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By  Heather Ellis  04 May   79 Views

History Events on May 04

Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson
Assassination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson

#Engelbrekt_Engelbrektsson

In 1436
Royal Canadian Navy
The Royal Canadian Navy is created.

#Royal_Canadian_Navy

In 1910
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom general strike begins.

#United_Kingdom

In 1926
Sacramento, California
A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.

#Sacramento,_California

In 1998
Iran-Contra affair
Iran-Contra affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges; the convictions are later overturned on appeal.

#Iran-Contra_affair

In 1989
Type 42 destroyer
Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.

#Type_42_destroyer

In 1982
Municipalities of the Philippines
The Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines.

#Municipalities_of_the_Philippines

In 1686
Conclusion of the American Civil War
Surrender of the Confederate departments of Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana at Citronelle, Alabama.

#Conclusion_of_the_American_Civil_War

In 1865
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.

#Ernest_Hemingway

In 1953
Cornwall Railway
The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking Devon and Cornwall in England.

#Cornwall_Railway

In 1859
Greensburg, Kansas
Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7 mi wide EF5 tornado. It was the first-ever tornado to be rated as such with the new Enhanced Fujita scale.

#Greensburg,_Kansas

In 2007
San Francisco Bay
In San Francisco Bay, U.S. Marines from the nearby Treasure Island Naval Base stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary; 5 people are killed in the riot.

#San_Francisco_Bay

In 1946
Rhode Island
Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.

#Rhode_Island

In 1776
PEPCON disaster
The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.

#PEPCON_disaster

In 1988
John Wycliffe
Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.

#John_Wycliffe

In 1415
Atlanta
In Atlanta, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.

#Atlanta

In 1932
Neuengamme concentration camp
World War II: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army.

#Neuengamme_concentration_camp

In 1945
German surrender at Lüneburg Heath
World War II: The German surrender at Lüneburg Heath includes all Wehrmacht units in the Netherlands, Denmark and northwest Germany.

#German_surrender_at_Lüneburg_Heath

In 1945
May Fourth Movement
May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.

#May_Fourth_Movement

In 1919
Latvia
Latvia proclaims the renewal of its independence after the Soviet occupation.

#Latvia

In 1990
Ken Livingstone
Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London.

#Ken_Livingstone

In 2000
Peter Minuit
Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.

#Peter_Minuit

In 1626
Ferdinand VII of Spain
King Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decree of the 4th of May, returning Spain to absolutism.

#Ferdinand_VII_of_Spain

In 1814
Ancient Order of Hibernians
Formation of Ancient Order of Hibernians

#Ancient_Order_of_Hibernians

In 1836
Panama Canal
The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.

#Panama_Canal

In 1904
Naval Battle of Hakodate
The Naval Battle of Hakodate is fought in Japan.

#Naval_Battle_of_Hakodate

In 1869
Haymarket affair
Haymarket affair: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.

#Haymarket_affair

In 1886
Malcolm Ross (balloonist)
Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V open gondola to 113,740 feet (34.67 km).

#Malcolm_Ross_(balloonist)

In 1961
Augustinians
The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.

#Augustinians

In 1256
Wars of the Roses
Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales.

#Wars_of_the_Roses

In 1471
Torino F.C.
The entire Torino football team (except for two players who did not take the trip: Sauro Tomà, due to an injury and Renato Gandolfi, because of coach request) is killed in a plane crash.

#Torino_F.C.

In 1949
Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is invaded and Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris.

#Fourth_Anglo-Mysore_War

In 1799
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

#Margaret_Thatcher

In 1979
World War II
World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier USS Yorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before.

#World_War_II

In 1942
Vietnam War
Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the Cambodian Campaign of the United States and South Vietnam.

#Vietnam_War

In 1970
Rhodes
Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.

#Rhodes

In 1912
Pope Alexander VI
Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.

#Pope_Alexander_VI

In 1493
South African Defence Force
The South African Defence Force attacks a SWAPO base at Cassinga in southern Angola, killing about 600 people.

#South_African_Defence_Force

In 1978
Three people are killed and 62 injured in a pair of bombings on buses in Nairobi, Kenya.
In 2014
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord, granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
In 1994
The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation".
In 1972
American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
In 1961
The 1st Annual Grammy Awards are held.
In 1959
The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
In 1871
Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
In 1814

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