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Birthday May 04, 1796 Horace Mann, educator |
Birthday May 04, 1820 Joseph Whitaker, English publisher, founded Whitaker's Almanack |
Birthday May 04, 1820 Julia Gardiner Tyler, 2nd wife of President John Tyler |
Birthday May 04, 1825 Thomas Henry Huxley, scientist and humanist |
Birthday May 04, 1918 Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese prime minister convicted of bribe-taking |
Birthday May 04, 1929 Audrey Hepburn, Brussels Bel (Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady) |
Birthday May 04, 1929 Audrey Hepburn born |
Birthday May 04, 1930 Roberta Peters, operatic soprano, NYC |
Birthday May 04, 1954 Julie Budd, Bkln |
Birthday May 04, 1961 Mary McDonough |
History May 04, 1626 Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth & buttons |
History May 04, 1776 Rhode Island declares independence |
History May 04, 1776 Rhode Island declares independence from England |
History May 04, 1783 Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus |
History May 04, 1814 Bourbon reign restored in France |
History May 04, 1847 Jack Slade joins the army |
History May 04, 1851 1st major SF fire |
History May 04, 1864 Army of the Potomac crosses the Rapidan |
History May 04, 1865 Lincoln is buried in Springfield, Illinois |
History May 04, 1866 Woodward's Gardens opens to public |
History May 04, 1871 1st pro baseball game played (Ft Wayne 2 - Cleveland 0) |
History May 04, 1878 Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House |
History May 04, 1886 Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen |
History May 04, 1886 A riot breaks out in Haymarket Square |
History May 04, 1886 The Haymarket Square Riot |
History May 04, 1916 Germany agrees to limit its submarine warfare |
History May 04, 1918 Yankees set record with 8 sacrifices - beat Red Sox Babe Ruth 5-4 |
History May 04, 1929 Lou Gehrig hits 3 consecutive HRs - Yankees 11 - Tigers 9 |
History May 04, 1942 Battle of Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air) |
History May 04, 1945 As the Nazi threat dies, the Red Army rises |
History May 04, 1948 Norman Mailer's first novel, The Naked and the Dead, is published |
History May 04, 1956 Gene Vincent records Be-Bop-A-Lula |
History May 04, 1961 Rusk reports on Viet Cong strength |
History May 04, 1961 Malcolm Ross & Victor Prather set altitude record for manned balloon flight - 34 -668 m - over Gulf of Mexico |
History May 04, 1965 Willie Mays breaks National League home run record |
History May 04, 1970 National Guard kills four at Kent State |
History May 04, 1970 Four students killed at Kent State |
History May 04, 1970 4 students at Kent State U killed by Ohio Natl Guard |
History May 04, 1973 1st TV network female nudity - Steambath (PBS) - Valerie Perrine |
History May 04, 1975 Flyers 1-Isles 0-Semis-Flyers hold 3-0 lead-Isles held to 14 shots |
History May 04, 1977 David Frost interviews Richard Nixon |
History May 04, 1979 Margaret Thatcher sworn in |
History May 04, 1980 Tito dies |
History May 04, 1981 Ron Davis strikes out 8 consecutive Angels - ran record of 13 strike outs of last 14 faced - also saved Gene Nelsons 1st win 4-2 |
History May 04, 1982 Nordiques 2-Isles 4 - Semi-Finals- Isles win series 4-0 |
History May 04, 1984 Bruce Springsteen releases Pink Cadillac |
History May 04, 1990 An inhumane execution |
History May 04, 2002 Nigerian aircraft crashes in crowded city |