave Committee'', a fledgling
environmental organization founded in
Canada in
1971, officially changed its name to "
Greenpeace Greenpeace Foundation".
*
1974 - An all-female
Japanese team reaches the summit of
Manaslu, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000-meter peak.
*
1979 -
Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
*
1980 - President
Josip Broz Tito of
Yugoslavia dies in
Ljubljana at the age of 87.
*
1989 -
Iran-Contra Affair: Former
White House aide
Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and was acquitted of nine other charges. The convictions, however, are later overturned on appeal.
*
1990 -
Latvia proclaims independence.
*
1991 - In
Rome,
Italy,
Carola Häggkvist Carola wins the thirty-sixth
Eurovision Song Contest for
Sweden singing "FÃ¥ngad av en stormvind" (Trapped in a storm wind).
*
1994 -
Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin and
PLO leader
Yasser Arafat sign a
peace accord regarding
Palestinian autonomy granting self-rule in the
Gaza Strip and
Jericho.
*
1996 -
José MarÃa Aznar is appointed
List of Prime Ministers of Spain Prime Minister of
Spain, thus ending 13 years of
PSOE Socialist rule.
*
1998 - A federal judge in
Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber"
Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepted a plea agreement sparing him from the
death penalty.
*
1999 - In
California,
Manuel Babbitt is executed for the 1980 murder of
Leah Schendel. While on
death row Babbitt was awarded a
Purple Heart for injuries he received in the
Vietnam War.
*
2002 - An
EAS Airlines BAC 1-11-500 crashes in a suburb of
Kano,
Nigeria shortly after takeoff killing more than 148 people.
*
2003 -
The Outbreak of 2003 begins. Ninety-four tornadoes begin the week-long outbreak.
Births
*
1008 - King
Henry I of France (d.
1060)
*
1654 -
Kangxi Emperor of China (d.
1722)
*
1655 -
Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian maker of musical instruments (d.
1731)
*
1715 -
Richard Graves, English writer (d.
1804)
*
1733 -
Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (d.
1799)
*
1772 -
Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, German publisher (d.
1823)
*
1781 -
Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher (d.
1832)
*
1796 -
Horace Mann, American educator (d.
1859)
*
1820 -
Julia Tyler,
First Lady of the United States (d.
1889)
*
1825 -
Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist (d.
1895)
* 1825 -
Augustus Le Plongeon, French archaeologist (d.
1908)
*
1826 -
Frederic Edwin Church, American painter (d.
1900)
*
1827 -
John Hanning Speke, British explorer (d.
1864)
*
1852 -
Alice Pleasance Liddell, English schoolgirl model for Alice in Wonderland (d.
1934)
*
1864 -
Marie Booth, the third daughter of
William Booth William and
Catherine Booth (d.
1937)
*
1870 -
Alexandre Benois, Russian artist (d.
1860)
*
1873 -
Joe De Grasse, Canadian film director (d.
1940)
*
1889 -
Francis Cardinal Spellman, American religious leader (d.
1967)
*
1903 -
Luther Adler, American stage actor (d.
1984)
*
1918 -
Tanaka Kakuei, Japanese political leader (d.
1993)
*
1921 -
Edo Murtic Edo Murtić, Croatian painter (d.
2005)
*
1923 -
Eric Sykes, British actor and comedian
*
1925 -
Maurice R. Greenberg, American businessman
*
1928 -
Maynard Ferguson, Canadian musician
* 1928 -
Hosni Mubarak,
President of Egypt
*
1929 -
Audrey Hepburn, Belgian actress (d.
1993)
* 1929 -
Sidney Lamb, American linguist
*
1930 -
Roberta Peters, American soprano
*
1931 -
Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Russian composer
*
1936 -
El Cordobes, Spanish bullfighter
*
1937 -
Dick Dale, American guitarist
*
1939 -
Amos Oz, Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist
*
1941 -
George Will, American writer
*
1942 -
Nickolas Ashford, American record producer, songwriter, musician (
Ashford and Simpson)
* 1942 -
Tammy Wynette, American musician (d.
1998)
*
1944 -
Roger Rees, British-born actor
*
1945 -
Narasinham Ram, Indian journalist
*
1946 -
John Marshall Watson John Watson, Northern Irish racecar driver
*
1949 -
John Force, American race car driver
*
1951 -
Colin Bass, British bassist(
Camel)
*
1951 -
Mick Mars, American guitarist(
Mötley Crüe)
*
1954 -
Pia Zadora, American actress
*
1956 -
David Guterson, American author
* 1956 -
Ulrike Meyfarth, German athlete
*
1958 -
Keith Haring, American graphical artist (d.
