This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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                               By Scott Labrecque 
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Births:  
 
05/04/1006 Abd-Allah Ansari, Persian mystic/poet (Monadjat) 
05/04/1611 Carlo Rainaldi, composer 
05/04/1635 Willem van Outhoorn, governor-general (Dutch Indies) 
05/04/1655 Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori, Italy, piano builder 
05/04/1738 Josef Kohaut, composer 
05/04/1744 Marianne von Martinez, composer 
05/04/1763 Franz Stanislaus Spindler, composer 
05/04/1769 Charles Hague, composer 
05/04/1776 Johann Friedrich Herbart, Germany, philospher/psychologist 
05/04/1777 Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer 
05/04/1796 Horace Mann, US, educator/author/editor (pioneered public schools 
05/04/1796 Joseph Pannell Taylor, Brig General (Union Army), died in 1864 
05/04/1820 Joseph Whitaker, England, publisher, founded Whitaker's Almanack 
05/04/1820 Julia Gardiner Tyler, 2nd wife of Pres John Tyler (1841-45) 
05/04/1825 Thomas Henry Huxley, scientist/humanist/Darwinist 
05/04/1826 Frederick Church, US romantic landscape painter (Hudson River Sch) 
05/04/1835 Edmund Hart Turpin, composer 
05/04/1846 Emile Gall‚, French glass/marble/ceramic artist (Gall‚ Glaze) 
05/04/1860 Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, composer 
05/04/1860 Nikolaus Von Reznicek, Vienna Austria, composer (Donna Diana) 
05/04/1867 Dynam-Victor Fumet, composer 
05/04/1875 Ramiro de Maeztu y Whitney, Spanish writer (Don Quixote & Celestine)

05/04/1877 Arthur Long, US, boxer/businessman (?-Died 8/8/1992) 
05/04/1881 Aleksandr F Kerenski, Russian premier (1917-Prelude to Bolshevism) 
05/04/1889 Francis J Spellman, US Cardinal 
05/04/1891 Frederick Jacobi, composer 
05/04/1891 Johan W F Werumeus Buning, poet (...farmer's gang) 
05/04/1902 Cola [Nicolas] Debrot, Bonaire governor (Neth Antilles)/author 
05/04/1902 Cvjetko Rihtman, composer 
05/04/1903 Luther Adler, NYC, actor (Dr Bernard Altman-Psychiatrist) 
05/04/1905 M ty s Seiber, Budapest Hungary, composer (Scherzando) 
05/04/1906 Esmond Knight, East Sheen England, actor (Hamlet, Sleeping Murder) 
05/04/1909 Howard Da Silva, [Silverblatt], Cleve Oh, actor (Ben Franklin-1776) 
05/04/1910 Mady Alfredo, [Maria M the Brieder], actress (Alicia) 
05/04/1912 Lou Brown, Bkln, orch leader (Jerry Lewis Show) 
05/04/1914 Abdel Karim Kassem, general/premier/dictator of Iraq (1958-63) 
05/04/1915 Pedro Saenz, composer 
05/04/1917 Edward Toner Cone, composer 
05/04/1918 Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese PM (1972-74), convicted of bribe-taking 
05/04/1919 Dimiter Petkov, composer 
05/04/1921 John van Kesteren, tenor (Komische Oper, West-Berlin) 
05/04/1921 Patsy Garrett, Atlantic City NJ, actress (Nanny & the Professor) 
05/04/1922 John Paul Hammerschmidt, (Rep-R-AR, 1967-  ) 
05/04/1924 Dennis Weaver, actor (McCloud) 
05/04/1924 Tat'yana Petrovna Nikolayeva, composer 
05/04/1925 Peter Blum, German/South African/English poet (Capricorn) 
05/04/1926 Milton 'Milt' Thompson, US NASA-test pilot/chief-engineer (X-15) 
05/04/1928 Betsy Rawls, Spartanburg SC, golfer (US Womens Open-51, 53, 57, 60) 
05/04/1928 Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian president (1981-  ) 
05/04/1928 Maynard Ferguson, jazz trumpeter (Roulette) 
05/04/1929 Audrey Hepburn, Brussels Belg, (Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady

