On This Day for May 4 - Four students shot at Kent State, Audrey Hepburn is featured, and more

Created: 2020-05-04 10:03 Updated: 2020-05-04 10:03 Notebook: On this Day in History

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May 04

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Audrey Hepburn

FEATURED EVENT

1970

Four students shot at Kent State

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2000: British politician Ken Livingstone was elected mayor of London, the first time that British voters had directly elected a candidate to an executive office at any level of government. [ Take a video tour of London.]

1996: José María Aznar of the conservative Popular Party became prime minister of Spain; during his term, which lasted until 2004, he oversaw an improving economy while facing growing terrorism by ETA and Islamic extremists.

1961: The first Freedom Ride—a political protest against the segregation of interstate bus travel in the South —began as a group of white and black Americans departed Washington, D.C., on buses bound for New Orleans. [Read a timeline of the American civil rights movement.]

1863: The Battle of Chancellorsville in the American Civil War, a bloody assault by the Union army in Virginia that failed to disperse the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, continued. [ How much do you know about the American Civil War?]

François Gérard: Entry of Henry IV into the City of Paris, 22 March 1594

1770: François Gérard, a French Neoclassical painter best known for his portraits of celebrated European personalities, particularly the leading figures of the French First Empire and Restoration periods, was born in Rome. [ Take our artists and painters quiz.]

1942: During World War II, U.S. air and naval fleets turned back a Japanese invasion force heading for the strategic Port Moresby, New Guinea, in the Battle of the Coral Sea. [ Sort fact from fiction in our World War II quiz.]

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1929

Audrey Hepburn
Belgian-born British actress

1928

Hosni Mubarak
president of Egypt

1958

Keith Haring
American artist

1989

Rory McIlroy
Northern Irish golfer

1796

Horace Mann
American educator