May 4

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on May 4. From 1900 until now. May 4 is under the sign of Taurus. Famous birthdays on this day include Audrey Hepburn (1929), Rocco Siffredi (1964) and Keith Haring (1958). Several movies were released around May 4 over the years, such as Breaker Morant in 1980 directed by Bruce Beresford and Fox and His Friends in 1975 directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
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Holidays

Star Wars day, "May the 4th be with you" pun on "May the force be with you"
Republic of China - Literary Day (???, commemorating May Fourth Movement).
International Firefighters' Day.
Saint Ladislaus of Gielnow
People's Republic of China - Youth Day (???, commemorating May Fourth Movement).
Blessed Catherine of Park
Saint Judas Cyriacus
Saint Florian
Saint Godehard
Saint Monica of Hippo (d. 387)
Saint Ethelred
Saint Silvianus
Saint Titianus
Saint Willerik
Saint John Houghton, Saint Robert Lawrence, Saint Augustine Webster, Saint Richard Reynolds, and Saint John Hale; all put to death in 1535.
Saint Malou
The Netherlands - Remembrance of the Dead.
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Events

2019 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Libya during the Libyan Civil War: An attack on forces loyal to Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar in Sabha, Libya, kills at least nine people. ISIL claims responsibility. (AFP via The Times of India)
2018 Basque conflict: In Cambo-les-Bains, France, ETA performs its final act of dissolution in the presence of politicians such as Gerry Adams, Jonathan Powell, Brian Currin and Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas. (El País)Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy reminds a crowd to remember the 853 victims of the conflict and reaffirms that there will be no impunity for the violence perpetrated by ETA during its 60-year history. (El País)
2017 2017 Venezuelan protests: A student is killed amid gunfire in El Tigre, raising the death toll in protests against Nicolás Maduro's government to at least 37 in the past month. (ABC News)
2016 Moro conflict: The Abu Sayyaf militant group threatens to behead a Canadian hostage, a Filipina hostage, and a Norwegian hostage. (The Guardian)
2015 It is announced that the daughter of the Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, has been named Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, named after her grandfather, grandmother, and great grandmother. (News Limited)
2014 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine: Pro-Russian activists attack the police headquarters in Odessa, forcing the release of several people held over deadly violence two days before. (BBC)
2013 War in Afghanistan: Five US soldiers are killed when a bomb detonates in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Additionally, three more are killed in separate incidents. (The New York Times)
2012 At least one person is killed and at least 373 others are wounded when armed forces fire water cannon, tear gas and rocks on demonstrators near Egypt's defence ministry in Cairo. (Al Jazeera)
2011 2011 Syrian uprising
2010 13 inches of rain falls on Nashville, Tennessee, over two days, close to doubling the previous rainfall record. A levee protecting the southern park of the city is breached, causing parts of Nashville to be evacuated. 17 deaths are killed in Tennessee, mostly from drowning in flash floods.
2009 Dominick "Dom" DeLuise, American comic actor (Blazing Saddles, The Cannonball Run, Smokey and the Bandit II) dies at age 75 from prostate cancer in Los Angeles, California.
2008 Cyclone Nargis: Myanmar's State Peace and Development Council declares that five states in the Irrawaddy River delta are a disaster area following the cyclone with at least 351 deaths. (MSNBC)
2007 Tornado strikes Greensburg, Kansas, killing at least 12 and destroying about 90 percent of the town.
2006 A large meteor shower crosses over El Paso, Texas, USA.
2005 Israel freezes the handover of West Bank Palestinian towns to the Palestinian Authority. Israel claims they will resume the handover process when militant groups are disarmed. The Prime Minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon, had agreed to hand over five West Bank towns to Palestinian control, but thus far has only handed over Tulkarm and Jericho. (BBC)
2004 A WNBC helicopter crashes in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York. This event is covered by rival station WABC-TV.
2003 Top Thrill Dragster opens in Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio as the world's tallest, fastest roller coaster.
2002 An EAS Airlines BAC 1-11-500 crashes in a suburb of Kano, Nigeria shortly after takeoff killing more than 148 people.
