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May 4, 1997 Bruno's Memorial Senior Golf Classic May 4, 1997 Phil Blackmar wins 50th Houston golf Open May 4, 1997 Sprint Titleholders LPGA Championship May 4, 1997 Tammie Green wins LPGA Sprint Titlehoders Championship May 4, 1996 122nd Kentucky Derby: Jerry Bailey aboard Grindstone wins in 2:01 May 4, 1996 ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Ernie Schlegel May 4, 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 May 4, 1994 Arsenal wins 34th Europe Cup II May 4, 1994 Courtney Love cleared of drug charges May 4, 1993 "Angels in America-Millennium Approaches" opens at Kerr for 367 performances May 4, 1991 117th Kentucky Derby: Chris Antley aboard Strike the Gold wins in 2:03 May 4, 1991 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Doug Kent May 4, 1991 Actress Sharon Gless and producer Barney Rosenzeig wed May 4, 1991 Indians' Chris James sets club record for most RBIs in a game (9) May 4, 1991 Morris K. Udall, (Rep-D-Ariz), resigns due to Parkinson disease May 4, 1991 New York Mets M Sasser and Mark Carreon are 8th to hit consecutive pinch HRs May 4, 1991 President Bush is hospitalized for erratic heartbeat May 4, 1990 Angela Bowie reveals that ex husband David slept with Mick Jagger May 4, 1990 Latvia's parliament votes 138-0 (1 abstention) for Independence May 4, 1990 Oriole Gregg Olson sets relief pitcher rec of 41 cons scoreless inns May 4, 1990 Pakistan beat Aust by 36 runs to win Austral-Asia Cup, Sharjah May 4, 1989 Junior Felix of Toronto becomes 53rd to hit HR on 1st at bat May 4, 1989 U.S. launches Magellan to Venus May 4, 1989 U.S. space shuttle STS-30 launched May 4, 1988 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. May 4, 1986 President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghanistan May 4, 1985 111th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero, Jr. on Spend A Buck wins 2:00.2 May 4, 1984 Dave Kingman's fly ball never comes down (stuck in Metrodome ceiling) May 4, 1983 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC May 4, 1982 British torpedo boat Sheffield off Falkland hit by Exocet rocket May 4, 1982 Nordiques 2-Isles 4-Semifinals-Isles win series 4-0 May 4, 1982 Twins rookie outfielder Jim Eisenreich, who suffers from Tourette's Syndrome, removes himself, due to taunts from Red Sox bleacher fans May 4, 1981 Rockline premieres on KLOS FM in Los Angeles May 4, 1981 Silvana Cruciata runs 15k female world record (49:44.0) May 4, 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 May 4, 1980 Dodgers bat out of order against Phillies in 1st inning May 4, 1980 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA CPC Women's Internationalional Golf Tournament May 4, 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 May 4, 1979 Jackie Mercer wins her 4th golf title 31 years after her 1st May 4, 1979 NASA launches Fltsatcom-2 May 4, 1978 Russian president Brezhnev visits West-Germany May 4, 1976 "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" opens at Mark Hellinger New York City for 7 performances May 4, 1976 Kiss performs their 1st concert May 4, 1975 Ed Bullins' "Taking of Miss Jane," premieres in New York City May 4, 1975 Flyers 1-Isles 0-Semis-Flyers hold 3-0 lead-Isles held to 14 shots May 4, 1975 Houston's Bob Watson scores baseball's one-millionth run of all time May 4, 1975 Maria Astrologes wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic May 4, 1974 100th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr. aboard Cannonade wins in 2:04 May 4, 1973 1st TV network female nudity-Steambath (PBS)-Valerie Perrine May 4, 1973 BPAA U.S. Women's Bowling Open won by Millie Martorella May 4, 1973 Longest game in Veterans' Stadium, Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20 May 4, 1973 Patriarch Shenuda II of Kopitisch church visits the pope May 4, 1973 Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20 innings May 4, 1973 Wings release "Red Rose Speedway" in UK May 4, 1972 Vietcong forms revolutionary government in Quang Tri South Vietnam May 4, 1970 National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio May 4, 1970 Premier Kosygin affirms existence Russian military advisors in Egypt May 4, 1970 Pulitzer prize awarded to Erik H Erikson (Gandhi's Truth) May 4, 1969 Charles Gordone's "No