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04 May, 2001
Pope John Paul II follows Saint Paul's footsteps across the Mediterranean, from Greece to Syria to Malta.
04 May, 2000
Ken Livingstone voted London mayor: The London Mayoral contest ends in victory for Ken Livingstone, the independent candidate and maverick MP expelled from the Labour Party.
04 May, 1994
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord regarding Palestinian autonomy granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
04 May, 1990
Latvia proclaims renewal of its independence after the Soviet occupation.
04 May, 1989
Iran-Contra Affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and was acquitted of nine other charges. The convictions, however, are later overturned on appeal.
04 May, 1982
Argentines destroy HMS Sheffield: The British ship HMS Sheffield is sunk by an Argentine missile fired from a fighter bomber.
04 May, 1979
Election victory for Margaret Thatcher: The Conservative Party wins the general election making Margaret Thatcher Britain's first woman prime minister.
04 May, 1970
Vietnam War: Kent State shootings - The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after the ROTC building was burnt down, opens fire on students protesting at the United States' invasion of Cambodia. Four students are killed, nine are wounded.
04 May, 1953
Duke of Edinburgh gets his wings: The Duke of Edinburgh is awarded his pilot's "wings" during a private ceremony at Buckingham Palace.
04 May, 1949
The entire Torino football team (except for one player who did not take the trip due to an injury) is killed in a plane crash at the Superga hill at the edge of Turin, Italy.
04 May, 1945
World War II: Surrender of the North Germany Army to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. Liberation of the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg by the British Army.
04 May, 1942
World War II: Battle of the Coral Sea - The battle begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier Yorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before.
04 May, 1932
In Atlanta, Georgia, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
04 May, 1930
British police arrest Mahatma Gandhi and place him in Yeravda Central Prison.
04 May, 1904
Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal.
04 May, 1626
Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.
04 May, 1626
Abraham Lincoln buried in Springfield, Illinois, three weeks after his assassination.
04 May, 1494
Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica.
04 May, 1493
Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Demarcation Line.
04 May, 1471
Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury - Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward, Prince of Wales.

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