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What Happened on May 4th This Day in History

Year	Name
2019	The inaugural all-female motorsport series, W Series, takes place at Hockenheimring. The race was won by Jamie Chadwick, who would go on to become the inaugural season's champion.
2014	Three people are killed and 62 injured in a pair of bombings on buses in Nairobi, Kenya.
2007	Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7-mile wide EF5 tornado. It was the first-ever tornado to be rated as such with the new Enhanced Fujita scale.
2002	One hundred three people are killed and 51 are injured in a plane crash near Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano, Nigeria.
2000	Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London (an office separate from that of the Lord Mayor of London).
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.
1994	Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord, granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
1990	Latvia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
1989	Iran–Contra affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges; the convictions are later overturned on appeal.
1988	The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
1982	Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
1979	Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1978	The South African Defence Force attacks a SWAPO base at Cassinga in southern Angola, killing about 600 people.
1973	The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1,451 feet as the world's tallest building.
1972	The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation".
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 Cambodian Campaign of the United States and South Vietnam.
1961	American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
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).
1959	The 1st Annual Grammy Awards are held.
1953	Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
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.
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.
1945	World War II: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army.
1945	World War II: The German surrender at Lüneburg Heath is signed, coming into effect the following day. It encompasses all Wehrmacht units in the Netherlands, Denmark and northwest Germany.
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.
1932	In Atlanta, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
1927	The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is incorporated.
1926	The United Kingdom general strike begins.
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.
1912	Italy occupies the Ottoman island of Rhodes.
1910	The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
1904	The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
1886	Haymarket affair: In Chicago, United States, a homemade bomb is thrown at police officers trying to break up a labor rally, killing one officer. Ensuing gunfire leads to the deaths of a further seven officers and four civilians.
1871	The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1869	The Naval Battle of Hakodate is fought in Japan.
1859	The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking Devon and Cornwall in England.
1836	Formation of Ancient Order of Hibernians
1814	Emperor Napoleon arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
1814	King Ferdinand VII abolishes the Spanish Constitution of 1812, returning Spain to absolutism.
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.
1776	Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
1686	The Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines.
1626	Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.
1493	Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
1471	Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales.
1436	Assassination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson
1415	Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.
1256	The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.

Famous People Born on May 4

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Year	Name
1949	Graham Swift, English novelist and short story writer
1987	Cesc Fàbregas, Spanish footballer
1940	Peter Gregg, American race car driver and businessman (d. 1980)
1944	Steve Liebmann, Australian radio and television host
1634	Katherine Ferrers, English aristocrat and heiress (d. 1660)
1822	Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Canadian physician and politician, 3rd Premier of Quebec (d. 1915)
1757	Manuel Tolsá, Spanish sculptor and first director of the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City (d. 1816)
1982	Kleopas Giannou, Greek footballer
1976	Rory Hamill, Northern Irish international footballer
1938	Tyrone Davis, American blues and soul singer (d. 2005)

Famous People Deaths On May 4

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on May 4. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
1919	Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak general and politician (b. 1880)
1483	George Neville, Duke of Bedford (b. 1457)
1923	Ralph McKittrick, American golfer and tennis player (b. 1877)
1604	Claudio Merulo, Italian organist and composer (b. 1533)
1971	William Brown Meloney, writer and theatrical producer (b. 1902)
1436	Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish rebel leader
1976	Frank Strahan, Australian public servant (b. 1886)
1955	George Enescu, Romanian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1881)
1972	Father Chrysanthus, Dutch arachnologist (b. 1905)
1983	Nino Sanzogno, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1911)