Place to be Somebody," premieres in New York City May 4, 1969 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational May 4, 1969 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep St. Louis Blues in 4 games May 4, 1968 1st ABA championship: Pitts Pipers beat NO Buccaneers, 4 games to 3 May 4, 1968 94th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Forward Pass wins May 4, 1968 Dancer Image DQ due to drugs after winning 94th Kent Derby in 2:02 May 4, 1967 Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by U.S.; begins orbiting Moon May 7 May 4, 1966 Soviet government signs accord about building Fiat factory in U.S.S.R. May 4, 1965 Willie Mays 512th HR breaks Mel Ott's 511th NL record May 4, 1964 "Another World" and "As the World Turns" premieres on TV May 4, 1964 70 GATT-countries confer in Geneva May 4, 1964 KIII TV channel 3 in Corpus Christi, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting May 4, 1964 Pulitzer prize awarded to Richard Hofstadter (Anti-intellectualism) May 4, 1963 89th Kentucky Derby: Braulio Baeza aboard Chateaugay wins in 2:01.8 May 4, 1963 Pitcher Bob Shaw sets record of 5 balks in a game May 4, 1962 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island May 4, 1961 13 Freedom riders began bus trip through South May 4, 1961 1st on-the-road Spacemobile lecture given. May 4, 1961 CORE begins freedom rides from Washington, D.C. May 4, 1961 Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather reach 34,668 m (record) in balloon May 4, 1961 South-Africa ANC-leader John Nkadimeng arrested May 4, 1960 1st great Delta dam closes, North-South Beveland May 4, 1959 1st Grammy Awards: Perry Como and Ella Fitzgerald win May 4, 1959 Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish May 4, 1958 Alberto Lleras Camargo chosen president of Colombia May 4, 1957 83rd Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Iron Liege wins in 2:02.2 May 4, 1957 Alan Freed hosts "Rock n' Roll Show" 1st prime-time network rock show May 4, 1957 Anne Frank Foundation forms in Amsterdam May 4, 1956 Queen Juliana unveils National Monument to Dams in Amsterdam May 4, 1956 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak May 4, 1954 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island May 4, 1953 Pulitzer prize awarded to E Hemingway (Old Man and The Sea) May 4, 1952 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Fresno Golf Open May 4, 1949 Air crash at Turijn (whole Torino-soccer team survives) May 4, 1948 The Hague Court of Justice convicts Hans Rauter (SS) to the death May 4, 1946 5 die in a 2 day riot at Alcatraz prison in San Francisco bay May 4, 1946 72nd Kentucky Derby: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:06.6 May 4, 1946 Wash's Cecil Travis gets 6 straight hits before being stopped May 4, 1945 German troops in Netherlands, Denmark and Norway surrender May 4, 1943 NL Ford Frick demonstrates revised balata ball to reporters by bouncing it on his office carpet ball proves to be 50% livelier May 4, 1942 Battle of Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air) May 4, 1942 Food 1st rationed in U.S. May 4, 1942 German occupiers imprison 450 prominent Dutch as hostages May 4, 1942 Pulitzer prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In this our Life) May 4, 1940 21 "not neutral" nazis and communists arrested in Netherlands May 4, 1940 66th Kentucky Derby: Carroll Bierman aboard Gallahadion wins in 2:05 May 4, 1938 Douglas Hyde (a protestant) becomes 1st president of Eire May 4, 1936 Pulitzer prize awarded to Harold L Davis (Honey in the Horn) May 4, 1935 61st Kentucky Derby: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 2:05 May 4, 1933 Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (Conquistador) May 4, 1932 Al Capone, convict of income tax evasion, enters Atlanta Penitentiary May 4, 1931 Mustafa Kemal Pasja becomes Turkish president May 4, 1929 Lou Gehrig hits 3 consecutive HRs, Yankees 11, Tigers 9 May 4, 1927 1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Ill) May 4, 1927 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences forms May 4, 1927 Nicaragua agrees to a U.S. supervised presidential election in 1928 May 4, 1926 General strike hits Britain May 4, 1925 League of Nations conference on arms control and poison gas usage May 4, 1924 8th Olympic