On this day in 1256, the Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issued a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae. In 1303 on this day, the Flemings conquered Middelburg. Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus were condemned as heretics on this day in 1415 at the Council of Constance. On this day in 1471, the Yorkists of King Edward IV defeated the Landcastrians of ex-Queen Margaretha in England, at the Battle of Tewkesbury in the War of the Roses. Christopher Columbus landed in what is now Jamaica on this day in 1494. Dutch explorer Peter Minuit landed on what is now the island of Manhattan Island on this day in 1626. Native Americans later famously sold the island for $24 worth of cloth and brass buttons. Minuit became the Director-General of New Netherlands, as New York City came to be called. The Battle at Etampes was fought on this day in 1652, with the French army under Turenne defeating Fronde rebels. The municipality of Ilagan was founded on this day in 1686 in the Philippines. George F Handel's opera "Tolomeo, re di Egitto," premiered in London on this day in 1728. On this day in 1776, Rhode Island declared its independence from England two months before the Declaration of Independence was adopted. In 1795 on this day during the French Revolution, thousands of rioters entered jails in Lyons, France, and massacred 99 Jacobin prisoners. Napoleon Bonaparte disembarked at Portoferraio on the island of Elba in the Mediterranean on this day in 1814, during his first exile. In 1862 during the American Civil War in Yorktown, Virginia, General McClellan halted his troop before town as it was filled with armed torpedoes left by Confederate Brigadier General Gabrial Rains. On this day in 1910, the Canadian Currency Act received Royal Assent. The Canadian Parliament passed a measure for the creation of Royal Canadian Navy on this day in 1910. Mahatma Gandhi was arrested by the British on this day in 1930. On this day in 1945 in the very late stages of the European part of World War II, German troops in Netherlands, Denmark and Norway surrendered. The Hague Court of Justice convicted Nazi Hans Rauter of the SS to death on this day in 1948. CORE started freedom rides on this day in 1961 as thirteen civil rights activists, dubbed "Freedom Riders," began a bus trip through the South from Washington, DC, and heading for New Orleans, Louisiana. In on this day in 1961 during the apartheid era of white minority rule in South Africa, ANC leader John Nkadimeng was arrested. The Soviet government signed an accord to build a Fiat factory in the USSR on this day in 1966. On this day in 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on unarmed students during an anti-Vietnam war protest at Kent State University. Four students were killed and nine others were wounded. In 1979 on this day, Margaret Thatcher was elected to become the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Oliver North, a former White House aide, was convicted of shredding documents and two other crimes on this day in 1989. He was acquitted of nine other charges stemming from his role relating to the Iran-Contra affair. The three convictions were later overturned on appeal. On this day in 1994, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat signed a historic accord granting Palestinian self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho. On this day in 1998, a federal judge in Sacramento, California, handed the "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years. The sentence was under a plea agreement that spared Kaczynski the death penalty. The Scottish National Party won the Scottish general election on this day in 2007, becoming the largest party in the Scottish Parliament for the first time in history.
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
• On this day in 1256, the Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issued a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.
• In 1303 on this day, the Flemings conquered Middelburg.
• Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus were condemned as heretics on this day in 1415 at the Council of Constance.
• On this day in 1471, the Yorkists of King Edward IV defeated the Landcastrians of ex-Queen Margaretha in England, at the Battle of Tewkesbury in the War of the Roses.
1493 - Spanish Pope Alexander VI divides the Americas between Spain and Portugal
• Christopher Columbus landed in what is now Jamaica on this day in 1494.
1540 - Venice & Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople
1572 - Veere sides with Geuzen (20,000 acres) for $24 in cloth and butons.
1634 - Johan van Walbeecks fleet departs to West-Indies
• The Battle at Etampes was fought on this day in 1652, with the French army under Turenne defeating Fronde rebels.
• The municipality of Ilagan was founded on this day in 1686 in the Philippines.
1715 - French manufacturer debuts first folding umbrella (Paris)
• George F Handel's opera "Tolomeo, re di Egitto," premiered in London on this day in 1728.