05/04/1930 Roberta Peters, NYC, operatic soprano (NY Met) 
05/04/1931 Ed Cassidy, drummer (Spirit-I Got A Line on You) 
05/04/1931 Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Moscow Russia, conductor (USSR State Radio) 
05/04/1932 Fausto Razzi, composer 
05/04/1934 Pete Barbutti, Scranton Pa, comedian (Garry Moore Show) 
05/04/1936 El Cordob‚s, [Manuel Ben¡tez], Spanish toreador 
05/04/1937 Hans Ulrich Lehmann, composer 
05/04/1938 Tyrone Davis, US R&B singer (Are you serious) 
05/04/1938 William J Bennett, US Secretary of Education (1985-88) 
05/04/1941 George F Will, political analyst (Night Line) 
05/04/1941 George Will, news anchor (ABC) 
05/04/1942 Ronnie Bond, drummer (Troggs-Wild Thing) 
05/04/1943 Nickolas Ashford, SC, singer (Ashford & Simpson-Solid as a Rock) 
05/04/1944 Dave, [Otto Levenbach], singer (Du cot‚ the Chez Swann 
05/04/1944 Paul Gleason, actor (Breakfast CLub, Die Hard) 
05/04/1945 Monika van Paemel, Belgian writer (Accursed fathers) 
05/04/1948 Billy O'Donnell, harness racer driver of year (1984) 
05/04/1949 Gerrit J P van Otterloo, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA) 
05/04/1949 Sybil Danning, [Danninger], Weis Austria, actress (Chained Heat) 
05/04/1950 Darryl Hunt, English pop bassist (Pogues-Pair of Brown Eyes) 
05/04/1950 Hilly Hicks, LA Calif, actor (Roll Out, Roots) 
05/04/1950 Ren‚ CM van Asten, actor (Herenstraat 10) 
05/04/1951 Gene Greenwood, (Rep-R-Pennsylvania) 
05/04/1951 Jackie [Sigmund] Jackson, rocker (Jackson 5-ABC) 
05/04/1954 Julie Budd, Bkln, singer (Child of Plenty) 
05/04/1956 Michael L Gernhardt, Mansfield Ohio, PhD/astronaut 
05/04/1956 Ulrike Meyfarth, Frankfurt W Germany, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1972

05/04/1957 Richard E Grant, actor (Posse, Warlock, Bram Stoker's Dracula) 
05/04/1958 Keith Haring, Kutztown Pa, graffiti artist (Vanity Fair, Paris Revie

05/04/1959 Randy Travis, Marshville NC, country singer (Diggin' Up Bones) 
05/04/1961 Mary Elizabeth McDonough, Van Nuys Cal, actress (Erin-Waltons) 
05/04/1962 Tracy Vaccaro, Glendale Calif, playmate (October, 1983) 
05/04/1967 Matthew Crane, Kimberton Pa, actor (Matt Cory-Another World) 
05/04/1968 Patsy Kensit, London, actress (Claire's Knee, Bitter Harvest) 
05/04/1975 Pablo Ruiz, Buenos Aires Arg, spanish singer 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
05/04/1594 Paul Buys, land advocate of Holland, dies at 62 
05/04/1605 Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist/medical, dies at 82 
05/04/1752 Pieter Snyers, Flemish painter/engraver, dies at 71 
05/04/1770 Christian Gottfried Krause, composer, dies at 51 
05/04/1855 Camille Pleyel, Austria piano builder/composer, dies at 66 
05/04/1879 William Froude, British civil engineer/shipbuilder (F Integer), dies

05/04/1885 Aleksandar I Karadjordjevic, monarch of Serbia (1842-58), dies at 78

05/04/1891 Sherlock Holmes, 'dies' at Reichenbach Falls 
05/04/1893 George Washington Hewitt, composer, dies at 82 
05/04/1928 Barry E Odell Pain, English writer (Punch), dies 
05/04/1929 Henry Morton Dunham, composer, dies at 75 
05/04/1935 Louis Scharp‚, Flemish literature historian, dies at 65 
05/04/1938 Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist/writer (Nobel 1935), dies at 52 
05/04/1953 Edward B B Shanks, British poet/critic, dies 
05/04/1953 Thomas Tertius Noble, composer, dies at 85 
05/04/1955 Georges Enescu, composer, dies at 73 
05/04/1955 Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer, dies at 75 
05/04/1965 Norman Brokenshire, TV moderator (Four Square Court), dies at 66 
05/04/1966 Juan Maria Thomas Sabater, composer, dies at 69 
05/04/1967 Bengt Axel von Torne, composer, dies at 75 
05/04/1969 F Osbert S Sitwell, English poet (Who Killed Cock Robin?), dies at 7

