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Events from History on May 04

1303 : Flemings conquers Middelburg
1471 : Battle of Tewkesbury - King Edward IV vs Ex-queen Margaretha
1493 : Spanish Pope Alexander VI divides America between Spain & Portugal
1494 : Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica
1540 : Venice & Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople
1572 : Veere sides with Geuzen
1626 : Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth & buttons
1626 : Peter Minuit becomes director-general of New Netherlands
1634 : Johan van Walbeecks fleet departs to West-Indies
1652 : Battle at Etampes: French army under Turenne beats Fronde rebels
1715 : French manufacturer debuts 1st folding umbrella (Paris)
1728 : Georg F H„ndels opera "Tolomeo, re di Egitto," premieres in London
1747 : Willem IV appointed viceroy of Overijssel
1776 : Rhode Island declares independence from England
1780 : American Academy of Arts & Science founded
1783 : Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus
1805 : Henry C Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in Bronx
1814 : Bourbon reign restored in France
1818 : Netherlands & England sign treaty against illegal slave handling
1834 : Charles Darwin's expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean
1839 : The Cunard Steamship Company Ltd forms San Bonifacio
1843 : Great-Britain annexes Natal
1846 : US state Michigan ends death penalty
1847 : NY State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration
1851 : 1st major SF fire
1858 : War of Reform (M‚xico); Liberals establish capital at Vera Cruz
1861 : At Gretna LA, one of 1st guns of Rebel navy is cast
1862 : -5] Battle at Williamsburg, Virginia
1862 : Yorktown, VA - McClellan halted his troop before town as
1862 : it is full of armed torpedoes left by CS Brig general Gabrial Rains
1863 : Battle of Chancellorsville-action at Salem Church
1863 : End of Chancellorsville - Beaten Union army withdraws
1864 : -16] actions at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia
1864 : Gen Grant's Army at Potomac attacks at Rappahannock
1864 : Ulysses S Grant crosses Rapidan & begins his duel with Robert E Lee
1865 : Battle of Citronville, AL; Richard Taylor surrenders
1865 : Battle of Mobile, AL
1866 : Woodward's Gardens opens to public
1871 : (Ft Wayne 2, Cleveland 0) Deacon Jim White gets 1st hit, a double
1878 : Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House
1883 : John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" (Miss)
1886 : Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen
1888 : Italy & Spain sign military covenant
1893 : Cowboy Bob Pickett invents bulldogging
1896 : 1st edition of London Daily Mail (« penny)
1896 : Grease fire ignites « ton of dynamite at Cripple Creek Colorado
1897 : Fire in Paris bazaar at Rue Jean Goujon kills 200
1910 : Canadian Currency Act, 1910, receives Royal Assent
1910 : Canadian parliament accept creation of Royal Canadian Navy
1910 : Tel Aviv founded
1912 : Italian mariners occupy Turkish Island of Rhodes
1915 : Italy drops Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungaryb & Germany
1916 : At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare
1917 : Arabs sack Tel Aviv
1918 : Yankees set record with 8 sacrifices, beat Red Sox's Babe Ruth 5-4
1919 : FVC soccer team forms
1922 : KNX-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions
1923 : Bloody street battles between nazi's, socialist & police in Vienna
1923 : NY state revokes Prohibition law
1924 : German Republic election fascists & communists win
1925 : League of Nations conference on arms control & poison gas usage
1926 : General strike hits Britain
1927 : 1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Ill)
1927 : Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences forms
1927 : Nicaragua agrees to a US supervised presidential election in 1928
1929 : Lou Gehrig hits 3 consecutive HRs, Yankees 11, Tigers 9
1931 : Mustafa Kemal Pasja becomes Turkish president
1932 : Al Capone, convict of income tax evasion, enters Atlanta Penitentiary
1933 : Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (Conquistador)
1936 : Pulitzer prize awarded to Harold L Davis (Honey in the Horn)
1938 : Douglas Hyde (a protestant) becomes 1st president of Eire
1940 : 21 "not neutral" nazis & communists arrested in Netherlands
1942 : Battle of Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air)
1942 : Food 1st rationed in US
1942 : German occupiers imprison 450 prominent Dutch as hostages
1942 : Pulitzer prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In this our Life)
1943 : NL Ford Frick demonstrates revised balata ball to reporters by
1943 : bouncing it on his office carpet ball proves to be 50% livelier
1945 : German troops in Netherlands, Denmark & Norway surrender
1946 : 5 die in a 2 day riot at Alcatraz prison in SF bay
1946 : Wash's Cecil Travis gets 6 straight hits before being stopped
1948 : The Hague Court of Justice convicts Hans Rauter (SS) to the death
1949 : Air crash at Turijn (whole Torino-soccer team survives)
1953 : Pulitzer prize awarded to E Hemingway (Old Man & The Sea)
1954 : US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1956 : Queen Juliana unveils National Monument to Dams in Amsterdam
1956 : US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1957 : Alan Freed hosts "Rock n' Roll Show" 1st prime-time network rock show
1957 : Anne Frank Foundation forms in Amsterdam
1958 : Alberto Lleras Camargo chosen president of Colombia
1959 : 1st Grammy Awards: Perry Como & Ella Fitzgerald win
1959 : Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (JB)
1960 : 1st great Delta dam closes, North-South Beveland
1961 : 13 Freedom riders began bus trip through South
1961 : 1st on-the-road Spacemobile lecture given.
