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- 1006 Birth - Abd-Allah Ansari Persian mystic/poet (Monadjat)
- 1256 Augustinian monastic order constituted at Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae
- 1303 Flemings conquers Middelburg
- 1415 Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus were condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.
- 1471 Battle of Tewkesbury - King Edward IV vs Ex-queen Margaretha
- 1471 Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward, Prince of Wales.
- 1493 Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Demarcation Line.
- 1493 Spanish Pope Alexander VI divides non-Christian world between Spain & Portugal
- 1540 Venice & Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople
- 1572 Veere sides with Geuzen
- 1594 Death - Paul Buys Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies at 62
- 1604 Death - Claudio Merulo composer, dies at 71
- 1605 Death - Ulisse Aldrovandi Italian biologist/medical, dies at 82
- 1611 Birth - Carlo Rainaldi composer
- 1622 Birth - Juan de Valds Leal Spanish painter/sculptor
- 1626 Dutch exlorer Peter Minuit lands on what is now Manhattan Island
- 1626 Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.
- 1626 Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth & buttons
- 1626 Peter Minuit becomes director-general of New Netherlands
- 1631 Birth - Mary I Henriette Stuart daughter of Charles I/Queen of England
- 1634 Johan van Walbeecks fleet departs to West-Indies
- 1635 Birth - Willem van Outhoorn Dutch Governor-General (Dutch East Indies)
- 1652 Battle at Etampes: French army under Turenne beats Fronde rebels
- 1655 Birth - Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori Italy, piano builder
- 1686 Municipality of Ilagan was founded in the Philippines.
- 1715 French manufacturer debuts first folding umbrella (Paris France)
- 1738 Birth - Josef Kohaut composer
- 1744 Birth - Marianne von Martinez composer
- 1752 Death - Pieter Snyers Flemish painter/engraver, dies at 71
- 1763 Birth - Franz Stanislaus Spindler composer
- 1769 Birth - Charles Hague composer
- 1770 Death - Christian Gottfried Krause composer, dies at 51
- 1776 Birth - Johann Friedrich Herbart Germany, philosopher/psychologist
- 1776 Rhode Island declares independence from England
- 1777 Birth - Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens composer
- 1780 Charles Bunbury on Diomed wins first Epsom Derby
- 1783 Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus
- 1796 Birth - Horace Mann US, educator/author/editor (pioneered public schools)
- 1796 Birth - Joseph Pannell Taylor Brigadier General (Union Army), died in 1864
- 1799 Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is assaulted and the Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris.
- 1805 Henry C Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in the Bronx NY
- 1814 Bourbon reign restored in France
- 1814 Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
- 1814 King Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decrete of the 4th of May, returning Spain to absolutism.
- 1820 Birth - Joseph Whitaker England, publisher, founded Whitaker's Almanack
- 1820 Birth - Julia Gardiner Tyler 2nd wife of President John Tyler (1841-45)
- 1825 Birth - Thomas Henry Huxley scientist/humanist/Darwinist
- 1826 Birth - Frederick Church US romantic landscape painter (Hudson River School)
- 1832 Death - Jan van Speyck Dutch Admiral, buried in New Church
- 1834 Charles Darwin's expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean
- 1835 Birth - Edmund Hart Turpin composer
- 1839 The Cunard Steamship Company Ltd forms San Bonifacio
- 1843 Great-Britain annexes Natal
- 1846 Birth - Emile Gall French glass/marble/ceramic artist (Gall Glaze)
- 1846 US state of Michigan ends death penalty
- 1847 New York State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration
- 1851 The first major San Fransisco fire
- 1855 Death - Camille Pleyel Austria piano builder/composer, dies at 66
- 1858 War of the Reform (México); Liberals establish capital at Vera Cruz
- 1859 Cornwall Railway opened across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England.
- 1860 Birth - Emil Nikolaus Von Reznicek Vienna Austria, composer (Donna Diana)
- 1860 Death - Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek composer, dies
- 1861 At Gretna LA, one of first guns of Rebel navy is cast
- 1862 Battle at Williamsburg VA
- 1862 Yorktown VA - McClellan halted his troop before town as it is full of armed torpedoes left by CS Brigadier General Gabrial Rains
- 1864 General Grant's Army at Potomac attacks at Rappahannock
- 1864 Ulysses S Grant crosses Rapidan & begins his duel with Robert E Lee
- 1865 Abraham Lincoln buried in Springfield, Illinois, three weeks after his assassination.