1747 - Willem IV appointed viceroy of Overijssel
• On this day in 1776, Rhode Island declared its independence from England two months before the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
1780 - American Academy of Arts and Science founded
1780 - Charles Bunbury on Diomed wins 1st Epsom Derby
1783 - Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus
• In 1795 on this day during the French Revolution, thousands of rioters entered jails in Lyons, France, and massacred 99 Jacobin prisoners.
1799 - Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is assaulted and the Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris.
1805 - Henry C Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in Bronx
• Napoleon Bonaparte disembarked at Portoferraio on the island of Elba in the Mediterranean on this day in 1814, during his first exile.
1814 - Bourbon reign restored in France
1814 - King Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decrete of the 4th of May, returning Spain to absolutism.
1818 - Netherlands & England sign treaty against illegal slave handling
1834 - Charles Darwin's expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean
1839 - The Cunard Steamship Company Ltd forms San Bonifacio
1843 - Great-Britain annexes Natal
1846 - US state Michigan ends death penalty
1847 - NY State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration
1851 - First major San Francisco fire
1858 - War of Reform (Mexico); Liberals establish capital at Vera Cruz
1859 - The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England.
1861 - At Gretna Louisiana, one of first guns of Rebel navy is cast
1862 - -5] Battle at Williamsburg, Virginia
• In 1862 during the American Civil War in Yorktown, Virginia, General McClellan halted his troop before town as it was filled with armed torpedoes left by Confederate Brigadier General Gabrial Rains.
1863 - Battle of Chancellorsville-action at Salem Church
1863 - End of Chancellorsville - Union army is defeated and withdraws
1864 - -16] actions at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia
1864 - Gen Grant's Army at Potomac attacks at Rappahannock
1864 - Ulysses S. Grant crosses Rapidan and begins his duel with Robert E Lee
1865 - Battle of Citronville, Alabama; Richard Taylor surrenders
1865 - Battle of Mobile, Alabama
1866 - Woodward's Gardens opens to public
1869 - The Naval Battle of Hakodate takes place in Japan.
1871 - First baseball league game (National Association of Baseball Players), (Ft Wayne 2, Cleveland 0) Deacon Jim White gets 1st hit, a double
1878 - Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House
1883 - John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" (Miss)
1886 - Chichester Bell and Charles S. Tainter patented the gramophone. It was the first practical phonograph.
1886 - Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen The Haymarket Square riot broke out as a result of a labor demonstration.
1888 - Italy and Spain sign military covenant
1893 - Cowboy Bob Pickett invents bulldogging
1896 - First edition of London Daily Mail (halfpenny)
1896 - Grease fire ignites half ton of dynamite at Cripple Creek Colorado
1897 - 23rd Kentucky Derby: Buttons Garner aboard Typhoon II wins in 2:12.5
1897 - Fire in Paris bazaar at Rue Jean Goujon kills 200
1898 - 24th Kentucky Derby: Willie Simms aboard Plaudit wins in 2:09
1899 - 25th Kentucky Derby: Fred Taral aboard Manuel wins in 2:12
1904 - Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal.
1904 - Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England.
1905 - Belmont Park opened in suburban Long Island. It opened as the largest race track in the world.
• On this day in 1910, the Canadian Currency Act received Royal Assent.
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• The Canadian Parliament passed a measure for the creation of Royal Canadian Navy on this day in 1910.
• Mahatma Gandhi was arrested by the British on this day in 1930.
• On this day in 1945 in the very late stages of the European part of World War II, German troops in Netherlands, Denmark and Norway surrendered.
1946 - A two-day riot at Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay ended. Five people were killed.
1946 - 72nd Kentucky Derby: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:06.6
1946 - Wash's Cecil Travis gets 6 straight hits before being stopped
• The Hague Court of Justice convicted Nazi Hans Rauter of the SS to death on this day in 1948.
• CORE started freedom rides on this day in 1961 as thirteen civil rights activists, dubbed "Freedom Riders," began a bus trip through the South from Washington, DC, and heading for New Orleans, Louisiana.