1961 : CORE begins freedom rides from Washington, DC
1961 : Malcolm Ross & Victor Prather reach 34,668 m (record) in balloon
1961 : South-Africa ANC-leader John Nkadimeng arrested
1962 : US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1964 : "Another World" & "As the World Turns" premieres on TV
1964 : 70 GATT-countries confer in Geneva
1964 : KIII TV channel 3 in Corpus Christi, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1964 : Pulitzer prize awarded to Richard Hofstadter (Anti-intellectualism)
1965 : Willie Mays 512th HR breaks Mel Ott's 511th NL record
1966 : Soviet govt signs accord about building Fiat factory in USSR
1967 : Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by US; begins orbiting Moon May 7
1968 : 94th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Forward Pass wins
1968 : Dancer Image DQ due to drugs after winning 94th Kent Derby in 2:02«
1969 : Charles Gordone's "No Place to be Somebody," premieres in NYC
1970 : National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio
1970 : Premier Kosygin affirms existence Russian military advisors in Egypt
1970 : Pulitzer prize awarded to Erik H Erikson (Gandhi's Truth)
1972 : Vietcong forms revolutionary govt in Quang Tri South Vietnam
1973 : 1st TV network female nudity-Steambath (PBS)-Valerie Perrine
1973 : Patriarch Shenuda II of Kopitisch church visits the pope
1973 : Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20 innings
1973 : Wings release "Red Rose Speedway" in UK
1975 : Ed Bullins' "Taking of Miss Jane," premieres in NYC
1975 : Flyers 1-Isles 0-Semis-Flyers hold 3-0 lead-Isles held to 14 shots
1975 : Houston's Bob Watson scores baseball's one-millionth run of all time
1976 : "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 7 perfs
1976 : Kiss performs their 1st concert
1978 : Russian president Brezhnev visits West-Germany
1979 : Margaret Thatcher elected prime minister of England
1979 : NASA launches Fltsatcom-2
1980 : Dodgers bat out of order against Phillies in 1st inning
1980 : White Sox 1st baseman Mike Squires catches final inning of 11-1 loss
1980 : to Brewers, becoming 1st lefty to catch since Dale Long in 1958
1981 : Rockline premieres on KLOS FM in Los Angeles
1981 : Yankee Ron Davis strikes out 8 consecutive Angels, ran record of 13
1981 : strikeouts of last 14 faced, also saved Gene Nelsons 1st win, 4-2
1982 : British torpedo boat Sheffield off Falkland hit by Exocet rocket
1982 : Nordiques 2-Isles 4-Semifinals-Isles win series 4-0
1982 : Syndrome, removes himself, due to taunts from Red Sox bleacher fans
1983 : China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1984 : Dave Kingman's fly ball never comes down (stuck in Metrodome ceiling)
1986 : President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghanistan
1988 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 : Junior Felix of Toronto becomes 53rd to hit HR on 1st at bat
1989 : US launches Magellan to Venus
1989 : US space shuttle STS-30 launched
1990 : Angela Bowie reveals that ex husband David slept with Mick Jagger
1990 : Latvia's parliament votes 138-0 (1 abstention) for Independence
1990 : Oriole Gregg Olson sets relief pitcher rec of 41 cons scoreless inns
1991 : ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Doug Kent
1991 : Actress Sharon Gless & producer Barney Rosenzeig wed
1991 : Morris K Udall, (Rep-D-Ariz), resigns due to Parkinson disease
1991 : NY Mets M Sasser & Mark Carreon are 8th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
1991 : Pres Bush is hospitalized for erratic heartbeat
1993 : "Angels in America-Millennium Approaches" opens at Kerr for 367 perfs
1993 : Space probe Galileo enters asteroid belt
1994 : Courtney Love cleared of drug charges
1996 : ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Ernie Schlegel
1996 : Greg Pavlik one-hits Tigers making the Rangers 1st AL team to pitch
1996 : back-to-back one-hitters since the Washington Senators in 1917
1997 : Bruno's Memorial Senior Golf Classic
1997 : Sprint Titleholders LPGA Championship
2002 : A Nigerian flight crashed into populous area killing 126
2002 : France launches SPOT-5 Satellite
2002 : European Union adds Lashker-e-Toiba in its extended list of terrorist organisations.
2002 : Industralist and Chairman of Oberoi Group Mr. MS Oberoi dies at 103.
2002 : Mayawathi takes oath as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for the 3rd time.
2002 : An Indian Airforce R-25 engine based MIG Aircraft crashed in a bank killed 8 nearby.

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