2001 The Milwaukee Art Museum addition, the first Santiago Calatrava-designed structure in the United States, opens to the public.
2000 Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London.
1999 The US Mint unveils designs for the Sacagawea dollar coin.
1998 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin and Buzz Lightyear attend the re-opening of the Moonliner attraction in Disneyland, California. The original Moonliner was removed in 1966.
1997 Sprint Titleholders LPGA Championship
1996 ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Ernie Schlegel.
1994 Courtney Love cleared of drug charges
1993 Angels in America-Millennium Approaches opens at Kerr for 367 performances
1991 Actress Sharon Gless and producer Barney Rosenzeig wed
1990 Angela Bowie reveals that ex husband David slept with Mick Jagger
1989 US launches Magellan to Venus.
1988 A major explosion at an industrial solid-fuel rocket plant in Henderson, Nevada, causes damage extending up to 10 miles away, including Las Vegas's McCarran International Airport.
1986 President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghanistan.
1985 111th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr on Spend A Buck wins 2:00.2.
1982 British torpedo boat Sheffield off Falkland hit by Exocet rocket
1981 Rockline premieres on KLOS FM in Los Angeles
1980 Dodgers bat out of order against Phillies in 1st inning
1979 Jackie Mercer wins her fourth golf title 31 years after her first.
1978 Russian President Brezhnev visits West Germany.
1977 The Space Mountain attraction opens in Tomorrowland at Disneyland in California.
1976 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 7 performances
1975 Flyers 1-Isles 0-Semis-Flyers hold 3-0 lead-Isles held to 14 shots
1974 100th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr aboard Cannonade wins in 2:04.
1973 Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20 innings
1972 Vietcong forms revolutionary government in Quang Tri, South Vietnam.
1970 National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio
1969 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational.
1968 94th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Forward Pass wins in 2:02.5.
1967 Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by US; begins orbiting Moon May 7.
1966 Soviet government signs accord about building Fiat factory in the USSR
1964 Another World andAs the World Turns premieres on TV
1963 Pitcher Bob Shaw sets record of five balks in a game.
1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island.
1961 1st on-the-road Spacemobile lecture given.
1960 1st great Delta dam closes, North-South Beveland
1959 First Grammy Awards: Perry Como and Ella Fitzgerald win.
1958 Alberto Lleras Camargo chosen President of Colombia.
1957 83rd Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Iron Liege wins in 2:02.2.
1956 Queen Juliana unveils National Monument to Dams in Amsterdam
1954 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island.
1953 Pulitzer prize awarded to E Hemingway (Old Man & The Sea)
1952 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Fresno Golf Open.
1949 Air crash at Turijn (whole Torino-soccer team survives).
1948 The Hague Court of Justice convicts Hans Rauter (German SS) and sentenced him to the death penalty.
1946 5 die in a 2 day riot at Alcatraz prison in SF bay
1945 German troops in the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway surrender
1942 Food 1st rationed in US
1940 21 not neutral Nazis and communists arrested in the Netherlands
1938 Douglas Hyde (a Protestant) becomes first president of Eire.
1936 Pulitzer prize awarded to Harold L Davis (Honey in the Horn)
1935 61st Kentucky Derby: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 2:05.
1933 Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (Conquistador)
1932 Al Capone, convict of income tax evasion, enters Atlanta Penitentiary
1931 Mustafa Kemal Pasja becomes Turkish President
1930 r May 5 ampndash Mahatma Gandhi is arrested again.
1929 Lou Gehrig hits three consecutive homeruns, New York Yankees 11, Detroit Tigers 9.
1927 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences forms
1926 General strike hits Britain
1925 League of Nations conference on arms control and poison gas usage.
1924 8th Olympic games open at Paris, France
1923 New York state revokes Prohibition law.
1922 KNX-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions
1919 Giants play their 1st legal Sunday home game, 35,000 see Phils win 4-3
1917 Arabs sack Tel Aviv.
1916 At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare.
1915 Italy drops Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungaryb and Germany.
1912 Italian mariners occupy Turkish Island of Rhodes.
1910 Canadian parliament accept creation of Royal Canadian Navy.
1904 The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
1903 The leading Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary Gotse Delchev is killed in a skirmish with the Turkish army.