- 1865 Battle of Citronville AL; Richard Taylor surrenders
- 1865 Battle of Mobile AL
- 1866 Woodward's Gardens opens to public
- 1867 Birth - Dynam-Victor Fumet composer
- 1869 The Naval Battle of Hakodate takes place in Japan.
- 1871 Birth - Mynona writer
- 1875 Birth - Ramiro de Maeztu y Whitney Spanish writer (Don Quixote & Celestine)
- 1875 Birth - Reggie Schwartz cricketer (1st of great South African googlists)
- 1877 Birth - Arthur Lang US, boxer/businessman (Died Aug 8, 1992 at 115)
- 1878 Phonograph shown for first time at Grand Opera House
- 1879 Death - William Froude British civil engineer/shipbuilder (F Integer), dies at 68
- 1881 Birth - Aleksandr F Kerenski Russian premier (1917-Prelude to Bolshevism)
- 1882 Birth - Wilhelm Lehmann writer
- 1885 Death - Aleksandar I Karadjordjevic monarch of Serbia (1842-58), dies at 78
- 1886 Haymarket Square Riot: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, Illinois, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
- 1886 Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen
- 1888 Italy & Spain sign military covenant
- 1889 Birth - Francis J Spellman US Cardinal
- 1891 Birth - Frederick Jacobi composer
- 1891 Birth - Johan W F Werumeus Buning Dutch poet (Daily Bread)
- 1891 Death - Sherlock Holmes "dies" at Reichenbach Falls
- 1892 Canadian Thomas I. 'Carbide' Willson develops first manufacturing process to create acetylene gas; already developed on a laboratory scale; sells process to Union Carbide
- 1893 Birth - Edgar Dearing Ceres CA, actor (Abraham Lincoln, Free & Easy)
- 1893 Birth - Royal Butler [Edwin Richey] Atlanta GA, actor
- 1893 Cowboy Bob Pickett invents bulldogging
- 1893 Death - George Washington Hewitt composer, dies at 82
- 1896 Grease fire ignites ½ ton of dynamite at Cripple Creek CO
- 1896 The first edition of London Daily Mail (½ penny)
- 1897 Fire in Paris France bazaar at Rue Jean Goujon kills 200
- 1902 Birth - Cola [Nicolas] Debrot Bonaire Governor (Netherlands Antilles)/author
- 1902 Birth - Cvjetko Rihtman composer
- 1902 Birth - Rodney Meredith Thomas architect/painter
- 1903 Birth - Luther Adler New York NY, actor (Dr Bernard Altman-The Psychiatrist)
- 1904 Charles Stewart Rolls met Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester England.
- 1904 Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal.
- 1904 German football club FC Schalke 04 was founded
- 1905 Birth - Mtys Seiber Budapest Hungary, composer (Scherzando)
- 1906 Birth - Esmond Knight East Sheen England, actor (Hamlet, Sleeping Murder)
- 1907 Ottawa hit by 19.1 cm snowfall; city's greatest one day May snowfall.
- 1909 Birth - Howard Da Silva [Silverblatt] Cleveland OH, actor (Ben Franklin-1776)
- 1909 Birth - Jeroom Verten [Jozef F Vermetten] Flemish playwright
- 1910 Birth - Mady Alfredo [Maria M the Brieder] actress (Alicia)
- 1910 Canadian Currency Act of 1910 receives Royal Assent.
- 1910 Canadian parliament accept creation of Royal Canadian Navy
- 1910 Parliament votes to create a Royal Canadian Navy.