1990)
*
1959 -
Randy Travis, American musician
*
1962 -
Oleta Adams, American singer
*
1967 -
Ana Gasteyer, American actress
*
1972 -
Mike Dirnt, American musician (
Green Day)
*
1976 -
Jason Michaels, baseball player
*
1979 -
Lance Bass, American musician (
*NSYNC)
*
1981 -
Eric Djemba-Djemba, Cameroon footballer
*
1984 -
Markus Rogan, Austrian swimmer
*
1985 -
Anthony Fedorov, American singer
*
1987 -
Cesc Fabregas Francesc Fabregas, Spanish footballer
*
1994 -
Alexander Gould, American actor
Deaths
*
1471 -
Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (killed in battle) (b.
1453)
* 1471 -
Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset, English military commander (executed)
*
1506 -
Husayn Bayqarah, ruler of Herat (b.
1438)
*
1519 -
Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (b.
1492)
*
1566 -
Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (b.
1490)
*
1615 -
Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (b.
1561)
*
1626 -
Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, English bishop and Bible translator (b.
1569)
*
1677 -
Isaac Barrow, English mathematician (b.
1630)
*
1684 -
John Nevison, English highwayman (b.
1639)
*
1729 -
Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles, French cardinal (b.
1651)
*
1734 -
James Thornhill, English painter
*
1737 -
Eustace Budgell, English writer (b.
1686)
*
1774 -
Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b.
1714)
*
1776 -
Jacques Saly, French sculptor (b.
1717)
*
1790 -
Matthew Tilghman, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b.
1718)
*
1799 -
Tipu Sultan, Indian military leader
*
1824 -
Joseph Joubert, French essayist and moralist (b.
1754)
*
1849 -
Hokusai, Japanese artist (b.
1760)
*
1880 -
Edward Clark, Governor of Texas (b.
1815)
*
1903 -
Goce Delchev, Macedonian revolutionary (b.
1872)
*
1922 -
Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (b.
1888)
*
1938 -
Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1889)
*
1955 -
Georges Enescu, Romanian composer (b.
1881)
*
1961 -
Anita Stewart, American film actress (b.
1895)
*
1969 -
Osbert Sitwell, English writer (b.
1892)
*
1970 -
Kent State shootings Kent State victims:
**
Allison Krause
**
Jeffrey Miller
**
Sandra Scheuer (b.
1949)
**
William Schroeder (Kent State) William Schroeder (b.
1950)
*
1972 -
Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1886)
*
1975 -
Moe Howard, American actor and comedian (b.
1897)
*
1980 -
Josip Broz Tito,
President of Yugoslavia (b.
1892)
*
1984 -
Bob Clampett, American cartoonist (b.
1913)
* 1984 -
Diana Dors, British actress (b.
1931)
*
1985 -
Clarence Wiseman, the 10th General of
The Salvation Army (b.
1907)
*
1986 -
Henri Toivonen, Finnish race car driver (b.
1956)
*
2005 -
David Hackworth, U.S. Army officer and military journalist (b.
1930)
Holidays and observances
* International -
World Asthma Day
*
International Firefighters' Day
*
Feast day of the following
saints in the
Roman Catholic Church:
**
Monica of Hippo Saint Monica (d. 387)
**
Ladislaus of Gielnow
**
Saint Florian
**
Saint Godehard
**
Titianus
**
Malou
**
Saint Ethelred
**
John Houghton (Saint) Saint John Houghton,
Robert Lawrence (Saint) Saint Robert Lawrence,
Augustine Webster (Saint) Saint Augustine Webster,
Richard Reynolds (Saint) Saint Richard Reynolds, and
John Hale (Saint) Saint John Hale; all put to death in
1535.
*
The Netherlands -
May 4, Remembrance of the dead Remembrance of the dead (1940-1945)
*
People's Republic of China -
Youth Day (青年节, commemorating
May Fourth Movement)
*
Republic of China -
Literary Day (文藝節, commemorating
May Fourth Movement)
* On
May_2006#4_May_2006 May 4, 2006 at two minutes and three seconds past one o'clock in the morning, it will be 01:02:03 04/05/06 (for countries observing the dd/mm/yy date convention).
Puns
*
Star Wars Day. "May the Fourth be with you" (parody of "May the Force be with you").
External links
-
BBC: On This Day
-
''The New York Times'': On This Day
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May 3 -
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April 4 -
June 4 –
historical anniversaries listing of all days
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