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May 4 Events in History - May 4 Birthdays - May 4 Deaths
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



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