- 1910 Tel Aviv founded
- 1910 The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
- 1912 Birth - Lou Brown Brooklyn NY, orchestra leader (Jerry Lewis Show)
- 1912 Italian mariners occupy Turkish Island of Rhodes
- 1912 Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
- 1914 Birth - Abdel Karim Kassem general/premier/dictator of Iraq (1958-63)
- 1914 Birth - Emmanuel Robls Algerian-Fren journalist/playwright (Lesson Hauteurs)
- 1915 Birth - Curt Conway Boston MA, actor (Raw Deal)
- 1915 Birth - Pedro Saenz composer
- 1915 Italy drops Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungaryb & Germany
- 1916 At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare
- 1916 Birth - Maurice "Moe" Purtill jazz drummer
- 1917 Arabs sack Tel Aviv
- 1917 Birth - Edward Toner Cone composer
- 1918 Birth - Kakuei Tanaka Japanese PM (1972-74), convicted of bribe-taking
- 1919 Birth - Dimiter Petkov composer
- 1919 Birth - Mary Ann McCall singer
- 1919 FVC soccer team forms
- 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.
- 1921 Birth - John van Kesteren Dutch tenor (Komische Oper, West-Berlin)
- 1921 Birth - Patsy Garrett Atlantic City NJ, actress (Nanny & the Professor)
- 1922 Birth - John Paul Hammerschmidt (Representative-R-AR, 1967- )
- 1923 Bloody street battles between Nazis, socialist & police in Vienna
- 1923 New York state revokes Prohibition law
- 1923 On the Alaska Peninsula a 7.1 earthquake happened one of the Largest Earthquakes in the United States
- 1924 8th modern Olympic games open in Paris France
- 1924 Birth - Dennis Weaver actor (McCloud)
- 1924 Birth - Peter Aldersley actor/disc jockey
- 1924 Birth - Tat'yana Petrovna Nikolayeva composer
- 1924 German Republic election fascists & communists win
- 1924 The 1924 Summer Olympics open in Paris, France.
- 1925 Birth - Peter Blum German/South African/English poet (Capricorn)
- 1925 League of Nations conference on arms control & poison gas usage
- 1926 Birth - G Reinshagen writer
- 1926 Birth - Milton "Milt" Thompson US NASA-test pilot/chief-engineer (X-15)
- 1926 General strike hits Britain
- 1927 Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences forms
- 1927 Nicaragua agrees to a US supervised presidential election in 1928
- 1927 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded
- 1928 Birth - Betsy Rawls Spartanburg SC, LPGA golfer (Hall of Fame, US Women's Open-51, 53, 57, 60)
- 1928 Birth - Hosni Mubarak Egyptian President (1981- )
- 1928 Birth - Maynard Ferguson Verdun Qubec Canada, jazz trumpeter (Birdland, Roulette)
- 1928 Death - Barry E Odell Pain English writer (Punch), dies at 63
- 1929 Birth - Audrey Hepburn [Edda Kathleen van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston] Brussels Belgium (Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady)
- 1929 Death - Henry Morton Dunham composer, dies at 75
- 1930 Birth - Roberta Peters New York NY, operatic soprano (New York Metropolitan)
- 1931 Birth - Ed Cassidy Chicago IL, drummer (Spirit-I Got A Line on You)
- 1931 Birth - Gennadi Rozhdestvensky Moscow Russia, conductor (USSR State Radio)
- 1931 Mustafa Kemal Pasja becomes Turkish president
- 1932 Al Capone, convict of income tax evasion, enters Atlanta Penitentiary
- 1932 Birth - Fausto Razzi composer
- 1932 Birth - Susan Brown San Francisco, actress (General Hospital)
- 1932 In Atlanta, Georgia, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
- 1932 Mobster Al Capone enters the Atlanta federal penitentary to begin serving a term for income tax evasion
- 1934 Birth - Pete Barbutti Scranton PA, comedian (Garry Moore Show)
- 1934 In the Chugach Mountains, Alaska 7.1 quake happened another one of the Largest Earthquakes in the United States
- 1935 Death - Lodewijk Scharp Flemish literature historian, dies at 65
- 1936 Birth - El Cordobs [Manuel Bentez] Spanish toreador
- 1937 Birth - Hans Ulrich Lehmann composer
- 1938 Birth - Tyrone Davis US R&B singer (Are you serious)
- 1938 Birth - William J Bennett US Secretary of Education (1985-88)
- 1938 Death - Carl von Ossietzky German pacifist/writer (Nobel 1935), dies at 48
- 1938 Douglas Hyde (a protestant) becomes first president of Eire
- 1939 Visitor posting - born in Cape Town South Africa - South Africa
- 1939 Birth - Amos Oz Jerusalem Israel, author (My Michael)
