May 4
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"Four dead in Ohio."--"Ohio" (1971) by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young |
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Events
- 1493 – Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
- 1953 – Ernest Hemingway is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
- 1960 - A. J. Liebling writes: "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one."
- 1961 – American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
- 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, open fire killing four students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the United States' invasion of Cambodia.
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Births
- 1825 – Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist (d. 1895)
- 1826 – Frederic Edwin Church, American painter (d. 1900)
- 1916 – Jane Jacobs, American-Canadian author and activist (d. 2006)
- 1929 – Audrey Hepburn, Anglo-Dutch actress (d. 1993)
- 1937 – Ron Carter, American jazz bassist
- 1937 – Dick Dale, American guitarist
- 1938 – Tyrone Davis, American soul singer (d. 2005)
- 1954 – Pia Zadora, American actress
- 1958 – Keith Haring, American graphical artist (d. 1990)
- 1964 – Rocco Siffredi, Italian porn actor
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Deaths
- 1849 – Hokusai, Japanese artist (b. 1760)
- 1973 – Jane Bowles, American writer and playwright (b. 1917)
- 1984 – Bob Clampett, American cartoonist (b. 1913)
- 1984 – Diana Dors, British actress (b. 1931)
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