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Famous Birthday

Audrey Hepburn: Belgian actress and humanitarian who...
Rocco Siffredi: Italian actor in porno films, noted for...
Keith Haring: American artist, a pop and graffiti...
Kimora Lee Simmons
Karla Homolka: Canadian homicide accomplice; a story of...
Gérard Jugnot: French actor, film and stage director,...
Superga air disaster
Hosni Mubarak: Egyptian President, leader and military...
Dave (singer)
Pauline Ducruet: Monaco royalty, the daughter of Princess...
Pia Zadora: American actress.
Yves Lecoq: French actor, humorist, and mimic.
Lance Bass: American pop singer, dancer, actor, film...
Heather Kozar: Akron, Ohio -- Playmate (Jan, 1998).
Mike Dirnt: American musician (Green Day).
Sylviane Agacinski
Randy Travis: American country western singer who has...
El Cordobés: Spanish toreador, known in 1964 as an...
Cesc Fabregas: Spanish footballer.
Soan (singer)
Jacques Lanzmann: French journalist, writer and lyricist.
Mick Mars: American guitarist (Motley Crue).
Kate Garraway: English GMTV Presenter.
Emmanuel Roblès: Algerian-French novelist and playwright.
Erin Andrews: ESPN sideline reporter.
Francesca Bortolozzi: Italian champion fencer, the winner of...
Denis Stoff
Valère Novarina: Franco-Swiss writer, playwright,...
Pierre Méhaignerie: French politician.
David Laflamme
Rory McIlroy: Northern Irish golfer.
Nella Jones: British psychic, one of the world's...
Maxence Van der Meersch: French Flemish writer.
Manuel Benítez
Régis Charlet: French ski champion.
Michael Barrymore: British TV host and highest paid actor...
Ashley Rickards: TV Actress.
Nickolas Ashford: American singer-songwriter pianist and...
Stella Parton: American country music singer.
Zal Cleminson: rocker (Alex Harvey Band).
Jackie Jackson: American singer and musician (The...
Lydia Warren: American teenage blues fan and prodigy...
Luis Herrera: Colombian cyclist.
Marie Poissonnier: French pole vaulter whose personal best...
Marcelle Arnold: French actress, also known as Mireille...
Jidenna
Jean-François Chossy
Serge Creuz: Dutch artist, painter, set decorator and...
Paul Gleason
Paul Gleason: Actor.
Béatrice Thiriet
Loulou de la Falaise
Ronald Golias: Brazilian comedian on television.
Sarah Meier: Swiss figure skater.
Faith Wallis: Canadian educator, a Professor of...
Hugo Gélin
Angel Sy
Paige Rense: American editor of Architectural Digest...
Jorge Lorenzo: Spanish motorcycle racer.
Christophe Fouquet
Maurizio Cheli: Italian astronaut who participated in...
Jay Aston: English singer-songwriter and dancer...
Goran Prpic: in Yugoslavia; tennis star.
Richard Jenkins: American actor.
Robert Cointreau: French alcohol manufacturer, member of...
Gary Holt (musician)
Ville Komsi: Finnish politician, Green Party activist...
Masashi Oguro
Peter H Boenisch
Matthieu Gourdain
Eric Sykes: British actor and comedian.
Enzo Garinei: Italian comedian, brilliant in many TV...
Esmond Knight: East Sheen, England -- Actor (Hamlet,...
Dick Dale (guitarist)
Alexander Gould: American actor.
Charles Graham Irving
Cadou Gilles: Belgian hockey player known as Cadou.
Ana Gasteyer: American actress and singer.
Mary Ann McCall: Singer, dies at 75.
Laszlo Hargittai
Roberta Peters: American soprano.
Monica Bleibtreu
Howard Da Silva: American actor, director and musical...
Don Friedman: American musician, a pianist and...
Ron Carter: American jazz and classical musician,...
Edo Murtic: Croatian painter (Born 1921).
Steve Barron
Lars Sandberg
Rory Mcllroy
Michel Lucas: French business leader, computer...
