4 May 07 - Friday
1914 Abdel Karim Kassem general/premier/dictator of Iraq (1958-63)
1928 Maynard Ferguson Verdun Québec Canada, jazz trumpeter (Birdland, Roulette)
1929 Audrey Hepburn [Edda Kathleen van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston]
Brussels Belgium (Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady)
1942 Ronnie Bond drummer (Troggs-Wild Thing)
1944 Ronnie Bond drummer (Troggs-Wild Thing)
1945 George Wadenius rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1959 Randy Travis [Randy Bruce Traywick] Marshville NC, country singer
(Forever and Ever Amen, Diggin' Up Bones)
1626 Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth & buttons
1715 French manufacturer debuts 1st folding umbrella (Paris France)
1776 Rhode Island declares independence from England
1846 US state of Michigan ends death penalty
1862 Battle at Williamsburg VA
1864 Ulysses S Grant crosses Rapidan & begins his duel with Robert E Lee
1878 Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House
1891 Sherlock Holmes "dies" at Reichenbach Falls
1893 Cowboy Bob Pickett invents bulldogging
1910 Tel Aviv founded
1917 Arabs sack Tel Aviv
1925 League of Nations conference on arms control & poison gas usage
1932 Al Capone, convict of income tax evasion, enters Atlanta Penitentiary
1942 Food 1st rationed in US
1946 5 die in a 2 day riot at Alcatraz prison in San Fransisco bay
1948 The Hague Court of Justice convicts Hans Rauter (SS) to the death
1953 Pulitzer prize awarded to Ernest Hemingway (Old Man & The Sea)
1957 Alan Freed hosts "Rock n' Roll Show" 1st prime-time network rock show
1957 Anne Frank Foundation forms in Amsterdam
1961 13 Freedom riders began bus trip through South
1970 National Guard kills 4 students at Kent State in Ohio
Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandy Scheuer, William Schroeder
1975 Moe Howard [Moses Horowitz] comedian (3 Stooges), dies at 77
1979 1st woman prime minister of Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher)
1981 Bobby Sands Irish IRA-terrorist, dies after hunger strike
1981 Rockline premieres on KLOS FM in Los Angeles
1990 Angela Bowie reveals that ex husband David slept with Mick Jagger
1991 Dennis Crosby son of Bing, commits suicide at 54
1994 Courtney Love cleared of drug charges
How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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