Notable Historical Events on May 4th
May 4th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1256 |
The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae. |
1303 |
Flemings conquers Middelburg |
1415 |
Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance. |
1471 |
Battle of Tewkesbury - King Edward IV vs Ex-queen Margaretha |
1493 |
Spanish Pope Alexander VI divides America between Spain & Portugal |
1540 |
Venice & Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople |
1572 |
Veere sides with Geuzen |
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 |
1686 |
Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines. |
1715 |
French manufacturer debuts 1st folding umbrella (Paris) |
1728 |
George Frederick Handel's opera "Tolomeo, re di Egitto" premieres in London |
1747 |
Willem IV appointed viceroy of Overijssel |
1776 |
Rhode Island declares independence from Britain |
1780 |
American Academy of Arts & Science founded |
1780 |
Charles Bunbury on Diomed wins 1st Epsom Derby |
1780 |
The Derby horse race is held for the first time. |
1783 |
Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus |
1799 |
Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is assaulted and the Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris. |
1805 |
Henry C Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in Bronx |
1814 |
Bourbon reign restored in France |
1814 |
King Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decree of the 4th of May, returning Spain to absolutism. |
1818 |
Netherlands & Britain 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 (Mexico); Liberals establish capital at Vera Cruz |
1859 |
The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England. |
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 it is full of armed torpedoes left by CS Brigadier 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 |
General Ulysses S. Grant's Union Army at Potomac attacks Robert E. Lee's Confederates at Rappahannock River |
1865 |
Battle of Citronville, AL; Richard Taylor surrenders |
1865 |
Battle of Mobile, AL |
1866 |
Woodward's Gardens opens to public |
1869 |
The Naval Battle of Hakodate takes place in Japan. |
1871 |
1st baseball league game (National Association of Baseball Players), (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 (halfpenny) |
1896 |
Grease fire ignites half ton of dynamite at Cripple Creek Colorado |
1897 |
23rd Kentucky Derby: Buttons Garner aboard Typhoon II wins in 2:12.5 |
1897 |
Fire in Paris bazaar at Rue Jean Goujon kills 200 |
1898 |
24th Kentucky Derby: Willie Simms aboard Plaudit wins in 2:09 |
1899 |
25th Kentucky Derby: Fred Taral aboard Manuel wins in 2:12 |
1904 |
Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal. |
1904 |
Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England. Go on to form Roll-Royce |
1910 |
Canadian Currency Act, 1910, receives Royal Assent |
1910 |
Canadian parliament accept creation of Royal Canadian Navy |
1910 |
Tel Aviv founded |
1910 |
Wilfrid Laurier passes the Naval Service Act, which creates the Royal Canadian Navy |
1912 |
Italian mariners occupy Turkish Island of Rhodes |
1915 |
Italy drops Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungary & Germany |
1916 |
At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare |
1916 |
Ned Daly, Willie Pearse, Michael O'Hanrahan and Joseph Plunkett are executed by British authorities following the Easter Rising, at Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin |
1917 |
Arabs sack Tel Aviv |
1918 |
Yankees set record with 8 sacrifices, beat Red Sox's Babe Ruth 5-4 |
1919 |
1st legal Sunday baseball game in NYC (Phillies beat Giants 4-3) |
1919 |
FVC soccer team forms |
1919 |
Giants play their 1st legal Sunday home game, 35,000 see Phils win 4-3 |
1922 |
KNX-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions |
1923 |
Bloody street battles between nazis, socialist & police in Vienna |
1923 |
NY state revokes Prohibition law |
1924 |
8th Olympic games open at Paris, France |
1924 |
German Republic election fascists & communists win |
1925 |
League of Nations conference on arms control & poison gas usage |
1927 |
1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Ill) |
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 enters Atlanta Penitentiary convicted of income tax evasion |
1933 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (Conquistador) |
1935 |
61st Kentucky Derby: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 2:05 |
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 |
1940 |
66th Kentucky Derby: Carroll Bierman aboard Gallahadion wins in 2:05 |
1942 |
Battle of Coral Sea begins in the Pacific (1st sea battle fought solely in air) between Japanese, US and Australian navies and air forces |
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 bouncing it on his office carpet ball proves to be 50% livelier |
1944 |
"Gaslight", starring an 18-year-old Angela Lansbury in her film debut, is released |
1945 |
German troops in Netherlands, Denmark & Norway surrender |
1946 |
5 die in a 2 day riot at Alcatraz prison in SF bay |
1946 |
72nd Kentucky Derby: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:06.6 |
1946 |
Wash's Cecil Travis gets 6 straight hits before being stopped |
1948 |
The Hague Court of Justice convicts Nazi SS officer in the Netherlands Hans Rauter of Crimes against Humanity (executed 24 March 1949) |
1949 |
Air crash at Turin (whole Torino soccer team survives) |
1952 |
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Fresno Golf Open |
1953 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Ernest Hemingway for The 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 |
83rd Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Iron Liege wins in 2:02.2 |
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 |
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 |
1963 |
89th Kentucky Derby: Braulio Baeza aboard Chateaugay wins in 2:01.8 |
1963 |
Pitcher Bob Shaw sets record of 5 balks in a game |
1964 |
"Another World" premieres on TV in the US |
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 government signs accord about building Fiat factory in USSR |
1967 |
Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by US; begins orbiting Moon May 7 |
1968 |
1st ABA championship: Pitts Pipers beat NO Buccaneers, 4 games to 3 |
1968 |
94th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Forward Pass wins |
1968 |
Dancer Image DQ due to drugs after winning 94th Kent Derby in 2:02½ |
1969 |
Charles Gordone's "No Place to be Somebody" premieres in NYC |
1969 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational |
1969 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep St Louis Blues in 4 games |
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 government in Quang Tri South Vietnam |
1972 |
The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation". |
1973 |
1st TV network female nudity-Steambath (PBS)-Valerie Perrine |
1973 |
BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Millie Martorella |
1973 |
Longest baseball game in Veterans' Stadium, Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20 innings |
1973 |
Patriarch Shenuda II of Kopitisch church visits the pope |
1973 |
Wings release "Red Rose Speedway" in UK |
1974 |
100th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr. aboard Cannonade wins in 2:04 |
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 |
1975 |
Maria Astrologes wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic |
1976 |
"1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 7 perfs |
1978 |
Russian president Brezhnev visits West-Germany |
1979 |
Jackie Mercer wins her 4th golf title 31 years after her 1st |
1979 |
Margaret Thatcher 1st woman to be elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
1979 |
NASA launches Fltsatcom-2 |
1980 |
Dodgers bat out of order against Phillies in 1st inning |
1980 |
Hollis Stacy wins LPGA CPC Women's Internationalional Golf Tournament |
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 |
1981 |
Rockline premieres on KLOS FM in Los Angeles |
1981 |
Silvana Cruciata runs 15k female world record (49:44.0) |
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 |
1981 |
After 66 days on hunger strike, 26 year old Bobby Sands MP died in the Maze; 9 further hunger strikers die over the next 3 months |
1982 |
British destroyer HMS Sheffield hit by Exocet rocket off Falkland Islands |
1982 |
Nordiques 2-Isles 4-Semifinals-Isles win series 4-0 |
1982 |
Twins rookie outfielder Jim Eisenreich, who suffers from Tourette's Syndrome, removes himself, due to taunts from Red Sox bleacher fans |
1983 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
1984 |
Dave Kingman's fly ball never comes down (stuck in Metrodome ceiling) |
1985 |
111th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr on Spend A Buck wins 2:00.2 |
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 |
1990 |
Pakistan beat Aust by 36 runs to win Austral-Asia Cup, Sharjah |
1991 |
117th Kentucky Derby: Chris Antley aboard Strike the Gold wins in 2:03 |
1991 |
ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Doug Kent |
1991 |
Actress Sharon Gless & producer Barney Rosenzeig wed |
1991 |
Indians' Chris James sets club record for most RBIs in a game (9) |
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 |
President Bush is hospitalized for erratic heartbeat |
1993 |
"Angels in America-Millennium Approaches" opens at Kerr for 367 perfs |
1994 |
Arsenal wins 34th Europe Cup II |
1994 |
Singer Courtney Love cleared of drug charges |
1996 |
122nd Kentucky Derby: Jerry Bailey aboard Grindstone wins in 2:01 |
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 back-to-back one-hitters since the Washington Senators in 1917 |
1997 |
Bruno's Memorial Senior Golf Classic |
1997 |
Phil Blackmar wins 50th Houston golf Open |
1997 |
Tammie Green wins LPGA Sprint Titlehoders Championship |
1998 |
A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty. |
2000 |
Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London. |
2001 |
The Milwaukee Art Museum addition, the first Santiago Calatrava-designed structure in the United States, opens to the public. |
2002 |
Barry Bonds hits his 400th home run as a Giant, leading his team to a 3-0 win over Cincinnati. Bonds is the first player to hit 400 homers for one team and 100 with another |
2002 |
128th Kentucky Derby: Victor Espinoza aboard War Emblem wins in 2:01.13 |
2007 |
Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7m wide EF-5 tornado. |
2007 |
The Scottish National Party wins the Scottish general election and becomes the largest party in the Scottish Parliament for the first time ever. |
2008 |
Seth MacFarlane reaches an agreement worth $100 million with Fox to keep "Family Guy" and "American Dad" on television until 2012, making MacFarlane the world's highest paid television writer |
2010 |
Julia Louis-Dreyfus receives the 2,407th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, although on the original star her name is spelled incorrectly |
2012 |
14 decapitated bodies and 9 hung from a bridge are found in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico |
2013 |
5 US soldiers are killed by a bomb in Kandahar, Afghanistan |
2013 |
77 people are killed by the Syrian Army in Baniyas |
2013 |
Harper Lee files a lawsuit against a literary agent over the copyright of To Kill a Mockingbird |
2013 |
39 people are killed at a funeral in Wukari, Nigeria |
2013 |
Floyd Mayweather defeats Robert Guerrero to retain his WBC Welterweight title |
2013 |
Juventus F.C. win their 29th Serie A football title |
2013 |
139th Kentucky Derby: Joel Rosario aboard Orb wins in 2:02.89 |
2014 |
Juan Carlos Varela is elected President of Panama |
2015 |
The Riviera Hotel & Casino closes, ending a colorful 60-year run on the Las Vegas Strip |
2016 |
Ted Cruz Ends His Campaign for President |
2016 |
Kerry says confident Syria ceasefire can be reached, warns Assad |
2016 |
Obama briefed on death of US service member in Iraq: White House |
2016 |
Obama to meet with Flint, Michigan residents on water crisis |
2016 |
Trump links Cruz's father to Kennedy assassination |
2017 |
US House passes bill to fund government through September |
2017 |
FBI's Comey defends Clinton email decision, but feels 'nauseous' |
2017 |
Red Sox permanently ban fan for racial slur at another fan |
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