{"id":4579,"date":"2023-05-04T05:55:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T00:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=4579"},"modified":"2023-05-01T18:44:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T13:14:31","slug":"history-of-4-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-4-may\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 4 May"},"content":{"rendered":"

History of 4 May<\/h2>\n

1904<\/strong> – The U.S. formally took control of the property for construction of the Panama Canal.<\/p>\n

1905<\/strong> – Belmont Park opened in suburban Long Island. It opened as the largest race track in the world.<\/p>\n

1916<\/strong> – Germany agreed to limit its submarine warfare after demand from U.S. President Wilson.\u00a01942 – The Battle of the Coral Sea commenced as American and Japanese carriers launched their attacks at each other.<\/p>\n

1942<\/strong> – The\u00a0United States\u00a0began food rationing.<\/p>\n

1954<\/strong> – The first intercollegiate court tennis match was played in the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0It was between Yale and Princeton.<\/p>\n

1961<\/strong> – Thirteen civil rights activists, dubbed “Freedom Riders,” began a bus trip through the South.<\/p>\n

1964<\/strong> – “Another World” premiered on NBC-TV.<\/p>\n

1970<\/strong> – The Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on students during an anti-Vietnam war protest at Kent State University. Four students were killed and nine others were wounded.<\/p>\n

1979<\/strong> – Margaret Thatcher became Britain’s first woman prime minister.<\/p>\n

1981<\/strong> – The Federal Reserve Board raised its discount rate to 14%.<\/p>\n

1987<\/strong> – Live models were used for the first time in Playtex bra ads.<\/p>\n

1987<\/strong> – The First Bank of the United States was listed as a National Historic Landmark.<\/p>\n

1994<\/strong> – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat signed a historic accord on Palestinian autonomy that granted self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.<\/p>\n

2000<\/strong> – The citizens of London elected their mayor for the first time.<\/p>\n

2003<\/strong> – Idaho Gem was born. He was the first member of the horse family to be cloned.<\/p>\n

2010<\/strong> – Pablo Picasso’s “Nude, Green Leaves and Bust” sold for $106.5 million.<\/p>\n

2012<\/strong> – In Las Vegas, NV, Google received the first self-driving vehicle testing license.<\/p>\n

2014<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Three people are killed and 62 injured in a\u00a0pair of bombings\u00a0on buses in\u00a0Nairobi, Kenya.<\/p>\n

Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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  • 1981<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Eric Djemba-Djemba, Cameroon footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Dallon Weekes, American singer-songwriter and musician<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Kleopas Giannou, Greek footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Markus Rogan, Austrian swimmer<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Giorgos Tsiaras, Greek basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Dan Christian, Australian cricketer<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Derek Roy, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Robert Zwinkels, Dutch footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Manjural Islam Rana, Bangladeshi cricketer<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Brad Maddox, American wrestler, and referee<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Sarah Meier, Swiss figure skater<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Montell Owens, American football player<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Kevin Slowey, American baseball player<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ravi Bopara, English cricketer<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Anthony Fedorov, Ukrainian-born American singer, and actor<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Fernandinho, Brazilian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jamie Adenuga, English MC and rapper<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Devan Dubnyk, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0George Hill, American basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Cesc F\u00e0bregas, Spanish footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jorge Lorenzo, Spanish motorcycle racer<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Radja Nainggolan, Belgian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0D\u00e1niel Gyurta, Hungarian swimmer<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Henna Lindholm, Finnish figure skater<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Rory McIlroy, Northern Irish golfer<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Aris Tatarounis, Greek basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0James van Riemsdyk, American ice hockey player<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Irina Falconi, an American tennis player<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ryan Morgan, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Duvashen Padayachee, Australian race car driver<\/sup><\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Andrea Torres, Filipino actress, and model<\/li>\n
  • 1991<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Brianne Jenner, Canadian women’s ice hockey player<\/li>\n
  • 1992<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Victor Oladipo, American basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1993<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0J\u0101nis Berzi\u0146s, Latvian basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1994<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Abi Masatora, Japanese sumo wrestler<\/li>\n
  • 1994<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Joseph Tapine, New Zealand rugby league player<\/li>\n
  • 1996<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Pelayo Roza, Spanish sprint canoeist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    History of 4 May 1904 – The U.S. formally took control of the property for construction of the Panama Canal. 1905 – Belmont Park opened in suburban Long Island. It opened as the largest race track in the world. 1916 – Germany agreed to limit its submarine warfare after demand from U.S. President Wilson.\u00a01942 – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[719,83,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-4579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-4-may","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/history-img.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-1bR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4579"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24175,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions\/24175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}