games open at Paris, France May 4, 1924 German Republic election fascists and communists win May 4, 1923 Bloody street battles between Nazi's, socialist and police in Vienna May 4, 1923 New York state revokes Prohibition law May 4, 1922 KNX-AM in Los Angeles, California begins radio transmissions May 4, 1919 1st legal Sunday baseball game in New York City (Phillies beat Giants 4-3) May 4, 1919 FVC soccer team forms May 4, 1919 Giants play their 1st legal Sunday home game, 35,000 see Phils win 4-3 May 4, 1918 Yankees set record with 8 sacrifices, beat Red Sox's Babe Ruth 5-4 May 4, 1917 Arabs sack Tel Aviv May 4, 1916 At request of U.S., Germany curtails its submarine warfare May 4, 1915 Italy drops Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungaryb and Germany May 4, 1912 Italian mariners occupy Turkish Island of Rhodes May 4, 1910 Canadian Currency Act, 1910, receives Royal Assent May 4, 1910 Canadian parliament accept creation of Royal Canadian Navy May 4, 1910 Tel Aviv founded May 4, 1899 25th Kentucky Derby: Fred Taral aboard Manuel wins in 2:12 May 4, 1898 24th Kentucky Derby: Willie Simms aboard Plaudit wins in 2:09 May 4, 1897 23rd Kentucky Derby: Buttons Garner aboard Typhoon II wins in 2:12 May 4, 1897 Fire in Paris bazaar at Rue Jean Goujon kills 200 May 4, 1896 1st edition of London Daily Mail ( penny) May 4, 1896 Grease fire ignites ton of dynamite at Cripple Creek Colorado May 4, 1893 Cowboy Bob Pickett invents bulldogging May 4, 1888 Italy and Spain sign military covenant May 4, 1886 Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen May 4, 1883 John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" (Miss) May 4, 1878 Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House May 4, 1871 1st baseball league game (National Association of Baseball Players), (Ft. Wayne 2, Cleveland 0) Deacon Jim White gets 1st hit, a double May 4, 1866 Woodward's Gardens opens to public May 4, 1865 Battle of Citronville, Alabama; Richard Taylor surrenders May 4, 1865 Battle of Mobile, Alabama May 4, 1864 Gen Grant's Army at Potomac attacks at Rappahannock May 4, 1864 Ulysses S. Grant crosses Rapidan and begins his duel with Robert E. Lee May 4, 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville - action at Salem Church May 4, 1863 End of Chancellorsville - Beaten Union army withdraws May 4, 1862 Battle at Williamsburg, Virginia May 4, 1862 Yorktown, Virginia - McClellan halted his troop before town as it is full of armed torpedoes left by CS Brig general Gabrial Rains May 4, 1861 At Gretna LA, one of 1st guns of Rebel Navy is cast May 4, 1858 War of Reform (Mexico); Liberals establish capital at Vera Cruz May 4, 1851 1st major San Francisco fire May 4, 1847 New York State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration May 4, 1846 U.S. state Michigan ends death penalty May 4, 1843 Great-Britain annexes Natal May 4, 1839 The Cunard Steamship Company Ltd forms San Bonifacio May 4, 1834 Charles Darwin's expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean May 4, 1818 Netherlands and England sign treaty against illegal slave handling May 4, 1814 Bourbon reign restored in France May 4, 1805 Henry C. Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in Bronx May 4, 1783 Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus May 4, 1780 American Academy of Arts and Science founded May 4, 1780 Charles Bunbury on Diomed wins 1st Epsom Derby May 4, 1776 Rhode Island declares independence from England May 4, 1747 Willem IV appointed viceroy of Overijssel May 4, 1728 Georg F Handels opera "Tolomeo, re di Egitto," premieres in London May 4, 1715 French manufacturer debuts 1st folding umbrella (Paris) May 4, 1652 Battle at Etampes: French army under Turenne beats Fronde rebels May 4, 1634 Johan van Walbeecks fleet departs to West-Indies May 4, 1626 Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons May 4, 1626 Peter Minuit becomes director-general of New Netherlands May 4, 1572 Veere sides with Geuzen May 4, 1540 Venice and Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople May 4, 1494 Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica May 4, 1493 Spanish Pope Alexander VI divides America between Spain and Portugal May 4, 1471 Battle of Tewkesbury - King Edward IV vs Ex-queen Margaretha May 4, 1303 Flemings conquers Middelburg |