Historical Events In May - 04

1990  Latvia's parliament votes 138-0 (1 abstention) for Independence on May - 04.   

1990  On May - 04 pakistan beat Australia by 36 runs to win Austral-Asia Cup, Sharjah   

1990  On May - 04 don Appell, dies   

1991  On May - 04 aBC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Doug Kent   

1991  Actress Sharon Gless &producer Barney Rosenzeig wed on May - 04.   

1991  On May - 04 morris K Udall (Representative-D-AZ), resigns due to Parkinson disease   

1991  On May - 04 president Bush is hospitalized for erratic heartbeat   

1991  Dennis Crosby, son of Bing, commits suicide at 54 on May - 04.   

1992  On this day in history henri Guillemin, French historian, dies at 89   

1994  Arsenal wins 34th Europe Cup II on this day in history.   

1994  Courtney Love cleared of drug charges on this day in history.   

1994  On May - 04 karl Francis Hettinger, onion Field survivor, dies at 59   

1995  On this day in history lewis T Preston, banker, dies at 68   

1996  Jean Crepin, soldier/industrialist, dies at 87 on May - 04.   

1997  On this day in history alvy Moore, actor/producer (Mr Kimball-Green Acres), dies at 75   

2005  On this day in history in one of the largest insurgent attacks in Iraq to date, at least 60 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a suicide bombing at a Kurdish police recruitment center in Irbil, northern Iraq.   

2006  On May - 04 a new coalition government takes office in Israel; its four political parties hold 67 of the 120 seats in the Knesset.   

2007  Executive Directive 51, which specifies the procedures for continuity of the federal government of the United States in the event of a "catastrophic emergency" signed by President George W. Bush on this day in history.   

2007  On this day in history tornado strikes Greensburg, Kansas, killing at least 12 and destroying about 90% of the town.   

2010  On this day in history nude, Green Leaves and Bust by Pablo Picasso sells in New York for US$106.5 million, setting another new world record for a work of art sold at auction.   

2012  14 decapitated bodies and 9 hung from a bridge are found in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico on May - 04.   

2013  5 US soldiers are killed by a bomb in Kandahar, Afghanistan on May - 04.   

2014  Juan Carlos Varela is elected President of Panama on this day in history.   

2018  LA Angels 1st baseman Albert Pujols collects his 3,000th MLB hit in a 5-0 win v Mariners in Seattle on May - 04.   

2018  On this day in history california overtakes Great Britain to become the worlds fifth largest economy   

2019  On this day in history coronation of King Vajiralongkorn of Thailand.   

2020  A team of British and Kenyan scientists announce the discovery of Microsporidia MB, a parasitic microbe in the Microsporidia fungi group that blocks mosquitos from carrying malaria, potentially paving the way for the control of malaria on this day in history.   

2021  On May - 04 uS President Joe Biden announces new goal of 160 million people, nearly of 70% of adults, vaccinated by July 4   

2023  Actress and writer Carrie Fisher , best known as Princess Leia from the Star Wars films, is honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame [1] on May - 04.   

2023  On May - 04 ed Sheeran found not guilty of copying Marvin Gaye ’s ‘Let’s Get It On" for his 2014 single “Thinking Out Loud" by a Manhattan federal jury; copyright infringement suit was filed by the heirs of Gaye's co-writer Ed Townsend [1]   

2023  A series of floods and landslides strikes villages in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, resulting in over 400 deaths on May - 04.   

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1006  Abd-Allah Ansari, Persian mystic/poet (Monadjat) was born on May - 04.   

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

1008  King Henry I of France (d. 1060) was born on this day in history.   

1611  On May - 04 birth of carlo Rainaldi, composer   

1631  On May - 04 birth of mary I Henriette Stuart, daughter of Charles I/queen of England   

1635  On May - 04 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  On this day in history death of engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish statesman (b. 1390s)   

1471  Death of Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (killed in battle) (b. 1453) on this day in history.   

1506  Death of Husayn Bayqarah, ruler of Herat (b. 1438) on May - 04.   

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 May - 04.   

1604  Claudio Merulo, composer, dies at 71 on May - 04.   

1605  On May - 04 ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist/medical, dies at 82