- 1940 21 "not neutral" Nazis & communists arrested in Netherlands
- 1940 Birth - Dick Curl Chester PA, offensive coordinator coach (Barcelona Dragons)
- 1941 Birth - George F Will political analyst (Night Line)
- 1942 Battle of Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air)
- 1942 Birth - Ronnie Bond drummer (Troggs-Wild Thing)
- 1942 Food first rationed in US
- 1942 German occupiers imprison 450 prominent Dutch as hostages
- 1942 The Battle of the Coral Sea, a WWII clash fought entirely with carrier aircraft, began today
- 1943 Birth - Nickolas Ashford Fairfield SC, singer (Ashford & Simpson-Solid as a Rock)
- 1943 Birth - Stella Parton sister of Dolly Parton/singer (A Woman's Touch)
- 1944 Birth - Dave [Otto Levenbach] Dutch singer (Du cot the Chez Swann)
- 1944 Birth - Paul Gleason Jersey City NJ, actor (Breakfast Club, Die Hard)
- 1944 Birth - Peggy Santiglia McGannon New Jersey, rocker (Angels)
- 1944 Birth - Ronnie Bond drummer (Troggs-Wild Thing)
- 1944 RCAF kills three German U-boats in under a month.
- 1945 Birth - George Wadenius rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
- 1945 Birth - Monika van Paemel Belgian writer (Accursed Fathers)
- 1945 German troops in Netherlands, Denmark & Norway surrender
- 1945 Germans surrender in Denmark and Norway.
- 1945 World War II: Surrender of the North Germany Army to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
- 1946 Birth - Renee Powell LPGA golfer
- 1946 In San Francisco Bay, US Marines from the Treasure Island Marine Barracks stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz federal prison. Five people are killed in the riot.
- 1948 Birth - Billy O'Donnell harness racer driver of the year (1984)
- 1948 Norman Mailer's first novel, The Naked and the Dead, is published.
- 1948 The Hague Court of Justice convicts Hans Rauter (SS) to the death
- 1949 Air crash at Turijn (whole Torino-soccer team survives)
- 1949 Birth - Gerrit J P van Otterloo Dutch MP (PvdA)
- 1949 Birth - Sybil Danning [Danninger], Weis Austria, actress (Chained Heat)
- 1949 Birth - Zal Cleminson rocker (Alex Harvey Band)
- 1949 The entire Torino football (soccer) team (except for one player who did not take the trip due to an injury) is killed in a plane crash at the Superga hill at the edge of Turin, Italy.
- 1950 Birth - Darryl Hunt English pop bassist (Pogues-Pair of Brown Eyes)
- 1950 Birth - Hilly Hicks Los Angeles CA, actor (Roll Out, Roots)
- 1950 Birth - Ren CM van Asten Dutch actor (Herenstraat 10)
- 1950 Visitor posting - May 4 1950 Birth - R. Wes Davis - Founder of Aid for AIDS of Nevada in Pocatello, Idaho
- 1951 Birth - Gene Greenwood (Representative-R-PA)
- 1951 Birth - Jackie [Sigmund Esco] Jackson Gary IN, rocker (Jackson 5-ABC)
- 1951 The Department of National Defence forms 27th Canadian Infantry Brigade Group for service in Europe with NATO forces.
- 1952 Visitor posting - May 4, 1952 Denny Duva born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island - USA
- 1953 Death - Edward B B Shanks British poet/critic, dies at 60
- 1953 Death - Thomas Tertius Noble composer, dies at 85
- 1953 Ernest Hemingway is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
- 1954 Birth - Julie Budd Brooklyn NY, singer (Child of Plenty)
- 1955 Death - Georges Enescu Romanian/French violist/composer (Oedipe), dies at 73
- 1955 Death - Louis Breguet French aviation pioneer, dies at 75
- 1955 Visitor posting - Nancy F born - USA
- 1956 Birth - Jackie Bertsch LPGA golfer
- 1956 Birth - Michael L Gernhardt Mansfield OH, PhD/astronaut (STS 69, 83, 94, sk 100)
- 1956 Birth - Ulrike Meyfarth Frankfurt West Germany, high jumper (Olympics-gold-1972)
- 1956 Queen Juliana unveils National Monument to Dams in Amsterdam
- 1957 Alan Freed hosts "Rock n' Roll Show" first prime-time network rock show
- 1957 Anne Frank Foundation forms in Amsterdam
- 1957 Birth - Peter Sleep cricketer (Australian leg-spin all-rounder 1979-90)
- 1957 Birth - Richard E Grant Swaziland, actor (Posse, Bram Stoker's Dracula)
- 1958 Alberto Lleras Camargo chosen President of Colombia
- 1958 Birth - Keith Haring Kutztown PA, graffiti artist (Vanity Fair, Paris Review)
- 1958 Canadian comedians Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster make their first of a record 67 appearances on TV's Ed Sullivan Show.