1961 - Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather reach 34,668 m (record) in balloon
• In on this day in 1961 during the apartheid era of white minority rule in South Africa, ANC leader John Nkadimeng was arrested.
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1963 - 89th Kentucky Derby: Braulio Baeza aboard Chateaugay wins in 2:01.8
1963 - Pitcher Bob Shaw sets record of 5 balks in a game
1964 - "Another World" and "As the World Turns" premieres on TV
1964 - 70 GATT-countries confer in Geneva
1964 - KIII TV channel 3 in Corpus Christi, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1964 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Richard Hofstadter (Anti-intellectualism)
1965 - Willie Mays 512th HR breaks Mel Ott's 511th NL record
• The Soviet government signed an accord to build a Fiat factory in the USSR on this day in 1966.
• On this day in 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on unarmed students during an anti-Vietnam war protest at Kent State University. Four students were killed and nine others were wounded.
1979 - NASA launches Fltsatcom-2
1980 - Dodgers bat out of order against Phillies in 1st inning
1980 - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA CPC Women's Internationalional Golf Tournament
1980 - White Sox 1st baseman Mike Squires catches final inning of 11-1 loss to Brewers, becoming first lefty to catch since Dale Long in 1958
1981 - The Federal Reserve Board raised its discount rate to 14%.
1981 - Rockline premieres on KLOS FM in Los Angeles
1981 - Silvana Cruciata runs 15k female world record (49:44.0)
1981 - Yankee Ron Davis strikes out 8 consecutive Angels, ran record of 13 strikeouts of last 14 faced, also saved Gene Nelsons 1st win, 4-2
1982 - British torpedo boat Sheffield off Falkland hit by Exocet rocket
1982 - Nordiques 2-Isles 4-Semifinals-Isles win series 4-0
1982 - Twins rookie outfielder Jim Eisenreich, who suffers from Tourette's Syndrome, removes himself, due to taunts from Red Sox bleacher fans
1983 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1984 - Dave Kingman's fly ball never comes down (stuck in Metrodome ceiling)
1985 - 111th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr on Spend A Buck wins 2:00.2
1986 - President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghanistan
1987 - Live models were used for the first time in Playtex bra ads.
1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Oliver North, a former White House aide, was convicted of shredding documents and two other crimes on this day in 1989. He was acquitted of nine other charges stemming from his role relating to the Iran-Contra affair. The three convictions were later overturned on appeal.
1994 - Courtney Love cleared of drug charges
1996 - 122nd Kentucky Derby: Jerry Bailey aboard Grindstone wins in 2:01
1996 - ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Ernie Schlegel
1996 - Greg Pavlik one-hits Tigers making the Rangers first AL team to pitch back-to-back one-hitters since the Washington Senators in 1917
1997 - Bruno's Memorial Senior Golf Classic
1997 - Phil Blackmar wins 50th Houston golf Open
1997 - Tammie Green wins LPGA Sprint Titlehoders Championship
1999 - Several severe tornadoes hit the Midwest U.S. overnight. At least 45 people were killed.
1999 - Manuel Babbitt was executed for killing Leah Schendel in 1980. Babbitt had received a purple heart for his injuries in Vietnam while on death row.
2000 - Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London.
2001 - The Milwaukee Art Museum addition, the first Santiago Calatrava-designed structure in the United States, opens to the public.
2002 - Barry Bonds hits his 400th home run as a Giant, leading his team to a 3-0 win over Cincinnati. Bonds is the first player to hit 400 homers for one team and 100 with another
2003 - Idaho Gem was born. He was the first member of the horse family to be cloned.
2007 - Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7m wide EF-5 tornado.
• The Scottish National Party won the Scottish general election on this day in 2007, becoming the largest party in the Scottish Parliament for the first time in history.
2010 - Pablo Picasso's "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust" sold for $106.5 million.
2012 - 14 decapitated bodies and 9 hung from a bridge are found in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.
These are the online sources that I used for the completion of this blog entry:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/rabin-and-arafat-sign-accord-for-palestinian-self-rule
http://www.historyorb.com/events/may/4
http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/may04.htm
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory/May-4
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