Historical Events In May - 04

1914  Abdel Karim Kassem, general/premier/dictator of Iraq (1958-63) on this day in history.   

1915  Italy drops Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungaryb &Germany on May - 04.   

1915  Italy drops Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungaryb & Germany on May - 04.   

1915  Curt Conway, Boston MA, actor (Raw Deal) on May - 04.   

1916  On May - 04 at request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare   

1916  Maurice "Moe" Purtill, jazz drummer on this day in history.   

1917  Arabs sack Tel Aviv on this day in history.   

1917  Edward Toner Cone, composer on May - 04.   

1918  On this day in history yankees set record with 8 sacrifices, beat Red Sox's Babe Ruth 5-4   

1918  Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese PM (1972-74), convicted of bribe-taking on this day in history.   

1919  On May - 04 fVC soccer team forms   

1919  1st legal Sunday baseball game in NYC (Phillies beat Giants 4-3) on this day in history.   

1919  Dimiter Petkov, composer on May - 04.   

1921  John van Kesteren, Dutch tenor (Komische Oper, West-Berlin) on this day in history.   

1922  On May - 04 kNX-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions   

1922  John Paul Hammerschmidt, (Rep-R-AR, 1967- ) on May - 04.   

1923  Bloody street battles between Nazis, socialist &police in Vienna on May - 04.   

1923  New York state revokes Prohibition law on this day in history.   

1923  On this day in history on the Alaska Peninsula a 7.1 earthquake happened one of the Largest Earthquakes in the United States   

1923  Bloody street battles between nazi's, socialist & police in Vienna on this day in history.   

1923  Ed Cassidy, American musician (Spirit) on this day in history.   

1924  8th modern Olympic games open in Paris France on this day in history.   

1924  On May - 04 german Republic election fascists &communists win   

1924  On May - 04 8th Olympic games open at Paris, France   

1924  On this day in history peter Aldersley, actor/disc jockey   

1925  League of Nations conference on arms control &poison gas usage on this day in history.   

1925  On May - 04 league of Nations conference on arms control & poison gas usage   

1925  Peter Blum, German/South African/English poet (Capricorn) on May - 04.   

1926  On May - 04 general strike hits Britain   

1926  G Reinshagen, writer on this day in history.   

1927  Academy of Motion Picture Arts &Sciences forms on this day in history.   

1927  Nicaragua agrees to a US supervised presidential election in 1928 on this day in history.   

1927  On May - 04 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded   

1927  The first balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field IL) on May - 04.   

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1006  Abd-Allah Ansari, Persian mystic/poet (Monadjat) was born on this day in history.   

1008  Khajeh Abdollah Ansari, The Persian Sufi (d. 1088) was born on this day in history.   

1008  On this day in history birth of king Henry I of France (d. 1060)   

1611  Carlo Rainaldi, composer was born on this day in history.   

1631  Mary I Henriette Stuart, daughter of Charles I/queen of England was born on this day in history.   

1635  On this day in history birth of willem van Outhoorn, Dutch governor-general (Dutch East Indies)   

1654  On May - 04 birth of kangxi Emperor of China (d. 1722)   

1655  Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori, Italy, piano builder was born on May - 04.   

1436  Death of Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish statesman (b. 1390s) on May - 04.   

1471  On May - 04 death of edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (killed in battle) (b. 1453)   

1506  On this day in history death of husayn Bayqarah, ruler of Herat (b. 1438)   

1519  On this day in history death of lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (b. 1492)   

1566  On this day in history death of luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1490)   

1594  Paul Buys, Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1604  On May - 04 claudio Merulo, composer, dies at 71   

1605  Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist/medical, dies at 82 on May - 04.