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Events on the 4th of May in history

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04 May 1256 The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.
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04 May 1303 Flemings conquers Middelburg
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04 May 1415 Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.
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04 May 1436 Assassination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson
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04 May 1471 Battle of Tewkesbury - King Edward IV vs. Ex-queen Margaretha
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04 May 1471 Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales.
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04 May 1493 Spanish Pope Alexander VI divides America between Spain and Portugal
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04 May 1493 Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
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04 May 1494 Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica
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04 May 1540 Venice and Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople
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04 May 1572 Veere sides with Geuzen
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04 May 1626 Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons
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04 May 1626 Peter Minuit becomes Director-General of New Netherlands
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04 May 1626 Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.
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04 May 1634 Johan van Walbeecks fleet departs to West-Indies
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04 May 1652 Battle at Etampes: French army under Turenne beats Fronde rebels
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04 May 1675 King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
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04 May 1686 The Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines.
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04 May 1715 French manufacturer debuts 1st folding umbrella (Paris)
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04 May 1747 Willem IV appointed Viceroy of Overijssel
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04 May 1776 Rhode Island declares independence from England
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04 May 1776 Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
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04 May 1780 American Academy of Arts and Science founded
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04 May 1780 Charles Bunbury on Diomed wins 1st Epsom Derby
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04 May 1783 Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus
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04 May 1799 Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is invaded and Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris.
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04 May 1805 Henry C Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in Bronx
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04 May 1814 Bourbon reign restored in France
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04 May 1814 King Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decrete of the 4th of May, returning Spain to absolutism.
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04 May 1814 Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
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04 May 1818 Netherlands and England sign treaty against illegal slave handling
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04 May 1836 Formation of Ancient Order of Hibernians
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04 May 1839 The Cunard Steamship Company Ltd forms San Bonifacio
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04 May 1843 Great-Britain annexes Natal
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04 May 1846 US state Michigan ends death penalty
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04 May 1847 New York State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration
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04 May 1851 1st major SF fire
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04 May 1859 The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England.
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04 May 1861 At Gretna LA, one of 1st guns of Rebel navy is cast
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04 May 1862 Yorktown, VA - McClellan halted his troop before town as it is full of armed torpedoes left by CS Brigadier General Gabrial Rains
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04 May 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville-action at Salem Church
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04 May 1863 End of Chancellorsville - Beaten Union army withdraws
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04 May 1864 Ulysses S Grant crosses Rapidan and begins his duel with Robert E Lee
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04 May 1865 Battle of Citronville, AL; Richard Taylor surrenders
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04 May 1865 Battle of Mobile, Alabama
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04 May 1865 Surrender of the Confederate departments of Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana at Citronelle, Alabama.
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04 May 1869 The Naval Battle of Hakodate is fought in Japan.
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04 May 1871 1st baseball league game (National Association of Baseball Players), (Ft Wayne 2, Cleveland 0) Deacon Jim White gets 1st hit, a double
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04 May 1871 The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
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04 May 1878 Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House
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04 May 1883 John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" (Miss)
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04 May 1886 Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen
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04 May 1886 Haymarket affair: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
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04 May 1888 Italy and Spain sign military covenant
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04 May 1893 Cowboy Bob Pickett invents bulldogging
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04 May 1897 Fire in Paris bazaar at Rue Jean Goujon kills 200
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04 May 1898 24th Kentucky Derby: Willie Simms aboard Plaudit wins in 2:09
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04 May 1899 25th Kentucky Derby: Fred Taral aboard Manuel wins in 2:12
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04 May 1902 Eight fishermen lose their lives in Galway Bay, Ireland in a drowning tragedy.
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04 May 1904 Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England.
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04 May 1904 The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
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04 May 1910 Canadian Currency Act, 1910, receives Royal Assent
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04 May 1910 Canadian parliament accept creation of Royal Canadian Navy
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04 May 1910 Tel Aviv founded
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04 May 1910 The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
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04 May 1912 Italian mariners occupy Turkish Island of Rhodes
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04 May 1912 Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
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04 May 1915 Italy drops Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungaryb and Germany
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04 May 1916 At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare
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04 May 1917 Arabs sack Tel Aviv
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04 May 1919 1st legal Sunday baseball game in NYC (Phillies beat Giants 4-3)
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04 May 1919 FVC soccer team forms
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04 May 1919 Giants play their 1st legal Sunday home game, 35,000 see Phils win 4-3
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04 May 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.