- 1959 Birth - Randy Travis [Randy Bruce Traywick] Marshville NC, country singer (Forever and Ever Amen, Diggin' Up Bones)
- 1959 Birth - Robert Raymond Tway Oklahoma City OK, PGA golfer (1986 Shearson)
- 1959 Birth - Rohn Stark NFL punter (Pittsburgh Steelers)
- 1960 Birth - Martyn Moxon cricketer (England batsman in ten Tests 1986-89)
- 1961 13 Freedom riders began bus trip through South
- 1961 Birth - Eugene Daniel NFL center (Indianapolis Colts, Baltimore Ravens)
- 1961 Birth - Jay Aston rocker
- 1961 Birth - Mary Elizabeth McDonough Van Nuys CA, actress (Erin-Waltons)
- 1961 Death - Anita Stewart dies of heart attack at 66
- 1961 Malcolm Ross & Victor Prather reach 34,668 meters (record) in balloon
- 1961 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Marcels - Blue Moon
- 1961 South-Africa ANC-leader John Nkadimeng arrested
- 1962 Birth - Tracy Vaccaro Glendale CA, playmate (October, 1983)
- 1964 "Another World" & "As the World Turns" premiere on TV
- 1964 70 GATT-countries confer in Geneva
- 1964 Birth - Goran Prpic Yugoslavia, tennis star
- 1964 The long-running soap opera Another World, which would run until 1999, debuts on NBC.
- 1965 Birth - Adri Bogers Dutch soccer player (Willem II)
- 1965 Death - Norman Brokenshire TV moderator (Four Square Court), dies at 66
- 1966 Birth - Monica Tranel [Michini] Billings MT, rower (Olympics-96)
- 1966 Death - Juan Maria Thomas Sabater composer, dies at 69
- 1966 Soviet Government signs accord about building Fiat factory in USSR
- 1967 Birth - Derek MacCready CFL defensive tackle (Edmonton Eskimos)
- 1967 Birth - John Child East York Ontario, beach volleyballer (Olympics-bronze-96)
- 1967 Birth - Matthew Crane Kimberton PA, actor (Matt Cory-Another World)
- 1967 Death - Bengt Axel von Torne composer, dies at 75
- 1967 Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by US; begins orbiting Moon May 7
- 1968 Birth - Andre Collins NFL linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals)
- 1968 Birth - Eddie Perez Cuidad Ojeda Venezuela, catcher (Atlanta Braves)
- 1968 Birth - Kevin Todd Winnipeg, NHL center (Los Angeles Kings)
- 1968 Dancer's Image disqualified due to drugs after winning 94th Kentucky Derby
- 1969 Death - F Osbert S Sitwell English poet (Who Killed Cock Robin?), dies at 76
- 1970 Birth - Dawn Staley Philadelphia PA, basketball guard (Olympics-gold-96)
- 1970 Death - Allison Krause 1 of 4 students at Kent State University killed by Ohio National Guard
- 1970 Death - Jeffrey Miller 1 of 4 students at Kent State University killed by Ohio National Guard
- 1970 Death - Sandy Scheuer 1 of 4 students at Kent State University killed by Ohio National Guard
- 1970 Death - William Schroeder 1 of 4 students at Kent State University killed by Ohio National Guard
- 1970 Four students are killed at Kent State University by Ohio National Guardsmen during an anti-war protest They are immortalized in the song "Ohio" by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
- 1970 National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio
- 1970 Premier Kosygin affirms existence Russian military advisors in Egypt
- 1970 Vietnam War: Kent State shootings The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after the ROTC building was burnt down, opens fire killing four students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the United States' invasion of Cambodia.
