SomeFacts | May 4

On this day - May 4

1256 — The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto ...

1415 — Religious reformer John Wycliffe is condemned as a heretic at ...

1436 — Assassination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) ...

1471 — Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats ...

1493 — In the papal bull Inter caetera, Pope Alexander VI divides the ...

1626 — Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present ...

1738 — The Imperial Theatrical School, the first ballet school in ...

1776 — Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce ...

1799 — Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege ...

1814 — King Ferdinand VII abolishes the Spanish Constitution of 1812, ...

1814 — Emperor Napoleon arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba ...

1836 — Formation of Ancient Order of Hibernians.

1859 — The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge ...

1869 — The four-day Naval Battle of Hakodate begins. The newly formed ...

1871 — The National Association, the first professional baseball ...

1886 — Haymarket affair: In Chicago, United States, a homemade bomb ...

1904 — The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.

1910 — The Royal Canadian Navy is created.

1912 — Italy occupies the Ottoman island of Rhodes.

1919 — May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in ...

1926 — The United Kingdom general strike begins.

1927 — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is ...

1932 — Having been incarcerated at the Cook County Jail since his ...

1942 — World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an ...

1945 — World War II: The German surrender at Lüneburg Heath is ...

1945 — World War II: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is ...

1946 — In San Francisco Bay, U.S. Marines from the nearby Treasure ...

1949 — The entire Torino football team (except for two players who ...

1953 — Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and ...

1959 — The 1st Annual Grammy Awards are held.

1961 — Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record ...

1961 — American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" ...

1970 — Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: The Ohio National Guard, ...

1972 — The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling ...

1973 — The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1,451 ...

1978 — The South African Defence Force attacks a SWAPO base at ...

1979 — Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of ...

1982 — Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer ...

1988 — The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space ...

1989 — Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on mission STS-30 to deploy ...

1989 — Iran–Contra affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is ...

1990 — Latvia declares independence from the Soviet Union.

1994 — Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser ...

1998 — A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives ...

2000 — Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London (an office ...

2002 — One hundred three people are killed and 51 are injured in a ...

2007 — Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by the 2007 ...

2014 — Three people are killed and 62 injured in a pair of bombings ...

2019 — The inaugural all-female motorsport series, W Series, takes ...

2023 — Nine people are killed and thirteen injured in a spree ...