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04 May 1922 KNX-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions
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04 May 1923 New York state revokes Prohibition law
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04 May 1924 8th Olympic games open at Paris, France
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04 May 1924 German Republic election fascists and communists win
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04 May 1925 League of Nations conference on arms control and poison gas usage
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04 May 1926 General strike hits Britain
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04 May 1927 1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Ill)
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04 May 1927 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences forms
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04 May 1927 Nicaragua agrees to a US supervised presidential election in 1928
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04 May 1929 Lou Gehrig hits 3 consecutive HRs, Yankees 11, Tigers 9
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04 May 1931 Mustafa Kemal Pasja becomes Turkish President
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04 May 1932 Al Capone, convict of income tax evasion, enters Atlanta Penitentiary
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04 May 1932 In Atlanta, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
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04 May 1933 Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (Conquistador)
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04 May 1935 61st Kentucky Derby: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 2:05
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04 May 1936 Pulitzer prize awarded to Harold L Davis (Honey in the Horn)
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04 May 1938 Douglas Hyde (a protestant) becomes 1st President of Eire
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04 May 1940 21 "not neutral" Nazis and communists arrested in the Netherlands
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04 May 1940 66th Kentucky Derby: Carroll Bierman aboard Gallahadion wins in 2:05
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04 May 1942 Battle of Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air)
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04 May 1942 Food 1st rationed in US
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04 May 1942 German occupiers imprison 450 prominent Dutch as hostages
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04 May 1942 Pulitzer prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In this our Life)
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04 May 1942 World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier USS Yorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before.
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04 May 1943 NL Ford Frick demonstrates revised balata ball to reporters by bouncing it on his office carpet ball proves to be 50% livelier
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04 May 1945 German troops in the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway surrender
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04 May 1945 World War II: Denmark is granted liberation, when Germany was forced withdraw from Denmark thus ending five years of occupation.
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04 May 1945 World War II: German surrender at Lüneburg Heath, the North German Army surrenders to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
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04 May 1945 World War II: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army.
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04 May 1946 5 die in a 2 day riot at Alcatraz prison in SF bay
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04 May 1946 72nd Kentucky Derby: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:06.6
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04 May 1946 In San Francisco Bay, U.S. Marines from the nearby Treasure Island Naval Base stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. Five people are killed in the riot.
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04 May 1948 The Hague Court of Justice convicts Hans Rauter (SS) to the death
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04 May 1949 Air crash at Turijn (whole Torino-soccer team survives)
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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.
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04 May 1952 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Fresno Golf Open
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04 May 1953 Pulitzer prize awarded to E Hemingway (Old Man & The Sea)
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04 May 1953 Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
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04 May 1956 Queen Juliana unveils National Monument to Dams in Amsterdam
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04 May 1957 83rd Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Iron Liege wins in 2:02.2
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04 May 1957 Anne Frank Foundation forms in Amsterdam
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04 May 1958 Alberto Lleras Camargo chosen President of Colombia
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04 May 1959 1st Grammy Awards: Perry Como and Ella Fitzgerald win
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04 May 1959 The 1st Annual Grammy Awards are held.
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04 May 1960 1st great Delta dam closes, North-South Beveland
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04 May 1961 13 Freedom riders began bus trip through South
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04 May 1961 1st on-the-road Spacemobile lecture given.
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04 May 1961 CORE begins freedom rides from Washington, DC
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04 May 1961 Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather reach 34,668 m (record) in balloon
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04 May 1961 South-Africa ANC-leader John Nkadimeng arrested
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04 May 1961 Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V open gondola to 113,740 feet (34.67 km).
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04 May 1961 American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
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04 May 1963 89th Kentucky Derby: Braulio Baeza aboard Chateaugay wins in 2:01.8
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04 May 1963 Pitcher Bob Shaw sets record of 5 balks in a game
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04 May 1964 "Another World" and"As the World Turns" premieres on TV
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04 May 1964 70 GATT-countries confer in Geneva
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04 May 1964 KIII TV channel 3 in Corpus Christi, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
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04 May 1964 Pulitzer prize awarded to Richard Hofstadter (Anti-intellectualism)
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04 May 1966 Soviet government signs accord about building Fiat factory in the USSR
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04 May 1967 Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by US; begins orbiting Moon May 7
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04 May 1968 1st ABA championship: Pittsburgh Pipers beat NO Buccaneers, 4 games to 3
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04 May 1968 94th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Forward Pass wins
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04 May 1969 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational
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04 May 1970 National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio
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04 May 1970 Premier Kosygin affirms existence Russian military advisors in Egypt
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04 May 1970 Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the United States' invasion of Cambodia.