05/04/1970 4 students, at Kent State University killed by Ohio National Guard 
05/04/1971 Louis de Bree, [Louis C Davids], actor (Bluejackets), dies at 87 
05/04/1974 Israel Citkowitz, composer, dies at 65 
05/04/1980 Josip Broz Tito, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80), dies at 87 
05/04/1981 Bobby Sands, Irish IRA-terrorist, dies after hunger strikes 
05/04/1983 Nino Sanzogno, composer, dies at 72 
05/04/1984 Diana Dors, actress (Berserk!), dies at 52 of cancer 
05/04/1987 Cathryn Damon, actress (Mary Campbell-Soap), dies at 56 
05/04/1987 Dick Hillenius, biologist/writer, dies at 59 
05/04/1987 Paul Butterfield, singer/harmonica player, dies of drug abuse at 44 
05/04/1991 Dennis Crosby, son of Bing, commits suicide at 54 
05/04/1992 Henri Guillemin, French historian, dies at 89 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
05/04/1303 Flemings conquers Middelburg 
05/04/1471 Battle of Tewkesbury - King Edward IV vs Ex-queen Margaretha 
05/04/1493 Spanish Pope Alexander VI divides America between Spain & Portugal 
05/04/1494 Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica 
05/04/1626 Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth & buttons 
05/04/1626 Peter Minuit becomes director-general of New Netherlands 
05/04/1634 Johan van Walbeecks fleet departs to West-Indies 
05/04/1715 French manufacturer debuts 1st folding umbrella (Paris) 
05/04/1747 Willem IV appointed viceroy of Overijssel 
05/04/1776 Rhode Island declares independence from England 
05/04/1780 American Academy of Arts & Science founded 
05/04/1783 Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus 
05/04/1805 Henry C Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in Bronx 
05/04/1814 Bourbon reign restored in France 
05/04/1818 Netherlands & England sign treaty against illegal slave handling 
05/04/1834 Charles Darwin's expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean 
05/04/1846 US state Michigan ends death penalty 
05/04/1851 1st major SF fire 
05/04/1858 War of Reform (M‚xico); Liberals establish capital at Vera Cruz 
05/04/1861 At Gretna LA, one of 1st guns of Rebel navy is cast 
05/04/1863 Battle of Chancellorsville-action at Salem Church 
05/04/1863 End of Chancellorsville - Beaten Union army withdraws 
05/04/1864 -16] actions at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia 
05/04/1864 Ulysses S Grant crosses Rapidan & begins his duel with Robert E Lee 
05/04/1865 Battle of Citronville, AL; Richard Taylor surrenders 
05/04/1865 Battle of Mobile, AL 
05/04/1866 Woodward's Gardens opens to public 
05/04/1878 Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House 
05/04/1886 Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen 
05/04/1886 R Luther discovers asteroid #258 Tyche 
05/04/1896 A Charlois discovers asteroid #416 Vaticana 
05/04/1896 Grease fire ignites « ton of dynamite at Cripple Creek Colorado 
05/04/1897 Fire in Paris bazaar at Rue Jean Goujon kills 200 
05/04/1910 Tel Aviv founded 
05/04/1912 Italian mariners occupy Turkish Island of Rhodes 
05/04/1916 At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare 
05/04/1917 Arabs sack Tel Aviv 
05/04/1918 Yankees set record with 8 sacrifices, beat Red Sox's Babe Ruth 5-4 
05/04/1919 1st legal Sunday baseball game in NYC (Phillies beat Giants 4-3) 
05/04/1919 Student revolt at Tian An Men Square, Peking 
05/04/1922 KNX-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions 
05/04/1923 Bloody street battles between nazi's, socialist & police in Vienna 
05/04/1923 NY state revokes Prohibition law 
05/04/1924 8th Olympic games open at Paris, France 
05/04/1924 German Republic election fascists & communists win 
05/04/1925 League of Nations conference on arms control & poison gas usage 
05/04/1926 General strike hits Britain 
05/04/1927 1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Ill) 
05/04/1927 Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences forms 
05/04/1927 Nicaragua agrees to a US supervised presidential election in 1928 
05/04/1929 Lou Gehrig hits 3 consecutive HRs, Yankees 11, Tigers 9 
05/04/1931 Mustafa Kemal Pasja becomes Turkish president 
05/04/1932 Al Capone, convict of income tax evasion, enters Atlanta Penitentiar