- 1971 Birth - Derrick Clark NFL/WLAF fullback (Broncos, Rhein Fire)
- 1971 Birth - Steve Glenn CFL linebacker (British Columbia Lions)
- 1971 Death - Donald Dexter Van Slyke US chemist (Cyanosis), dies at 88
- 1971 Death - Joseph Csaky Hungarian/French sculptor, dies at 83
- 1971 Death - Louis de Bree [Louis C Davids] Dutch actor (Bluejackets), dies at 87
- 1971 Mud slide buries part of St-Jean Vianney Quebec, killing 31 people; $1 million damage.
- 1972 Birth - Ethan Watts Philadelphia PA, volleyball middle blocker (Olympics-96)
- 1972 Birth - Gretchen Ulion ice hockey forward (USA, Olympics-98)
- 1972 Birth - Marc Lamb WLAF T (London Monarchs)
- 1972 The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation".
- 1972 Vietcong forms revolutionary government in Quang Tri South Vietnam
- 1973 Birth - Edward Hervey NFL wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys)
- 1973 Birth - Matthew Barnaby Ottawa, NHL left wing (Buffalo Sabres)
- 1973 Birth - Melissa Boyd Miss Ohio USA (1996)
- 1973 Birth - Michelle Martinez Dallas TX, Miss America (Texas-Top 10-1997)
- 1973 Death - Jane Bowles writer, dies at 56
- 1973 Patriarch Shenuda II of Kopitisch church visits the pope
- 1973 Wings release "Red Rose Speedway" in UK
- 1974 An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000-meter peak.
- 1974 Death - Israel Citkowitz composer, dies at 65
- 1974 Death - John Wengraf actor (Pride & Passion, 12 to the Moon), dies at 77
- 1974 Number one hit on UK music charts - Abba - Waterloo
- 1975 Birth - Pablo Ruiz Buenos Aires Argentina, Spanish singer
- 1975 Death - Moe Howard [Moses Horowitz] comedian (3 Stooges), dies at 77
- 1975 Ed Bullins' "Taking of Miss Jane" premieres in NYC
- 1975 Gama Hernandez is born in Los Angeles California
- 1976 Birth - Heather Kozar Akron OH, playmate (January 1998)
- 1978 Russian President Brezhnev visits West-Germany
- 1979 The first woman prime minister of Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher) is elected
- 1980 Death - Josip Broz Tito leader of Yugoslavia (1945-80), dies at 87
- 1980 Death - Kay Hammond actress (Blithe Spirit, 5 Golden Hours), dies in Brighton UK at 71
- 1981 Death - Bobby Sands Irish IRA-terrorist, dies after hunger strike
- 1981 Donald Eugene Webb is placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List.
- 1982 20 sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield (D80) is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
- 1982 British Destroyer HMS Sheffield off Falkland hit by Exocet rocket catches fire and later flounders, many sailors die
- 1983 Death - Nino Sanzogno composer, dies at 72
- 1984 Dave Kingman's fly ball never comes down (stuck in Metrodome ceiling)
- 1984 Death - Diana Dors actress (Berserk!), dies at 52 of cancer
- 1985 Number one hit on UK music charts - Phillis Nelson - Move Closer
- 1985 Visitor posting - Dolores & Martin get married in Dublin, Ireland. [email protected]
- 1986 President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghánistán
- 1987 Death - Cathryn Damon actress (Mary Campbell-Soap), dies at 56
- 1987 Death - Dick Hillenius Dutch biologist/writer, dies at 59
- 1987 Death - Paul Butterfield singer/harmonica player, dies of drug abuse at 44
- 1987 Visitor posting - Chantelle Bahuaud is born - Canada
- 1988 The PEPCON disaster rocked Henderson, Nevada, as tons of space shuttle fuel detonated during a fire.
- 1989 Iran-Contra Affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and was acquitted of nine other charges. The convictions, however, are later overturned on appeal.
