The 4t o Mey is the 124t day o the year (125t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 241 days ti come.
Events
1863 : Battle o Chancellorsville 1904 : Logo o FC Schalke 04 1776 - Rhode Island becomes the first colony in North Americae tae withdraw allegiance frae King George III o Great Breetain .1863 - American Ceevil War : The Confederate airmy unner Robert E. Lee defeats a Union force in the Battle o Chancellorsville.1902 - 8 fishermen dee in the Galway Bay drounin.1904 - Stairt o biggin work on the Panama Canal .1904 - In Germany , the fitbaa team FC Schalke 04 is foondit.1924 - The 1924 Simmer Olympics in Paris stairt.1945 - Warld War II : Denmark is liberatit.1949 - The Torino fitbaa team is kilt in a plane crash.1953 - Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for "The Auld Man an the Sea".1970 - Members o the Unitit States Naitional Guaird open fire on students protestin agin the Vietnam War at Kent State Varsity in Ohio , killin 4 an injurin 9.1978 - Sooth Africae forces bomb a refugee camp in Angolae run bi Namibie Leeberation muivement SWAPO, killin awmaist 1,000 fowk.1979 - Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick .1982 - Falklands War : Argentine forces bomb the HMS Sheffield, killin 20 sailors.1990 - Latvie declares unthirldom frae the Soviet Union .1993 - A new democratic constitution comes intae force in Andorrae .2000 - Ken Livingstone becomes the first electit Mayor o Lunnon .2002 - A plane crash in a suburb o Kano , Nigerie , kills 148 fowk.2009 - 44 fowk are kilt in the Mardin massacre in Sootheastren Turkey .2017 - Scots local elections, 2017 : Overaw seats - Scots Naitional Pairty 431, Scots Conservative Pairty 276, Scots Labour Pairty 262, Scots Leeberal Democrats 67.2018 - The Nobel Prize in Leeteratur for that year is cancelled ower a sexual harrassment scandal in the Swadish Academy .
Births
Audrey Hepburn 1008 - Henry I o Fraunce (d. 1060 )1613 - James Sharp , Scots meenister an bishop (d. 1679 )1654 - Kangxi Emperor o Cheenae (d. 1722 )1655 - Bartolomeo Cristofori , Italian instrument maker (d. 1731 )1726 - William Roy , Scots militar ingineer, surveyor an antiquarian (d. 1790 )1800 - John McLeod Campbell , Scots meenister an theologian (d. 1872 )1825 - Thomas Henry Huxley , Inglis biologist (d. 1895 )1827 - John Hanning Speke , Inglis splorer (d. 1864 )1904 - Umm Kulthum , Egyptian sangster (d. 1975 )1907 - Walter Walsh , American FBI agent an Olympic shooter (d. 2014 )1928 - Hosni Mubarak , umwhile Preses o Egyp 1929 - Audrey Hepburn , Belgian-Breetish actress (d. 1993 )1947 - Colin Breed , Inglis politeecian 1948 - George Tupou V , King o Tonga (d. 2012 )1958 - Caroline Spelman , Inglis politeecian1960 - Werner Faymann , umwhile Chancellor o Austrick 1961 - Chris Packham , Inglis wildlife expert an telly presenter1972 - Mike Dirnt , American muisicker (Green Day )1973 - John Henderson , Scots dairts player1987 - Cesc Fabregas , Spaingie fitbawer1987 - Jorge Lorenzo , Spaingie motorcycle racer1988 - David Gray , Scots fitbawer1989 - Rory McIlroy , Northren Erse gowfer
Daiths
1519 - Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke o Urbino , Florentine statesman (b. 1492 )1933 - Alexander Marshall Mackenzie , Scots airchitect (b. 1848 )1938 - Carl von Ossietzky , German activist (b. 1889 )1945 - Fedor von Bock , German field marshal (b. 1880 )1980 - Josip Broz Tito , Preses o Yugoslavie (b. 1892 )1984 - Willie Ormond , Scots fitbawer (b. 1927 )2009 - Bobby Campbell , Scots fitbawer (b. 1922 )2013 - Christian de Duve , Belgian biochemist (b. 1917 )2014 - Elena Baltacha , Ukrainian-born Breetish tennis player (b. 1983 )2020 - Don Shula , American fitbawer coach (b. 1930 )
Halidays
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