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The following events took place on May 4. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 51 events. Showing 31 - 51.

• 1946

  In San Francisco Bay, U.S. Marines from the nearby Treasure Island Naval Base stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. Five people are killed in the riot.
• 1949

  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 at the Superga hill at the edge of Turin, Italy.
• 1953

  Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
• 1959

  The 1st Annual Grammy Awards are held.
• 1961

  American civil rights movement: The “Freedom Riders” begin a bus trip through the South.
• 1961

  Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V open gondola to 113740 ft.
• 1970

  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 United States’ invasion of Cambodia.
• 1972

  The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to “Greenpeace Foundation”.
• 1974

  An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000-meter peak.
• 1979

  Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1982

  Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
• 1988

  The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
• 1989

  Iran–Contra affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges. The convictions, however, are later overturned on appeal.
• 1990

  Latvia proclaims the renewal of its independence after the Soviet occupation.
• 1994

  Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord, granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
• 1998

  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.
• 2000

  Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London.
• 2002

  EAS Airlines Flight 4226 crashes in a suburb of Kano, Nigeria shortly after takeoff, killing 149 people.
• 2007

  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.
• 2014

  Three people are killed and 62 injured in a pair of bombings on buses in Nairobi, Kenya.
• 2015

  The Parliament of Malta moves from the Grandmaster’s Palace to a purpose-built Parliament House.

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