- 1989 US launches Magellan to Venus
- 1989 US space shuttle STS-30 launched
- 1989 White house aide Oliver North is convicted of charges from the Iran-Contra affair The three convictions are later overturned on appeal
- 1990 Angela Bowie reveals that ex husband David slept with Mick Jagger
- 1990 Death - Don Appell dies
- 1990 Latvia proclaims renewal of its independence after the Soviet occupation.
- 1990 Latvia's parliament votes 138-0 (1 abstention) for Independence
- 1990 Pakistan beat Australia by 36 runs to win Austral-Asia Cup, Sharjah
- 1990 Visitor posting - Kelly Westbrook graced the world with her prescence.
- 1991 Visitor posting - May 4th 1991 Abi K. Haggart Born
- 1991 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Doug Kent
- 1991 Actress Sharon Gless & producer Barney Rosenzeig wed
- 1991 Death - Dennis Crosby son of Bing, commits suicide at 54
- 1991 Visitor posting - Shelbie Knapp's Brithday - USA
- 1991 Morris K Udall (Representative-D-AZ), resigns due to Parkinson disease
- 1991 President Bush is hospitalized for erratic heartbeat
- 1992 Death - Henri Guillemin French historian, dies at 89
- 1992 Death - Ismael Galeano "Commandant Franklyn" (Contra), dies
- 1992 Death - Vitali Andreyevich Grishchenko Russian cosmonaut, dies at 50
- 1993 Visitor posting - Lindsey Louann Bolyard was born. The best thing to happen to the world. I have a dog and he s brat - USA [email protected]
- 1994 Arsenal wins 34th Europe Cup II
- 1994 Courtney Love cleared of drug charges
- 1994 Death - Karl Francis Hettinger onion Field survivor, dies at 59
- 1994 Visitor posting - Colin Johnson born - USA
- 1994 Visitor posting - May 4th, 1994- Whitney was born :) - USA
- 1995 Death - Lewis T Preston banker, dies at 68
- 1995 Death - Louis Krasner violinist, dies at 91
- 1996 Death - Jean Crepin soldier/industrialist, dies at 87
- 1996 Death - Stanley William Reed cineaste, dies at 85
- 1996 Jos Mara Aznar is appointed Prime Minister of Spain, thus ending 13 years of Socialist rule.
- 1997 Death - Alvy Moore actor/producer (Mr Kimball-Green Acres), dies at 75
- 1997 Death - Vijayananda Dahanayake PM of Sri Lanka (1959-60), dies
- 1998 A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepted a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
- 2000 Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London.
- 2001 Pope John Paul II follows Saint Paul's footsteps across the Mediterranean, from Greece to Syria to Malta.
- 2002 An EAS Airlines BAC 1-11-500 crashes in a suburb of Kano, Nigeria shortly after takeoff killing more than 148 people.
- 2003 The Outbreak of 2003 begins. Ninety-four tornadoes begin the week-long outbreak.
- 2007 A series of tornadoes rip through Western Kansas, including the first EF-5 tornado that destroyed the town of Greensburg.
- 2007 Visitor posting - Brajesh and Agnita tied marriage knot for ever & ever :)
- 2007 The movie Spider-Man 3 is shown in the US, three days after it has been shown in the Philippines and other Asian countries.
- 2008 Visitor posting - Justin Lucas Niswonger was born into Heaven at 5:45 p.m.
- 2009 Visitor posting - Rocky turned 7 years old
- 2009 Visitor posting - A little piece of heaven came down to Earth when Kwadwo Adjei Mensah was born! O what a happy day it was indeed!! - USA
- 2009 Visitor posting - may 4 2009 david tolton turns 16
- 2009 Visitor posting - May 4 2009 Happy 21st Birthday to my beautiful sister Auri
- 2010 Visitor posting - Dezmond Williams and Skylyn Wherry-Gardner begin their beautiful relationship. - USA
- 2010 Visitor posting - kayla francis and joe sheaffer annivessary - USA
- 2010 Visitor posting - May 04 2010 Bryan Thomas turns 17 years old - Canada
- 2010 Visitor posting - Colin Johnson turned 16 - USA
- 2010 Visitor posting - Bad storms lately. Toppled over telephone pole and hit a car. - USA
- 2010 Visitor posting - Cameron Kovachik celebrated his 16th birthday - Canada
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