May 4

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...

• Hosni Mubarak

  Egyptian President, leader and military...

• Pia Zadora

  American actress.

• Lance Bass

  American pop singer, dancer, actor, film...

• Randy Travis

  American country western singer who has...

• Ashley Rickards

  TV Actress.

• Jackie Jackson

  American singer and musician (The...

• Paul Gleason
• Hugo Gélin
• Richard Jenkins

  American actor.

• Eric Sykes

  British actor and comedian.

• Alexander Gould

  American actor.

• Ana Gasteyer

  American actress and singer.

• Emily Perkins

  Canadian actress.

• Trisha Krishnan

  Indian actress.

• Julian Barratt

  English comedian and musician, one half...

• Jane Kennedy

  English politician.

• James Harrison

  Football Player.

• Shameik Moore

  TV Actor.

• Russi Taylor

  Voice Actor.

• Rob Brydon

  Actor.

• Inger Nilsson

  Swedish actress.

• 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
• Dave (singer)
• Pauline Ducruet

  Monaco royalty, the daughter of Princess...

• Yves Lecoq

  French actor, humorist, and mimic.

• Heather Kozar

  Akron, Ohio -- Playmate (Jan, 1998).

• Mike Dirnt

  American musician (Green Day).

• Sylviane Agacinski
• El Cordobés

  Spanish toreador, known in 1964 as an...

• Cesc Fabregas

  Spanish footballer.

• Soan (singer)
• Jacques Lanzmann

  French journalist, writer and lyricist.

• Kate Garraway

  English GMTV Presenter.

• Mick Mars

  American guitarist (Motley Crue).

• 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
• Nella Jones

  British psychic, one of the world's...

• Rory McIlroy

  Northern Irish golfer.

• Maxence Van der Meersch

  French Flemish writer.

• Manuel Benítez
• Régis Charlet

  French ski champion.

• Michael Barrymore

  British TV host and highest paid actor...

• Nickolas Ashford

  American singer-songwriter pianist and...

• Stella Parton

  American country music singer.

• Zal Cleminson

  rocker (Alex Harvey Band).

• Luis Herrera

  Colombian cyclist.

• Lydia Warren

  American teenage blues fan and prodigy...

• Marcelle Arnold

  French actress, also known as Mireille...

• Marie Poissonnier

  French pole vaulter whose personal best...

• Jidenna
• Jean-François Chossy
• Serge Creuz

  Dutch artist, painter, set decorator and...

• Béatrice Thiriet
• Paul Gleason

  Actor.

• Loulou de la Falaise
• Ronald Golias

  Brazilian comedian on television.

• Sarah Meier

  Swiss figure skater.

• Faith Wallis

  Canadian educator, a Professor of...

• 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.

• Robert Cointreau

  French alcohol manufacturer, member of...

• Ville Komsi

  Finnish politician, Green Party activist...

• Gary Holt (musician)
• Masashi Oguro
• Peter H Boenisch
• Matthieu Gourdain
• Enzo Garinei

  Italian comedian, brilliant in many TV...

• Esmond Knight

  East Sheen, England -- Actor (Hamlet,...

• Dick Dale (guitarist)
• Charles Graham Irving
• Cadou Gilles

  Belgian hockey player known as Cadou.

• Laszlo Hargittai
• Mary Ann McCall

  Singer, dies at 75.

• 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...

• Lars Gullin
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Famous Deaths

• Diana Dors

  British actress with an ample bosom who...

• Cathryn Damon

  American actress (Mary Campbell - Soap),...

• Anita Stewart

  American actress and producer (d. 1961).

• 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...

• Dom DeLuise

  American actor and comedian (Born 1933).

• 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...

• Barry E Odell Pain

  English writer (Punch), dies at 63.

• Georges Enescu

  Romanian composer, violinist, pianist,...

• Jeffrey Miller
• Seamus Elliott

  Irish cyclist (Born 1934).

• Emily Remler

  American Jazz Guitarist (Born1957).

• Osbert Sitwell

  English-Italian captain poet and author...

• Alvy Moore

  Actor / producer (Mr Kimball-Green...

• Bonnie Lee Bakley

  American murder victim (Born 1956).

