04 | May | 2014 | Adejokeiyabadan's Blog

This Day in History 04/05

MAY 4TH

1715 – French manufacturer debuts 1st folding umbrella (Paris

1776 – Rhode Island declares independence from Britain

1780 – American Academy of Arts & Science founded

1896 – 1st edition of London Daily Mail (halfpenny)

1910 – Tel Aviv founded

1925 – League of Nations conference on arms control & poison gas usage

1953 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Ernest Hemingway for The Old Man & The Sea

1959 – 1st Grammy Awards: Perry Como & Ella Fitzgerald win

1979 – Margaret Thatcher 1st woman to be elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1994 – Arsenal wins 34th Europe Cup II

2013 – 39 people are killed at a funeral in Wukari, Nigeria

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1796 – Horace Mann, US, educator/author/editor (pioneered public schools

1928 – Hosni Mubarak, Kafr-El Meselha, Egypt, Egyptian president (1981-2011)

1929 – Audrey Hepburn, Brussels Belg, (Breakfast at Tiffany’s, My Fair Lady), (d. 1993)

1972 – Mike Dirnt [Michael Ryan Pritchard], Berkeley, California, American musician (Green Day)

1981 – Eric Djemba-Djemba, Cameroon footballer

1982 – Rasheeda,American hiphop singer

1983 – Trisha Krishnan, Indian actress

1987 – Cesc Fabregas, Spanish footballer

FAMOUS DEATHS

1975 – Moe Howard, [Moses Horowitz], comedian (3 Stooges), dies at 77