May 4 is the 124th day of the year (125th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 241 days remaining until the end of the year.
STAR WARS DAY (MAY THE "FOURTH" BE WITH YOU)
STAR WARS DAY (MAY THE "FOURTH" BE WITH YOU)
1415 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance, the ecumenical council recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, held from 1414 to 1418. The council ended the Western Schism, by deposing or accepting the resignation of the remaining papal claimants and electing Pope Martin V.
1493 – Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation via the Treaty of Tordesillas.
1675 – King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. The facility played a major role in the history of astronomy and navigation, and is best known as the location of the prime meridian.
1864 ― General Ulysses S. Grant's Union Army at Potomac attacks Robert E. Lee's Confederates at Rappahannock River.
1970 – The 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.
1972 ― The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation".
1979 ― Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female to be elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1981 ― After 66 days on hunger strike, 26 year old Robert Gerard "Bobby" Sands MP died in the Maze; 9 further hunger strikers die over the next 3 months.
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.
1989 ― The United States launches Magellan to map the surface of Venus by using synthetic aperture radar and to measure the planetary gravitational field.
1994 ― On May 4, 1994, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat reached agreement in Cairo on the first stage of Palestinian self-rule.
1998 ― A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives the "Unabomber", Ted Kaczynski, four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
2013 ― Nell Harper Lee files a lawsuit against a literary agent over the copyright of To Kill a Mockingbird.
1864 ― General Ulysses S. Grant's Union Army at Potomac attacks Robert E. Lee's Confederates at Rappahannock River.
1886 ― In the Haymarket riot in Chicago was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration that killed 7 policemen. It began as a peaceful rally in support of workers striking for an eight-hour day and in reaction to the killing of several workers the previous day by the police.
1904 ― The United States resumes construction on the Panama Canal. It eventually opened on August 15, 1914. One of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken, the Panama Canal shortcut greatly reduced the time for ships to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, enabling them to avoid the lengthy, hazardous Cape Horn route around the southernmost tip of South America via the Drake Passage or Strait of Magellan (Tierra del Fuego).
1919 – The May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan. These demonstrations sparked national protests and marked the upsurge of Chinese nationalism, a shift towards political mobilization and away from cultural activities, and a move towards a populist base rather than intellectual elites. Many political and social leaders of the next decades emerged at this time.
1932 ― Gangster Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone enters Atlanta Penitentiary convicted of income tax evasion.
1945 ― On this day in 1945, Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov informs U.S. Secretary of State Stettinius that the Red Army has arrested 16 Polish peace negotiators who had met with a Soviet army colonel near Warsaw back in March.
1945 ― On this day in 1945, Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov informs U.S. Secretary of State Stettinius that the Red Army has arrested 16 Polish peace negotiators who had met with a Soviet army colonel near Warsaw back in March.
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. Two guards—William A. Miller and Harold Stites—were killed along with three of the inmates. Eleven guards and one uninvolved convict were also injured. Two of the surviving convicts were later executed for their roles.
1948 ― The Hague Court of Justice convicts Nazi SS officer in the Netherlands Hans Albin Rauter of Crimes against Humanity (executed 24 March 1949).
1961 – American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South. The purpose was to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.
1972 ― The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation".
1979 ― Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female to be elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1981 ― After 66 days on hunger strike, 26 year old Robert Gerard "Bobby" Sands MP died in the Maze; 9 further hunger strikers die over the next 3 months.
1988 – The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire. The conflagration and subsequent explosions killed two people, injured 372 others, and caused an estimated US $100 million of damage. A large portion of the Las Vegas Valley within a 10-mile (16 km) radius of the plant was affected, and several agencies activated disaster plans.
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.
1989 ― The United States launches Magellan to map the surface of Venus by using synthetic aperture radar and to measure the planetary gravitational field.
1994 ― On May 4, 1994, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat reached agreement in Cairo on the first stage of Palestinian self-rule.
1998 ― A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives the "Unabomber", Ted Kaczynski, four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
2013 ― Nell Harper Lee files a lawsuit against a literary agent over the copyright of To Kill a Mockingbird.
BORN TODAY
1796 – Horace Mann, American educator and politician (d. 1859)
1851 – Thomas Dewing, American painter (d. 1938)
1907 – Lincoln Kirstein, American soldier and playwright, co-founded the New York City Ballet (d. 1996)
1916 – Jane Jacobs, American-Canadian journalist, author, and activist (d. 2006)
1922 – Eugenie Clark, American biologist and academic (d. 2015)
1938 – Gillian Tindall, English historian and author
1796 – Horace Mann, American educator and politician (d. 1859)
1851 – Thomas Dewing, American painter (d. 1938)
1907 – Lincoln Kirstein, American soldier and playwright, co-founded the New York City Ballet (d. 1996)
1916 – Jane Jacobs, American-Canadian journalist, author, and activist (d. 2006)
1922 – Eugenie Clark, American biologist and academic (d. 2015)
1938 – Gillian Tindall, English historian and author
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
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