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Historical Events on May 4

  • Battle of Tewkesbury

    1471

    Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales.

  • Napoleon I of France

    1814

    Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.

  • 1926 United Kingdom general strike

    1926

    The United Kingdom general strike begins.

  • Al Capone

    1932

    In Atlanta, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.

  • Battle of the Coral Sea

    1942

    World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier USS Yorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before.

  • Freedom Riders

    1961

    American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.

  • Margaret Thatcher

    1979

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

  • Falklands War

    1982

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

  • Unabomber

    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.

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