Ronnie Bond
Lars Gullin
Charles Owens (saxophonist)
Marisa Robles
Vange Leonel: Brazilian singer-songwriter and activist...
Grace Phipps: TV Actress.
Milton O Thompson: astronaut (Dynasoar, X-15), dies at age...
Olivier Tracoulat
Joe Borowski (baseball)
Raymond Bloch
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Famous Deaths

Diana Dors: British actress with an ample bosom who...
Henri Guillemin: French author, university professor, and...
Bob Clampett: American animator director and producer...
Paul Butterfield: American singer/harmonica player, dies...
Dennis Crosby: American actor and noted family, the...
Bengt Axel von Torne: Composer, dies at 75.
F Osbert S Sitwell: English Poet (Who Killed Cock Robin?),...
4 students: at Kent State University killed by Ohio...
Louis de Bree [Louis C Davids]: Dutch actor (Bluejackets), dies at 87.
Jane Bowles: American writer and playwright (Born...
Israel Citkowitz: Composer, dies at 65.
John Wengraf: Actor (Pride & Passion, 12 to the Moon),...
Moe Howard [Moses Horowitz]: Comedian (3 Stooges), dies at 77.
Don Appell
Carl von Ossietzky: German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel...
Edward Calvin Kendall: American chemist, recipient of the Nobel...
David Hackworth: U.
Edward B B Shanks: British poet/critic, dies at age 60.
Joseph Csaky: Hungarian/French sculptor, dies at age...
Donald Dexter Van Slyke: US chemist (Cyanosis), dies at age 88.
Kay Hammond: actress (Blithe Spirit, Five Golden...
Josip Broz Tito: President of Yugoslavia (1945-80), dies...
Dick Hillenius: Dutch biologist/writer, dies at age 59.
Ismael Galeano "Commandant Franklyn" (Contra): dies.
Vitali Andreyevich Grishchenko: Russian cosmonaut, dies at age 50.
Karl Francis Hettinger: onion field survivor, dies at age 59.
Lewis T Preston: banker, dies at age 68.
Louis Krasner: violinist, dies at age 91.
Stanley William Reed: cineaste, dies at age 85.
Vijayananda Dahanayake: Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (1959-60),...
Gotse Delchev a revolutionary from the Balkans: leader of the Internal Macedonian...
John Jones Ross: Canadian politician (Born 1831).
Members of the Easter Rising\ \ Edward Daly: Irish nationalist and Member of the...
Noel Rosa: Brazilian songwriter (Born 1910).
Milan Rastislav Stefanik: Slovak politician, French general and...
Allison Krause: Kent State victim (Born 1951).
Eugenia Livanos: Greek socialite (Born 1927).
William Schroeder: (Born 1950).
Sandra Scheuer: Kent State victim (Born 1949).
Connie Wisniewski: American baseball player [AAGPBL] (Born...
Bonnie Lee Bakley: American murder victim (Born 1956).
Louis Breguet: French aviator and industrialist, a...
Georges Enescu: Romanian composer, violinist, pianist,...
Jean Crepin: soldier/industrialist, dies at age 87.
Dom DeLuise: American actor and comedian (Born 1933).
Jeffrey Miller
Anita Stewart: American actress and producer (d. 1961).
Viktor Kingissepp: Estonian Bolshevik politician (Born...
Nino Sanzogno: Italian conductor and composer (d....
Seamus Elliott: Irish cyclist (Born 1934).
George Enescu: Romanian violinist pianist composer and...
Cathryn Damon: American actress (Mary Campbell - Soap),...
Emily Remler: American Jazz Guitarist (Born1957).
Barry E Odell Pain: English writer (Punch), dies at 63.
Alvy Moore: Actor / producer (Mr Kimball-Green...
Osbert Sitwell: English-Italian captain poet and author...
Fedor von Bock: German field marshal (Born 1880).
Henry Morton Dunham: Composer, dies at 75.
Thomas Tertius Noble: Composer, dies at 85.
Norman Brokenshire: TV moderator (Four Square Court), dies...
Juan Maria Thomas Sabater: Composer, dies at 69.
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