| Date | Text | |||
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| 100 years anniversary | ||||
| 04 May 1924 | Peter Aldersley: Actor / disc jockey | |||
| 04 May 1924 | 8th Olympic games open at Paris, France | |||
| 04 May 1924 | German Republic election fascists and communists win | |||
| 04 May 1924 | E. Nesbit, English author and poet (b. 1858) | |||
| 75 years anniversary | ||||
| 04 May 1949 | Gerrit J P van Otterloo: Dutch MP (PvdA) | |||
| 04 May 1949 | Sybil Danning [Danninger]: Weis, Austria -- Actress (Chained Heat) | |||
| 04 May 1949 | Zal Cleminson: Rocker (Alex Harvey Band) | |||
| 04 May 1949 | Air crash at Turijn (whole Torino-soccer team survives) | |||
| 04 May 1949 | The entire Torino football team (except for two players who did not take the trip: Sauro Tomà, due to an injury and Renato Gandolfi, because of coach request) is killed in a plane crash at the Superga hill at the edge of Turin, Italy. | |||
| 04 May 1949 | Graham Swift, English author | |||
| 04 May 1949 | Pekka Päivärinta, Finnish runner | |||
| 04 May 1949 | Stella Parton, American singer-songwriter and actress | |||
| 04 May 1949 | John Force, American race car driver | |||
| 04 May 1949 | birth Zal Cleminson, guitar, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, (1975 UK No.7 single 'Delilah, 1975 album 'Next'). | |||
| 50 years anniversary | ||||
| 04 May 1974 | Israel Citkowitz: Composer, dies at 65 | |||
| 04 May 1974 | John Wengraf: Actor (Pride & Passion, 12 to the Moon), dies at 77 | |||
| 04 May 1974 | 100th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr. aboard Cannonade wins in 2:04 | |||
| 04 May 1974 | An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000-meter peak. | |||
| 04 May 1974 | Tony McCoy, Irish jockey and sportscaster | |||
| 04 May 1974 | Miguel Cairo, Venezuelan baseball player and coach | |||
| 04 May 1974 | Abba were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Waterloo', the group's first of nine UK No.1 singles was the 1974 Eurovision song contest winner for Sweden. The song was first called 'Honey Pie'. | |||
| 04 May 1974 | Grand Funk Railroad started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with their version of the Little Eva hit 'The Loco-Motion.' It was only the second time that a cover version had been a No.1 as well as the original. | |||
| 04 May 1974 | The film soundtrack to 'The Sting' by Marvin Hamlisch started a five-week run at No.1 on the US album chart. | |||
| 04 May 1974 |
death Maurice Ewing Died 4 May 1974 at age 67 (born 12 May 1906). William Maurice Ewing was an American geologist and geophysicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding of marine sediments and ocean basins. He worked in a range of subjects, making contributions to earthquake seismology, explosion seismology, marine acoustics, sedimentology, and tectonics. He adapted seismic exploration methods to use in the oceans; explicated a large segment of the earthquake seismogram, the coda; did studies of Earth's free oscillations; and described the ocean sound channel and the dispersion of sound in seawater. He also developed or greatly improved the bathythermograph, the piston corer, heat-flow probes, sonar, hydrophones, gravimeters and deep-sea cameras. |
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04 May 1974
Ludwig Koch |
death Ludwig Koch Ludwig Koch, German-born British animal sound recordist (b. 1881) |
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| 20 years anniversary | ||||
| 04 May 2004 | Clement Seymour Dodd died aged 72. Producer and major force in the development of ska and reggae, made the first recordings of Bob Marley. | |||
| 15 years anniversary | ||||
| 04 May 2009 | Dom DeLuise, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1933) | |||
| 04 May 2009 | Prince Henrik of Denmark | |||
| 10 years anniversary | ||||
| 04 May 2014 | Three people are killed and 62 injured in a pair of bombings on buses in Nairobi, Kenya. | |||
| 04 May 2014 | Tatiana Samoilova, Russian actress (b. 1934) | |||
| 04 May 2014 | Jean-Paul Ngoupandé, Central African politician, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b. 1948) | |||
| 04 May 2014 | Ross Lonsberry, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1947) | |||
| 04 May 2014 | Helga Königsdorf, German physicist and author (b. 1938) | |||
| 04 May 2014 | Edgar Cortright, American scientist and engineer (b. 1923) | |||
| 04 May 2014 | Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-Scottish tennis player (b. 1983) | |||
| 04 May 2014 | Dick Ayers, American author and illustrator (b. 1924) | |||
04 May 2014
Edgar Cortright |
death Edgar Cortright Edgar Cortright, 90, American scientist and engineer, NASA senior official |
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