05/04/1933 Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (Conquistador) 
05/04/1935 Willis Saunders on Omaha wins 61st Kentucky Derby 
05/04/1936 Pulitzer prize awarded to Harold L Davis (Honey in the Horn) 
05/04/1938 Douglas Hyde (a protestant) becomes 1st president of Eire 
05/04/1940 21 NSB'ers (fascist & communist) arrested in Netherlands 
05/04/1940 Gallahadion (35-1 longshot) wins Kentucky Derby 
05/04/1942 Battle of Coral Sea begins 
05/04/1942 Battle of Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air) 
05/04/1942 Food 1st rationed in US 
05/04/1942 German occupiers imprison 450 prominent Dutch as hostages 
05/04/1942 Pulitzer prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In this our Life) 
05/04/1945 German troops in Netherland, Denmark & Norway surrender 
05/04/1946 5 die in a 2 day riot at Alcatraz pirison in SF bay 
05/04/1946 Warren Mehrtens on Assault wins 72nd Kentucky Derby (2:06.6) 
05/04/1948 The Hague Court of Justice convicts Hans Rauter (SS) to the death 
05/04/1949 Air crash at Turijn (whole Torino-soccer team survives) 
05/04/1953 Pulitzer prize awarded to E Hemingway (Old Man & The Sea) 
05/04/1956 Queen Juliana unveals National Monument to Dams in Amsterdam 
05/04/1957 Anne Frank Foundation established in Amsterdam 
05/04/1957 Bill Shoemaker misjudges finish & loses Derby to Iron Liege 
05/04/1958 Alberto Lleras Camargo chosen president of Colombia 
05/04/1959 Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (JB) 
05/04/1960 1st great Delta dam closes, North-South Beveland 
05/04/1961 13 Freedom riders began bus trip through South 
05/04/1961 1st on-the-road Spacemobile lecture given. 
05/04/1961 CORE begins freedom rides from Washington, DC 
05/04/1961 Malcolm Ross & Victor Prather reach 34,668 m (record) in balloon 
05/04/1961 South-Africa ANC-leader John Nkadimeng arrested 
05/04/1963 Pitcher Bob Shaw sets record of 5 balks in a game 
05/04/1964 'Another World' & 'As the World Turns' premieres on TV 
05/04/1964 70 GATT-countries confere in Geneva 
05/04/1964 KIII TV channel 3 in Corpus Christi, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting 
05/04/1964 Pulitzer prize awarded to Richard Hofstadter (Anti-intellectualism) 
05/04/1965 Willie Mays 512th HR breaks Mel Ott's 511th NL record 
05/04/1966 Soviet govt signs accord about building Fiat factory in USSR 
05/04/1967 Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by US; begins orbiting Moon May 7 
05/04/1968 Dancer's Image wins 94th Kentucky Derby, but disqualified for drugs 
05/04/1968 Pitts Pipers beat NO Buccaneers in 1st ABA championship, 4 games to 

05/04/1969 Montreal Canadiens sweep St Louis Blues for Stanley Cup 
05/04/1970 National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio 
05/04/1970 Premier Kosygin affirms existence Russian military advisors in Egypt

05/04/1970 Pulitzer prize awarded to Erik H Erikson (Gandhi's Truth) 
05/04/1972 Vietcong forms revolutionary govt in Quang Tri South Vietnam 
05/04/1973 1st TV network female nudity-Steambath (PBS)-Valerie Perrine 
05/04/1973 Longest game in Veterans' Stadium, Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20 
05/04/1973 Patriarch Shenuda II of Kopitisch church visits the pope 
05/04/1973 Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20 innings 
05/04/1973 Wings release 'Red Rose Speedway' in UK 
05/04/1974 Cannonade wins Kentucky Derby 
05/04/1975 Flyers 1-Isles 0-Semis-Flyers hold 3-0 lead-Isles held to 14 shots 
05/04/1976 Kiss performs their 1st concert 
05/04/1978 Russian president Breznev visits West-Germany 
05/04/1979 Jackie Mercer wins her 4th golf title 31 years after her 1st 
05/04/1979 Margaret Thatcher elected prime minister of England 
05/04/1979 NASA launches Fltsatcom-2 
05/04/1981 Rockline premieres on KLOS FM in Los Angeles 
05/04/1981 T Furuta discovers asteroid #2478 Tokai 
05/04/1982 British torpedo boat Sheffield off Falkland hit by Exocet rocket 
05/04/1982 Nordiques 2-Isles 4-Semifinals-Isles win series 4-0 
05/04/1984 Dave Kingman's fly ball never comes down (stuck in Metrodome ceiling

05/04/1985 Spend a Buck wins Kentucky Derby 
05/04/1986 President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghanistan 
05/04/1989 Junior Felix of Toronto becomes 53rd to hit HR on 1st at bat 
05/04/1989 US launches Magellan to Venus 
05/04/1989 US space shuttle STS-30 launched 
05/04/1990 Angela Bowie reveals that ex husband David slept with Mick Jagger 
05/04/1990 Latvia's parliment votes 138-0 (1 abstention) for Independence 
05/04/1990 Oriole Gregg Olson sets relief pitcher rec of 41 cons scoreless inns

05/04/1991 Actress Sharon Gless & producer Barney Rosenzeig wed 
05/04/1991 Morris K Udall, (Rep-D-Ariz), resigns due to Parkinson disease 
05/04/1991 Pres Bush is hospitalized for erratic heartbeat 
05/04/1991 Strike the Gold wins 117th Kentucky Derby 
05/04/1993 Space probe Galileo enter asteroid belt 
  
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