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04 May 1972 Vietcong forms revolutionary government in Quang Tri South Vietnam
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04 May 1972 The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation".
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04 May 1973 1st TV network female nudity-Steambath (PBS) - Valerie Perrine
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04 May 1973 Patriarch Shenuda II of Kopitisch church visits the pope
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04 May 1973 Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20 innings
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04 May 1973 Wings release "Red Rose Speedway" in the UK
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04 May 1974 100th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr. aboard Cannonade wins in 2:04
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04 May 1974 An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000-meter peak.
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04 May 1975 Flyers 1-Isles 0-Semis-Flyers hold 3-0 lead-Isles held to 14 shots
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04 May 1975 Maria Astrologes wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
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04 May 1976 "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 7 performances
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04 May 1976 Kiss performs their 1st concert
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04 May 1978 Russian President Brezhnev visits West-Germany
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04 May 1979 Jackie Mercer wins her 4th golf title 31 years after her 1st
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04 May 1979 Margaret Thatcher elected Prime Minister of England
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04 May 1979 NASA launches Fltsatcom-2
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04 May 1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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04 May 1980 Dodgers bat out of order against Phillies in 1st inning
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04 May 1980 White Sox 1st baseman Mike Squires catches final inning of 11-1 loss to Brewers, becoming 1st lefty to catch since Dale Long in 1958
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04 May 1981 Rockline premieres on KLOS FM in Los Angeles
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04 May 1981 Silvana Cruciata runs 15k female world record (49:44.0)
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04 May 1981 Yankee Ron Davis strikes out 8 consecutive Angels, ran record of 13 strikeouts of last 14 faced, also saved Gene Nelsons 1st win, 4-2
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04 May 1982 British torpedo boat Sheffield off Falkland hit by Exocet rocket
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04 May 1982 Nordiques 2 - Isles 4 - Semifinals - Isles win series 4-0
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04 May 1982 Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
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04 May 1985 111th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr on Spend A Buck wins 2:00.2
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04 May 1986 President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghanistan
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04 May 1988 The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
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04 May 1989 Junior Felix of Toronto becomes 53rd to hit HR on 1st at bat
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04 May 1989 US launches Magellan to Venus
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04 May 1989 US space shuttle STS-30 launched
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04 May 1989 Iran–Contra affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges. The convictions, however, are later overturned on appeal.
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04 May 1990 Angela Bowie reveals that ex husband David slept with Mick Jagger
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04 May 1990 Oriole Gregg Olson sets relief pitcher rec of 41 cons scoreless inns
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04 May 1990 Pakistan beat Aust by 36 runs to win Austral-Asia Cup, Sharjah
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04 May 1990 Latvia proclaims the renewal of its independence after the Soviet occupation.
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04 May 1991 Actress Sharon Gless and producer Barney Rosenzeig wed
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04 May 1991 Morris K Udall, (Rep-D-Arizona), resigns due to Parkinson disease
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04 May 1991 New York Mets M Sasser and Mark Carreon are 8th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
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04 May 1991 President Bush is hospitalized for erratic heartbeat
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04 May 1991 117th Kentucky Derby: Chris Antley aboard Strike the Gold wins in 2:03
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04 May 1991 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Doug Kent
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04 May 1993 "Angels in America-Millennium Approaches" opens at Kerr for 367 performances
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04 May 1994 Arsenal wins 34th Europe Cup II
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04 May 1994 Courtney Love cleared of drug charges
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04 May 1994 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord, granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
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04 May 1996 122nd Kentucky Derby: Jerry Bailey aboard Grindstone wins in 2:01
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04 May 1996 ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Ernie Schlegel
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04 May 1996 Greg Pavlik one-hits Tigers making the Rangers 1st AL team to pitch back-to-back one-hitters since the Washington Senators in 1917
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04 May 1997 Phil Blackmar wins 50th Houston golf Open
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04 May 1997 Sprint Titleholders LPGA Championship
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04 May 1997 Tammie Green wins LPGA Sprint Titlehoders Championship
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04 May 1998 A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
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04 May 2000 Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London.
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04 May 2002 EAS Airlines Flight 4226 crashes in a suburb of Kano, Nigeria shortly after takeoff, killing 149 people.
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04 May 2007 Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7 mi wide EF5 tornado. It was the first-ever tornado to be rated as such with the new Enhanced Fujita scale.
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04 May 2014 Three people are killed and 62 injured in a pair of bombings on buses in Nairobi, Kenya.
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