• Henry Morton Dunham

  Composer, dies at 75.

• Carl von Ossietzky

  German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel...

• Edward Calvin Kendall

  American chemist, recipient of the Nobel...

• 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).

• Thomas Tertius Noble

  Composer, dies at 85.

• Norman Brokenshire

  TV moderator (Four Square Court), dies...

• Juan Maria Thomas Sabater

  Composer, dies at 69.

• 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
• 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.

• Josip Broz Tito

  President of Yugoslavia (1945-80), dies...

• Kay Hammond

  actress (Blithe Spirit, Five Golden...

• 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),...

• Louis Breguet

  French aviator and industrialist, a...

• Jean Crepin

  soldier/industrialist, dies at age 87.

• Viktor Kingissepp

  Estonian Bolshevik politician (Born...

• Nino Sanzogno

  Italian conductor and composer (d....

• George Enescu

  Romanian violinist pianist composer and...

• Fedor von Bock

  German field marshal (Born 1880).

• David Hackworth

  U.

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Top #1 songs in the USA

• 2017 Kendrick Lamar - Humble.
• 2016 Desiigner - Panda
• 2015 Wiz Khalifa Featuring Charlie Puth - See You Again
• 2014 Pharrell Williams - Happy
• 2013 P!nk - Just Give Me A Reason
• 2012 Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know
• 2011 Katy Perry - E.T.
• 2010 B.o.B. - Nothin' On You
• 2009 The Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow
• 2008 Lil Wayne - Lollipop
• 2007 Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend
• 2006 Daniel Powter - Bad Day
• 2005 Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl
• 2004 Usher - Yeah!
• 2003 50 Cent - In Da Club
• 2002 Ashanti - Foolish
• 2001 Janet - All For You
• 2000 Santana - Maria, Maria
• 1999 Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca
• 1998 Next - Too Close
• 1997 The Notorious B.I.G. - Hypnotize
• 1996 Mariah Carey - Always Be My Baby
• 1995 Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It
• 1994 Ace Of Base - The Sign
• 1993 Silk - Freak Me
• 1992 Kris Kross - Jump
• 1991 Amy Grant - Baby Baby
• 1990 Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
• 1989 Madonna - Like A Prayer
• 1988 Terence Trent D'Arby - Wishing Well
• 1987 Cutting Crew - (I Just) Died In Your Arms
• 1986 Robert Palmer - Addicted To Love
• 1985 USA for Africa - We Are The World
• 1984 Phil Collins - Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)
• 1983 Michael Jackson - Beat It
• 1982 Vangelis - Chariots Of Fire - Titles
• 1981 Sheena Easton - Morning Train (Nine To Five)
• 1980 Blondie - Call Me
• 1979 Peaches & Herb - Reunited
• 1978 Bee Gees - Night Fever
• 1977 Eagles - Hotel California
• 1976 Bellamy Brothers - Let Your Love Flow
• 1975 Tony Orlando and Dawn - He Don't Love You (Like I Love You)
• 1974 Grand Funk - The Loco-Motion
• 1973 Dawn - Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree
• 1972 Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
• 1971 Three Dog Night - Joy To The World
• 1970 The Jackson 5 - ABC
• 1969 The 5th Dimension - Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)
• 1968 Bobby Goldsboro - Honey
• 1967 Nancy Sinatra - Somethin' Stupid
• 1966 The Mamas & The Papas - Monday, Monday
• 1965 Herman's Hermits - Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter
• 1964 The Beatles - Can't Buy Me Love
• 1963 Little Peggy March - I Will Follow Him
• 1962 The Shirelles - Soldier Boy
• 1961 Del Shannon - Runaway
• 1960 Elvis Presley - Stuck On You
• 1959 The Fleetwoods - Come Softly To Me
• 1958 David Seville - Witch Doctor
• 1957 Elvis Presley - All Shook Up
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Top #1 Rock songs

• 2017 Imagine Dragons - Believer
• 2016 twenty one pilots - Stressed Out
• 2015 WALK THE MOON - Shut Up And Dance
• 2014 Bastille - Pompeii
• 2013 Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
• 2012 Gotye Featuring Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know
• 2011 Foo Fighters - Rope
• 2010 Stone Temple Pilots - Between The Lines