4 May
Notable Births
Joan Garcia
b. 2001
Spanish footballer (born 2001)
Rex Orange County
b. 1998
English musician (born 1998)
Shameik Moore
b. 1995
American actor and musician (born 1995)
Abi Masatora
b. 1994
Japanese sumo wrestler
Joseph Tapine
b. 1994
New Zealand and Maori international rugby league player
Victor Oladipo
b. 1992
American basketball player (born 1992)
Brianne Jenner
b. 1991
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1991)
Rory McIlroy
b. 1989
Northern Irish golfer (born 1989)
James van Riemsdyk
b. 1989
American ice hockey player (born 1989)
Radja Nainggolan
b. 1988
Belgian footballer (born 1988)
Cesc Fàbregas
b. 1987
Spanish footballer (born 1987)
Jorge Lorenzo
b. 1987
Spanish motorcycle racer (born 1987)
Devan Dubnyk
b. 1986
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1986)
George Hill (basketball)
b. 1986
American basketball player (born 1986)
Ravi Bopara
b. 1985
English cricketer (born 1985)
Fernandinho (footballer, born May 1985)
b. 1985
Brazilian footballer (born 1985)
Jme
b. 1985
British grime MC (born 1985)
Brad Maddox
b. 1984
American professional wrestler (born 1984)
Carlos Monsiváis
b. 1938
Mexican writer
Audrey Hepburn
b. 1929
British actress (1929–1993)
Notable Deaths
Frank Stella
d. 2024
American artist (1936–2024)
Don Shula
d. 2020
American football player and coach (1930–2020)
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza
d. 2016
President of Burundi from 1976 to 1987
William Bast
d. 2015
American screenwriter and author (1931–2015)
Ellen Albertini Dow
d. 2015
American actress (1913–2015)
Marv Hubbard
d. 2015
American football player (1946–2015)
Dick Ayers
d. 2014
American cartoonist
Elena Baltacha
d. 2014
British tennis player (1983–2014)
Edgar Cortright
d. 2014
Senior NASA official-administrator (1923–2014)
Helga Königsdorf
d. 2014
East German author and physicist
Otis Bowen
d. 2013
American politician (1918–2013)
Christian de Duve
d. 2013
Belgian biochemist and cytologist (1917–2013)
Javier Diez Canseco
d. 2013
Peruvian politician (1948–2013)
Mario Machado
d. 2013
American journalist (1935–2013)
Morgan Morgan-Giles
d. 2013
Royal Navy Rear-Admiral (1914–2013)
Bob Stewart (television producer)
d. 2012
American television producer (1920–2012)
Adam Yauch
d. 2012
American musician (1964–2012)
Rashidi Yekini
d. 2012
Nigerian footballer (1963–2012)
Dom DeLuise
d. 2009
American actor (1933–2009)
Fred Baur
d. 2008
American organic chemist and food storage scientist (1918–2008)
On This Day in History
All 51 ›2023
Nine people are killed and thirteen injured in a spree shooting in Mladenovac and Smederevo, Serbia. It is the second mass shooting in the country in two days.
Mladenovac and Smederevo shootings
2019
The inaugural all-female motorsport series, W Series, takes place at Hockenheimring. The race was won by Jamie Chadwick, who would go on to become the inaugural series champion.
W Series (championship)
2014
Three people are killed and 62 injured in a pair of bombings on buses in Nairobi, Kenya.
2011–2014 terrorist attacks in Kenya
2007
Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by the 2007 Greensburg tornado, a 1.7-mile wide EF5 tornado. It was the first-ever tornado to be rated with the new Enhanced Fujita scale.
Greensburg, Kansas
2002
One hundred three people are killed and 51 are injured in a plane crash near Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano, Nigeria.
EAS Airlines Flight 4226
2000
Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London (an office separate from that of the Lord Mayor of London).
Ken Livingstone
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.
Sacramento, California
1994
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord, granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
Prime minister
1990
Latvia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
Latvia
1989
Iran–Contra affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges; the convictions are later overturned on appeal.
Iran–Contra affair
1989
Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on mission STS-30 to deploy the Venus-bound Magellan space probe.
Space Shuttle Atlantis
1988
The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
PEPCON disaster
1982
Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
Type 42 destroyer
1979
Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Margaret Thatcher
1978
The South African Defence Force attacks a SWAPO base at Cassinga in southern Angola, killing about 600 people.
South African Defence Force
1973
The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1,451 feet (442 m) as the world's tallest building.
Willis Tower
1972
The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to Greenpeace Foundation.
Don't Make a Wave Committee
1970
Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the Cambodian Campaign of the United States and South Vietnam.
Vietnam War
1961
American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
Civil rights movement
1961
Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V open gondola to 113,740 feet (34.67 km).
Malcolm Ross (balloonist)